Flying hotel owner tycoon fined

Kieth Richardson 76, the owner of the Richardson Hotels group whose properties include The Fowey Hotel in Fowey, The Metropole in Padstow and the Grand Hotel and The Grosvenor hotel in Torquay, who travels between his hotels by helicopter has been fined £3, 000.00 and costs of £1,104 by the Bodmin magistrates court in Truro,…

IRIS – portrait of a lady with style……

  PRESENTING  WORlDWIDE COLLECTIONS FOR ARMCHAIR ENJOYMENT. Being ageist is something most of us frown upon but pointing out that Iris Apfel subject to this interesting docufilm about her life, is now 94 and her husband Carl is 100 does seem reasonable. One of Iris’s trademarks is her goggle – like glasses – huge cylindrical…

Spanish Talgo trains to speed up Mumbai-Delhi rail travel

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given an in-principle go ahead for Madrid-based locomotive-maker to undertake trail runs of its lighter and faster trains that could cut the journey time from Mumbai to Delhi from 17 hours to 12 hours without changing India’s ageing rail tracks. Talgo in July 2015, stated its intention to ship…

Birthday party turns violent

Police in Riot gear and police helicopter was drafted in after officers were attacked by hundreds of masked party goers at a 14 year birthday party at a block of flats at in Stoke Newington, East London Borough of Hackney, which got out of control. Police had their cars blocked as around 400 people threw…

Crowdfunding used to pay for breast implants

Crazier ideas have been conceived in the Las Vegas party scene. A 2005 web site, “my Freeimplants.com” which allows women to crowdfund their own breast enhancements. It seems men around the world will always lend a lady a helping hand especially when boobs are involved. Breast implants where thousands of women have met their financial…

Bus falls off the bridge in India

On 6th August 10:30 am,  five people are reported missing after a passenger bus ferrying 30 pilgrims fell into the swollen Shivnath river near Bhatapara-Baloda Bazar District, Balsipur in Chattisgarh in northern India. 20 people rescued were traumatised and are being treated in local district hospitals. The bus was going towards Bilaspur from Bhatapara when…

101 years of traffic light system

Like all good inventions the first traffic signal was invented by JP Knight, a railway signalling engineer and installed outside houses of Parliament in 1868 the first ever gas-operated non-electric traffic Red-green lights. Police officers had to work the lights by hand in an effort to control vehicles crossing the nearby Bridge Street, Great George…