Amazing Chocolate Show

  The UK’s biggest Chocolate show was attended by over 15,000 chocolate fans and saw the best UK Chocolate companies exhibiting alongside with international brands who returned for demonstration and tasting from 16-18 October 2015 at Olympia National Hall London. We eat more chocolate and create any excuse for eating it. Exhibitors included brands like…

China overtakes US in creating dollar billionaires

China has a number of dollar billionaires than the United States for the first time according to The Hurun Report that tracks the country’s richest. The number of Chinese dollar billionaires rose from 354 in 2014 to 596 in 2015 beating the 537 billionaires in the U.S. Wang Jianlin, the chairman of the Chinese real…

Wild bear inside the mall shot dead in Russia

  A three-year old, wild bear visited a supermarket and walked around the  mall in the city of Khabarovsk in Russia near the Chinese border was seen smashing a window and standing on its hind legs and pushing a front door open, was shot dead by Russian police. The baby bear seems to have lost…

“Suffragette” – Facing facts about feminine conflict issues et al.

Director Sarah Gavron did not have an easy job with this film especially as the “star player” in the suffragette movement  – Emiline Pankhurst, was given  minor coverage  (played by Meryl Streep) so we were treated to a kind of “off camera” sub-plot of the terribly sad life of Maud Watts who was dragged into the suffragette…

Marlon James is the Man Booker Prize winner

Marlon James from Jamaica has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.  A Brief History of Seven Killings, the 680-page epic was very violent and swearing and full of surprises. The £50,000 winner as announced on Tuesday, 13th October 2015, at London’s Guildhall.…

Krzywy Domek leads the 50 strangest buildings of the world

In Sopot Poland, stands an irregularly-shaped building  Krzywy Domek which means “Crooked House”. Designed by Szotybscy  and Zaleski,  the fabulous architecture inspired by the fairly tale illustrations and drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg, Krzywy Domek built in 2004 within 4000M²( 43,000ft²) is part of the Rezydent shopping centre. Evening at Krzywy Domek…

Dozens of Met Cases tainted by “Time Lord”

The so-called crime lord David Hunt has subverted and tainted over twenty seven investigations into his illegal activities.   Relationships between the Hunt organised crime network and serving Met Officers has been uncovered by “whistleblowers”  including Darren Guntrip a serving Detective Constable and David McKelvey – a former Detective Chief Inspector. The police enquiries cover a…