Twenty-one year old Italian prince Filippo Corsini cycling to a his college at Regent’s University, London succumbed to his catastrophic injuries killed on Monday 31st October 2016, after colliding with a lorry and was caught under the wheel of a lorry near the One Hyde Park development at Knightsbridge and was dragged 30 yards…
On the first floor of the library – adjacent to Chelsea Town Hall on the Kings Road, is this free exhibition which runs until November 5. It is well worth a visit and you may also want to buy an artwork there as the standard is exceptional. The first artwork displayed in this article is…
Jeremy Irons has amassed a huge CV with constant work in film and sometimes theatre in his career so far. Renowned for aggressive villains as well as romantic parts, he is known for his calm performance on stage and set. He was raised partly on the Isle of Wight and schooled mainly in Dorset. At…
A new take on Jane Austen’s life categorises her and says a passage about her smile-invoking novels that Jane was “actually a firebrand who was angry about social injustice and critical of the church and aristocracy”. In “Pride and Prejudice” Jane categorises the aristocracy as “Rude and arrogant” claims Helena Kelly, autor of “Jane Austen. The secret Radical”.…
Nine US states have put cannabis on the ballot for November 8 when the country votes to elect a new president. Five will vote on full legalisation in California – the most populous state. Massachusetts, Nevada, Maine and Airzona are also involved. If the five vote “yes”, 25% of Americans would have access to legal…
David Mallinson currently starring in “The Last Dance” (London fringe) has done quite a bit of acting at Sheffield’s famous Crucible theatre where he has starred in amongst other plays – A Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. He stays in digs and sometimes ruminates on the quietness of that lifestyle though in some events,…
The annual value of the EU wipes industry is £27 billion but wet wipes used by so many people for all kinds of cleansing purposes should not be flushed down lavatories as they are causing pollution in the sea, rivers and lakes throughout the world. It will take 500 years for plastic wipes to break…
A powerful earthquake in the Apennines region near Norcia in central Italy, measured 6.6 bigger than last August’s quake injuring 20, and a further nine were pulled alive from rubble according to the Italian media. Tectonic forces in the Earth’s crust have pulled apart 3 mm per year about 10th of the speed at which your nails…
Now in a new film directed by Mira Nair and starring Lupita Nyong’O and David Oyelowo, Queen of Katwe, written by Tom Crothers, covers Phiona, a young girl in one of the poorest parts of Africa, being tutored to excel in the game of Chess, even at first making a chess board by drawing in…
‘Nanny Culture’ follows British nanny Julie Mcilvenny, as she travels to the United Arab Emirates to take care of the 6 Al Hammadi family children and meet and mix with their parents and other regular staff including the cook and the cleaner. The story portrays the interesting and sometimes humorous journey of the learning curve Julie and the family undertake, as two very different cultures come together.…