PRINCESS Yachts has announced positive results that show it increased turnover in the year that it made more than 300 workers redundant. In the year to December 31, 2009, the Plymouth company increased turnover to £213.8million, up 3 per cent from 2008. The company cut back on more than 300 workers in June last year [...]
We have heard all sorts of plans to lift us out of economic gloom – bank restructuring, spending cuts, reducing waste in government and record low interest rates. Personally, I think the Latvians have got the answer – brighten the place up with pretty young women. The BBC has reported on a march last weekend [...]
French research, based on 150,000 people suggests that moderate alcohol consumption is linked to better health outcomes, which may be all the excuse some of us need for a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc each evening. Reported in the Evening Standard and online by the Daily Mail, the research is keen to point out, however, [...]
Zara Roberts, a 24 year-old teacher from North Wales suffered horrific injuries in a car accident in 2004 – breaking ribs, an ankle, an elbow and suffering a brain haemorrhage. Even worse, she tore her aorta – literally a broken heart – and faced odds of one in 2 million to survive. Whilst still suffering [...]
Whilst the airwaves are full of the re-opening of European airspace one could argue we hardly need to comment on it here – but it is genuinely good news (unless you live on a flight path) and something to be celebrated. Of course, especially in an election period, the gloom-mongers are now coming out of [...]
If you don’t think that there’s still room for honesty amongst highly paid people, think again. After the furore over MP’s expense claims and the banking crisis brought on largely by the greedy pursuit of profit and bonuses, comes an encouraging story from the money-laden world of professional golf. It was a Brit, but it [...]
Want to drive a Ferarri at over 180 miles an hour? Why let a little thing like no vision get in the way? Visit the BBC website to see this incredible footage of a Turkish man setting the world speed record for a blind, unaccompanied driver. Yes – unaccompanied! What a great story of drive, [...]
According to accountants BDO, business confidence in the UK hs reached a four-year high, providing further evidence that we are climbing out of recession. The survey, of 11,000 companies, suggested that companies were re-stocking after the recession, so confidence and actual output were up to pre-recession levels. The good news isn’t guaranteed to last, however, [...]
UK becomes first country to ban ‘Third World Debt’ profiteering in final hours of Parliamentary session A landmark bill to protect the poorest countries in the world from profiteering by so-called vulture funds became law today after passing in the House of Lords during the ‘wash-up’ at the end of the Parliamentary session. Jubilee Debt [...]
A host of celebrities have teamed up with leading cancer charity Cancer Research UK and retailer TK Maxx to raise funds during April. The public are encouraged to take bags of unwanted clothes to their local TK Maxx store – where one bag could raise £30 for the cancer charity. Supported by a clever marketing [...]
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