Saturday 26 May 2018, Champions League final Real Madrid 3 1 Liverpool Benzema 51’ Mane 55’ Bale 64’, 83’ Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale’s bicycle kick highlighted and underpinned Spanish teams’s superiority and triumph over English teams in European finals winning the last seven 2006: Sevilla 4-0 Middlesbrough, 2006: Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal, 2009: Barcelona 2-0…
Kevin Le Gendre, Jazz expert, radio broadcaster, deputy editor of Echo and longtime music journalist, has produced a compassionate history of black British music. This is the first in a two-volume work beginning with the middle ages to the 1960s, which comprises the emergence of Jazz, Calypso and Ska and the genesis of the soul.…
Wesfarmers, the Australian owners of Homebase who paid £340m for the retailer two years ago has sold the DIY chain for £1 to restructuring specialist Hilco, ending its £1bn loss-making foray into the UK. Hilco which rescued music chain HMV in 2013. The 24 stores which were converted to the Bunnings brand will revert to…
The GDPR requires that companies gain explicit consent for how they use personal data and give customers more rights on accessing, correcting and removing their information. Several large US firms have earmarked huge resources to complying with the rules, under threat of fines of up to €20m or 4 per cent of global revenue, Payver,…
The Japanese technology and entertainment group Sony to spend $2.3bn to buy controlling stake in EMI Music Publishing, thereby gaining access to over 2m songs ranging from Queen to Pharrell Williams. Kenichiro Yoshida, the new CEO of Sony since April after it halted losses in its consumer electronics divisions to report its highest annual profit.…
Rachel Meghan Markle who was better known as Meghan Rachel Markle, now Duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry, actress in “Suits” filmed in Toronto and star of many other productions, came to London when she was 15 with her friend and family for a typical tourist holiday. Pictured here outside Buckingham Palace with…
Tesco Direct to close 500 jobs at risk of redundancy. A statement blamed high costs and marketing for stunting the website’s progress and confirmed the “non-food website” will close in July 2018. Tesco said it will close the Direct site on 9th July 2018 and the Fenny Lock distribution centre in Milton Keynes in late…
Ally Law a 21-year-old YouTube personality notorious for performing Parkour stunts and doing free solo climbing on a range o buildings including 18 floor M by Montcalm Hotel in London. He and a group of friends stay the entire night in various commercial premises. He has been addicted to a video game since the age…
In politics, a week is too long, is proved wrong, as India’s struggling political opposition won a rare victory at the weekend when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party failed to muster enough support to form the local government in the south Indian state of Karnataka. BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa, who was sworn…
Hawaii lava finally reaches the Pacific and acid from Kilauea’s lava, called “Laze” crossed the Hawaii highways to reach the ocean. Major routes are blocked off by lava streams as the first serious causality was reported during fresh eruptions, as a man sitting on a balcony at his home was hit on the shin by…