Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told the Tory party conference that he wanted Crossrail chariman Terry Morgan to help launch 30,000 apprenticeships by 2020. Young engineers of London could get a chance to tour 73 miles Crossrail tunnels £15billion rail route, deep under the capital in a plan to see British Engineering expertise at its very…
84 year old Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch wrote today on Twitter “Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide?” He later recommended a magazine article on whether Obama had done enough to address the “racial divide” referred to in his Tweet. Mr Carson has…
Smokers often has a cigarette but no match to light it. After eight years of tests, Cigamatic, a Marseille company set up by entrepreneur Charli Abisdid, has come up with a safe and more effective self-lighting cigarette invention. The technology involves the smoker breaking off a capsule fitted to the inhalation end of the cigarette.…
All exhibitions which portray the wonderful fine artistry and breathtaking use of colours familiar to many of the Indian fabrics and designs we are partly familiar with worldwide is warmly welcomed. So it is with happiness that we can report on the Fabric of India Exhibition now at London’s V and A Museum until January…
The village of Sonning is featuring a lot in the news at the moment. Firstly George Clooney and his wife Amal have a residence there and secondly Uri Geller (originally Israeli) is moving out and has left a huge 5 ft sculpture of a bent spoon (pictured above) to the village as a parting gesture,…
A “Death Brigade” run by women has been marching against the Ripper Museum in London. Let us know what you think. Watch this space. PS why does their logo look like a posh Dr carrying a medical bag?
A massive landslide in Guatemala killed 80 people and hundreds still missing. Rescue workers are continuing their search today with diggers ploughing through mounds of earth that destroyed over 100 homes in Santa Catarina Pinula about 10 miles east of the capital Guatemala City on Thursday 1st October 2015. According to authorities there are still…
A 35-year old man, Tirumala Rao, abducted Manu Sagar, a four-year-old boy as he walked home from nursery and beheaded in a gruesome “human sacrifice” in a ritual dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, in Parkasam, a rural village in Andhra Pradesh in Southern India. He was alleged to be seeking “divine powers”. CH Srikanth,…
Catherine Fox – funny, sassy, down to earth. BOOK REVIEW – “THE BENEFITS OF PASSION” BY CATHERINE FOX. Published by Marylebone House 2015. First published in 1997. ISBN 978-1-9-10674-00-0 also available as an e book. Catherine Fox has written at least five books solo and an additional autobiography (“Fight the Good Fight”) which is an…
The most expensive London Properties have gone into reverse after the stamp duty rise, Properties worth £2m -33m have fallen by 1 per cent in the year to August, while properties worth less than £5m are down 5 percent According to Savills. The Labour faring badly in the election, their threat to introduce Mansion tax…