Dyson throws his hat in to making electric cars

The billionaire who revolutionised the vacuum cleaner said 400 engineers in Wiltshire had been working since 2015 on the £2.5bn project, Sir James Dyson, the inventor who was knighted in 2007 New Year honours list, is in the race to build tomorrows electric vehicles. ” I decided to start developing electric motors and batteries, as…

India to lead the fourth industrial revolution with telecom and IT

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Industries, Chairman, Indian business magnate, oil, and gas tycoon, speaking at the first-ever “India Mobile Congress 2017”, in New Delhi, said that the Indian economy has grown unparalleled and in the next years will reach £ 56.2 Trillion),  $7 trillion from the current £ 1.86 Trillion $2 and half trillion where…

V S GOODCHILD VOL 1 – “ALL OR NOT”

Up and coming artists should really interest us all even though for the past 15 or more years there has been a lack of new innovative music and songs.  That said the popularity of rap songs often from angry and creative people who observe difficulties around them and write and sing about them is another…

enchanting Jimmy’s song

“I go back home, Jimmy Scott” Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child.  Jimmy’s song haunts and enchants. Directed by Yoon Ha Chang, this sensitive interpretation of one man’s mission to give jazz and blues singer Jimmy Scott true appreciation before he passes on enchants the audience with renditions of his songs after German music…

Love is thicker than water: Real life film

If you want real life and not fantasy – this is the film for you! At the Raindance Film Festival, a film which has already been bought up by more than 10 countries, including the UK, China, USA, Australia and the Middle East,  “Love is Thicker than Water” (104 minutes) was screened to a packed…

TfL won’t be renewing Uber’s licence

TfL said Uber was not “ fit and proper” to hold a London private hire operator license on the grounds of “public safety and security implications”. Over 500, 000 names have since been added to Uber’s petition which says “If this decision stands, it will put more than 40, 000 licensed drivers out of work…

Silicon Valley sexism

“For years as I carved a path in venture capital, I believed that if I did what I’d earlier to succeed at the highest levels of academia and law and business, I could rise there, too. I am the daughter of Chinese immigrants, I’ve always believed in keeping my head down and forging ahead. I…

Creamic brush washer to fetch £10m

A 1000-year-old brush washer ceramic dish from Ru Guanyao, the most revered of the five great Kilns used from the Imperial China commissioned during the Song dynasty, is expected to sell for more than £10 million at Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong, on October 3rd, 2017. “Of the 87 heirloom Ru wares to have survived…

Twitter delivers birthday pints

  Nick Matthewman, a student at the University of Sheffield, who was celebrating his 20th birthday on 20th September 2017, at the Banker’s Draft Wetherspoons in Sheffield when Rory McArthur (19) posted the invitation along with a photo saying ‘This is Nick and it’s his birthday. We’re at the Banker’s Draft Spoons in Sheffield, table…

World’s richest woman dies at 94

Billionaire L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, whose family founded L’Oreal over a century ago, as the maker of hair dye and still owns largest stake in the cosmetics giant, has died aged 94. French businesswoman, listed in Forbes as the World’s richest woman, and L’Oreal, France’s fourth largest listed company. Bettencourt and her family owned 33…