A huge explosion sparked by fireworks at the Puttingal Devi Hindu temple festival at Paravoor in Kerala South India around 3:30am local time ( 22:00 GMT Saturday 9th April 2016), witnessed by thousands of devotees, as sparks fell into the fireworks storeroom according to the local police. An investigation has been ordered as…
The new wage came in last Friday for employees over 25:- the Minimum Legal Wage is now £7.20 per hour, which is higher than the Standard Minimum Wage for young people aged 21 – 34. By 2020 the Living Wage will be £9 per hour. Confused? So are we! Apparently the Office for budget Responsibility…
Two years ago the British cabinet office refused requests for expenses taken by former Prime Ministers to be made public saying it was an invasion of privacy. But now the government has been ordered to release details of hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of expenses paid to former prime ministers. Judge Anisa Dhanji ruled…
Adventurous Janveer Sandhu was on the slopes in Banska Bulgaria with his friend when he veered off course and virtually knocked himself out on a tree trunk. Unable to locate anyone to help him poor Janveer bravely walked through thigh and waist deep snow at one point pursued by a pack of wolves in order to…
President of The USA Barack Obama commented on the risk we have of a nuclear war in the event of a country having weapons we are not aware of at the 2 day summit on the subject held in Washington. At the nuclear summit on security Obama also discussed Iran and said they must not…
Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice is the new take from Hollywood of two huge fictional legends. Many of us have grown up on Batman and Robin which became just Batman, and gradually there evolved what can only be simply described as darker and darker takes on the legend. Gone are the days where these…
This Jewish school has run for forty years and conducts lessons without using English. It is still operating illegally despite being ordered to close. Based in Stamford Hill, London, the February 12 order to close has been ignored. Children with rucksacks have been delivered and collected in a minibus and neighbours say there has been…
The popular Different Gallery number 14 Percy St Fitzrovia London W1 (off the Tottenham Court Road) is showing four artists at present. Pictured here is work from the 14 Stations of The Cross – Jesus meets his mother – 56×46 cms by Iain McKillop, ordained Anglican priest. He has produced appropriately torture-filled, angst-ridden canvases though they…
For decades, rock music was banned in Cuba as an euphemism for European decadence and “mindless consumerism”. Who knows the rights and wrongs of this? Hot on the heels of President Obama’s visit to Cuba the Rolling Stones performed a free concert in Havana for thousands of admiring fans. In fact, The Beatles did get…
Shoppers abandon food at the self check-outs as they still have not worked out all the jiggery pokery they need to master to calmly scan their goods and bag them up. Funny that as a lot of these people think they’re clever – so why is it happening? Some people when they go out shopping…