British Airways Boeing 777-200’s flight 114 left New York JFK at 10:50pm Eastern Standard time (EST) and landed at London Heathrow at 9:06am GMT 45minutes early after hitting 200mph North Atlantic Jet stream. According to Flight Aware, which tracks plane movements, the BA Boeing flew at 745mph relative to ground speed almost reaching the supersonic…
Month: January 2015
More than 1.6million people linked arms with 40 world leaders flocked to the French capital and took part in a march in defiance of terrorists in a moving tribute to the 17 people killed in terror attacks during three days of deadly attach in Paris last week. President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron and…
The Qatari Royal Family are developing their own spacious “palace” in London. Three grade 1 listed townhouses will be renovated to create a palatial mansion at Cornwall Terrace, an early 19th century stucco frontage row in Regent’s Park with a garden the size of a small park. Nearly demolished after World War II due to…
With the opening scheduled for 2017, the famous department store Harvey Nichols will be the eighth venture outside the UK and Ireland – in Doha, Qatar – the world’s richest country. 80,000 sq ft will be given over to the department store which will sell fashion, beauty products, homeware and hospitality services and will be…
Over one million people and world leaders are due to take part in anti-terror rally in Paris, including British Prime Minister David Cameron and 40 other world leaders alongside French President Francois Hollande in the spectacular solidarity march in the French capital amid high security tribute to 17 terror victims. People begin to gather at Place de la République in…
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…