First Ever Comet Landing a Success
The European Space Mission has successfully landed a probe on a moving Comet some 300 million miles away from Earth The 25 year project came to fruition after a tense 7 hour wait to hear a transmission from the Philae probe. Mission control erupted into cheers and tears of joy as a signal reached Earth […]
Rosetta Mission on It’s Way to Land on Comet
The Rosetta mission will be a first for the human race as the European space mission tries to land a robot on a comet some 510 million km away (300 million miles) from Earth. Rosetta took off in 2004 taking 10 years to reach the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The Rosetta satellite will release Philae […]
Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Targeted by US Airstrikes
Early reports indicate ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was part of a 10 vehicle military convoy targeted by US airstrikes Friday November 7th 2014. Unsubstantiated reports say ISIS chief Al-Baghdadi was “critically wounded” in latest air-raid. The coalition airstrike took place near the Northern Iraq town Mosul which is ~400km north of Baghdad and ~100KM […]
Britain To Pay 850m Not 1.7bn To The EU
George Osborne has managed to reduce the £1.7bn bill the EU demanded by 1st December to £850m and the dead line has been extended to after the general election next year Tory Party Win Over EU Bill This will be seen as a big win for the conservative party who are under pressure by some […]
Should Ed Miliband Resign for the Sake of the Labour Party
With just 6 short months before the 2015 UK general election, Labour backbenchers are disquiet over Ed Miliband’s poor political performance resulting in the Chair of the parliamentary Labour party passing on backbencher complaints! Could this scupper Labour’s chances of a general election majority in 2015? The Labour leader Ed Miliband should be a shoe […]
Russia Ukraine Conflict : A New Cold War Begins?
The post World War II cold war between USSR (Russia) and the Western Bloc (the US and it’s NATO allies) ended over 20 years ago (early 1990s). Yet today with Russia officially an ally with it’s former political western adversaries has annexed the Crimean Peninsula and could be on the verge of a full scale […]
Treasury Minister Demands Petrol Price Guarantee
News Article by Marie Law on 5th December 2014 in Economic News, Political News, United Kingdom News
Guarantee demanded by Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander Over concerns Petrol Price remains high when oil prices are low We’ve often heard Americans complain about fuel prices in the US, but if they saw the price of petrol here in the UK something tells me you would be bringing them round with smelling salts. The […]
More Drink Drivers to be Caught in Scotland
More Drink Drivers to be Caught When New Alcohol Limits are Lowered in Scotland at Christmas. Scotland are to lower it’s drink driving limit. The new legal levels when they come into force will be far lower than the rest of the UK. The Scottish parliament believe lowering the legal drink drive limit from the […]
Your Holiday Pay Could Include Overtime in the Near Future
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled on two cases related to the Eu Working Time Directive that working overtime should be taken into account when holiday pay is calculated. The UKs interpretation of the European Unions Working Time Directive has since 1998 resulted in unpaid overtime NOT being used in the holiday pay calculation […]
Should Europe Embrace GM Food on Economic Grounds?
Is it time for Europe to embrace genetically modified food to compete with cheap GM food imported from outside the EU or remain in the past with quaint ideals of what is natural to placate the anti-GM political lobby? It’s over twenty years since the first genetically modified organism (GMO) was released for commercial use. […]
