The automobile industry, a multi-billion dollar affair, over the past decade, have seen ownership changing hands, conglomerates, sales strategies change, separations, bankruptcies and entire divisions shut off. This is the concise guide to who owns what brands in the auto industry. As carmakers trim down to become more efficient and more profitable the names like…
Month: September 2016
Google Duo is the new simple video calling app that brings face-to-face with all the people that matter most for you. Google on Tuesday launched Duo, a one-to-one, end-to-end encrypted video called app that is now available on Android and iOS devices. With Duo Google takes on Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s Messenger App.…
Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka stunned world number one Novak Djokovic with stimulating display to win his first US Open and third Grand Slam title. Wawrinka 31, seeded third, won 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 7-5 6-3 to add the US title to his 2014 Australia Open Title and his French Open wins last year. He hit 46 winners,…
Britain claimed five more gold medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rachel Morris won the arms-shoulders single Sculls gold, Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley won the trunk and arms mixed double sculls and the mixed coxed four added a third gold for Paralympics GB. In track cycling Lora Turnham won the B 3km individual pursuit…
Saturn is the sixth planet from The Sun and is THE most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. It is the second largest planet and is best known for its FABULOUS ring system that was first observed by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas giant and this includes…
Last June about this time of the month JC appeared in a well loved Sunday broadsheet sporting the long coat and the rolls having taken part in a comedy sketch where he stated he was 7 to 7.5 out of 10 in favour of staying in the EU. Some of his fans gasped at this…
Emanating from The Thali Café in Bristol – a restaurant which is now one of five which are owned by Jim Pizer – the dish I’m writing about is a customer favourite. Many of us know Sag Paneer as a wonderful quite bland dish made with the Indian Paneer cheese and Spinach with spices. The cheese is…
The classic recipe:- 6 egg whites 250 gm caster sugar 1 tsp cornflour 1 tsp white whine vinegar 300ml double cream 100g Greek Yoghurt 350-500 g soft summer fruit – blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, kiwis etc Use a sparkling clean metal or glass mixing bowl – any grease traces on it will ruin your work. All…
After 20 years this festival still breaks new ground with documentaries, shock horror shorts and features which startle all done by up and coming film makers mostly in London and Europe although there is also an international section. The point of a festival like this – which is also free mostly is to promo new…
A perfectly atmospheric venue for this interdisciplinary group art exhibition and a lovely cool temperature when you get there pervades the 100 x Monna at The Crypt St Pancras. And where better than a church crypt to host a collection of modern artworks with a purely religious theme albeit some artists have borrowed humour…