The Jumbo restaurant, a famous Hong Kong Floating restaurant that closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, capsized on Sunday near the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years. The vessel encountered adverse conditions and began to…
The price of a pint in London has hit £8.06 for the first time as pubs struggle to cope with spiraling inflation. Pub companies are threatening further rises because of sharp increases in the cost of grain as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, which is a prime supplier, along with rises in energy…
The Scandal of Grenfell – witness it all in a play near the scene of the fire:- “Dictating to The Estate”. Regarding safety in housing in London – a production focussing on Grenfell by Nathaniel McBride every day until and including Sunday 12 June 2022 (no production on 7 June). Maxilla Social Club W10 6SW…
In Kerala ( India) the £63m K-Rail project, a high-speed rail linking the state end to end. A four feet tall marijuana ( Cannabis) plant was found growing on government land near Palarivatton next to a pillar supporting the elevated rail of Kochi Metro, which was duly chopped down. Cannabis has been used in the…
The cost of chicken food, energy, and transport increasing, and fast food chains like KFC, Mcdonald’s, and Nando’s have already put some prices up. James Mottershead, boss of Co-op supermarkets has warned poultry could become as expensive as beef or lamb, as chicken prices increased from £2.50 to £3 per kg in the past two…
The next generation of genetic modification (GM) technology, lab-tweaked gene into an organism, gene drive technology goes even further by automatically replicating itself, and removing a specific natural gene. If an animal (parent A) that contains a gene drive mates with one that doesn’t (parent B), then in the forming embryo that starts to combine…
Alice Urbach was an Austrian Jewish cookery writer and teacher who had her own cooking school in Vienna, although she was forced to flee to England in 1938. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau, and her older son, having emigrated to the United States, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis.…
More than 2, 500 people suffering from obesity in nine countries, who weighed 105 kilograms on average at baseline, have lost 24 kilograms on average when they are treated with the highest dose of a new hunger-blocking drug in a large clinical trial according to results announced on 28 April by US Pharmaceutical giant Lilly…
Professor Devi Sridhar’s vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable, she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the Covid-19 pandemic including her personal experience as a scientist, and set out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from…
Penny Nair-Price Pictures R Nair CERU, 11 QUEENSWAY LONDON W2 4QJ also at 7-9 BUTE STREET LONDON SW7 3EY. EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN FUSION BRINGS JOY AND ORIGINALITY TO YOUR DAY. www.cerurestaurants.com I minute from Queensway underground. Ceru represents food mainly from The Levant, a region in the Mediterranean that has fantastic flavours and produce…