I like Google but not that much

The other day I went onto slide.com website to update some of my galleries. And the first thing that greeted me was the announcement that slide.com is joining Google. Yes, the staff behind all the project is...

Chilling Facts: Supermarket Refrigeration and Climate Change

With all the environmental concerns out there, it can be tricky to keep up with everything, let alone take all the information into consideration all the time. One more environmental culprit we can add to the...

Woolworths closure sale to start

Woolworths are starting their closing down sales across the UK in all its 815 outlets."In what looks like the beginning of the end for the retailer, its administrator Deloitte has said that some shops could close...

Tesco rapped by ad watchdog for misleading shoppers over rivals' prices

Some print ads by UK grocer Tesco have been deemed misleading by the UK's advertising watchdog. The ads suggested that the store's rivals were more expensive, but some of the words and techniques used in the...

Asda Censors Birthday Cake

Evidently a certain UK supermarket chain thinks a photo of a baby's bum is pornographic, even when the photo is of the kid whose birthday it is... Does that speak more to the store's mindset, or to the person...

Supermarkets fined £116m for dairy price fixing

After agreeing to co-operate with the Office of Fair Trading some of the supermarkets have admitted collusion whilst Lactalis McLelland, Morrisons and Tesco deny the allegations."Supermarket giant J Sainsbury has...

Stitched up

Forget the unnaturally skinny models you saw at London Fashion Week last month. And forget the teenage girls who starve themselves to look like them. The real fashion victims are workers in poor countries making cut-price versions of catwalk clothes for retailers in...

End of the story for book shop

" ONE of Northampton's last independent booksellers, Kingsthorpe Bookshop, is closing down after more than 30 years. Owner Robert Webb said he had started looking for a new buyer last year in the run-up to his retirement and has now revealed the Harborough Road shop had been...

Michael Barrymore's Partner 'Shaun' Becomes his New Manager & Protector

Michael Barrymore long term partner Shaun Davis has become Michael Barrymore's new business Manager & Protector. Mr Davis is a New Zealander. Michael Barrymore starts his stage comeback at The Grand in Wolverhampton on November 14. Barrymore takes the star role in Leslie...

Pathologist testimonies in doubt on NowPublic

The death of Stuart Lubbock at Michael Barrymore' home takes a new twist.  Michael Barrymore booksigning road show continues Tuesday, 10th October, Waterstones 17 The Parade Metro Centre Gateshead...

Top pathologist faces legal action on NowPublic

Scrooge the musical staring Michael Barrymore at The Grand in Wolverhampton 14 November 2006 7.30PM. Terry Lubbock father of Stuart Lubbock found dead at Michael Barrymore's home in March 2001, will be at the...

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