WLT announces Big Match Fortnight appeal 31 August, 2016 – 16:34 — World Land Trust Elephant project in South India – Big Match Fortnight appeal – Worldland Trust This year’s Big Match Fortnight will be raising funds to protect a wildlife corridor between two tiger reserves in southern India to enable the safe passage of…
Described by Sothebys as “the greatest cubist painting to come to the market in decades”, the 1909 Femme Assise has been in a private collection since 1973. It was bought then for £340,000. Experts say it depicts Picasso’s lover, – model Fernande Olivier. It sold for £43 million in June this year at Sothebys. Impressionist…
RT has been described by Vladimir Putin saying”The channel is funded by the Government so it cannot help but reflect the Russian government’s official position on the events in our country and in the rest of the world one way or another”. They have now offered Nigel Farage his own television show as part…
. More Chinese parents are now choosing English names for their new babies to give them a foothold in the West. Beau Jessup, 16, after visiting China with her parents and meeting Chinese who asked her advice about naming their children has now earned more than £48,000. The website Specialname was set up by her…
Sprinter Libby Clegg, 26 won gold in the T11 200m, Stephanie Milward won the S8 100m backstroke and Matt Wylie took gold in the men’s S9 50m freestyle. Earlier Georgie Hermitage, in T37, 400m, gold with a new world record of 1:43sec, Holli Arnold, 22 won gold in the F46 javelin with another world record…