By Peter Vinden, managing director of The Vinden Partnership More funding is announced for the North West: but how much hope should we have for the long-term vision? The latest investment to be ploughed into the North West has been announced, with cultural funding added to the Government’s ongoing ‘Northern ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Ed was dashing, daring and decisive, I expected him to pull his face mask off and reveal his brother. But no, this was all Ed, he reminded me of (if you are not a Robert Zemeckis fan, see you in the next paragraph/article) George McFly ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport The January sales. Traditionally a time where one can purchase the best of last season for a knockdown price. Not so in the world of football. The January blues cause chairmen to write cheques left, right and centre, and ...
Sport News 24/7 By Dan McLaughlin @McGloogly @gridirongents @TLE_Sport Whilst it feels like every week there’s a different team that could be a potential Super Bowl contenders, one team is constantly overlooked. Despite constant chatter about how good the Broncos are or how likely a Patriots vs Packers Super Bowl ...
Nona Avery, from Sheffield, 84 has been hand writing letters to her pen friend longest than most people live, sending over a 1,000 letters... In 1942 I saw an advert in the Girl's crystal annual for girl’s who lived all over the world, who wanted a pen friend. One advert ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport The fallout from Kevin Pietersen’s imminent autobiography is unlike anything I have previously experienced. The absolute childishness and pettiness of ex-England cricketer Pietersen, the ECB, Graeme Swann and other players connected to the controversy is staggering. Accusations, name-calling, ...
By David de Winter - Sports Editor It seems only yesterday that the World Cup finished in Brazil. That month-long feast of football was indeed a wonderful way to spend one’s summer getting acquainted with one’s sofa, but no sooner had Mario Götze’s volley hit the back of Sergio Romero’s net ...
By Simon Middleton of Watershed Entrepreneurs Ask any entrepreneur and they most likely will point to the UK as one of the most entrepreneurially friendly environments in the world. Yet if we look more closely at the figures it is evident that the UK entrepreneurial landscape still needs to be ...
By David de Winter - Sports Writer Saturday sees the start of the 101st edition of the world’s most famous bicycle race, the eponymous Tour de France. And where does this three week lycra-clad epic begin? Paris? Non. Some chic, picturesque village in the south of France? Absolutement non. ...