Britain's oldest and longest serving nurse has retired - after 66 YEARS working for the NHS. Dedicated Monica Bulman, 86, started walking the wards in 1952 aged 19 and qualified as a registered nurse five years later. Ever since, the inspirational grandmother has dedicated her life to treating tens of thousands of patients and has worked for the NHS for all but four years of its existence. Monica ended her long career on the Hutchings ward at Torbay Hospital in...

VinaCapital Vietnam invests in local poultry company - VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund has invested in Ba Huan JSC, Vietnam's leading producer of pasteurised eggs and poultry meat. The fund has invested USD32.5 million to acquire a significant minority stake in the company and may also invest a moderate amount of additional capital during the next twelve months as Ba Huan delivers on mutually agreed milestones. With more than a 30% share of the pasteurised egg market, Ba Huan is a well-known name to...

Say what one will about genre fiction, usually expressed with a long-nosed sniff of disdain while ice cubes clink against the side of a swirled glass, yet it remains true that thousands, even tens of thousands of readers will derive much more enjoyment from the latest ‘dead body staining the white wicker in the sun room’ than you will from the latest Man Booker approved bit of indulgence where otherwise silent characters drone on and on in an endless interior...

A sci-fi mega-fan has been given a Star Wars themed funeral - with the hearse lead by Stormtroopers. Roger Conway, 41, passed away following a brave battle with type two diabetes and organ failure. He had requested a Star Wars themed funeral and his sister made sure he got his final wish. A sci-fi mega-fan has been given a Star Wars themed funeral - with the hearse lead by two Stormtroopers.  The funeral at Yeovil Crematorium in Somerset on Friday...

A familiar wave of populist nationalism is set to take hold in Italy next week when the country goes to the polls. The Five Star Movement, which has been kept at bay until now by  a centrist “grand coalition”, is expected to emerge from the election on March 4th as the largest party, bringing with them new eurosceptic tendencies that had previously been marginalised in the form of Forza Italia and the Northern League. Now, in a shift that has is well documented across...

A British boxer who collapsed after winning a fight in an eliminator bout on Saturday night has died in hospital. Scott Westgarth, 31, had earned a win on points over ten brutal rounds against Dec Spellman in an English title eliminator. Scott suffered a knockdown but also downed Spellman during the fight at Doncaster Dome, South Yorks. Former chef and ski instructor Scott was knocked down on the ropes just before the bell of round 10. He conducted post-fight interviews...

It seems that the most recent mass shooting in the US has created a huge groundswell of support for gun control. On Valentine’s Day 17 people were killed in a senseless attack of innocent high school children. In the aftermath of the attack, Emma Gonzalez spoke out at an anti-firearms protest in Fort Lauderdale. Her 11 minute speech was so heartfelt that she has become a prominent voice in the anti-gun movement in the US and across the world. At...

A BBC presenter has questioned the class bias at the public service broadcaster and has asked for class, as well as ethnic diversity, to be the focus going forward. Steph McGovern, who is from Middlesbrough, questioned whether the BBC does enough to promote working class people into the top jobs. She told the Sunday Times: “We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It’s dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC...

In news which will anger huge swathes of the public, not the least the staff who have lost their jobs since the collapse of the outsourcing giant; it has been revealed a top exec at the company made a killing before Carillion’s demise. Richard Adam was the finance director between April 2007 and December 2016, sold off shares between 1 March 2017 and 8 May 2017. He cashed them in for £775,921 only twelve months later they would be worth...