Boris Johnson told PMQs the new lockdown would “expire automatically” on 2 December 2020. There are 11, 000 severely sick Covid-19 patients in English hospitals according to NHS England chief Sir Simon Stevens. Some shops extend opening hours for the second day after long queues on Tuesday evening. On Thursday, England will be going back…
“He Dreams of Giants” – Darwin Films and Low Key Pictures Production. This covers Terry Gilliam’s making of the film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”. Raindance 28th Film Festival 2020. Whetting your appetite for a truly sumptuous story? Making films at the top end of the market in terms of actors and actresses,…
The FSTE100 helped by leaks on Friday, managed to shrug off much of bad news as investors who have seen what happened to company earnings last time lockdown, are buying supermarket and selling travel shares. Both Tesco and Sainsbury had a excellent session up 5p to 210.6p and 5.5p to 207p respectively. Kingfisher the DIY…
Typhoon Goni, by far the strongest storm this year, hits Philippines bring catastrophic winds, triggers 350, 000 in evacuation shelters. Super Typhoon Goni hit the island province of Catanduanes at dawn with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour and gusts of 174 mph equivalent to a category-5 hurricane. The hurricane is heading towards densely…
David Attenborough, the 94-year-old natural historian, broadcaster, and legend who filmed his first wildlife documentary in Sierra Leone while the country was still a British colony and seen a colossal expanse of the natural world. In A Life On Our Planet, he highlights the natural world has been damaged and how much trouble we are…
A 7.0 magnitude Earthquake shakes the Greek Island of Samos about 11miles off the coast of Western Izmir Province, which was even felt in Athens, Crete, and Istanbul. Turkey’s Aegean Coast also had tremors causing buildings to collapse according to US geological Survey. In 1999 17, 000 people died in Izmir after an earthquake. The…
NASA confirmed it found traces of water on a sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. The discovery made using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Centre. Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator tweeted “ We confirmed water on the sunlit surface of the Moon…
In the recent US presidential Television debate, Donald Trump’s oneliner was ” China ate your lunch Joe” against challenger Joe Biden. According to Trump’s view, China is a global villain that has visited a “Plague” upon the world while stealing US jobs and intellectual properties, Biden for his part has called XI Jinping, China’s leader, a…
FATES FINGER – A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price October 2020 Look out for the film! There were two big newspaper empires in London when Anastasia reached the age of 21. The two empires were managed by men – two opposing publishing tycoons – who were poles apart politically. For her special…