“Being Mortal” – Ageing, Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, published by Profile Books & Wellcome Collection on 1st July 2015 – £8.99 available in Paperback and eBook. Find it in all good book stores. Gawande has penned two other books relevant to this – his latest one – “Better, Complications”…
Taylor Swift was joined by Tennis champion Serena Williams, Cara Delevingne who waved a Union Jack flag and top model Kendall Jenner in a catwalk themed section of Swift’s set at an open-air show in London’s Hyde Park, attended by 65,000 strong crowd. The surprised pop star said “I remember seven years ago when…
Police have seized a drone which was hovering over the home of the Wimbledon tennis championships, as security measures for high profile tourists attraction for through out the UK are tightened after recent attacks at Tunisa, France and Kuwait. The Met Police said they were alerted to a man flying a drone over the All…
The Forgiveness of Sins Hardback published by Bloomsbury available for £14.99 Writer of The Forgiveness of Sins – James Runcie who studied at Oxford, lives in London and Edinburgh. He is the the author of a total of seven books. Keen on detective work, Canon Sidney Chambers stars in The Grantchester Mysteries and helps solve “puzzles” in 1960’s Cambridge. There…
Queensway tube is popular for Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens/Palace as well as for Queensway itself and Whiteleys which sports a super cinema as well as an array of very pleasing stores. Very near Queensway tube and nestling in a row of eateries and shops is Little Persia at number 38 with a welcome facility for…
The number of people recorded dead in Sousse is 39 including a Sandwell council worker and two family members from the Black Country. The assassin brought a Kalashnikov rifle onto the beach disguised under a parasol and suddenly pulled it out in full view of a tourist on a sun lounger and opened fire.…
Poetry Please with a foreword by Roger McGough (OBE) is a book of the Nation’s best loved poems. This compendium originates from BBC Radio Four where Roger presented Poetry Please. He has managed to compile this book as a result of his popular programmes and we can all enjoy the myriad of verse within…
Twenty year old Vicky Balch from Leyland, Lancashire, injured in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash has had her right leg amputated below the knee following seven operations. according to her lawyers. She was injured when the theme park’s Smiler ride crashed into an empty carriage in front of it on 2 June. Days after the…
Maria Nelly Murillo and Yudier Moreno, her month old baby, survived a plane crash in Bogata Columbia, by drinking water to stay alive, was rescued by Columbian airforce after four days lost in jungle. They were in twin engine Cessna plane that crashed in the remote region of quibdo western Columbia on 20th June 2015.…
France’s interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the service was “illegal” and has ordered police and prosecutors to enforce its closure and banned US based low cost UberPOP after a day of nationwide protests by taxi drivers, as some stranded travellers had to walk along the side of the motorway to reach the airport. US rock…