So who pays for clogging up London when roads and public areas are closed to the public to allow sponsoring companies to promote themselves by putting their names to events held there? Who pays for all the lost business due to missed appointments? Who compensates for all the cancelled journeys? Who compensates rate-paying Londoners who can’t access parks and squares in their own city because of transport problems and closures? And who would be responsible for tragedy when ambulances can’t get through to hospitals? Continue reading →

An 18 year old male passenger was killed and seven people were injured when the 17 year old Fire Ball ride at the Ohio State Fair shed one of its carriages, on the opening day (July 26) hurling people to the ground. The “aggressive thrill” experience features carriages that swing backwards and forwards like a pendulum, carrying thrill-seekers up to 40 feet in the air and rotating at 13 revolutions per minute. Continue reading →

London’s commuters by train are currently getting a very poor deal from our railway system, it seems.

Firstly the cost is a serious rip-off, with prices far higher than those in some cities in mainland Europe. A 36 mile journey from Luckenwalde, Germany to Berlin costs £99.80 (112 euro), per month whereas the 35 mile journey from Maidstone to Cannon Street costs £402.50 per month, more than 400 per cent more. Before the collapse in the value of sterling the differential was 500 per cent more. In Italy a 48 mile trip from Orte to Rome costs £116 (130 euro) per month whereas a similar journey from Milton Keynes to Euston costs £482.70 per month, or 242 per cent more. Continue reading →

Craig Williamson, 42, the wedding planner at Guthrie Castle, Angus, has appeared in court charged with fraud.

Reportedly he double or triple booked weddings and had deposits of more than £140,000 paid into his own bank account. Continue reading →

Southgreen Park is a modern non-residential events centre set in the village of Mattishall, in the heart of rural Norfolk and close to East Dereham.

Offered are a room for 120, divisible into three, a room for 60, and four rooms for 14/22/22/25. In addition there are two training rooms for 20 and 16 and a computer training room with 10 workstations. Continue reading →

Well-heeled guests using the twelve premier suites at the London Marriott County Hall hotel are offered a Silver Lining package for £300.

This is designed to help them make the most of their stay in the capital and its changeable weather and provides the services of an in-house meteorologist to provide rainy and sunny day itineraries, The service also supplies a hair stylist for when it is windy, coats and wellies for when it rains and skincare for sunny days.

27-28 September 2017
Festival and Outdoor Event Show. Sandown Park
Web: festivalandoutdoorshow.co.uk

11 October 2017
Academic Venue Showcase Emirates Stadium
Web: venuemasters.co.uk

Is love stronger than death? This is a question explored in Destiny, the 1921 silent expressionist and allegorical film from director Fritz Lang, his first notable success released five years before his futuristic science fiction classic Metropolis and ten years before his crime film noir M.. Destiny – Der mude Tod (“The weary Death”) – has been overlooked in favour of the better-known yet it was cited by English and American director Alfred Hitchcock and Spanish director Luis Bunuel as being influential to their own films. Continue reading →

The image of Nigerians as people you could trust took a battering a few years back over advance fee “419” fraud, a scam that invited victims to help illegally launder a large sum of money “locked” in Nigeria for rewards in millions of pounds sterling. Drawn in by their own greed victims paid out thousands in advance fees to “smooth the deal through”, only to find there was no deal.

Sadly this old scam is ongoing, and not just from Nigeria these days, but the damage to a specific country and its people has been done. Continue reading →