Sports Direct owner Fraser Group buys Missguided after collapse according to CEO Michael Murray, the group also owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct for £20million. The firm has around 330 staff appointed administrators on Monday after it suffered from supply chain problems rising freight costs and increased competition from rivals. Suppliers had accused…
Chelsea’s £4.25bn sales to a consortium led by American investor Todd Boehly and Private Equity firm Clearlake Capital have been completed after the consortium fought off 11 serious rivals to become the new owners in a sale process that started on 2 March and comprised more than 250 enquiries. The Club was put up for…
Lester Piggott, who won the Derby a record nine times, has died aged 86. The Legendary English Jockey won 30 British Classic races in his career which yielded 4, 493 winners. He also had 116 Royal Ascot victories and was named champion jockey 11 times between 1960 and 1982. His son-in0law and Derby-winning trainer William…
In Kerala ( India) the £63m K-Rail project, a high-speed rail linking the state end to end. A four feet tall marijuana ( Cannabis) plant was found growing on government land near Palarivatton next to a pillar supporting the elevated rail of Kochi Metro, which was duly chopped down. Cannabis has been used in the…
English Heritage has over 400 historic monuments including buildings, places from world-famous prehistoric sites to grand medieval castles and Roman forts but not British concrete buildings that seek to rehabilitate as much-maligned architectural style. Concrete is coming back to fashion, as Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre was voted Britain’s most-hated building. Architect and historian at…
In Kerala, the loss-making state-run KSTRC’s low-floor buses instead of being scrapped will be turned into classrooms, where 94 per cent of literacy, Male literacy is 96.11 per cent while the female is 92.7 per cent, the highest in India, according to State Transport Minister Anthony Raju. Girls dropping out of school increased due to…
Jean-Paul Gaultier, the French haute couture and preta porter designer, is known for his unconventional designs including the illusion of nude via his naked body Trompe I’ceil print dress, long-sleeved bodysuit with crew neck three buttons snap fastening at the realistic-looking crotch, bottom and breasts made with Volkova stretch-jersey maxi dress, 89 per cent polyamide,…
“Necessity is the mother of invention” if you really need to do something and becomes essential you are forced to think of ways of achieving it encouraged by creative efforts. Much of my art can be broadly quantified as NAIVE – of or denoting art produced in a style which deliberately rejects sophisticated techniques and…
An elephant brought for Thrissur Pooram was irked and ran amok on Monday, 7:15 am near the Sreemoolam Sthanam of the Vadakkumnathan temple in Kerala, India when its mahout took a toilet break. The crowd panicked and scattered in different directions shortly after the elephant was brought under control when the mahout returned. No injuries…
Amazon Deforestation in Brazil has reached record levels for the month of April according to preliminary government data revealed on Friday. In April deforestation in the region totaled 1, 012.5 Km²(390Miles²) according to the National space research agency Inpe. Destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in the first four months hit a record of 1, 954…