Recipe of the week
Drink like the celebs: How to make cocktails at home BY BRIAN ANTHONY HERNANDEZ From Mashable LOS ANGELES — The stars imbibe freely [especially at events like the annual Golden Globes awards] inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom, and you can…
Vikings torch a longship in Shetland for Up Helly Aa festival
BY TIM CHESTER From Mashable LONDON — Hundreds of people dressed as Vikings descended on Lerwick in Shetland [in January last year] for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. A replica Viking longship was torched as part of the celebrations, which…
Listen to live music
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Hearing adjustments I had mentioned in an earlier post how our hearing gets used to a certain sound and we adjust to that as normal. One of my readers posted what I think is a…
Record to raise funds for African and Caribbean soldiers
By Ade Onibada From The Voice UK Campaigners aim to create a permanent memorial to war veterans who fought for Britain during the two World Wars A CAMPAIGN to secure the permanent installation of a ‘long overdue’ war memorial to…
St. Helena: Airport blown off track after £250m from taxpayers
By Michael Binyon, Charles Bremner From The Times UK The new airport on the island of St Helena, built at a cost of £250 million to British taxpayers, has had its opening postponed indefinitely after trial flights showed dangerous wind…
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The View from Europe: Renewing the US relationship
By David Jessop A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship. The bill has no funding attached to it….
Couple plans Las Vegas trip — but book flights from wrong Birmingham
From CNN (CNN)A British couple set off on a dream vacation to Las Vegas — only to discover they’d booked flights from Birmingham, Alabama, rather than Birmingham, UK. Richella Heakin, 26, from the Birmingham suburb of Sutton Coldfield, saved for…
Gunmen invade casino in Guyana – one captured, others escaped with cash
By iNews Guyana From St Lucia news INEWS GUYANA – A policeman and several other persons have been injured when heavily armed gunmen stormed the Casino at the Princess Ramada Hotel at Providence, East Bank Demerara around 3:45 hrs this…
How Barclays turned a US$10 bil profit into a tax loss
By Reuters From the Edge Markets LONDON (April 29): When Barclays Plc sold a fund management business to U.S. financial group Blackrock Inc. in 2009, the larger-than-expected US$15.2 billion price tag was not the only good news for the British…
Sperm donors wanted: UK government seeks to address shortage
BY BLATHNAID HEALY from Mashable LONDON — The world’s first national sperm bank opened its doors in Britain [in October 2014] calling for “very special men” to help reduce the shortage of sperm donations in the UK and address the reliance on…
