Chinook in near-miss with drone

An RAF  Chinook helicopter was in a near miss accident after it was seconds away from being downed in a collision with a drone as it came into land at a British base according to an accident investigation. The |£60m  twin-rotor aircraft was flying at 138mph when the drone was spotted as a faint image…

Komodo National Park celebrating 37 years

Komodo National park in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands is celebrating 37 years The park Includes three larger islands Komodo, Padar and Rinca and 26 smaller ones with a total area of 1, 733 km²The national Park founded in 1980 to protect the Komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard.  Komodo National Park has been selected as…

PSA buys GM Europe for £1.9bn

  PSA owners of Peugeot and Citroen cars has struck a deal of €2.2bn (£1.9bn) to buy General Motors’ European unit including Vauxhall. Loss-making GM Europe has UK factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton which employs 4, 500 people.  With GM’s Opel and Vauxhall operations,  PSA Group jumps to become the second largest carmaker in…