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Sixt Launch Electric Car Hire in London
magine driving through London, without having to pay the congestion charge or almost £4 per hour that some car parks can charge and spending less than £1 on fuelling the car for the day? A lot of people would just look at this as pure fantasy, but environmentally aware Londoners are taking to the streets [...]
Trial without jury expands into losing defendants
In an interesting update to our story on the start of the first trial without a jury in England and Wales for 350 years, one of the accused has escaped and is currently on the run. Peter Blake, 57, disappeared from the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday afternoon after leaving to consult with his [...]
Accident Avenue Wraps Up for Safety Reasons
otor insurance aggregator Confused.com has reacted to the recent bad weather and increase in damage claims by identifying, through their extensive database, Britain’s most accident prone street and making it safe. It took a team of 8 men close to 12 hours to cover Somerville Road in Worcester completely in bubble wrap. Gardens, lampposts, postboxes, [...]
Festival de Cannes 2010
very year many of Hollywood’s greatest stars descend on the south of France to the town of Cannes for the Festival International du Film, one of the most glamorous film events of the year, to walk the red carpet for premieres of the up and coming movies from the leading studios in Tinseltown and [...]
The BRITs prepare for 30th year
he British Recording Industry Britannia Centenary Awards was first held in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1977. Created as a way of rewarding the music industry in the UK, but also serving as a double celebration of the first recording by Thomas Edison 100 years previously and also the Queen’s Jubilee anniversary. The awards given [...]
Google Street View goes off-road
n 2008 Google, the UK’s most popular search engine, started on a mission to improve the amount of detail available on it’s Google Maps service. Several cars mounted with cameras drove around 25 of the UK’s major towns and cities taking full 360o images of the roads and streets.
When the images finally went live a [...]
Tell Us About Ways To Donate To The Haiti Earthquake Appeal
The whole world is surely aware of the devastation that is currently taking place in Haiti after the nation was hit by a huge earthquake just over a week ago leaving hundreds of thousands lost, injured and killed.
Search and rescue operations are still going on and the true death toll is unknown but an additional [...]
Irish Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Air traffic controllers at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports are due to strike today, potentially causing disruption for close to 90,000 passengers. The strike is the result of a dispute between the Irish Aviation Authority and the IMPACT union after 15 staff were suspended after refusing to carry out duties following a pay dispute after [...]
Martin Luther King Day
The third Monday of every January marks a special occasion for Americans, a celebration of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the country’s most outspoken civil rights activists. The day is a federal holiday for the United States after being introduced into law in 1983 and first being observed in 1986.
Although [...]
Long Trip for a Christmas Turkey
A woman who set off to her local shops before Christmas to buy a Turkey has finally arrived back home, 30 days after leaving her house. The recent spate of bad weather across the UK hit the Scottish Highlands particularly hard and has only just relented enough to allow Kay Ure to return home.
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