EMMA – a new take on a well loved story. Look for it from February 14th onwards! Georgian Regency England which is the era where this film, inspired by the 1815 novel of Emma by Jane Austen takes place, is depicted in an instantly enchanting catalogue of book readers, musicians and glamorous landed gentry tete…
Month: February 2020
Bafta Awards have taken place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, where World War One film 1917 was the big winner with seven awards, including Best film, best British film, best director and best cinematography. Joker won three awards including the best actor for Joaquin Phoenix while Renee Zellweger was named the best actress for…
Sudesh Amman (20) who was released around a week ago after serving bi half of his sentence of three years and four months for terror offences was shot dead by police after he stabbed two people in Streatham, South London. He was under police surveillance at the time of the attack on Streatham High Road…
A 44-year-old Chinese man has died in Manila hospital where he developed severe pneumonia, after travelling to the Philippines from the city of Wuhan., first fatality outside China. He was infected before arriving in the Philippines, according to the World Heath Organisation (WHO). Over 325 people have died in the outbreak so far and 15,…
A 19-year-old man at a student night club has died with a 22-year-old woman seriously ill after taking Warwickshire police said was MDMA or Red Bull pills at the Assembly in Spencer Street in Leamington Spa, at about 05:00 GMT. Officers said they did not know if the group had bought the drugs at the…
The US has approved its first drug AR101 or Palforzia which uses oral immunotherapy treatment for peanut allergies in children given in tiny but increasing doses of peanut protein over a six-month period under medical supervision. The treatment is not a cure and makers warn that the risk of a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction remains.…
New York Times contributor Kate Murphy, reveals countless conversations she had had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders and proves how only by listening well can we truly connect with others. Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives improve our self-knowledge and increase our…
Trump administration is the leakiest administration since the Founding Fathers created parchment, much of what happens behind the scenes in nearly real-time accompanied by the running commentary from the President’s Twitter account. Washington Post reporters Philip Rocker and Carol Leonnig reveal Trump at his unvarnished, showing the unhinged decision-making and incompetence that has floored officials…
Airbus for years practiced a “massive scheme to offer and pay bribes” involving top executives, according to disclosure in courts in Washington, Paris, and London as Europe’s aerospace champion agreed to pay €3.6bn in penalties to regulators in France, the UK, and the US. Many of the bribes were paid through shell companies set up…
Dozens of trucks an hour setting off from the avocado belt in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan for the US, armed robbers are zeroing in on the fast-growing Avocado multi-billion-dollar industry. The rise in Avocado related crime has turned part of the state into no-go areas even for the police. Juan whose family has farms…