Place Your Bets! What Colour Hat Will The Queen Wear on Ladies Day?
Ladies Day is the biggest day of Royal Ascot, but the real race is for punters to back the colour of the Queen’s hat. Ladbrokes even had a visit from ‘The Queen’ this morning, after she made a pit stop to her local shop on the way to the racecourse. Shop staff reported that ‘Her Majesty’ had a cheeky fiver on the colour blue. The chances of Her Majesty wearing a blue hat on Ladies Day have been set at 3/1, while yellow or...
Phaunos Timber Fund bites the dust
Phaunos Timber Fund bites the dust - the Board of Phaunos Timber Fund Ltd has announced that at the Annual General Meeting held at 11.00 a.m. on 19 June 2017, all resolutions were duly passed on a poll with the exception of Resolution 7 (the Continuation Vote). As Resolution 7 has not been passed, it is the Board's intention to put forward proposals, to commence the process for the orderly realisation of the assets of the Company to maximise value and the timely...
Union slams “devastating” school staff cuts as funding gap begins to bite
New figures show more than ten thousand support staff jobs lost GMB, the union for school support staff, today said that children’s education was suffering as support staff bear the brunt of school funding cuts. New figures reveal that the overall school workforce in England fell in 2016. This was the first reduction in education employment since 2011, when the records were compiled on a different basis. The number of support staff declined from 462,200 in 2015 to 450,900 in...
Watch – Cheeky builders turn their dumper truck – into a mini SWIMMING POOL
This is the moment two cheeky builders cooled down by turning their dumper truck -- into a mini SWIMMING POOL. Steve Moran, 47, and Alex Williams, 33, filled up the truck's massive bucket with water to pour on newly laid concrete to stop it drying too quickly in the searing heat. But the inspired builders decided they would turn it into a personal on-site swimming pool - and stripped off to their boxers and jumped in. With the Devon countryside...
How Will The Recent General Election Result Affect The Business Sector?
After weeks of campaigning, deliberating and debating, the June 8th General Election didn’t quite end as Theresa May had thought it would. With there being a sense of uncertainty looming over the newly hung parliament, Wirehouse take a look at how the election results will affect SME’s and UK businesses. The Election Results It was an election of historical firsts with the first female, Sikh candidate being elected as MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, but all eyes were firmly on Theresa...
Has the UK election results had any impact on the price on Bitcoin?
The recent skyrocket in Bitcoin’s market value has caused there to be a great deal of speculation about how long lasting this success will be and whether it is just a matter of time before it sees a significant crash (as was the case on previous occasions). As Bitcoin is decentralised by nature, it is possible that it will perform differently than other currencies as it is not controlled by any company, government or a particular organisation. Bitcoin, the very...
Beer of the Week – Hop Stuff Four Hour Session IPA
Strength: 4.2% ABV Brewed: Woolwich, London Starting life within a humble unit at Woolwich’s Royal Arsenal in 2013, Hop Stuff Brewery has since become one of the fastest growing craft breweries in London. Now with a team of 22 brewers and over 600 investors, Hop Stuff produce over 400 kegs of beer each week, available from the brewery’s own Taproom, as well as a number of bars and bottle shops. Aiming to ‘provide the perfect access point for those looking...
Book Review: Joyride to Jupiter by Nuala O’Connor
There is a reason I love short stories as much as I do. Show me a city, I'll write you a novel; read me a short story and you sing the whole planet. Yes I know that seems counter-instinctual. After all, how can three hundred or three thousand words possibly be more revealing of more of life than three hundred pages probing, extracting, peering at through the magnifying glass of words the lives of major characters with all their psychology...
Theatre review: These Trees Are Made of Blood, the Arcola Theatre
Reviewing theatre in the summer is a fool’s game. Unless you’re in Edinburgh, or anywhere outside with your head in a bucket of Pimms, you’re an idiot. The notable exception this year is These Trees Are Made of Blood, a cabaret set in Argentina currently showing at the Arcola Theatre; fortunately the show perfectly suits the muggy, still heat of an unventilated brick building in the middle of a heat wave. It is dark, loud and hot. Half naked men...