Lions beat Springboks in their backyard

Sat 24 Jul 2021 British and Irish Lions in Cape Town South Africa.   17           22 British & Irish Lions De Klerk.              Tries         Cowan-Dickie                           Conversions  Biggar Pollard (4)          Penalties.      Biggar (4), Farrell Lions beat world champions South Africa British and Irish Lions beat South Africa 22-17 Earlier Faf de Klerk try puts South Africa in…

Cobham pounces on Ultra Electronics

  US owned Cobham is near to clinching  £2.6bn to acquire Ultra Electronics as take over of one of the Britain’s defence firms. The UK government is closely monitoring the proposed £2.6bn takeover of Ultra Electronics by a private equity-owned defence industry rival. Ultra said that its board was mined to recommend a £35-a-share offer…

Finding rare books are supposed to be hard and heroic

Novelist,  and former American academic, living in UK, Rick Gekoski in search of rare book trade for the last fifty years as a bookseller seeking scarce, world of first editions,  revealing anecdotes  and a hint of steel. By chance in 1971, he stumbled across  a tranche of DH Lawrence  first editions in Brooklyn on a…

Quality breeds success

  Cal Newport debunks the jargon “follow your passion” by revealing have little to do with how most people end up loving their work after spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and other who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work. Newport takes the lid off strategies they used…

Carapaz takes cycling gold for Ecuador

Tokyo 2020 Day One Cycling:   Ecuador’s Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro, wins cycling road race gold, for the first time chasing a group with seven riders I contention arrives 1:07 behind him, while GB’s Adam Yares missed out ona medal and Geraint Thomas out after earlier crash. Carapaz formed a breakaway of his own so…

Chinese Swoop in British innovation

Tencent is making a swoop for taking over  British innovative video games developer Sumo 919m  and  Innovative podcast platform Audioboom  £188m  acquired by Investment firm All Active Asset Capital, total worth more than £1.1bn. The two deals take the combined total Value of bids and deals for UK companies so far  this year to more…

 Watchdog clears Astra Zeneca’s $39bn  deal

Competition authorities in the UK gave green light in Astra Zeneca’s $39bn takeover deal of US giant Alexion Pharmaceuticals delivering the British pharma a lucrative portfolio of immunology and a towering presence in rare diseases. Astra Zeneca on Wednesday announced the completion of its Alexion acquisition, a week after securing a pivotal nod from UK’s…

12 dead and thousands evacuated in China after flood

Dozens of cities in Henan Province in central China including is provincial capital Zhengzhou, home to 94 million people  affected by record-breaking rainfall have left 12 dead and more than 100, 000 evacuated from their homes, with people wading in chest high levels of water on roads and train stations. The local authorities have issues…

33 die in severe monsoon floods in Mumbai

33 people died as tropical heavy rainfall triggered mud slide and flooding disrupting road , rail and air traffic. Flood waters submerge Mumbai due to extreme monsoon rain in India which  faced more than 200mm rainfall equivalent to 11 days of  average daily monsoon rainfall in 12 hours shutting roads and rail services, Power was…