Sajid Javid resigns in comes Rishi Sunak

Sajid Javid the chancellor of Exchequer resigned yesterday rather than be forced to sack his aides and submit to chief strategist Dominic Cummings in a power struggle over Number 11 via a joint team of advisers. Mr. Johnson’s astonishing decision to allow an already complaint finance chief to walk away from the government is chaotic…

South Korean  film “Parasite” win 4 Oscars and makes history

South Korean film Parasite has been named the best picture at 2020 Oscars becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize beating 1917 and Joker. Parasite won four awards while Sam Mendes’s 1917 took three. Renee Zellweger won the best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Joaquin Phoenix was named the…

Tesla the yardstick for electric cars

The auto industry is moving beyond internal combustion engines or self-driving software, the brains for fleets of robot vehicles, Elon Musk’s Tesla has become a key supplier of batteries and electric power trains. Tesla’s share price culminated in an electrifying 48 per cent leap during the first two trading sessions of this week. From a…

The Philharmonic pub in Liverpool is given Grade 1 listing

The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, an opulent pub in Liverpool once praised by Bill Bryson for its ornate toilets built between 1898 and 1900  is the first purpose-built Victorian pub in England to be given Grade 1 status, by Historic England.  Four of eight pubs in the country known to have no actual bar. Former Beatles…

Streatham attacker named as Sudesh Amman who stabbed two

Sudesh Amman (20) who was released around a week ago after serving bi half of his sentence of three years and four months for terror offences was shot dead by police after he stabbed two people in Streatham, South London. He was under police surveillance at the time of the attack on Streatham High Road…

Man dies after taking ecstasy

A 19-year-old man at a student night club has died with a 22-year-old woman seriously ill after taking Warwickshire police said was MDMA or Red Bull pills at the Assembly in Spencer Street in Leamington Spa, at about 05:00 GMT. Officers said they did not know if the group had bought the drugs at the…

Drug cartels move in on Avocado

Dozens of trucks an hour setting off from the avocado belt in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan for the US, armed robbers are zeroing in on the fast-growing Avocado multi-billion-dollar industry. The rise in Avocado related crime has turned part of the state into no-go areas even for the police. Juan whose family has farms…

Coronavirus is a global emergency : WHO

The  Coronavirus had been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “ The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO chief. The concern is that it could spread…

Ovo energy fined £8.9m by Ofgem

Bristol-based private energy provider, Ovo is fined  £8.9m after the energy regulator Ofgem reprimanded it for giving customers “inaccurate” or “incomplete” information over the last five years. Ofgem also listed a series of failings by Britain’s second-largest supplier, which has caught the attention over the past decade by attacking the business models of the former…