David Mallinson currently starring in “The Last Dance” (London fringe) has done quite a bit of acting at Sheffield’s famous Crucible theatre where he has starred in amongst other plays – A Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. He stays in digs and sometimes ruminates on the quietness of that lifestyle though in some events,…
The annual value of the EU wipes industry is £27 billion but wet wipes used by so many people for all kinds of cleansing purposes should not be flushed down lavatories as they are causing pollution in the sea, rivers and lakes throughout the world. It will take 500 years for plastic wipes to break…
A powerful earthquake in the Apennines region near Norcia in central Italy, measured 6.6 bigger than last August’s quake injuring 20, and a further nine were pulled alive from rubble according to the Italian media. Tectonic forces in the Earth’s crust have pulled apart 3 mm per year about 10th of the speed at which your nails…
Now in a new film directed by Mira Nair and starring Lupita Nyong’O and David Oyelowo, Queen of Katwe, written by Tom Crothers, covers Phiona, a young girl in one of the poorest parts of Africa, being tutored to excel in the game of Chess, even at first making a chess board by drawing in…
In The Daily Telegraph Lord Livingston wrote UK’s fall from the fifth biggest economy in the world to the sixth place is unacceptable in the long term. UK is now behind US, China, Japan, Germany and France in US Dollar terms. UK annual GDP of about £1.8 trillion is worth few dollars dropping down on…
An American Airlines Boeing 767 bound for Miami caught fire at 14:35 local time (19:35GMT) on the runway of Chicago O’Hare airport while taking off and pilot has to abort the take-off and evacuated everyone on board as emergency chutes were deployed as black smoke billowed from the plane, injuring twenty people. Nine crew members…
‘Nanny Culture’ follows British nanny Julie Mcilvenny, as she travels to the United Arab Emirates to take care of the 6 Al Hammadi family children and meet and mix with their parents and other regular staff including the cook and the cleaner. The story portrays the interesting and sometimes humorous journey of the learning curve Julie and the family undertake, as two very different cultures come together.…
Delhi-based start-up SMS Contraceptive is capitalising on national awkward conversations by offering home delivery of not pizza but contraceptives within guaranteed 30-minute window. Prospective customers can place condom and contraceptive pill orders on demand via phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Snapchat, with the products on their way via scooter across Delhi. Siahaan Seth (18) the founder…
Alibaba Group’s Fintech arm ANT Financial, who operates China’s largest online payment platform Alipay, is the world’s most successful, exciting and high impact” fintech companies, Fintech 100, 2016, complied by UK-based KPMG and Australian Investment company H2 Ventures. China had claimed five of the top 10 spots following by 3 from USA, in its annual list of…
Tents and shacks were burning down whilst some children were thought to still be in the Calais camp today and yesterday. Other children were queuing to register for future care and accommodation. The authorities say the camp will be cleared by the end of the week and bulldozers will be brought in. Fires are still…