By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The eleven-time gold medallist Tanni Grey-Thompson begged peers to stop the “ideological” £30-a-week cut to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). The powerful speech, from her wheelchair, by one of Britain's greatest Paralympic athletes led to the defeat of the planned cuts to the disability benefit in ...
New stats from a UK wide survey have shown that men are more likely to damage or break their home gadgets than women. The research, which comes from row.com, indicates that 13.28% of men have made a claim on their gadget insurance in the last 12 months, compared to 10.44% ...
Whilst Support for Donald Trump grows, with the frontrunner of the Republican candidate race hotly tipped to win the Super Tuesday primaries in Texas and other states, do US voters care about the lies? Pulitzer prize winning political fact checking website Politifact shows 1% of Donald Trump's verifiable claims are ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, here’s our pick of the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. Sosharu – Clerkenwell It’s been a long time coming, but Sosharu – the newest restaurant from Chef Jashon Atherton and Irha ...
by Emma Silverthorn, TLE writer A few months on from the tragic Paris attacks, and the city has lost little of its joie de vivre. You'll notice it whether on a gastronomic adventure, out designer shopping, or, for the young at heart, a weekend at recently revamped Disneyland Paris. In ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The North of England is still the least economically active in the country, a study has shown. Towns and cities in this area are not keeping up with national trends and now have worse social and economic conditions than previously. Dundee, in Scotland, aside, the ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor After a young boy was tragically killed while out cycling his friend decided to do something positive and set up a fundraiser for him, which is so successful it has been rolled out across the UK. Tragically Daniel Climance was only eleven when he was ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the old saying goes, March is a month without mercy. March is also Brain Tumour Awareness Month. And one particular type of brain tumour – a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma – is one without any mercy at all. Indeed, it will take the life ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It’s hardly surprising that lots of audiences are a bit scared of Red Bastard. Think a team-building away day, but with an aggressive, brutal red blob as the motivational speaker. We caught up with him, with our hands slightly shaking... You are bringing Red Bastard ...