Innis & Gunn has become one of the UK’s most successful international craft beer businesses since launching in 2003. In 2016, for instance, the brewery sold more than 27 million bottles of beer around the world. Operating from a site in Perth, Scotland, Master Brewer Dougal Gunn Sharp and his team develop and barrel-age an assortment of beers sourced to over 28 countries. In addition to their core range, Innis & Gunn also brew a constantly developing programme of limited-edition, barrel-aged beers. The brewery...

Union goliath Len McCluskey has laid into Labour MPs who, in his opinion, used the anti-Semitism row to attack Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Mr McCluskey accused MPs Chris Leslie, Neil Coyle, John Woodcock, Wes Streeting and Ian Austin of "polluting" Mr Corbyn's bid to tackle the problem within the party. He told the New Statesman "I look with disgust at the behaviour of the Corbyn-hater MPs who join forces with the most reactionary elements of the media establishment and I understand...

When a man on a motorway bridge in Michigan was threatening to jump off, trucks lined up underneath to prevent a suicide attempt. The Michigan State Police came up with the ingenuous plan of calling in passing trucks to pull up and park under the bridge to prevent a fatal fall. The trucks stayed for several hours as police negotiators talked to the man on the bridge who finally walked away safely on Tuesday morning.     https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/nine-simple-words-stopped-man-jumping-londons-waterloo-bridge/19/10/  

In a keynote address at the CBI Northern Ireland Annual Dinner on Thursday, CBI Director-General, Carolyn Fairbairn, will reflect the deep concern about political uncertainty and Brexit shared by businesses and communities across Northern Ireland. 20 years on from the Good Friday agreement, politicians from Northern Ireland, Britain and the EU must make sure they do not turn the clock back on peace and prosperity. The CBI urges all sides to consider what’s at stake. In the 20 years since...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster turned into one of the biggest environmental tragedies in history - because of the sun, suggests new research. Dispersants used to clean up major oil spills are almost a third less effective in sunlit waters - such as those in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the study. Researchers found that crude oil floating on the surface is chemically altered within days - or even hours. Dr Collin Ward, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the...

Banking heiress Kate Rothschild had hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of jewellery stolen as her children slept at their London home. The haul taken from the £3.5 million property in leafy Barnes, south west London, included the 35-year-old's wedding and engagement rings, according to reports. Ir is understood that intruders scaled a wall at the back of the house near Barnes Common before grabbing a large jewellery box containing valuables, including an antique diamond dragonfly brooch as well as...

A personal trainer could have been gunned down outside his home as revenge for testifying in a horrific gang rape trial, murder squad detectives suggest. Abraham Badru, 26, was given a bravery award by police for intervening in the attack and testifying in court against the gang in 2007. But on March 25 he was murdered when a man blasted him in the chest with a shotgun. He had parked his AMG Mercedes near his family home in Ferncliff Road,...

E-Commerce Berlin Expo is one of the most important events in the world of e-Commerce. Each year this exhibition demonstrates the best solutions, and latest innovations in e-commerce. On February 15, 2018 more than 4000 visitors, 120 brands’ representatives and 32 speakers took part in E-Commerce Berlin Expo. This year, the competition categories were the following: The best financial services provider The best analytic solutions The best platform / store software The best logistic solutions The best tool to generate...

EU nationals invited to test the new Settled Status app have revealed their despair after finding it doesn't work on iPhones. Home Office officials yesterday confirmed that the mobile phone app for EU nationals seeking to stay in the UK after Brexit – claimed to be as user-friendly as “an online account at LK Bennett” by Amber Rudd – will not work on devices used by more than half of the adult population in the UK. One said the Home office...