Amazing Chocolate Show

  The UK’s biggest Chocolate show was attended by over 15,000 chocolate fans and saw the best UK Chocolate companies exhibiting alongside with international brands who returned for demonstration and tasting from 16-18 October 2015 at Olympia National Hall London. We eat more chocolate and create any excuse for eating it. Exhibitors included brands like…

UK is the best place in the world to die: End-of –life care index

Britain has topped the survey of 80 countries in quality of death and quality of palliative care with Australia and New Zealand second and third respectively., followed by Ireland and Belgium.. Taiwan is sixth ahead of US in ninth , with China and India is ranked 67th and 71st respectively. Integration of palliative care into…

Wisconsin University wins$234m in Apple patent case

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won £152m $234m worth of damages for patent infringement by Apple ordered by a US jury. The verdict was important to guard its inventions from unauthorized use.  The Jury had earlier come to the conclusion that Apple incorporated patented microchip technology…

Winston Churchill’s struggle to manage his finances

In the past politician’s wealth and where the money comes from and how it is spent, all could be hidden in the glare of publicity. Today’s politicians have to be more open about their wealth, like the public obsession with Hillary Clinton’s wealth of scandal in the UK over MP’s expenses claims. The history of…

Aston Martin posts £72m loss

Aston Martin, the Warwickshire high-end sports car manufacturer posted a pre-tax loss of  £72m in 2014 and £25m deficit the year before, as losses triple as sales declined but Andy Palmer CEO of the sports car maker insisted its attempt to revive its luxury brand still on track ” We are pursuing a strategy targeted at building…

BMW launches M badge X5 and X6 in India

BMW Group India launched its high performance M range in India, including the X5 price £155,000  Indian Rs 15, 500,000  and X6 £160,000 Rs 16,000,000 with M Badge and Twin power turbocharged V8 petrol engine with an output of 575hp and a maximum torque of 750Nm at 2200-5000rpm. The car can accelerate from 0-60 miles…

Uber is ruled lawful by High Court

Uber online cab-hailing app does not break the law, the High Court has ruled. Transport for London (TfL) went to court for judicial clarification, where Mr Justice Ouseley ruled that the app operates differently to a taximeter, and handed Uber much needed victory. Uber said: “Now the high court has ruled in favour of new…

China overtakes US in creating dollar billionaires

China has a number of dollar billionaires than the United States for the first time according to The Hurun Report that tracks the country’s richest. The number of Chinese dollar billionaires rose from 354 in 2014 to 596 in 2015 beating the 537 billionaires in the U.S. Wang Jianlin, the chairman of the Chinese real…

Clairol hair dye ad is banned as misleading

Last week, the Advertising Standards Agency ruled that the Advert  “misleadingly exaggerated” the effects of the brand’s Nice ‘n’ Easy hair dye, in its ability to transform Christina Hendricks’ hair from red to blonde, following a complaint from viewers who described themselves as “hair colour educators”.

Engine 3 fallen off the plane with 426 passengers landed safely

Mahan Air, an Iranian Boeing 747, with 426 passengers on board, had just departed from Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, when a piece of  engine number three came off and hi the body of the plane and made an emergency landing. The pilot returned to the airport immediately and safely landed the plane just after 7:15am local…