Debenhams rescue failure cost 12, 000 jobs

243-year-old Debenhams is set to close 124 stores after it failed to agree on a rescue package. IN 1950 it became the largest department store group in the UK, with 110 stores and in 2006 it joined the stock market for the third time with a worth of £1.7bn a price tag it has never…

Topshop, Dorothy Perkins goes into administration risking 13, 000 jobs

Sir Philip Green’s retail empire Arcadia owner of Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins has gone into administration risking 13, 000 jobs, after failing to secure extra funding to pay debts after sales slumped during the second pandemic lockdown. The group which runs 444 stores in the UK and 22 overseas, said 9,294 employees are currently on…

Tiger kills 15-year-old girl in India

On Sunday a tribal girl  Pasula Nirmala, was in a field in Mannewada hamlet when a tiger fatally attacked her in Kondapalli in Kumaran Bheem Asifabad district, just three days after the big cat was sighted near {eddavagu in Penchikalpet Mandal in the district. The girl’s two brothers had gone to fetch water from a…

Lithium deposit discovered in Cornwall

Australia has  42, 000 tonnes of lithium and its extraction from hard-rock mining of spodumene- an ore that contains high levels of lithium and aluminium, followed by Chile 18, 000 tonnes, China 7, 500 Tonnes, Argentina 6, 400 tonnes. Zimbabwe 1, 600 tonnes, Portugal 1, 200 tonnes. In 2019. The global lithium production according to…

Indonesia: Volcano erupts and releases poisonous  gas as thousands flee

Thousands of people have fled Indonesia’s Ile Lewotolok volcano area after it erupted and spewed smoke and poisonous gas into the atmosphere. Authorities have warned people to avoid lava streams and poisonous gases. Indonesia has the world’s most active volcanos. Lewotolo volcano in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia erupted at 9:45 local time this morning…

Kaavan, elephant is set free finally

Kaavan, the world’s loneliest elephant has entertained crowds for decades from his tiny half-acre enclosure barren patch of land in Marghazar zoo in Pakistan, is finally Free, transport five-and-a-half tonne Kaavan on an eight-hour flight to  to Cambodia, thanks to the determination of coalition of determined volunteers including the American pop icon Cher. Kaavan may…

The Bristolian, Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse (85) dies

Dave Prowse a former bodybuilder representing England at the Commonwealth Games in 1960s, and who was also given an MBE for his long-running role as the Green Cross Code Man in 1975 and his portrayal in the original Star Wars trilogy has died aged 85. Although brought  up in Bristol, he spent his later years…

Memory and identity

Marina Wheeler, an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is now Pakistan, distills the fraility of human condition and  reveals her mother’s story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom in an inspiring portrayal of how a woman made her own world as nations and empire were made and dismantled. The historical drama centred…