2 d. ago Voiceover artist in Highlands is heading to the US for a glitzy ceremony

Carrie Forbes, from Newcastle, ditched her job as a mortgage advisor and moved north in 2011 where she turned her hobby as a voiceover artist into a full-time job.

Politics

6 d. ago My cultural awakening: The Lehman Trilogy helped me to live with my sight loss

My reduced vision badly affected my ability to appreciate films and art, but the stripped-back staging and immediacy of the play gave me back my sense of selfI began to notice my sight deteriorating in my 40s, but not just in the way that you expect it to with age. I had night blindness and blind spots in my field of view. At 44, I was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that causes the retina cells to die. I had always been a very visually oriented person: I was a practising architect, and someone who loved to read, draw, go to the cinema and visit art exhibitions. So when black text disappeared on a glaring white page, films became impossible to follow and artworks only took shape once explained to me, I questioned who I would be without my vision.Around the age of 50, I had a particularly stressful year: I got divorced; dissolved my business; started a new job; moved house; and my dad died. As my life fell off a cliff, so did my eyesight, so tha...

Politics

8 d. ago Lammy ‘considering wiping childhood criminal records’ to prevent harm to future job prospects

The move is to prevent future job prospects from being scuppered by minor teenage offences, reports claim

Society

1 week ago American living in England left stunned after Brits declare he's eating common Christmas treat all wrong

Russell Valentin, 31, recently moved to London from Chicago, but sparked quite the controversy after he learned that there's a certain way you're supposed to consume a holiday staple in England.

Politics

2 w. ago A moment that changed me: My unbearable grief kept growing – until I found solace in a silent community

After my dad died, I tried to cope by keeping busy: a day job, a side hustle, socialising and working out. But I kept bursting into tears in public. At a Quaker meeting, it was as if someone had turned down the volume of the worldIt was 2022, and my dad had just died from a rare blood disease. In the aftermath, I quit my PhD and moved back to London from Brighton. I coped by keeping incredibly busy. I regularly informed friends “I’m fine, actually”, as I threw myself into a new job in communications, went clubbing every weekend, picked up a side hustle selling secondhand clothes and got suspiciously invested in my gym routine. If I could just keep busy, I thought, perhaps I could drown out the growing tidal wave of grief.And it worked, until it just didn’t any more. I began to burst into tears randomly – during a work meeting, at the gym, on my commute – and everyone around me would politely pretend they didn’t notice the 28-year-old man weeping on the tube at 8.30am. I tried to pus...

Politics

2 w. ago Zipcar parking bays left empty when firm quits London 'should be converted into e

Councils urged to repurpose car club bays for e-bikes to help tackle capital’s pavement parking problem

Politics

2 w. ago London Zoo boss QUITS amid investigation into ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’

London Zoo boss QUITS amid investigation into ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’  The Sun

Economics

2 w. ago London Zoo boss quits over ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’

London Zoo boss quits over ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’  The Telegraph

Economics

2 w. ago 'She loves to dish it out but can't take it': Kemi Badenoch attacks Rachel Reeves for complaining about 'mansplaining and misogyny'

Mrs Badenoch criticised 'puff pieces' that she said show 'a woman wallowing in self-pity on Wednesday. Asked if she regretted her language Mrs Badenoch told ITV Anglia last night: 'Not in the least.'

Events

2 w. ago London zoo boss quits amid claims of ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’

London zoo boss quits amid claims of ‘unacceptable workplace behaviour’  The Guardian

Economics

3 w. ago Woman regrets quitting London job and moving to India; calls it ‘pretty stupid’ | Trending

Woman regrets quitting London job and moving to India; calls it ‘pretty stupid’ | Trending  Hindustan Times

Politics

3 w. ago Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal quits London for Dubai over tax changes

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal quits London for Dubai over tax changes  London Evening Standard

Politics

3 w. ago Steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal quits London for Dubai over Labour tax shake

Mittal is Britain’s 7th richest individual and now plans to spend more time in the Gulf

Economics

4 w. ago Beloved father, 50, beaten to death by stranger on Hawaii's most iconic paradise beach

Christian Alejandro Coronel, a father of three, was fatally beaten in an unprovoked attack on Waikiki Beach, where he had just moved for his job.

Events