The great Scunthorpe gold rush treasure hunt

Five pieces of art work by Luke Jerram are going up in the 20-21 Arts Centre, on Saturday 18th February 2017, each with a clue as to the whereabouts of five small artifacts cast in 18ct gold, each worth £2, 500, have been hidden around Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire, and the deal is finders keepers.…

Zealanda: Earth’s hidden and smallest continent discovered

Eleven Geologist claims to have discovered a new continent to the east of Australia called Zealandia with 4.9 million square kilometres of land mass, 94 per cent of which is under water, which makes it world’s smallest continent. They presented their finding in the study of “Zealandia: Earth’s hidden continent” in Geological Society of America,…

New York Fashion 2017

  Faces at New York Fashion 2017 In New York fashion week, Michael Kors presented a diverse runway including Ashley Graham wearing a charcoal ribbed tank dress with a silver fox shrug, Amber Valletta and Carolyn Murphy, without any miniskirts. A 20-piece orchestra directed by Michael Gaubert. Ralph Lauren paraded their Spring/Summer 2017 ready to…

Titans merger – Essilor and Luxottica

Essilor France’s world number one manufacturer of lenses and contact lenses and Italy’s Luxottica a leading frame manufacturer, has announced their merger. If the deal goes through later this year the new company will be called EssilorLuxottica and will sell not only lenses and frames around the world but also stocking its own optician’ shops…

La La Land Wins five BAFTAs

Outstanding British film American Honey Denial Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them WINNER: I, Daniel Blake Notes on Blindness Under the Shadow EE Rising Star award Anya Taylor-Joy Laia Costa Lucas Hedges Ruth Negga WINNER: Tom Holland Best make up & hair Doctor Strange WINNER: Florence Foster Jenkins Hacksaw Ridge Nocturnal Animals Rogue One:…

L’Oréal explores selling the Body Shop

L’Oréal is considering selling The Body Shop for €1bn, as it has struggled in recent years.  The ethical cosmetics chain, founded in Brighton in 1976, by Dame Anita Roddick, bought a decade ago for £652m, now has over 3000 stores in 66 countries. It prides itself in using ethically sourced ingredients to create natural beauty…

Queen Elizabeth’s 65th Saphaire Jubliee

To mark, Queen Elizabeth’s 65 years, to the throne, a photograph of her wearing a suite of sapphire jewellery given to her by her father King George VI as a wedding gift in 1947 has been issued.  The newly released portrait taken by David Bailey in 2014, for the Government’s “Great” campaign, which aims to…

Two eclipses this month

This month we have two eclipses- a full moon ( lunar eclipse) this Saturday 11th February 2017 and a new moon (solar eclipse) on Sunday, February 26.There are only four eclipses in total in 2017 and the other two aren’t until August. Eclipses are supercharged new and full moons. Lunar eclipses occur during full moons…

Google topple Apple take the top spot

2017 Rankings Brand Name 1 Google 2 Apple 3 Amazon.com 4 AT&T 5 Microsoft 6 Samsung Group 7 Verizon 8 Walmart 9 Facebook 10 ICBC 11 China Mobile 12 Toyota 13 Wells Fargo 14 China Construction Bank 15 NTT Group 16 McDonald’s 17 BMW 18 Shell 19 T Deutsche Telekom 20 IBM 21 Mercedes Benz…