Jenner to close after 183 years

Edinburgh’s Jenners Department store is to close for good after 183 years, with a loss of 200 jobs. The iconic building in Princes Street is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen who said in 2019 he planned an exciting renovation. In 2017, Mr. Povlsen whose parents set up a Scandinavian fashion company bestseller worth…

Boohoo buys Debenhams brand  without the shops or staff for £55m

Boohoo buy Debenhams brand and Website for £ 55m without taking the firm’s remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce. The transformational deal triggers 12, 000 job losses. The 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down after administrators FRP Advisory failed to secure a rescue deal for the business as…

Joe Root another century 186

  International Test Match Series – Day 1 of 5 at Galle  England lead series 1-0 in two-match series Sri Lanka  vs England Sri Lanka first innings, 381 ao off 139.3 ov, Thirimanne 43 off 95, 5 fours, Mathews 110 off 238, 11 fours, Chandimal 52 off 121, 4 fours, 1six,  Dickwella  92 0ff 144,…

Struggling to find peace: An Empire forged by Bismarck

Germany was united for the first in its modern history 150 years ago for two reasons.  Before 1871, Germany was not a nation, but an idea its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand as to how would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud…

Corporate America and China

Clyde Prestowitz who worked for President Ronald Regan, and renowned globalisation and Asian expert has advised subsequent US administrations offers useful advice for Joe Biden the new American 46th president to adopt, as resetting US relations with China will be one of his top agenda. The strategies that the United States and its allies can…

Wild elephant set on fire succumbs to injuries.

  A wild elephant who had roamed around the Masinagudi village for eight months searching for  food and water had died after a tyre set on fire got caught on its ear. The villagers set fire to a rubber tyre and hurled it at the elephant in an effort to chase it away form their…

Matthews’s unbeaten century for Sri Lanka

International Test Match Series – Day 1 of 5 at Galle  England lead series 1-0 in two-match series Sri Lanka  vs England Sri Lanka first innings, 229-4 off 87 ov, Thirimanne 43 off 95, 5 fours, Mathews 107no off 228, 11 fours, Chandimal 52 no off 121, 4 fours, 1six, Anderson 3-24, Mark Wood 1-47…