(Once I realised, although I genuinely didn't mean to, my eyes kept on being pulled back to it. I couldn't quite believe it.) Quote

That's like reading someones private text

Full story here ----> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38611265

UK astronaut Tim Peake is ready to make his landmark flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

The ex-helicopter pilot - with American Tim Kopra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko - will launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.

Mr Peake is the...

here ---> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-maga...nitor-35005472

Hottest July day ever recorded in England

The Met Office said a temperature of 36.2C (97.16F) had been recorded at Heathrow at 14:50 BST - the hottest UK temperature since 2006.

More ---> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33324881

Buckingham Palace is in need of maintenance work costing £150m. Some rooms haven't been decorated since before the Queen ascended the throne but how have they fared, asks Justin Parkinson.

Labour's Clement Attlee was prime minister. Wolverhampton Wanderers won the FA Cup. Nato was created....

Our Landlords have been crap at paying their mortgage over the 6 years we have lived here. They have also (as I have mentioned on here before) run up debts for other things.

Phonecall a week ago from the Agency saying the landlords want a valuation with view to sell. I doubt very much they...

Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.

The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature.

Such TV sets "listen" to some of what is said...

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More -------> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30696685...

Do people know where their chicken comes from?

Campaigners say chicken meat needs better labelling. How much do people really know about the life of a chicken before it reaches their plate?


More --->http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29219843

How much digging do lenders do into your employer ?

In this risk averse world, do they do a financial health check on your employer and if so, how ?

Mine seems fine but it is only small and obviously has more chance of going to the wall than BP so does that figure in the underwriting...

A new £1 coin, billed by the Royal Mint as the "most secure coin in the world", is to be introduced in 2017.






The move comes amid concerns about the 30-year old coin's vulnerability to counterfeiting, with an estimated 45 million forgeries in...

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Suspected fragments from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people have been found off Vietnam.
The Vietnamese navy said objects, one thought to be an aircraft door, were spotted by a rescue plane off the country's south coast.
Security services are investigating whether the...

Tiffany Corlis, a local author, saw the fight and took these pictures, which have been widely used in the Australian media.

"It was amazing," she told the BBC. "We saw the snake fighting with the crocodile - it would roll the crocodile around to get a better grip, and coil...

Which? petition to reduce payday lenders default fees

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 24th February 2014 16:45.

Here is a link to a short article and also an electronic petition being coordinated by the consumer magazine Which? to have payday lenders reduce......