2014’s popular Christmas present were drones and there are dangers in the skies. The Civil Aviation Authority has issued guidelines on the use of drones in the UK as the ever popular flying devices pose a threat including to airports and airliners. They should not fly higher than 400 feet and are not permitted to be…
Luxury apartments are planned for the old New Scotland Yard sixties offices having been purchased for £120m more than the asking price by The Abu Dhabi Financial Group. Overlooking Westminster Abbey and close to St James’s Park, the Victoria Street project is expected to yield up to £100 million in stamp duty on the sale…
“Avoid bitcoins for Now”- Gavin Anderson On Monday, 5th January 2015, Security concerns were alarmingly raised at Bitstamp Europe’s leading bitcoin exchange, after an apparent hack that led to the company losing 19,000 bitcoins, worth £ 3.3m. This led to a sharp fall in the price of crypto currency. Bitcoin at its peak, traded for…
LG has launched their latest G Flex2 smartphone in Korea, and release in global markets thereafter. Its single-SIM runs Anaroid 5.0 Lollipop with Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (a 64-bit octa-core SoC) pled with the Adreno 430 GPU and 2GB of LPDDR4 RAM. It’s innovative 5.5-inch full-HD curved P-OLED display with 700mm-radius curvature with a 1080×1920 pixels…
At Hughes Solicitors spying on employees had been company policy since one of the staff had walked-off with two computers and a set of the boss’s cut glass whisky tumblers worth £1,000 bought from Harrods by a grateful client to the firm, just after he had handed his notice in. As well as covert CCTV…
LinkedIn™ helps you create the future you want, and helps members who have the right level of ambition, capability and capacity to improve and grow.Business networking portal LinkedIn has announced the extension of its publishing platform to all 17m UK members, enabling the display of published posts within their professional profile to reach more LinkedIn members. LinkedIn™…
Stories of buildings, their creators and their highs and lows interest most eager readers. Here’s one where we give you the facts on a hotel which set the standard for higher and higher edifices – and we claim that it is one of the first luxury hotels in the ‘modern’world, which gave rise to modern…
Teenage girls have been going crazy for the new Calvin Klein ad campaign, which features a buff Justin Bieber posing in only his boxer shorts. Calvin Klein dropped an unexpected, six-second clip of the singer on the designer’s Twitter account. Bieber is seen looking rather sexy as he is shirtless and ends the clip grabbing a…
Hurricane-force gusts have caused travel disruption and left tens of thousands of homes without power across Scotland. The storm caused the suspension of all ScotRail trains, although some limited services are now running. he majority of services remain suspended, but ScotRail said services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley have been restored on a…
Killers of the King – The men who dared to execute Charles 1 (with illustrations including colour). By Charles Spencer. ISBN 976-1- 4088-5170-8 Bloomsbury. Hardback £20, eBook £17.99 Seven years of bloody and violent civil fighting, beginning in 1642, took place before the arrest of Charles 1 who appeared in court to be told he…