Columbia Threadneedle Investments, which owns 7.7 per cent of Restaurant Group said it cannot support the proposed takeover of Asian themes casual dining group Wagamama, because of the high valuation and the economic backdrop. The Restaurant Group, who owns Frankie & Benny’s and Chiquito uinveiled what CEO Andy McCue called a “ Transformational” acquisition of…
A three-minute video made by Samay, a NP~S student from Bangalore, India, won him a £195,000 ( Rs 1.8 crores) worth prize money, his science teacher £36,000 and his science school lab a grand of £100,000. Samay’s sense of unflappable curiosity make him one of the budding young scientist to make us understand how and…
A beer belly fanny pack or a Marseille-made bottle of Fanny, a popular pastis aperitif, in a French super market, or cock soup from Iceland supermarket, Vergina beer from Greece Chilly Willy ice lollies are all rude foods and drinks.
Ayurvea therapies and practices, evolved over several millennia, is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian Subcontinent. According to Hindu mythology and Sushruta’s compendium, Dhanvantari, Hindu god of Ayurveda, incarnated himself as a king of Varanasi and taught medicine to a group of physicians, including Sushruta. The therapies are based on…
Alzheimer’s drug trial for 100 patients in London this month, a potential new treatment, gets £4.5m from the Government’s National Institute for Health Research to run the three-year trial, hoping the drug called miridesap will succeed where several have failed. Miridesap is being tested for the first time in Alzheimer’s patients, after 40 years if…
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to American scientist James P Allison and Japanese researcher Tasuku Honjo “ for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”. The discovery was made by two Medicine Laureates by taking advantage of the immune system’s ability to attack…
Apple cider vinegar (a.k.a. A.C.V) is my new health obsession. I recently began taking apple cider vinegar shots a few times a day for a quick and effective energy burst. However, I’ve since discovered so many other useful and healthy ways to incorporate it into my daily routine. Natural weight loss supplement – Pure Apple Cider Vinegar is a…
Coca-Cola is to buy Costa coffee from its UK owner Whitbread for £3.9billion ( $5.1bn. Whitbread shares leapt forward 18 per cent after it unveiled a deal to sell its Costa Coffee chain to Coca-Cola including debt. The sale marks the end of Whitbread’s 23-year ownership of Costa, which the Group bought for £19million when…
Google’s artificial intelligence business “DeepMind” is planning clinical trials of technology that can help diagnose eye disease more accurately than human doctors. In February 2018, DeepMind had developed AI technology that could analyse 3D retinal scans for signs of serious glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy after striking a partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. …
Bristol Dry Gin distillery announced its new range of vodka on 7th July named “Novichok Edition” in the same week that Amesbury local Dawn Sturgess died from exposure to the nerve agent after falling ill on 30th June. Her partner Chris Rowley, is still in hospital after also being poisoned by the chemical, while several…