Brazilian variant of Covid-19 prompts new travel ban

All UK-bound arrivals from South America and Portugal will be banned from Friday  04:00 GMT over the Brazilian coronavirus variant although British and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days according to Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary. The ban applies to people who…

Trump Impeached for inciting the deadly riot at the US Capitol

Ten rebel Republicans voted with 222 Democrats after a day of debate in the House of Representatives. Trump becomes the first US president ever to be impeached twice with the proceedings now set to move to the Senate for trial. The US House of Representatives is preparing a vote to impeach President Donald Trump over…

Visionary hotelier dies aged 87

Gulshan Bhatia, 87,  a Tanzanian Asian hotel visionary passed away on 29th December 2020,  a self-made millionaire,  with a fortune of over £90m has steadily worked her way up the property ladder with her hotel stretching from Hiltons in London’s Euston and Paddington as well as a hotel in Kensington Hyatt Regency in Birmingham and…

Sir David Barclay dies aged 86

Media Billionaire Sir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died aged 86. Sir David, with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail, and media. The brothers had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to Sunday Times Rich List 2020. Born in Hammersmith, west London, in1934, …

Aurora Lights

Aurora, the Northern Lights sometimes referred to as Polar lights (Aurora Borealis_seen from Brae in Shetland appears as waves of light in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. The disturbances are sometimes strong enough to alter the trajectories of charged atoms in the Earth’s high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun…