Hampstead resident use crowd funding to fund extra police officers after their local police station was closed in January 2014, as lack of police presence in the town is criminal acitivities. A scheme to pay for their own officers have received pledges of £180,000 nearly 30 per cent of the target from residents in the…
On first impression the film of the novel by Colm Toibin of a “simple” Irish girl’s experience in New York and her trip there by liner, having left a loving sister and mother behind in Wexford where work was thin on the ground, seems just a trifle too lightweight to grab an audience’s attention. However…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s next foreign visit is to the UK this week to meet David Cameron and the Queen and to address 90, 000 strong British Indians at Wembley this Friday. Stadium Heralds new strategic relationship with UK and some £15bn of trade and investment deals are expected. Modi remains focused on the economy…
David Cameron announced that the government is to give the public a legal right to “affordable” broadband throughout Britain, making it a basic service akin to water or electricity. Within the next five years every home and business in the UK will have access to a fast broadband connection. “Access to the internet shouldn’t be…
Remembrance Sunday where the main occasion took place in Whitehall London went without a hitch Crowds were waiting in the Mall to watch the subsequent procession. There were 14 different representatives – religious leaders in attendance and the Prime Minister David Cameron stood with former prime ministers and the opposition namely David Corbyn and many of them…
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has struck 62 miles southwest of Coquimbo, Chile according to US Geological survey. No injuries reported so far. The quake came after another one measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale. The quake woke residents of Chilean capital Santiago 186.4 miles, 300km away. Chile has a history of major earth quakes in…
The hotel market in the world is undergoing colossal transactional activities. The top ten big chains and famous hotel brands are involved in frantic dealmaking boom as they look to enhance their profits and add more hotel guest rooms to their portfolios. Most investors think risk means the stock price going down, but the great…
Sir Richard Branson, who has built a conglomerate spanning transport, telecommunications and finance, could launch a rival to Uber the taxi-hailing app, saying his company should be involved in the sharing economy, competing with the likes of Uber and Airbnb. Sir Richard Branson said “ I quite often tell my team.’ We should be competing…
Indian entrepreneur and head of RP Group of companies Dr. B Ravi Pillai, a farmer’s son, whose net work $2.4 billion, recipient of 2008 Padma Shri Indian civil award, has expanded business to other countries like United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and India and has interest in hospitality, construction, steel, cement and oil and gas…
20 people are feared dead after a dam holding back waste water from the Samarco mining company Iron ore mine in south-eastern state of Minas Gerais Brazil burst on Thursday 5th November 2015 afternoon and send debris into Bento Rodgrigues about 4miles 7km away. The project controlled by BHP Billigton and Vale River water was…