Microsoft snaps LinkedIn for £18bn ($26bn)

Microsoft is buying the Professional networking website LinkedIn for £18bn ($26bn) in cash, a deal set to boost Microsoft sale of its business and email software and also give access to the world’s biggest professional social network with more than 430 million members worldwide. The software giant will pay $196 a share, a premium of…

50 people shot dead in Orlando Florida:- 53 also in hospital

Omar Matim originally of Afghanistan family origin, but a US citizen opened fire at The Pulse nightclub in Florida which is a gay club last Saturday night 11 June 2016.  It ended up as being the biggest shooting in America when he killed 50 people and wounded another 53. Tweets have already suggested what seems possibly  to…

Queen’s 90th Birthday

The annual trooping if the Colour parade of more than 1600 soldiers and 300 horses marked the Queen’s official birthday watched by thousands of people. The Queen dressed in lime green coat and matching hat, appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with members of her family, including Princess Charlotte for an RAF flypast and gun…

Tower poppies sell out to make big profit

Blood swept lands and seas of red was created by artist Paul Cummins to commemorate the centenary of the start of the war in 1914.  Every poppy represented a Commonwealth or British serviceman killed totalling 888,246. One hundred of the ceramic poppies have sold for £150 each within four hours of going on sale. Armed…

Naked Chefs? Now a naked restaurant!

Concentrating on trying new cuisines and enjoying their food more is the aspiration to customers head chef Jono Hope is hoping to achieve.  Apparently Bunyadi already has a huge waiting list of 40,000 and opens today in London’s Elephant and Castle.  Guests get a locker to put their clothes in and a robe.  Use of…

Cycle aware jacket warns motorists!

As we all know in London, cycling is a mixed pleasure and is dangerous as well as exciting and economical. We are victim of many stories about fatalities on the London streets of young people losing their lives run over by lorries etc.  Despite half the government having been to top schools and universities they still…

Frederick Lowis – Debut show in Portobello

Frederick Lowis and his girlfriend have recently moved from the coast and you can see Frederick’s work at The spacious Palm Tree Gallery until June 19th number 291 Portobello London W10 5TD.  It is mixed media, stylish, bright and cheerful and not so expensive that you can’t invest.  Ladbroke Grove is the nearest underground and…

Boujis staff at London nightclub faking top champagnes

Cameras have caught staff at Boujis South Kensington refilling champagne bottles with £9 Prosecco which sell at £360 and Grey Goose Vodca with imperial – £260 compared with £10.  Parent company Ignite has stated it will take action against those responsible. Strange they should take these risks to make profit for their employers.  Probably in…

“Playing FTSE” – sex and the city in London

There’s always room for one more tell-all bonkbuster by a feisty get up and go female writer in the UK.  Former City trader Victoria Pease now married and living in enviable comfort with her three children and husband who is father of two other children from his previous marriage has written such a tome –…