Archive for the 'In The News' Category

Last week Volkswagen weren’t having much of a good time: their shares were down more than 50% and the hedge fund vultures were circling as they started to bet heavily that the VW shares would fall. To make a bit of money off this, they short sold the equivalent of 13% of the VW [...]

“CERN Destroys Planet Earth” may be the news plastered all over the front pages of the newspapers on Mars, Venus and possibly the moon (if it’s not destroyed too) come at 8:31am BST this morning.
If you’ve not been listening to the news, you’ll have missed the news that CERN will be attempting to recreate the [...]

Woohooo!!! I’m a celeb. I’m in this week’s Maidenhead Advertiser. Unlike all my previous appearances in newspapers, I’ve not done anything special other than just being in the right place at the right time. However I have been caught red handed going for the food:

This was taken at a free “Movies in the [...]

I think this is pretty cool: the designer of the Pringles tin - Fredric J. Baur - recently died and asked to be buried in the very thing he designed, the Pringles tin.
I think that’s quite fitting. I wonder if Sir James Dyson will have a similar request (I know, I have a very [...]

The news title of the year must go to the BBC for this gem…

If that’s not enough, the first sentence is open to interpretation too…
At least one of Britain’s birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.

The entire world certainly knows about the shambles that has been the first week of London Heathrow Terminal 5. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled, and are still being cancelled and BAA/BA have a huge mountain of “lost” luggage to return to their rightful owners.
They’re coming up with some very creative ways of getting [...]

By March this year, schoolchildren all across South Africa could be reciting a new national schools’ pledge during morning assemblies in an attempt to instill a renewed sense of morality in young South Africans.
Great idea, but you just know it’s going to be a monotone drawl until you get to the last two lines…

Today is Groundhog Day, and Punxsutawney Phil popped out, saw his shadow and declared we’d have 6 more weeks of winter. Well, at least those in the US will. I think those of us in the south of England may see summer come a bit sooner as the daffs are already starting to [...]

This isn’t your average yob trying to be creative. No, this is the work of the well known vandal street artist, Banksy. Banksy has built himself quite a reputation of being a creative street artist (and making a lot of money off it), and not just someone making his mark, and this is no [...]