J oe Biden, the US President and Prime Minister Boris Johnson held at the White House as UK ministers are pondering joining an existing North American trade pact. Both discussed Northern Ireland, climate change and Afghanistan during the 90 minute meeting. The UK is very keen to strike free trade deals around the world I…
Month: September 2021
harlie Mullins, who left school at 15 with no qualifications, sold Pimlico Plumbers for over £145m to KKR owned Neighborly a US firm. Pimlico’s services include heating, plumbing, bathrooms, drainage, electrics and more has employed over 400 associates completing on average around 100, 000 service jobs across London every year. Neighborly, a franchise giant of…
A volcano erupted on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands has destroyed houses and forced 5, 500 residents to evacuate. Lava from the Cumbre Vieja Volcano has been pouring downhill since Sunday’s eruption, devastating everything in its path with at least 100 houses destroyed so far. The Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez flew to…
Biden administration announces new travel policy effective from November. re-opening to passengers from UK, EU and other nations. From November all foreign travellers will be allowed to fly into the US if they are fully vaccinated and undergo testing and contact tracing. The tough US restrictions on travel was placed in 2020, by Trump…
A pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist and sci-fi writer, Chen Qiufan to imagine our…
The new virus news emerging from China in December 2018, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow Covid-19’s wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked…
Mr Issacman ( foreground) yelled “punch it SpaceX” before the launch. Four amateur astronauts have blasted off from Florida on their private mission to orbit. The Inspiration4 crew , comprising of on billionaire and three ordinary citizens rode out of the Kennedy Space Centre in a Dragon capsule provided by Space Z rocket company.…
Sir Clive Sinclair cutting-edge technology inventor and pioneer of home computing dies aged 81 ion London. His calculator Sinclair Executive won Design Council awards and was put on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His innovative quartz watch, a sleek black affair, never worked properly and customers returned them in thousands.…
Three people have died after a car ploughed into a sheltered accommodation (block of flats), and caught fire in Great West Road, Notting Hill, West-London at 4:45am. Police were called in 4:50am, as the London Fire Brigade put out the fire but sadly three people were pronounced dead at the scene and nine people were…