A spooked racehorse with a name to match swam seven miles when he threw his rider during a training run. Rebel Rover who had only recently made a come back after a ban for naughty behaviour in the stalls, was pursued by Brisbane Police who heard from his trainer Brad Smith that horses do not normally…
Fun loving DJ Tony Blackburn has been sacked from the BBC after failing to fully co-operate with the BBC Savile inquiry. BBC Boss Lord Hall said he had “fallen short” of standards the inquiry demanded. A claim that he seduced a 15 year old female after a recording of Top of the Pops has been…
A pair of huge menacing crocodiles – adult size were chosen by a gang of drug dealers in Holland to guard their loot. Police arrested 11 suspects in connection with the crime and seized £240,000 in cash hidden in a cage with the two crocs. “They thought it was safer” said police spokesman Frans Zulderhock…
David Astor, pioneering Editor who loved an underdog and effective proprietor of the Observer from 1948 to 1975, for nearly three decades captures journalistic golden age, protrayed the liberal values in a world of prejudice, suppoorting the anti-colonial liberation movements in Africa and Asia, campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty, discrimination of homosexuality,…
Sean Carrol, an award-winning scientist, writer and educator, found how life works at vastly different scales and one of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated, even there are rules the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant…
Volvo, Swedish Auto manufacturer has started testing a smartphone app that would replace physically keys making it the first car to offer vehicles without keys. The app would feature Bluetooth enabled digital key technology and even offer drivers the ability to receive multiple digital key on the app which would allow access to different Volvo…
London City Airport sold to Kuwait Investment Authority, a state-owned Sovereign fund, Borealis Infrastructure, Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan fund, AIMCo, an American investment management company, Wren House, an infrastructure investment vehicle owned by Sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the American private equity company who owned 75 per cent stake, and Oaktree…
The Flying Scotsman, one of the world’s most famous locomotives, painted in its traditional British Rail colours, is making the journey from London King’s Cross to York where it will go on display at the National Railway Museum (NRM). It departed King’s Cross as scheduled at 07:40 GMT and is heading up the East Coast…
Philip Lubin, NASA scientist researchers are now working on a new laser technology that can send humans to Mars in three days, compared to the technology which is available now which can take up to five months. The idea is to use lasers to propel spacecraft with giant sails to Mars, with the new “photonic…
Aston Martin is to build the DBX concept car at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales, creating 750 highly skilled jobs. It will include a skills academy, the works on the factors will start in 2017 and production will start three years later. Aston Martin in its 103-year history, has sold 70,000…