Two of David Bowie’s out-of-this-world hits have topped a chart of the nation's 40 favourites from his vast repertoire. His 1969 single ‘Space Oddity’ was voted number one, with 21 per cent of the vote, closely followed by ‘Life On Mars’. The 1983 smash-hit ‘Let’s Dance’, produced by legendary disco ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The boss of the Environment Agency Sir Philip Dilley, has resigned. He faced a great deal of criticism during the flood crisis, which wasn't helped by the fact he was holidaying in Barbados as people in the UK lost everything as the water levels rose. ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food When Italian Chef Francesco Mazzei’s famous city restaurant L’Anima was at its initial peak, I was a young teenager, still in school. And like most Brits from a working class background, at that time I was shamefully unadventurous when it came to food, and ...
By Ben Gelblum The death of pop legend David Bowie, aged 69 just days after releasing his 28th studio album, the haunting Backstar, has inspired tributes from pretty much everybody who woke up to the sad news today. Perhaps our favourite tribute to The Man Who Fell To Earth, then reinvented himself endlessly, is Soulwax's ...
Frequent travellers along the East Coast Mainline could find themselves out of pocket more than any other rail travellers in the country, it has been revealed. A new study has found that all five of the top five worst value-for-money journeys lay on the East Coast line, currently operated jointly ...
The US powerball jackpot has reached a record high of $1.4 billion after 18 rollovers dating back to early November. Two winners shared a record £66 million National Lottery jackpot on Saturday in the UK after 14 consecutive rollovers found no winner. Despite the prize being shared, if each ticket is held by ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A total of 2,641 NHS staff were made redundant and then rehired by the NHS in the three years since April 2012. In total the NHS forked out £92million in redundancy pay to staff who were back working for the NHS not long afterwards, creating ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor More unsettling times for the Labour Party, as Catherine McKinnell the Shadow Attorney General has resigned from the frontbench citing concerns about the direction and internal conflict within the party. She has only been in the post since September 2015 and has not had enough ...
The number of crimes linked to dating apps Tinder and Grindr has increased seven fold in two years, according to new statistics. Police in England and Wales received more than 400 reports of crimes where Grindr and Tinder was mentioned in the year up to October 2015. That compares to ...