HSBC bank glitch stops salaries

300,000 bank payment have been held by a computer glitch at the HSBC bank with many people reporting they have not got their monthly salaries ahead of bank holiday weekend, some having to cancel their short holidays. HSBC has apologised  for delays and said all payments held up would be processed on Saturday morning. HSBC…

Social media works as catalyst for Onam

Onam festival, in India which features “Onasaddya”   the nine course grand feast of good exotic food featuring 13 dishes and traditionally served on a banana leaf,  “vallamkali” boat races , song and dances including Kummatti kali – The Mask Dance, Pulikali / Kaduvakali, Kathakali, Thumbi Thullal and Kaikotti kali. According to the legend, Kerala was…

ENNIS – HILL GETS GOLD AGAIN

Sheffield based 29 year old Jessica Ennis Hill, now  married and  mother of little Reginald Ennis Hill, has won gold in the Heptathlon in Beijing – her second heptathlon in 6 years.

Man from Uncle – a relative who satisfies.

 – The original duo are on the right. We’ve just had the fifth Mission Impossible to keep us on the edge of our seats and right behind Ethan Hawk and his band is Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin reinvented for a lengthy action packed big  screen version of United Network Command for Law and Enforcement…

7 dead and 14 injured as fighter plane crashes onto busy A27

There were at least seven dead  and 14 injured at the  Shoreham Airshow  West Sussex, after a vintage Hawker Hunter  fighter jet  taking part in the show crashed  on to the busy  A27.  Roads packed with cars and  onlookers watched the explosion after the crash with horror. The pilot Andy Hill who could not eject, was pulled from the wreckage…

Cook’s 85 takes England to 203-6

Day 3 Australia tour of England and Ireland, 5th Investec Test: England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 20-24, 2015 Australia 481 all out (125.1 ov) David Warner 85 off 131 balls , 11 fours, SPD Smith 143 off 252, 17 fours and 2 six, ST Finn 90-3, Ben Stokes 133-3,  MM Ali 102-3 England 149 ( 48.4 ov) AN…

Rocket X – Triumph’s bike takes the helm….

A big toy for a big boy on a power trip?  Triumph is celebrating a decade of The Rocket and a new special edition.  Its designed to take you on a trip – challenge your grip and make you feel on the edge as you speed along the highways. Triumph has “repatriated” the making of…

“Gene bank” of apples at Prince Charles’s country estate.

1,000 different varieties of apples are being grown including historic apple trees, by Prince Charles. Home Farm near Highgrove includes a variety brought to England by a Roman general and another from a tree once grown in Isaac Newton’s Lincolnshire garden. Genetic conservation is the main reason for the big variety of apples, some of…