News

RBS sheds 3,500 jobs in the UK

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 84% owned by the state, has announced that it will be cutting 3,500 people from its payroll in the UK.

Energy suppliers face Ofgem probe

The Office of Gas and Electricity Marketing (Ofgem) has started an investigation into four of the ‘big six’*** UK energy suppliers over concerns of the mis-selling of power contracts.

 

Business & Finance

Kabul Bank taken over by Afghan authorities

Kabul Bank, a financial institution part owned by President Hamid Karzai’s brother, has been taken control of by the Central Bank of Afghanistan.

 
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Politics

To share or not to share

It can only be described as farcical. Like something out of the SitCom ‘Yes Prime Minister’ it has been mooted that the UK and France are on the verge of declaring that they will share their aircraft carriers.

 

Science, Technology & Environment

The cruel exploitation of Tom and Misha

As I get older and possibly more mellowed, fewer things upset me. But the torture of two dolphins exposed by Donal McIntyre in the Express almost made me explode with rage.

Man’s inhumanity to man is well documented and expected. But man’s

Greenland ice melts at record pace

In what he calls ‘a manifestation of warming’, Dr Richard Bates who helps monitor the Greenland ice said he was ‘amazed’ to see such a huge area of ice break off the Petermann glacier.

 

Tripe & What Not

Hugh Jackman helps send a message of love

Actor Hugh Jackman and New Zealand Prime Minister Jon Key have both starred in a video message from a cancer patient to his wife to say happy birthday and thank her for the support she has given him.

Kerry Katona amazes the world by wearing denim shorts

Kerry Katona has been spotted leaving a beauty salon wearing coordinated denim shorts and a pale green top proving that she has put her fashion disasters behind her and revealing her new slimline figure that she has worked hard to achieve since her divorce.

Katie Price 13 year old boy ’sex message’ at book signing scandal

According to reports in the gutter press, Katie Price aka Jordan may have signed a copy of her literary masterpiece for a 13 year old boy with a message that may have  sexual overtones.

X Factor thick people trash Simon Cowell’s home.

X Factor contestants have run riot in Simon Cowell’s Spanish Villa after getting rather drunk and unruly. The luxury Marbella pad costs £15,000 a night to rent and the X Factor hopefuls

Michelle Bass shows off her fake assets in Big Brother house

The new addition to the Big Brother house is a former Big Brother contestant who simply cannot wait to show that which God did not give her.

Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow single is a shame

Maybe expectations were a bit too high for this song which, at the end of the day, is nothing more than a publicity stunt / message to tell the world that they have kissed and made up.