Three Barclays senior bankers acquitted

The Serious Fraud Office has lost its high profile seven-year case against three former  Barclays employees after they were cleared of fraud charges relating to deals made with Qatar at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Ro9ger Jenkins (64), Tom Kalaris (64) and Richard Boath (61) all defendants acquitted after a five-month retrial in…

Facebooks’s Inside story

Facebook only evolved after there was six degrees, Friendster and MySpace, on college campuses like Stanford, people digitising their printed facebooks as early as 1999. Mark Zuckerberg was in high school at Exeter,  a classmate of his name Kris Tillery built a database of student headshots and put it online along with their phone numbers,…

Hunt for a piano in Sibieria

Travel journalist Sophy Roberts’s The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an idealistic quest, a mischievous travel adventure and a forgotten and one of best non-fiction story about one of the exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves  It all starts with a commission to track down a suitable piano for a Mongolian virtuoso of Siberian descent that…

One man’s efforts to make air travel safer

EVERYBODY FLIES –  BRITISH CINEMAS PREMIERE:-  A SHOCKING DOCUMENTARY FROM FACT NOT FICTION  FILMS Cinephil films are one of the organizations behind the film itemized above which took 18 years of research and 4.5. years to make, with the intrepid researcher and former British Airways pilot Tristan Loraine as host. Tristan features in interviews and…

World markets tumbles due to coronavirus as British man dies in Japan

A British man, Australian man  who was on the Diamond Princess Cruise ship has died from Coronavirus, according to Japan’s health ministry. He is the first British person to die from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Hundreds of people on board the liner became infected while it was held in quarantine off…

Headache for Nurofen owner as they lose £5bn

Nurofen-Dettol and Durex owner Reckitt Benckiser have a headache as Reckitt posted a £3.7 billion loss yesterday as it took a £5 billion charge on its takeover of baby formula maker Mead  Johnson. Reckitt which also owns Cillit Bang acquired baby milk maker Mead Johnson in a mammoth £13 billion ($16.6 billion) deal in 2017.…

Tory Party accepted £52m in donations last year out of total of £113m

According to latest figures released by the electioral commission today, political parties  accepted a record amount of donations and loans during 2019. Last year, Tory Party accepted  £52,645, 437, Labour £24, 751, 364, the Liberal Democrats £19, 815, 705 and the Brexit Party £11, 587, 851. The Green party reported £381, 393 in large donations …

New Scent of terror against the proposed Moscow perfume store

A team in Moscow has created a Putrid scent in a protest against plans for a perfume store in a historic building with a terrible past. The former military court saw thousands of people condemned to death during Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s. The Great Purges involving thousands of people with public trials of …

Coronavirous latest

China has now  78, 497 confirmed cases and 2, 744 deaths. Italy has  400 cases a 25 per cent increase in  aday. Saudi Arabia is stopping pilgrims entering the country for Umarah. President Trump says his deputy Mike Pence will be in charge of the US response. Taiwan has 32 cases of the virus. In…