Christmas arrives 143 days early at Selfridges, Oxford Street

Christmas has arrived 143 days earlier, at the Selfridges store on Oxford Street. The 3000 square feet of floor space at the fourth floor of Selfridges has been transformed into Christmas Winter Wonderland. The store has more than 60, 000 baubles, 120 cracker options, 1250 Christmas cards and wrapper options.  At Selfridges, Christmas shoppers flock from…

Tianjin explosion toll rises to 112

The Tianjin toll in the explosions has risen to 112 of which 24 have been identified and 88 still to be identified, 95 people, including 85 fire-fighters, still missing, authorities said on Sunday 16th August 2015. Ten more bodies were found on Saturday night after the announcement of 104 deaths, but four mutilated remains were later…

Tianjin massive explosion kills 50 and injures 550

A monstrous massive explosion hit China’s northern port city Tianjin home to 15million people, a major port and industrial area to the South East of Chinese capital Beijing, killing 50 people including 12 firefighters and another 36 missing, injuring 800. The first explosion about 23:30 ( 16:30 GMT) was followed by another seconds later. According to…

Monorail Innovia 300 opens in Sao Paulo

The first monorail in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Linha-15 Parata ( Silver-15 line) opens commercially to public today after several delays and a year of testing, connecting Ipiranga and Cidade Tiradendis will open part of final stretch. The Eastern Express monorail consortium  led by Bombardier Transportation has delivered its game-changing fully automated   £1.04billion, $1.6bn INNOVIA Monorail 300 system…

Millionaire hotel owner defeats his father in High Court case

Sixty-three-old  Jasminder Singh head of Radisson Blu Edwardian hotels group successfully defended his 87-year-old father Bal Mohinder Singh’s claim that under Sikh tradition he was entitled to a third of the family wealth. Although, both Father and son live in the same seven-bedroom country house Tetworth Hall near Ascot racecourse in Berkshire with their families.…

Flying hotel owner tycoon fined

Kieth Richardson 76, the owner of the Richardson Hotels group whose properties include The Fowey Hotel in Fowey, The Metropole in Padstow and the Grand Hotel and The Grosvenor hotel in Torquay, who travels between his hotels by helicopter has been fined £3, 000.00 and costs of £1,104 by the Bodmin magistrates court in Truro,…

Birthday party turns violent

Police in Riot gear and police helicopter was drafted in after officers were attacked by hundreds of masked party goers at a 14 year birthday party at a block of flats at in Stoke Newington, East London Borough of Hackney, which got out of control. Police had their cars blocked as around 400 people threw…

2.4m customers of Carphone Warehouse data breached in Cyber attack

2.4 million customers of Carphone warehouse personal details have been compromised in a cyber attack according to a statement from mobile phone retailer. At least 90,000 customer’s encrypted credit card information may have been accessed according to their statement. The retailers owner Dixons Carphone says they are very sorry for the attack. The affected part…

Bus falls off the bridge in India

On 6th August 10:30 am,  five people are reported missing after a passenger bus ferrying 30 pilgrims fell into the swollen Shivnath river near Bhatapara-Baloda Bazar District, Balsipur in Chattisgarh in northern India. 20 people rescued were traumatised and are being treated in local district hospitals. The bus was going towards Bilaspur from Bhatapara when…