A 50-year-old Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner wristwatch with orange numerals, which survived falling into a cement mixer has been sold for £230,000, reaching a new UK record. It was originally tipped to fetch only about £8,000, but the timepiece, bought by its previous owner in 1965, sold for £230k. The Italian collector who outbid his…
A man was dragged from a black Toyota Prius Plus and arrested after his car mounts pavement outside London’s Natural History Museum injuring 11 people. The car mounted the pavement before ploughing into two other vehicles, hitting innocent pedestrians as they made their way to the museum, Security guards appeared on the scene and dragged…
Patrick Barkham reveals the natural, social and literary history of the Islands that surround the larger Island of Britain, by starting his journey on the Isle of Man, discovering more complex and interesting than the tax-avoiding crooks, his explanation driven by curiosity with a nose for a unique story. He mentions a collection of island-loving…
Kazuo Ishiguro (62) OBE FRSA FRSL, the Nagasaki born British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer, who explores “what you have to forget to survive”, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Literature prize, after the controversy last year when it honoured Bob Dylan, the US singer-songwriter, who initially declined to acknowledge the honour and did…
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for improving images made of biological molecules and they will share the £ 831,000 (nine million Kronor) prize. The scientists developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), which streamlines the process for looking at the…
On Friday September 29th at London’s Mayfair Hotel, hosted by Raindance’s Founder Elliot Grove the awards were announced for this year’s festival – the 25th which included Leicester Square’s Vue cinema as one of its venues. Over 200 countries submitted films – including features, shorts, webfest, UR and music videos. British filmmaker Guy Ritchie received…
Air France jet engine fails mid-flight with 496 passengers and 24 crew makes an emergency landing at a small Canadian airport. The Airbus A380 flight AF66 from Paris to Los Angeles lost part of an engine over the Atlantic. Surprisingly no one was injured in the incident, but passengers remained on board hours after landing…
Peggy Margaret Seeger, the queen of folk revival has released an album of electronic dance versions of her songs in 2012. Peggy Seeger, born in the New York, USA in 1935, is the daughter of the modernist composer Ruth Porter Crawford and musical folklorist Charles Seeger. After studying at Radcliffe College, in 1955 Peggy left…
Britain has toppled from the top to the bottom of the league of G7 leading economies in the year since the Brexit vote, with official data revealing slower growth than previously thought. The Pound dropped 0.7 per cent against Euro on the back of weaker-than-expected gross domestic products figures. House price too fell for…
22 people were killed and 39 injured in a morning rush hour stampede at a Mumbai’s Elphinstone Road Station footbridge, which connects two major local lines. It was triggered by overcrowding and people seeking shelter from monsoon rains. The injured were rushed to local hospitals. “People at the front slipped and the huge crowd toppled…