Star Wars Firms fined £1.6m ( $2m) after Harrison Ford (74), broke his leg on the set of the latest Star Wars movie. The actor was injured in June 2014 at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire as he reprised his role as Han Solo. He was struck by a metal door on the set of the…
Tesco, One of the biggest Britain’ s supermarkets stopped restocking Unilever products in a row over price, amid Brexit price row. Tesco has dug its heel in a standoff with Unilever, which owns brands like PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Persil and Marmite after the company demanded price rises of 10 per…
British global engineering firm GKN, who help thousands of aircrafts to fly, sent 230 workers at its Somerset factory home early, and told them to expect significant job losses. Hundreds of highly skilled manufacturing jobs producing Wild Cat helicopters for Royal Navy In Yeovil, Somerset could be sent abroad in Italy. There is real risk…
British Scientists revealed that European Cod fish have regional accents and distinct dialects along the British coastline. Professor Steve Simpson, a Marine biologist professor and fish ecologist, leading a new study at University of Exeter said, “This species is highly vocal with traditional breeding grounds established over hundred or even thousands of years, so the potential…
Three British-born scientists won the 2106 Nobel Prize in Physics, for discoveries about strange forms of matter. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, will share £727,000 ( 8m Kronor) prize. Their work could benefit improved materials for electronics including super-fast computing. The winners will join an elite list of 200 other Physics laureates recognised since…
Virtual Reality or VR (not video recording!) is a growing genre in the world of film. I was fortunate enough to attend an inaugural session on Sunday 2 October the closing day of the Raindance 24th film festival at The Hospital Club Covent Garden. There were 14 films playing. This event was very avant garde…
Bauddhayan Mukherji and his wife attended the showing of this film, having come from a festival in Zurich, Europe the day before. The Violin Player was scripted and directed by Mukherji and is independent film at its best. I defy anyone to predict what happens in the second and third acts of the film…
Train Drivers Diary – Raindance offers up a true tragic-comic gem. Hailing from Serbo Croat filmmakers this film was selected as Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards and the acting is something very special as well as the choice of story. Train drivers the world over during their professional careers have to…
The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are notorious for their technique of assessing candidates, professors, of course, tell just how smart you are. John Farndon’s book is a collection of 75 of the most drilling questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to all variety of question on histories, philosophies, sciences and arts. First of…