Joe Bertram, head of Uber’s northern European markets said she will move on after four years at the company having joined as general manager for the London office. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s new chief executive, was due to meet Mike Brown, head of Transport for London, for a conciliatory meeting after the regulator ruled Uber…
On Friday September 29th at London’s Mayfair Hotel, hosted by Raindance’s Founder Elliot Grove the awards were announced for this year’s festival – the 25th which included Leicester Square’s Vue cinema as one of its venues. Over 200 countries submitted films – including features, shorts, webfest, UR and music videos. British filmmaker Guy Ritchie received…
2, 100 airline staff lost their jobs and 860,000 people have lost their bookings, as Monarch ceases trading. The Civil Aviation authority is sending over 30 planes to return 110, 000 holidaymakers who are stranded overseas because of the airline collapse. Monarch – the UK’s fifth biggest and country’s largest ever to collapse, was placed…
Air France jet engine fails mid-flight with 496 passengers and 24 crew makes an emergency landing at a small Canadian airport. The Airbus A380 flight AF66 from Paris to Los Angeles lost part of an engine over the Atlantic. Surprisingly no one was injured in the incident, but passengers remained on board hours after landing…
Peggy Margaret Seeger, the queen of folk revival has released an album of electronic dance versions of her songs in 2012. Peggy Seeger, born in the New York, USA in 1935, is the daughter of the modernist composer Ruth Porter Crawford and musical folklorist Charles Seeger. After studying at Radcliffe College, in 1955 Peggy left…
Britain has toppled from the top to the bottom of the league of G7 leading economies in the year since the Brexit vote, with official data revealing slower growth than previously thought. The Pound dropped 0.7 per cent against Euro on the back of weaker-than-expected gross domestic products figures. House price too fell for…
According to the Annual Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index released this week, Lonon and Paris follow Bangkok on top 10 global Index release editions list of 2017. The index is more than a ranking of the 132 top destination cities of today and tomorrow, is based on visitor volume and spend for the 2016 calendar…
22 people were killed and 39 injured in a morning rush hour stampede at a Mumbai’s Elphinstone Road Station footbridge, which connects two major local lines. It was triggered by overcrowding and people seeking shelter from monsoon rains. The injured were rushed to local hospitals. “People at the front slipped and the huge crowd toppled…
Chopard unveiled “The Full Strike”, its crown-operated first-minute repeating watch, with sapphire gongs and a slew of patents on security devices to ensure the watch does not break when it is mishandled. The 21-year-old manufacturer chose the design to be least complicated. This is the first time we’ve heard a Chopard minute repeater strikes the…
Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder has died aged 91, by his family and friends at his home in Los Angeles. Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and went on to become a millionaire after founding Playboy, the influential men’s adult magazine in 1953. Hugh Hefner revolutionised publishing and helped user in the…