For decades, the only way to keep records of business mileage was by hand. Employees had to use notebooks to write down the details about every single trip and hand them over to the field managers for record keeping. It may not seem like a difficult task at first, but it turns into a massive challenge when all drivers have to write down each and every one of their trips during their shifts. Thanks to modern technology, businesses have a...

A lot of people think of diamonds as something to wear on their wrists, ears, necks or any other place where they can show them off to people in their vicinity. What they might not realize is that diamonds also make for an excellent investment opportunity as well. Diamonds tend to accrue in value over time, depending on the scarcity of the item in question and the demand for them, much as stocks, bonds or any other asset might. You...

In my article for the BANNED! Series on The Toolbox Murders, I talked about how, when I was a kid, I wasn’t able to watch many films that I wasn’t supposed to be seeing. That was why I considered the 12 certificate - which came in in 1989, the first release being Tim Burton’s Batman - a great innovation. There had always been such a wide gulf between PG and 15, and it was ridiculously easy to fall into the...

Another day another problem at Newcastle United. The players have now refused to take their walk up shots for TV as a row over bonuses, which has still not been resolved...the season starts in 5 days. The squad have no problem with sky or any other broadcaster, their ire is directed at the board and owners of the club. Newcastle's players were involved in a similar dispute with the club a year ago. The fans are also not happy with...

Entrepreneurial Tim Baker plans to 'make bog roll great again' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival after its popularity at Christmas

New data released by online clothing retailer Clothes2Order has revealed that 74.8% of people in London are more likely to buy products from eco-friendly brands, more than any other region in the UK. The data, from a survey commissioned to find out people’s opinions on eco-friendly brands and ethical practises, and found that over half (61.6%) of people in London that took the survey said they have researched a brand’s policies before making a purchase, and 65.4% saying they would...

The Daily Mail has removed an article about illegal immigration after a publicly-aired fact check went viral. Foreign features writer Andrew Malone penned the "devastating report" of 300,000 illegal migrants living in a French suburb last week, but a fact check by Marwan Muhammad disproved almost every line in it. One of the main errors was that the reporter confused Saint Denis the city with Seine Saint Denis the département - which includes 40 cities over a radius of 236 kilometres...

Annual killifish are known to live their lives at one of two speeds - either "pause" or "fast-forward"

The Tory MP and his family are away on holiday in New York and have become the victims of vandalism to their property. The culprits spray-painted abuse ‘posh scum’, ‘shut up and die’ and ‘****head’ across his windows and garage of his home in West Harptree, Somerset. They also stuck a purple dildo on his wife’s Land Rover. Continuing the sexual theme they also threw condoms onto the lawn that leads up to his family home. His maid discovered the...