Canny bloke sold £10 KFC bargain buckets online – for a whopping £100 each

A ceiling fixer has made £400 from selling £10 KFC bargain buckets online - for £100 each. He posted an ad on Facebook selling ‘rare’ ten-piece bargain buckets for £100 from the chicken takeaway chain, which had to close more than half of its stores nationwide due to a problem with their supplier. The man managed to flog each chicken portion for a whopping £10 each - a 1000 per cent mark-up. The 30-year-old said he drove from his home...

Entrepreneurial Big Issue seller who spent £30 on contactless card machine sees sales soar

A Big Issue seller who spent £30 on a contactless card machine has seen his sales soar - and paid off the investment in a day. Robin Fabian, 50, has been selling copies of the magazine for seven years on his patch close to the University of Bristol. But he was struggling to shift copies because so few of his potential customers carried cash. In a bid to overcome this issue, Robin invested in a £30 contactless card machine –...

Labour supporter & Britain’s longest-serving councillor has died – after serving his community for almost 70 YEARS

Britain's longest-serving councillor has died - after serving his community for almost 70 YEARS. Great-grandfather Lloyd Wilce, 89, joined the authority back in 1949 because he wanted to improve local sporting facilities in his town. His remarkable tenure saw him secure a running track and a swimming pool in the town and twice serve as the town's mayor. The pensioner has also paid visits to the House of Commons and House of Lords, and has twice attended the Queen's garden...

Restaurant Review: Hankies, Marble Arch

Modern Indian food is in vogue. While Mayfair has reached saturation point, with a ratio of almost one Indian fine dining restaurant per local resident, surrounding areas such as Soho and Marylebone are thriving with more casual restaurants celebrating Indian and South Asian cooking (Kricket, Hoppers, Tamarind Kitchen). Bridging the gap between the two, a second branch of Hankies opened within the Montcalm Hotel near Marble Arch earlier this year, taking over Nirvana Kitchen’s former site. While Hankies’ original London...

Trump’s solution to Parkland Florida school shooting – give teachers concealed firearms

Donald Trump met familes affected by school shootings including the Parkland, Florida atrocity yesterday to hear their concerns Present at the emotional White House meeting he had promised them were children who had survived the shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week and a breaved family of a child who had been killed. Among the 40 students and parents invited to Washington were Darrell and Sandra Scott, whose daughter was killed in the Columbine, Colorado school shooting...

What brexit means for the value of your home

It’s been almost 12-months since Prime Minister Theresa May, triggered Article 50 and thus started the formal process for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.  Whilst the political bickering at Westminster and the slow pace of negotiations have left many issues unanswered, something that has flown below the radar is how Brexit will impact British homeowners. Sure, there is the possibility that prices at your local high street will go up post-Brexit, but the reality is that the...

Rubbish Removal Problems in London Worst in UK

The beautiful capital city of London, home to Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, has a hideous problem hiding in its back alleys. It seems the grand city ranks number one in the entire UK for problems due to overflowing rubbish removal bins, according to a research study conducted by Opinium Research and commissioned by Clearabee. London was seven points higher in this problem than the second city on the list, Leeds, not exactly an "honor" London officials will want to...

4 Ways in Which the Work Market Is Impacted by Social Media and the Internet

The fact that the internet took the world by storm and affected everything in it is already old news. What is more interesting is the way that social media slowly, but surely crept not only into our social lives, but also into our professional lives. It's safe to say that the modern work market now looks completely different than it did ten years ago and that both employers and employees feel the repercussions of this shift. Below we will look...

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