A “quiet hero” of the Thatcher years – former chancellor of the exchequer Geoffrey Howe passed away yesterday of a suspected heart attack. The Tory peer who left the cabinet in 1990 after a devastating resignation speech, was actually viewed as being one of the people who forced Margaret Thatcher out of Downing Street. He…
Jackie Collins – famous author and mother of three daughters and one son sadly passed away recently after a tour of Europe to promote “The Santangelos” – the famous fictional Italian family who have graced the pages of many of Jackie’s blockbusters which shed light on the way the glitterati pass their days in Hollywood…
At £105 in UK this “delapitory tool” is a new and different alternative to a razor. Called a “Skarp”, it has a tiny low-energy laser which gives out light that apparently gets absorbed by hair and heats each strand which breaks it off without “ricks”. As with any new “toy” make sure you know exactly…
Zac Goldsmith Sadiq Khan As the battle heats up for the new Mayor to take over from the inimitable Boris Johnson, we can look at two main contenders who are Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan who both have good credentials for providing London with ace supervision and they both have very similar percentages of backing…
Glencore- the world’s biggest producer and trader of zinc, a metal used for rustproof steel in products from cars to building materials, decided to slash zinc output by a third sparked a Zinc rally by 12 per cent to £1, 219,$1,875 and other metal prices and mining shares especially copper by 3 per cent to…
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told the Tory party conference that he wanted Crossrail chariman Terry Morgan to help launch 30,000 apprenticeships by 2020. Young engineers of London could get a chance to tour 73 miles Crossrail tunnels £15billion rail route, deep under the capital in a plan to see British Engineering expertise at its very…
84 year old Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch wrote today on Twitter “Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide?” He later recommended a magazine article on whether Obama had done enough to address the “racial divide” referred to in his Tweet. Mr Carson has…
Smokers often has a cigarette but no match to light it. After eight years of tests, Cigamatic, a Marseille company set up by entrepreneur Charli Abisdid, has come up with a safe and more effective self-lighting cigarette invention. The technology involves the smoker breaking off a capsule fitted to the inhalation end of the cigarette.…
All exhibitions which portray the wonderful fine artistry and breathtaking use of colours familiar to many of the Indian fabrics and designs we are partly familiar with worldwide is warmly welcomed. So it is with happiness that we can report on the Fabric of India Exhibition now at London’s V and A Museum until January…
The village of Sonning is featuring a lot in the news at the moment. Firstly George Clooney and his wife Amal have a residence there and secondly Uri Geller (originally Israeli) is moving out and has left a huge 5 ft sculpture of a bent spoon (pictured above) to the village as a parting gesture,…