Britain’s largest carmaker, Jaguar Land Rover is to shed 1, 000 temporary contract workers at its Solihull plant which also builds Range Rovers and the Land Rovers Discovery SUV and cut production, resulting from a collapse in diesel vehicle sales. Jaguar also blames lower consumer confidence because of the prospect of withdrawal from the EU,…
Curtis Sittenfeld, whose precious novel American Wife was a bestseller, but in her latest collection of short fiction she overturns assumptions about class, relationships and gender roles in a nation that is divided and creates characters that make a permanent mark in readers’ minds. In “The Prairie wife”, an Instagram star and portrays herself as…
Manchester City have won the Premier League title with five games remaining – their victory over Tottenham on Saturday coupled with Manchester United’s defeat to West Bromwich on Sunday after West Brom striker Jay Rodriguez’s header confirms that Pep Guardiola’ side have clinched it, by 18 times consecutive winning streak of premier games, and beating…
This is the fascinating account of how public schoolboy Jim Swanton and Hampshire burr of the state school-educated John Arlott, the undisputed poet laureate of Test Match Special, two contrasting legendary voices resisted and lamented the rise of commercialised Twenty20 format which swept social and commercial changes that swept through cricket and Britain at large…
Tesco’s share price closed 7 per cent higher after it said it had attracted 260, 000 more new customers over the past year and expected to reap £2.5bn in additional revenues “over the medium term” from its recent £3.7bn takeover of Booker, a food wholesaler. Dave Lewis, CEO yesterday, said after annual profits exceeded £1bn…
Banita Sandhu, a 20-year-old from South Wales studying English literature student at Kings College London, is all set to make her Bollywood debut in Shoojit Sircar’s upcoming project October. This is the first time that a mainstream actress from Wales will feature in a Bollywood film. She will be co-starring Varun Dhawan, in a Bollywood…
Fans of Tormented charismatic superstar Leslie Cheung, Asia’s gay icon have gathered at Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel to mourn the day he took his own life 15 years ago. Cheung born in 1956, was one of Hong Kong’s most famous stars during the golden era of Canto-pop in the 1980s, although he portrayed a…
The proposed interactive Hotel at Aurora Station, expected to launch in 2021, the world’s first luxury space hotel will orbit the Earth every 90 minutes. Guests at the hotel will witness 16 sunrises and sunsets in 24 hours, and will cost them $9.5million for a 120-day stay. Guests can also participate in scientific research experiments…
Microsoft founded on April 1975, once invested $150 million to save Apple from Bankruptcy in 1997, when Microsoft’s market capitalisation was $146.68 billion. A deal was struck after Microsoft promised to support Microsoft Office for the Mac in return Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer its default web browser.
Samsung Electronics has projected record first quarter operating profit, as strong demand for smartphones and memory chips which offset slowing down on the display panels and its premium Organic light emtting diode (OLED) . The groups operating profit for the first three months of 2018 at Won 15.6tn (£10.44bn) ( US$14.4bn) up 58 per cent…