For the nighthawks, Comet Lulin will be passing Earth during the next few nights and will be visible to the naked eye. The comet was only discovered a couple of years ago and this time it will be passing a mere 38 million miles from our little planet, the closest it has ever been. Lulin is about the size of …
Lenny Kravitz in Spain
Lenny Kravitz will be in Spain as part of his tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of his first album ‘Let Love Rule’. He will be in Valencia on May 2nd, Córdoba on May 3rd, Madrid on May 8th and Zaragoza on May 9th. Tickets are now on sale.
Another cunning plan
Excellent to see governments introducing cost saving measures during these current economic conditions. Whitehall have just spent nearly 900 million pounds to reduce the number of staff by 15,000 people. Most redundancies are through early retirement, with the average pay-off being in the region of 60,000 pounds, although some have received as much as 100,000 pounds. So, what to do …
An Oscar for Penelope
Penelope Cruz became the first Spanish actress to win an Oscar, the 34 year old star picking up the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as a passionate artist in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. As widely predicted, the British film Slumdog Millionaire was the hit of the night, picking up eight Oscars including those for Best Film and …
Man confronts known heroin dealer and ends up under arrest
Peter Drummond, a father of three from Perth, was incensed when he found out that a local drug dealer had sold heroin to his family and in a spur of the moment action, went to the house of the dealer, John Nellies. Confronting the dealer, he demanded that Nellies stop supplying heroin to his family members as it was ruining …
Crunch, but not credit
The Atlantic ocean is the second largest ocean on the planet, covers one-fifth of the Earth’s surface and has a surface area of 106.4 million square kilometres. If you were looking for something in that area you’d probably never find it in a million years, as they say, but two nuclear submarines managed to collide!
Venezuela goes to the polls
Today, some 17 million Venezuelans go to the polls to vote in a referendum to decide whether officials, the President and other elected persons, such as legislators, Mayors, Councillors etc, can be re-elected indefinitely rather than for a set number of terms. President Hugo Chavez, who has been in power now for ten years, has repeatedly said he is prepared …
And the taxpayer shall support the irresponsible
The median weekly wage in the UK for a 40 hour working week is around £460. Thirteen year old Alfie Patten and his fifteen year old girlfriend Chantelle Stedman have just made the headlines by having a baby. So how will it be supported? Very comfortably one would imagine if reports are to be believed. Chantelle Stedman, at fifteen years …
Spineless. Who’s in charge?
The UK Government has apparently given up trying to stop bailed-out royal Bank of Scotland paying out bonuses to the dealers who brought it to its knees, even though the bank is now 70 per cent owned by the British taxpayer. Some employees are set to get five-figure sums. There is even speculation that bonuses will go ahead next year …