Christmas has arrived 143 days earlier, at the Selfridges store on Oxford Street. The 3000 square feet of floor space at the fourth floor of Selfridges has been transformed into Christmas Winter Wonderland. The store has more than 60, 000 baubles, 120 cracker options, 1250 Christmas cards and wrapper options. At Selfridges, Christmas shoppers flock from…
The Tianjin toll in the explosions has risen to 112 of which 24 have been identified and 88 still to be identified, 95 people, including 85 fire-fighters, still missing, authorities said on Sunday 16th August 2015. Ten more bodies were found on Saturday night after the announcement of 104 deaths, but four mutilated remains were later…
The Tianjin explosions in the warehouse owned by Ruihai International Logistics, contained calcium carbide, potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate and 700 tonnes of Sodium cyanide stored in wooden boxes or iron barrels. Calcium carbide CaC₂ is used in the production of PVC plastic and can be harmful if touched or breathed, potassium nitrate, KNOᴣ and ammonium…
A monstrous massive explosion hit China’s northern port city Tianjin home to 15million people, a major port and industrial area to the South East of Chinese capital Beijing, killing 50 people including 12 firefighters and another 36 missing, injuring 800. The first explosion about 23:30 ( 16:30 GMT) was followed by another seconds later. According to…
Kieth Richardson 76, the owner of the Richardson Hotels group whose properties include The Fowey Hotel in Fowey, The Metropole in Padstow and the Grand Hotel and The Grosvenor hotel in Torquay, who travels between his hotels by helicopter has been fined £3, 000.00 and costs of £1,104 by the Bodmin magistrates court in Truro,…
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given an in-principle go ahead for Madrid-based locomotive-maker to undertake trail runs of its lighter and faster trains that could cut the journey time from Mumbai to Delhi from 17 hours to 12 hours without changing India’s ageing rail tracks. Talgo in July 2015, stated its intention to ship…
Police in Riot gear and police helicopter was drafted in after officers were attacked by hundreds of masked party goers at a 14 year birthday party at a block of flats at in Stoke Newington, East London Borough of Hackney, which got out of control. Police had their cars blocked as around 400 people threw…
On 6th August 10:30 am, five people are reported missing after a passenger bus ferrying 30 pilgrims fell into the swollen Shivnath river near Bhatapara-Baloda Bazar District, Balsipur in Chattisgarh in northern India. 20 people rescued were traumatised and are being treated in local district hospitals. The bus was going towards Bilaspur from Bhatapara when…
Investigators of food and drug administration have seized 5,300 bottles of alcohol and packets of a white powder called Sildenafi, better known as Viagra the anti-impotence drug in the southern city of Liuzhou. According to food safety officials, distillers in China added Viagra to thousands of bottles of spirits and told customers it had “health-preserving…
800 people are reported to have died and several thousands trapped in the rubble, in a powerful earthquake measured 7.9 in the Richter scale, struck between Nepal capital Kathmandu and city of Pokhara at 06:11:25:80 UTC on 25 April 2015. Termors were felt across the region as far afield as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Delhi,NCR, Bihar, Jaipur,…