Annual FTSE100 CEO pay would take average worker over 150 years to earn
Figures released by High Pay Centre are a ‘scandal’, says GMB union It would take a worker on a normal salary more than 150 years to earn the average yearly pay packet trousered by top chief executives FTSE100 companies, says GMB. Figures released by the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development today show the average pay received by CEOs of FTSE100 listed companies in 2016 was £4.5million. The average median full time wage in the...
Early Greeks creators of Europe’s first advanced civilisations descended from migrants from modern day Turkey, reveals new research
The early Greeks - creators of Europe's first advanced civilisations - descended from migrants from modern day Turkey, reveals new research. An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar - with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. Researchers say they likely migrated from Anatolia to Greece and Crete thousands of years before the Bronze Age. Modern Greeks, in turn, are largely descendants of the Mycenaeans, the study found. The researchers analysed tooth...
Maudie: Film Review
By Wyndham Hacket Pain Maud Lewis remains one of Canada’s best known folk artists. Despite suffering from rheumatoid arthritis that restricted her movement she still managed to produce her much loved paintings. At one point her fame grew to the extent that she was featured in magazines and on television, and even sold a painting to the then Vice-President Richard Nixon. Maudie opens in provincial Nova Scotia during the 1930s, where Maud Dowley (Sally Hawkins) is frustrated at the lack of...
Is there a future for property guardianship?
A recent court case in Bristol saw a group of property guardians granted legal recognition as tenants for the first time, thus phasing out property guardianship in the city. Bristol’s property guardians have been told they will need to leave their accommodation “as and when the buildings are needed” by the council, but this is expected to take at least twelve months to come into effect. Property guardianship is and has been a source of controversy ever since it came...
London restaurant serves World’s hottest cocktail – would you try it?
An Indian restaurant in London has created the World's hottest cocktail - but who will be brave enough to try it? Made using a secret recipe that includes the Naga Chilli 500,000 Scoville Vodka, The Naga Chilli Cocktail is guaranteed to blow the head off of any brave drinker. Those who have tasted the fiery concoction report burning gums, hallucinating sensations, extreme sweating, stinging eyes and fainting. One drinker describes their experience: “It bites deep into my mouth, gums, tongue...
Parents of a three-year-old boy fighting a rare form of cancer miss potentially lifesaving drug trial by 14 days
The parents of a three-year-old boy fighting a rare form of cancer are devastated after he missed the deadline for a potentially lifesaving drug trial - by just 14 days. Little Oliver Welch was diagnosed with cancer of the specialised nerve cells known as neuroblastoma two weeks after the cut-off point for the US experiment. His father Mark Welch says the only way Oliver could now have the immunotherapy treatment is to foot the bill themselves - which could be...
Trump Watch: Day Two – A Twitter guide to the unfolding drama
It's a thin and shaky cable that stretches between bemused interest and hysteric obsession and sometimes you just stand there in the middle, wondering which way to walk. Casual glances at a news subject's headlines with only an occasional long read is in the long run probably safer for mental health, and a damn sight better in terms of work productivity, yet it never seems to satisfy. You feel a permanent – perhaps not a hunger exactly – but a...
First blind person in Europe to test high tech glasses sees his beloved footy team….lose 5-1
The first blind person in Europe to test some hi-tech glasses which enable him to see finally got to watch his beloved football team play - but they got thrashed 5-1. Lifelong Fleetwood Town fan Brian Casey lost his sight 27 years ago and had given up hope of ever watching his team score a goal. But that all changed when he was chosen to test a new groundbreaking visual aid technology called 'eSight'. Brian Casey wearing the groundbreaking visual...
Woman launches campaign against catcalling after being called a slut
A woman has launched a campaign against 'cruel' catcalling after stag party revellers branded her a SLUT. Lauren Bayfield, 28, said she was left disgusted and frightened at the comment from an all-male group on a night out in her hometown. They made the offensive remark as she walked down the high street during the early evening. Lauren, of Helston, Cornwall, said she felt she had to speak out against cat-calling and sexually offensive remarks to women. She wrote about...