New research in the International Journal of Obesity (that’s got to be a heavy read) claims that extra weight on your hips, bum and thighs can protect against heart and metabolic problems, as well as putting you in the attractive company of J-Lo.
According to the BBC report this week, the research team at Oxford have found [...]
On Monday I blogged about my friend Peter being loaned £3.20 by a railway station ticket attendant to pay for his car park. Well, you can trust America to come up with a bigger and better story!
Today, the Press Association are reporting on Mohammad “Mukal” Asadujjaman, a Bangladeshi cabbie in Manhattan, who found approximately £13,000 in [...]
Pendon Museum at Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire has just broken its own record for the largest number of visitors ever received on a normal opening day, with 286 people paying a new year visit on 2nd January. The Museum was featured at peak Christmas viewing time on BBC 2’s ‘James May’s Toy Stories’, one of a [...]
On Friday I met with some colleagues from BGP Ltd, and because of the snow most of us had travelled by train. Peter had this excellent story of human kindness. He had turned up at his station in Cambridgeshire, only to discover he had no cash to pay for his car parking ticket, and the [...]
We’ve had a few inches of snow overnight, and I know other parts have had more. Our take on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing obviously depends on whether we had important meetings today, or have elderly relatives who can’t get out, but there is an opportunity to step away from [...]
The first real day of trading in 2010 has seen the FTSE 100 hit a 16-month high, and other indexes around the globe finishing buoyant, on the back of good manufacturing data from the USA and China, and an apparent optimism for at least the first half of the year. It seems that concerns remain [...]
The BBC is today reporting on a Deloitte survey of top finance managers, which claims that business confidence is the highest since 2008. Ian Stewart, Deloitte chief economist, said “Today, businesses are lifting their eyes from the recession and are looking for growth in 2010. The economy and the financial system are a long way [...]
From New Zealand comes an excellent story of an attempt by a local church to spark a debate about the nativity story. Their choice of imagery (click on the link to see it, it’s easier than explaining!) has certainly worked – as news channels across the world have picked up on the controversy.
Those who created [...]
In today’s City AM, the free newspaper for the business and banking community in London, there was an excellent article on the beneficial health effects of champagne, and other things.
Research at the University of Reading shows that champagne can lower blood pressure and reduce the chance of heart attacks and strokes. Apparently “a daily moderate [...]
Oxfordshire business A1 Financials was recently shortlisted for the national ‘Bookkeeping Practice Of The Year’ Lucas 2009 Award sponsored by The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers.
A1 Financials was the only Midlands based practice to be shortlisted and the competition was tough, with only 5 nominees shortlisted from a total of 3700 UK practices this year.
Mike Foster, [...]
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