Britain’s biggest supplier of building materials, FTSE 100 firm Travis Perkins, is to axe 600 jobs and close over 30 branches as it would not meet £415m market expectations for the full-year profits. Its poor performance of plumbing and heating division contributed fall in underlying sales. The group trades from over 20 businesses including Tile…
Battersea Park London 20-23 October is the venue for the Affordable Art Fair. Showcasing art by over 1,000 artists, prices range from £100 – £5,000 making owning artworks accessible to many. Contemporary paintings, editioned prints, original and contemporary paintings and photography and sculptures – you will find them all there. The specially curated Recent…
European Space Agency’s Mars lander, Schiaparelli, the robot touched down successfully on the Red plant at 1558 BST (1458GMT), the Trace Gas Orbiter, Schiaparelli’s mothership. This spacecraft will study the atmosphere of Earth’s near neighbour. It was a high-speed approach with precision landing or else the spacecraft runs the risk of crashing into the ground.…
The little known Chinese art of Wing Tsun saved Della O’Sullivan from fear of being stalked when she not only took up the discipline but also became one of the world’s top fighters in the martial art. She was stalked for four years before taking action after not only being followed but also pestered on…
Sterling which had fallen 6 per cent since Tory conference, bounced back after it had its best day since fears of a “hard Brexit” grippe the currency market couple of weeks ago, after James Eadie, a government lawyers said “Parliament would have the final say on whether to accept Britain’s exit deal with the EU”.…
“Snowden” – Open Road Films is directed by the veritable Oliver Stone known for a string of deeply moving and memorable movies already. He says of the movie – surveillance, cyber warfare and drone warfare are all part of the story and of some of our own stories too. Snowden was given permission to stay…
These peppers in the picture really seem to be trying to tell a story with the green one giving envious looks at the yellow one but that is just co-incidence. This recipe is a fun one if you have children in the house and is easy to make – if you are all adults of…
According to The Sunday Times on 16 October an article announced former London Mayor Boris Johnson – now Conservative Party Foreign Secretary has now decided that Brexit is not something he supports. Watch this space for future news on this issue.
After a parade in Manchester yesterday including performances by The Kaiser Chiefs and other singers, and dancing with a carnival atmosphere, including a distribution of gold hats for the crowds, the medal winners from Rio 2016 Olympics came to London today to assemble in Trafalgar Square and later to go on to Buckingham Palace. Mayor Sadiq Khan…
Celebrities including David and Victoria Beckham, Angelina Jolie Ivanka Trump and Amal Clooney were invited to a viewing function earlier this month to look round restored properties which come with their own artworks including paintings and artworks by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Alexander Calder and Grayson Perry and others shipped from locations all over…