Lifestyle

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle Have you planned something wonderful with your other half for Valentine’s Day? Are you going to a hotel restaurant for a six course tasting menu and champagne, and is he going to get down on one knee as a keyboard player taps out a John Legend song? What a treat. Valentine’s Day is a source of so much wriggling, in my friendship group at least. One of my best friends is going to the...

The Honeymoon Period is defined as the period in a relationship when romance outweighs comfort, when love is still fresh and when the sparks, fireworks and butterflies in your stomach still exist. But as we have probably all experienced at some point in our lives, romance can be tiresome, and it often isn't long before we exchange saucy underwear for comfy pants and risqué night garments for comfortable pj's. But how long does it take before we feel fully comfortable in front...

 By Rosie Wilson It’s looking set to be the ‘it’ treatment of 2015: the miracle pick-me-up for thirty-something’s that only takes as long as your lunch break. But what’s your stance on the controversial puppet facelift? While a lot of us would love to turn back the years, just as many of us balk at the idea of going under the knife. Surgery can seem like an extreme option, but over the counter anti-ageing products rarely some to have the...

New research has been revealed suggesting the UK is a nation of phone snoopers, with suspicious Brits checking their other half's phone for questionable texts, emails and internet searches twice a week! The study, commissioned by Samsung Galaxy A-Series smartphone range, found that  four in ten adults in a relationship regularly sneak a look at their partner’s phone behind their back to keep an eye on what they are up to. Women are the most likely to check a partner’s phone behind their back,...

By Steve Taggart Two in five NHS audiology departments (41%) are being forced to cut core services due to shrinking budgets or increased demand, affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the UK, according to a new report by charity Action on Hearing Loss launched today (26 January). Over half of over 60 year olds (55%) are already affected by some form of hearing loss and, with an ageing population, the number of people who will need help with their...

By Andrea Osborne, from cushion the impact If your desk needs a fast and furious makeover her are six successful tips to help you clean up your act. EMAIL SURGERY – Did you know we only use 20% of our emails correctly? Using emails inefficiently can drain our productivity. So organise them, create different folders for emails to keep all relevant messages together. This will enable you to find what you need a lot more quickly. Use filters so that...

By Charlotte Stringer, Style Editor at STYLIGHT.co.uk This Tuesday saw the return of the most exciting awards show around, the STYLIGHT Fashion Influencer Awards (SFIAs), honouring online fashion influencers, IT girls and boys, and tastemakers from around the globe at a secret location in Berlin. With the likes of supermodel Bar Refaeli, London It girls Zara Martin and Laura Whitmore, and the Made in Chelsea boys in attendance, the most fashionable kids around took their seats for awards. Dutch blogger...

A new study has revealed the top 20 things Brits worry about, with money, dead-end relationships and unfulfilling jobs among the main reason people in the UK say they're unhappy.   A meagre three in ten Brits are ‘happy with their lives', the survey 2,000 people found, with 69 per cent feeling trapped in the same old routine and 40 per cent of people actively unhappy with the way they look. Lifestyle niggles, worrying about their image and even the British weather...

Jack Peat reviews Truth, Lies, Diana at Charing Cross Theatre. On the night princess Diana died I was driving home from a family holiday in France. Most people know where they were when the tragic news started filtering through the media, the memory fixed in our minds in the same way people recall their whereabouts when JF Kennedy was assassinated. And like the gunshot on the grassy knoll that has implicated 82 assassins and 214 people in conspiracy theories, the...