WORLD Horse Welfare is calling on members of the public to help support our charity as we have seen a huge rise in the number of horses in the UK urgently needing our help. Over the last five years we have seen a rise of almost 50% – placing a huge strain on our resources. [...]
THE PIONEERING role of Scotland and Norway in the development of hydro-electric power is to be celebrated in a new digital partnership between the two nations announced by First Minister Alex Salmond today. The First Minister, who is undertaking trade and political engagements in Norway over two days, announced the initiative at an international renewable [...]
A LEADING scholar whose biography of civil rights activist Malcolm X was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize has been shortlisted for Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prizes. American historian and critic Manning Marable, who died on April 1 last year, had worked on the book for more than a decade but did [...]
THE majority of British consumers want to retain the cheque as a method of payment, according to new research. Two thirds (66%) of consumers believe that banks should be forced to continue to offer customers the option of having a chequebook. But many consumers seem keener on having the option of using cheques than they [...]
PRINCE Andrew has been blasted for booking into a £6000-a-night hotel – despite the offer of a free room in a luxury home. The fourth in line to the throne is currently on a week-long tour of India as part of this year’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. In a three night stop-off in Dehli Andrew, already [...]
A WRITER dubbed the new JK Rowling has revealed how her mother almost scuppered her rise to literary stardom. Samantha Shannon, 20, has just landed a six figure book dealwith the Harry Potter author’s publishers Bloomsbury. But she revealed that her mother tried to force her outside to play while she was busy writing her [...]
THIS week saw the publishing of the Sunday Times Rich List. It named Britain’s top 1000 richest men and women, and reached its highest cumulated total yet at over £414billion. The number one spot belongs this year to the chairman of the world’s largest steel making company, Lakshmi Mittal. His wealth sits at £12,700million. The [...]
A VOLCANIC super-eruption in America’s Yellowstone National Park two million years ago was actually two smaller eruptions 6,000 years apart, new research has revealed. Scientists at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) and Washington State University in the USA have used a ‘rock clock’ dating technique to more precisely determine when volcanic rock samples [...]
IN FEBRUARY 2012 Her Majesty The Queen became only the second sovereign in British history to have reigned for 60 years. In celebration, a spectacular exhibition at Buckingham Palace will show the many ways in which diamonds have been used and worn by British monarchs over the last two centuries. The exhibition includes an unprecedented [...]
BOSSES at one of the UK’s biggest power firms have been left red-faced after a spelling mistake appeared on one of their vans. A British Gas vehicle was spotted with the name of the country they serve written as “Brittish”. The company livery included the mistake in a web address emblazoned on the rear of [...]
A HORSE charity is calling on members of the public to help working horses in Nicaragua by donating a care pack. World Horse Welfare has just launched their ‘Care to Share’ Appeal to improve the lives of the horses who work continuously in extremely tough conditions. They are asking for donations of the care packs [...]
A PARAMEDIC charged with boasting about groping breasts while on shift will face a hearing this week. Mark Small allegedly posted a comment on Facebook saying: “saved someone’s life and managed to cop a feel of some cracking jubblies. Excellent shift.” He faces a conduct hearing of the Health Professions Council (HPC) on Friday, and [...]
WIVES and girlfriends are hijacking their partners’ luggage allowance with the equivalent of a 5kg sack of spuds when holidaying together. According to research by London Stansted Airport, more than half of men (52%) claim they have to sacrifice space in their suitcase in order to accommodate their overloaded partners. Couples hoping for a relaxing [...]
INTERNET users fall into four distinct ‘tribes’, according to a new survey. The majority of people are either Digitally Dominant, Digitally Deft, Digitally Deaf or Digitally Disabled. The Digitally Dominant person has fully adopted the digital age but in the process forfeited the pleasures of spoken conversation and human interaction. Whilst only representative of about [...]
CABINET Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop has welcomed the reversal of Vancouver’s bagpipe ban. Buskers had been barred from playing bagpipes, bongos and other percussion instruments on the city’s streets as a result of new noise regulations. The ban has now been lifted by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who proudly claims Scottish [...]
MILLIONS of Brits have admitted to being increasingly worried about germs, a new study has found. As many as 7.3 million of us worry more about bacteria than they used to and 16% of Brits worry about germs in the home. The study, by market research firm Mintel, also highlights a real desire to keep [...]
FORMER England rugby international and Gloucester centre Mike Tindall has signed up to become an ambassador for the Air Ambulance Service. Tindall, whose 11 year career as an England rugby international player which earned him 75 caps, has come on board to help support the charity with its national PR campaign, fund raising and awareness. [...]
ROYAL Mail is to release a special commemorative sheet of stamps to mark the centenary of the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage. The sheet will be issued on 10 April, the day RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton to New York, and will comprise of 10 1st class stamps featuring a red Royalty Seal. Then the [...]
IN 1938, DC Comics payed $130 to two young men from Cleveland for the rights to a comic character known as Superman. From this, DC comics spawned Batman, Wonder-woman, and countless other comic book characters that originated from the inital superhero. The $130 check that bought Superman is now available for purchase, for the amount [...]
PEOPLE in Europe consume more alcohol – 12.5 litres of pure alcohol equivalent per year on average – than in any other part of the world. How frequently, where and in what context alcohol is consumed influence the effect it has on health. “Alcohol in the European Union”, a new report by WHO co-sponsored by [...]