Sir Victor Blank annouced today an unprecedented merger deal between Lloyds TSB and HBOS, at a cost to Lloyds of £12billion pounds. It is a sign of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding this event that Lloyds has been able to buy out a much larger rival bank, and create a mega-bank that would normally have the [...]
I don’t like shopping at our local Tesco. It’s so big and there is so much choice I find it takes me thirty minutes just to pop in for a loaf and I always come out with a random selection of stuff, none of which I knew I needed before I went there. However -and [...]
Put 5000 bankers in a big circle , with no chairs in the middle, and get a fat lady to sing the following words to the tune of a well known sea shanty:
“what can you do with a sunken banker?
what can you do with a sunken banker?
what can you do with a sunken banker, now [...]
Sebastian Vettel has just become the youngest ever winner of a Formula 1 race at Monza, in Italy. Pole position taken in the torrential rain yesterday gave the Torro Rosso driver a chance today that he could only have dreamed of till now. To add to the sweet taste of victory for the poor man’s [...]
I watch Formula 1 motor racing and try to catch every race but I have to admit that the farce that was the Spa Grand Prix result fixing, whereby the driver Lewis Hamilton was stripped of his first place, has made me seriously consider the merits of the sport.
In a multi-million pounds per team industry [...]
With 57.8% of the final vote , Iain Gray has become the fifth leader of the Labour Party in Scotland since 1999. Widely regarded as the front runner, and thought to be the preferred candidate of Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, the news was announced this morning. His Depute will be Johann Lamont. I checked [...]
A study has shown that people in the north of England, and in Scotland, are eating foods with more saturated fat than anywhere else in the UK. On average ladies of Lancashire are eating 44g of saturated fat a day, Scots are eating 55g – the recommended amount is 20g.
Foods containing saturated fats include meat [...]
The tour operator XL has gone into administration at 1.00am[UK time], leaving around 90,000 passengers stranded abroad. According to the administrators, Kroll, the company was falling apart over the last ten weeks and yet the workforce were not told and passengers were still booking at the start of this week. In fact the administrator just [...]
You just know dropping Physics at the end of first year was the right thing to do when you read a three hundred word article about the ‘big bang’ experiment and realise that although you understood every individual word you still have no idea what it is all about.
Today, apparently, saw the start up of [...]
Diageo, the world leader in the drinks industry, has released details of its new state-of-the-art malt whisky distillery at Roseisle, near Forres.
Ready to roll by the beginning of next year, the energy efficient, carbon neutral plant will look like no other distillery on Speyside. The fourteen stills will be hidden away inside a modern building, [...]
