How to plug the information gap June 24, 2015 Investors need more high quality data on the companies they are crowdfunding BUSINESSES across the UK are increasingly aware that they can raise investment through crowdfunding, where large groups of people give small amounts of money to support an organisation they like the look of. This has opened up the world of investment to all, [...]
London is about to get its second cat café Ginger and Tom’s in West Hampstead – and this time it’s jungle-themed June 22, 2015 Cat lovers will be purring at the prospect of London's second cat-themed café opening its doors later this year – and this time it's jungle-themed. Ginger and Tom's café is due to open at a site in West Hampstead in October. Read more: London now has its own £1 café It's being set up by Anna Kogan Nasser who [...]
Liberty concession fined for selling big cat claw jewellery June 19, 2015 A concession at luxury department store Liberty has been fined for selling jewellery made from big cat claws. Annina Vogel was today ordered to pay £2,000 in fines, after having plead guilty to selling the illegal items. The company was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a victim’s surcharge of £120. Police [...]
From anti-austerity protests to remote-controlled cars: Here’s what got us talking this week June 19, 2015 There was plenty of Greek drama. RBS had to call in the boys from the IT Crowd. And some guy got a new job talking about cars. Here's what got us talking this week 1) There's going to be a huge protest in London today There will be tens of thousands of [...]
Britons spend 24 days a year procrastinating June 18, 2015 The average British worker spends 11 hours a week – that's 24 days a year – putting things off, new research has suggested – with the majority of people choosing to watch TV instead. Read more: It's official – cat videos are good for your health The study, by life insurer Beagle Street, showed the [...]
It’s official: Cat videos are good for your health June 18, 2015 Most of us are guilty of whiling away the odd five minutes with, for instance, a video of a cat contemptuously batting a candle off a table. But a new study suggests those minutes aren't wasted – because watching cat videos is actually good for you. According to Jessica Gall Myrick, a researcher at Indiana University [...]
London’s kitchens are mobile dead zones and mobile operators are failing homes with 4G signal June 16, 2015 Britain’s homes are plagued by a modern day menace – the mobile phone dead zone. Mobile blackspots – where not even yoga-worthy manoeuvres can't get that hilarious cat gif to work – afflict a whopping 40 per cent of the population. It may be the heart of the home, but a Londoner’s kitchen is the [...]
Labour leadership contest: Jeremy Corbyn makes it onto Labour leader ballot in 11th-hour victory: Who are the MPs that endorsed him? June 15, 2015 Jeremy Corbyn has made it onto the ballot for Labour's leadership contest with less than an hour to go before the deadline. It was confirmed that the Islington MP, who is seen as more left-wing than many of his competitors, received the required 35 nominations just moments before the midday closing point. It [...]
Malcolm Walker’s many lives: How Iceland hopes to fight off profit slump June 10, 2015 Malcolm Walker has more business lives than a cat. He built his frozen food empire Iceland from a humble shop in Shropshire in 1970 into a £2bn turnover business 30 years later, before hitting a financial iceberg. Walker was forced to step down as chairman in 2001 after the Financial Services Authority launched an [...]
Theatre review: Kafka on the Shore June 5, 2015 Barbican | ★★★★★ Haruki Murakami’s novel Kafka on the Shore is an ever-shifting mirage where dream and reality, past and future, here and there all twist and collide. It’s a book about ideas, encompassing western philosophy, Greek tragedy, psychoanalysis and science fiction. It should translate horribly to the stage, but legendary Japanese theatre director [...]