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A model that featured in a photo shoot for Polo Ralph Lauren which was digitally altered to make her appear abnormally thin, has been axed by the clothing label for allegedly being too fat. In the latest furore over distorted body images in the fashion industry, Filippa Hamilton said on Wednesday that her contract with [...]
(Read More)14th Oct 09
Robbie Williams live performance ‘not to plan’
by Sally Davies
Robbie Williams has revealed that his first live performance in three years did not go according to plan as his set on Sunday’s X factor suffered a malfunction. He announced on his blog that the sliding door was supposed to open before he sang failed at the last minute. Williams said that the failure threw [...]
(Read More)13th Oct 09
Sainsbury’s launches reward scheme
by Sally Davies
Sainsbury’s supermarket group has launched a new loyalty program in an attempt to grow its financial services subsidiary. The company, which already has 1.5 million financial customer and hold around £3 billion of savings balances, is looking to significantly increase this side of the business. In a campaign to attract new insurance, credit card and [...]
(Read More)9th Oct 09
50 jobs under threat at hospital
by Sally Davies
Fifty jobs are possibly under threat at a private hospital in the Irish County of Londonderry. The North-West Independent Hospital claimed there has been a signficant downturn in work after a drop in referrals from NHS Trusts. The hospital, in Ballykelly, said that there were no alternative but to consider redundancies. It would also look [...]
(Read More)29th Sep 09
House prices see slight dip
by Sally Davies
England and Wales have recorded slight falls in the price of houses, according to figures obtained from the Land Registry. The figures show that the price of houses dropped by just 0.1 percent or £202 from July to take the average price of homes to £155,968. That was 9.4% lower than in the same period [...]
(Read More)25th Sep 09
New airline seat design could face inwards
by Sally Davies
A new innovation in travel design could see itself a common presence in low-cost carriers across the world. The design features seats facing each other, which could save up to a third per seat and see a 50 percent increase in the planes passenger capacity. The design, crafted by Design Q, aims the new airline [...]
(Read More)7th Sep 09
Jackson laid to rest at Forest Lawn
by Sally Davies
On the evening of Thursday, 3 September, around 200 members of pop icon Michael Jackson’s family and close friends gathered for his internment at the Forest Lawn mausoleum, just outside Los Angeles. The gold-plated coffin bearing the King of Pop arrived more than 90 minutes after the service had been scheduled to begin at 7:00pm [...]
(Read More)28th Aug 09
Authorities in Australia seizing infants from unfit parents
by Sally Davies
Figures out of Australia are showing that mothers in Queensland are giving birth while intoxicated and that babies are being taken away from unfit parents nearly every week. The Queensland Child Safety Department has reportedly had to take 250 children away from their mothers within three months of their birth during the past five years, [...]
(Read More)19th Aug 09
Travel clothing rental scheme launched
by Sally Davies
A new travel service could mean that worries about lost baggage, waiting in long queues for checked baggage and dragging heavy suitcases are relegated to the past. The Age has recently reported about a new pilot project called Zero Baggage that is underway in Australia. Travellers using the service can rent holiday wardrobes from a [...]
(Read More)10th Aug 09
Air crash over Manhattan kills nine
by Sally Davies
A young child was thought to be one of the nine passengers killed when a light plane collided with a tourist helicopter over the Hudson River, and both plunged into the waters between New Jersey and Manhattan. It was thought that the passengers killed were five Italians, on a helicopter sightseeing tour of New York, [...]
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