Peggy Seeger purist queen of folk

Peggy Margaret Seeger, the queen of folk revival has released an album of electronic dance versions of her songs in 2012. Peggy Seeger, born in the New York, USA in 1935, is the daughter of the modernist composer Ruth Porter Crawford and musical folklorist Charles Seeger.  After studying at Radcliffe College, in 1955 Peggy left…

Britain drops to bottom of G7 growth table

  Britain has toppled from the top to the bottom of the league of G7 leading economies in the year since the Brexit vote, with official data revealing slower growth than previously thought. The Pound dropped 0.7 per cent against Euro on the back of weaker-than-expected gross domestic products figures. House price too fell for…

Railway footbridge stampede kills 22, injures 39 at Mumbai

22 people were killed and 39 injured in a morning rush hour stampede at a Mumbai’s Elphinstone Road Station footbridge,  which connects two major local lines. It was triggered by overcrowding and people seeking shelter from monsoon rains. The injured were rushed to local hospitals. “People at the front slipped and the huge crowd toppled…

Chopard’s first minute repeating watch

Chopard unveiled “The Full Strike”, its crown-operated first-minute repeating watch, with sapphire gongs and a slew of patents on security devices to ensure the watch does not break when it is mishandled. The 21-year-old manufacturer chose the design to be least complicated. This is the first time we’ve heard a Chopard minute repeater strikes the…

Hugh Hefner dies at 91

Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder has died aged 91, by his family and friends at his home in Los Angeles. Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and went on to become a millionaire after founding Playboy, the influential men’s adult magazine in 1953. Hugh Hefner revolutionised publishing and helped user in the…

Dyson throws his hat in to making electric cars

The billionaire who revolutionised the vacuum cleaner said 400 engineers in Wiltshire had been working since 2015 on the £2.5bn project, Sir James Dyson, the inventor who was knighted in 2007 New Year honours list, is in the race to build tomorrows electric vehicles. ” I decided to start developing electric motors and batteries, as…

India to lead the fourth industrial revolution with telecom and IT

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Industries, Chairman, Indian business magnate, oil, and gas tycoon, speaking at the first-ever “India Mobile Congress 2017”, in New Delhi, said that the Indian economy has grown unparalleled and in the next years will reach £ 56.2 Trillion),  $7 trillion from the current £ 1.86 Trillion $2 and half trillion where…

V S GOODCHILD VOL 1 – “ALL OR NOT”

Up and coming artists should really interest us all even though for the past 15 or more years there has been a lack of new innovative music and songs.  That said the popularity of rap songs often from angry and creative people who observe difficulties around them and write and sing about them is another…

enchanting Jimmy’s song

“I go back home, Jimmy Scott” Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child.  Jimmy’s song haunts and enchants. Directed by Yoon Ha Chang, this sensitive interpretation of one man’s mission to give jazz and blues singer Jimmy Scott true appreciation before he passes on enchants the audience with renditions of his songs after German music…