Cash Boost for UK Manufacturing Research

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced that the first three state of the art manufacturing research centers funded under a new £70M Government investment will be based at Southampton, Loughborough and Brunel universities, to help UK businesses...

U.K. Government Scheme Accepts Artworks in Lieu of Inheritance Tax

Paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney as well as many other cultural works – with a combined value of £19.8 million – were saved for the nation last year thanks to the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, Culture Minister...

London’s West End Unveils The X Factor

Europe’s busiest diagonal crossing has been unveiled by London Mayor Boris Johnson following a £5million makeover which has seen Oxford Circus get the X factor. For the first time ever shoppers will be able to cross the busy intersection diagonally...

Samuel Johnson Meets the Internet

If it really is all about entertainment in the world of television, then at least Britain’s More4 News is taking an interesting approach to entertainment. Consider the following report by Urmee Khan, which just appeared on the Telegraph Web...

Diplomacy And Espionage

There has been a lot of buzz this morning around the story of the newly appointed head of MI6 having his “cover blown” by his wife’s Facebook site. Even CNET News got on the bandwagon (probably because of the Facebook role), although...

Scandal Continues in Iran Over Minister’s Forged Oxford University Degree

Ali Kordan, Iran’s new Minister of the Interior, has recently been under fire for presenting a “fake” Ph.D. degree from the prestigious Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Several websites, including the conservative Alef have published...