Super blood moon lunar eclipse September 2015 UK: How to watch and what time to see the supermoon total eclipse live online if the weather’s bad September 27, 2015 It might be worth dragging yourself out of bed early on Monday morning to see the “super blood moon”, an astronomical phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982 – and won’t be seen again until 2033. The moon will turn blood red as it passes through the shadow of the earth at 3.47am on Monday morning. [...]
Supermoon total lunar eclipse 2015 UK date and time: How and where to watch 28 September’s “super blood moon” from Birmingham to London September 26, 2015 A supermoon total lunar eclipse, or “super blood moon”, will occur in the early hours of Monday morning – an extremely rare and special event that will be viewable (depending on cloud cover) from the UK. Only five total lunar eclipses have coincided with a supermoon since 1900. The last time it occurred was in [...]
Fuller’s and Young’s vying to purchase London’s Cubitt House September 24, 2015 FULLER, Smith & Turner and Young’s – two of Britain’s largest pub groups – are competing to acquire a collection of popular London drinking venues. In a move that highlights continuing demand for premium sites in the sector, the groups are vying to buy Cubitt House, which owns three pubs in Belgravia, Central London, and [...]
BMW share price falls amid reports that its X3 xDrive model’s emissions exceeded EU limit September 24, 2015 BMW's share price plummeted this morning amid claims that one of its diesel vehicles exceeded the EU's emissions limit. The German car giant's stock fell as much as 7.3 per cent this morning, although staged a slight recovery to a drop of around six per cent at pixel time. The company was hit after reports [...]
The future’s bright, the future’s lighting: How new technology is brightening up our cities September 24, 2015 New lighting technologies are transforming the way our cities look at night. Alex Dymoke considers what’s in store. II was astonished,” wrote the German diarist Karl Philipp Moritz in 1782, “at the admirable manner in which the streets are lighted up, compared to which our streets in Berlin make a most miserable show.” His [...]
PPI mis-selling claims deadline: Britain’s biggest banking scandal could soon be coming to an end September 24, 2015 The end of the £25bn payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal could be in sight, with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set to meet today to discuss potentially imposing a deadline for claims. The regulator’s management will discuss the possibility of a ‘time-bar exercise’ during a board meeting today, according to Sky News. Banks will [...]
London can come out on top in the era of job-killing robots September 23, 2015 Scary, scary robots. If you believe the hype, robots are coming for your job, your society and everything you hold dear. A widely publicised report argued that 35 per cent of jobs in the UK could be destroyed by automation and computerisation (which is what “robots” have come to mean in the shorthand of [...]
ITV knuckles rapped over airing The Enfield Haunting advert during pre-watershed Britain’s Got Talent ad break September 23, 2015 ITV has had its knuckles rapped over the airing of an advert for Sky Living drama The Enfield Haunting during an episode of Britain's Got Talent. The advert for the series, which was based on claims of poltergeist activity in the north London suburb between 1977 and 1979, had been cleared by Clearcast with an [...]
Night Tube series: Top six areas in London to buy a house along the Northern Line September 23, 2015 Stretching out from the very north of London to the very south, the Northern Line is one of the Tube's most comprehensive – and oldest – on the Underground. The track between Stockwell and Borough opened in 1890, making it the longest-surviving deep-level Tube line on the network. In addition to the Night Tube, it [...]
BT promises faster and wider broadband internet coverage as fight kicks off between TalkTalk boss Dido Harding and BT CEO Gavin Patterson September 23, 2015 A war of words broke out between the UK’s telecom firms again yesterday, as TalkTalk boss Dido Harding accused BT chief executive Gavin Patterson of “grandstanding” with a series of pledges to improve broadband service unveiled yesterday. The BT boss said the company wants to “forge an ultrafast future for Britain and stand ready to [...]