January 2015 – Page 4 – The Saturn Herald

Funeral has now taken place of “last Victorian” who died aged 114

Ethel Lang (maiden name Lancaster) from Barnsley South Yorkshire died last Thursday 15th January in a nursing home aged 114. Born on 27 May 1900, she is regarded as the last person in Britain to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria. She lived through the reign of six monarchs, two world wars…

THE PRICE OF GOLD IS ON THE RISE THIS YEAR – GOLD FACTS !

Ingots and coins are also popular in addition to jewellery The Gold, as we all know, is a metal which is used for making decorative jewellery for women and men, girls and boys. It is also used for medicine, dentistry, the aircraft industry and electronics ( as gold is a excellent conductor of electricity). Investors…

A Saturn Herald poem reminds us to respect the good things in life.

OK the New Year has brought bills and austerity and news on adverse weather conditions and terrorism so perhaps before getting down, we all need to look at the positives in a poem. Here it is. Written by someone with more than 20 years’ experience in poetry, song, and other writing it simply tells us…

Newborns have reduced from 665,000 a year – 1960’s – to 380,000 in the 90s and after………. The Ojeda Artiles family was awarded the National Birth Prize in 1969 when leader Francisco Franco handed out a “National Birth Prize” to couples with the largest families. “Official media” at the time featured many stories on this. The…

You know Rolling Stone Magazine? – Well they put The Pope on the cover!

“Up close, Pope Francis, the 266th vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth, a man whose obvious humility, empathy and, above all, devotion to the economically disenfranchised has come to feel perfectly suited to our times, looks stouter than on television,” the article in Rolling Stone announces. Mark Binelli is the journalist who wrote the 7,700…

Quick – look here before another story takes over – Reactions to Pope’s message on Paris massacre.

Publications globally have stories on Pope Francis’s calm observations that the people don’t like insults – whether its about their religions – or their relatives – most importantly their mothers! Wanting to sock a punch in the face of a person harbouring judgmental and nasty beliefs and remarks on your religion or mother is normal…

A lorry fire at the French end of the Tunnel and as the carbon dioxide alarm had gone off, Channel Tunnel cancels, all Eurostar trains for the rest of the day. Train operator Eurotunnel spokesman has offered apology and says that if the passengers have booked for cancelled or delayed trains they can get either a…

87th Academy Award Oscar Nominations

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman scored nine nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Thursday 15 January ahead of the February 22 ceremony. We think The Grand Budapest Hotel will lead Oscar awards as pack leader, with Birdman, Boyhood, and The Imitation Game hot on its heels. Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon…

Three mechanical engineering students from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon” to be held at Phillippines between 26th February and 1st March.…