Despite the collapse of two of the high street oldest names on the UK and high profile failures –BHS and Austin Reed – in the space of two days in the past weeks, they brought the process of managing insolvent companies into the spotlight, administrators are dealing with the lowest levels of corporate collapse for…
Month: June 2016
Frederick Lowis and his girlfriend have recently moved from the coast and you can see Frederick’s work at The spacious Palm Tree Gallery until June 19th number 291 Portobello London W10 5TD. It is mixed media, stylish, bright and cheerful and not so expensive that you can’t invest. Ladbroke Grove is the nearest underground and…
Cameras have caught staff at Boujis South Kensington refilling champagne bottles with £9 Prosecco which sell at £360 and Grey Goose Vodca with imperial – £260 compared with £10. Parent company Ignite has stated it will take action against those responsible. Strange they should take these risks to make profit for their employers. Probably in…
There’s always room for one more tell-all bonkbuster by a feisty get up and go female writer in the UK. Former City trader Victoria Pease now married and living in enviable comfort with her three children and husband who is father of two other children from his previous marriage has written such a tome –…
Hilary Rodham Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination by A P count with a last minute showing of super delegates who appeared to put her “over the threshold” to become the first female presidential nominee of a major party. Yesterday in California she said she is taking nothing for granted. She wants to do everything…
Three people have been killed and nine injured in a train crash in the Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy near Leige, as the passenger train crashed into the back of a goods train at high speed, according to Belgium’s rail infrastructure manager, Infrabel. The two trains were on the same track. The passenger trains with about…
Thirty four passengers and six crew members on a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A380-800, the biggest commercial airliner in use, flight from London Heathrow, have been hurt after it was hit by turbulence. The aircraft carrying 378 passengers on board at the time but managed to land safely at Kuala Lumpur. Medical staff and senior Malaysia…
Caio Amador walks amazingly on a tightrope 820 ft above earth between 2 cable cars over Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro country of Brazil. Makes many of us feel a bout of vertigo! 28 year old Caio braved high winds and the swaying cars as he conquered a 30 foot gap. Some say it…
The former World heavyweight champion, one of the world’s best-known communicators and sportsmen died at a hospital in the US – the city of Phoneix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday 2nd June 2016. He was suffering from respiratory illness and Parkinson’s disease. The funeral will take place in Ali’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky,…
Defend your right to free speech, should fears over security and social cohesion curtail it. Every person with an internet connection now has instant access to diversified opinions and crucially a platform to air their own opinions. In Free Speech, Timothy Garton Ash, scholar, and a journalist, direct us how to think freely and to…