The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman scored nine nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Thursday 15 January ahead of the February 22 ceremony. We think The Grand Budapest Hotel will lead Oscar awards as pack leader, with Birdman, Boyhood, and The Imitation Game hot on its heels. Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon…
Dhaka: A group of at least 1,151 people in Bangladesh have taken a selfie together with their Nokia Lumia 730 smartphone – making it one of the gigantic selfies fit to become the world’s largest selfie. The five megapixel mid-range Windows Phone found a smart way to advertise its front-facing camera and asked…
Jessie J, the famous British singer and song writer has admitted most of her earning are from songs she writes for other artists around the world. Jessie: “You’ve got to write songs and make money as an artist”. “Party In The USA paid my rent for, like, three years, after she was the architect in…
CBE for comedy actress Meera Syal Wolverhampton-born actress and writer Meera Syal has been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours. Meera receives a CBE for her services to drama and literature. The 53-year-old is familiar to TV audiences for her comedy roles in BBC Television Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No 42,…
Actress Joan Collins becomes a dame The 81-year-old actress Joan Collins renowned for her ageless glamour and her portrayal of powerfully bitchy Alexis Carrington in US soap Dynasty, which brought her international fame in the 1980s. Born in London in 1933, started her stage debut at nine, the daughter of a Jewish South African-born theatrical…
Christine voice of Babe and Chuckie, dies at 51 Christine Cavanaugh, voice of Babe and Chukie in Nickelodeon’s has died aged 51 on 22nd December 2014 in Utah. She began small characters in TV shows like “ Cheers” and Gosalyn Mallard’s Darkwing Duck. . Her prolific acting, providing the voices of dozens of cartoon characters…
Loch Lomond Seaplanes Loch Lomond Seaplanes who took part in the opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The seaplane, which you can book during a stay at Cameron House on Loch Lomond, helped the Queen’s baton to complete it’s 120,000 mile journey to the Commonwealth Games, landing and taxiing up the Clyde to Celtic…