For many businesses, talking about bitcoin is like talking in a foreign language. With adoption levels currently quite low, most business people know little or nothing about it. As a consequence, apart from early adopters, most businesses are avoiding it as an unnecessary inconvenience. But what if your next great ...
Council chiefs who were shown a video of a mum struggling to carry her disabled son up 30 stairs still refused her priority housing - because she made it to the TOP. Sharon Arkell, 38, and Richard Mikkelson, 37, live with Tommy, four, and his little sister Susie in a ...
A petition has been launched to reverse a decision to block a Greenpeace ship from berthing at Leith Docks. The Esperanza, a former Soviet navy ship, arrived in the Firth of Forth on Wednesday and is expected to stay for a week.The Esperanza is the largest vessel in the Greenpeace ...
A sailor stood among the 19,240 figures in 'Shrouds of the Somme' today, each of which represents a soldier who died on the first day of the battle. The art installation outside Bristol Cathedral has been set up to represent the death toll of the first day of the infamous battle. More ...
Marie Curie, esteemed physicist, chemist and isotope enthusiast has been named the most inspirational women of all time in a recent poll. Curie, who was the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize (twice in fact, and in two different sciences, pub trivia fans) bested Florence Nightingale and Anne ...
Remember that scene in The Office when David Brent gets promoted at the expense of the rest of his team? I imagine the faces of utter bewilderment that he was met with are quite similar to the gawps we all shot at our television screens yesterday morning waking to the ...
I feel the need to write something. To rant a stream of confused consciousness about the why's and wherefores of how I personally believe Donald Trump has achieved the position of the most powerful man in the supposed free world. Except it has all been said today by far more ...
Batman villain The Joker has been elected Mayor of Gotham in a stunning electoral triumph. The eponymous villain, who had fired his team of goons and replaced them with a terrifying assortment of old Republicans, Spoke to reporters from his victory party at the Arkham Asylum; "I used to think ...
Dale Hoyland, Strategic Development and Affordable Warmth Manager, National Energy Foundation For most households, energy is an expensive necessity – but not keeping yourself warm enough in the winter can have dire consequences. According to the most recent Government figures, there was an estimated 43,900 excess winter deaths (caused by ...