Christmas is traditionally a time spent celebrating with friends and family, exchanging gifts and having fun. For the 500,000 older people expected to spend Christmas alone, however, Christmas isn’t such a joyful occasion. Loneliness is a growing issue for the older population - at Christmas and all year round. Last year ...
By Miranda Hazrati @mirandahazrati Rufus Norris has enjoyed a successful few months since he took over as Artistic Director at the National Theatre in April this year with ‘Beaux’ Stratagem’, ‘Everyman’ and The Motherf**cker With A Hat’ all proving his salt. But that might be about to change with ‘An Evening ...
By Lewis Garland “Black Friday” evokes images of feral, foraging bargain hunters and TV screen tug-of-wars. Now in its fourth year, Giving Tuesday has become something of an antidote to these consumerist excesses. Taking place on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, GivingTuesday is a global day of ...
Built To Spill Support: Disco Doom Electric Ballroom, 25.11.15 Later this week 90's indie legends Built To Spill will bring their genre-spanning sound to the confines of Camden's Electric Ballroom. For the uninitiated, expect winding Pavement-style pop and loose low-end jams. These boys have eight albums and twenty years under their belt; ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A City University report has revealed that the Chancellor could be forced to borrow billions of pounds more than predicted by 2020 if he continues with his huge spending cuts. The Chancellor's autumn statement will be announced this week and the University study claims the ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Carnaby Street’s relatively secretive Kingly Court has all of a sudden turned into a very popular spot for new restaurant openings, within the past three months. What with recent openings of a new Dishoom, Shotgun from The Lockhart’s Brad McDonald, and the second opening ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter England’s tour to the UAE has been a somewhat chastening experience. The test team, maybe a tad unluckily, lost 2-0 to Pakistan in a series characterised by attritional cricket, worrying collapses and crucial dropped catches. However, redemption has ...
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By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Entrepreneur Chris Reynolds has ridiculed allegations from CBI chief Carolyn Fairbairn that business dinners are "not very inclusive" for women by releasing new figures that show one in ten people at his soirees are in fact female. The millionaire, dubbed Britain's answer to Dan Bilzerian, ...