Brexit has made it cheaper for Ireland to send fish to USA than the UK FISHING | BREXIT | IRELAND FACT BOX: The Republic of Ireland and the UK share a 499 km (310 mile) long land boarder. This is the UK’s only land boarder with an EU country and…
A School based Police Officer has been convicted for physically abusing a 10 year old boy in school but received a ridiculously lenient sentence UK | CRIME FACT BOX: Schools and educational institution in the UK have on site police stations and officers. Liverpool, England, UK: CCTV footage from a…
A man with no leg was refused access to a disabled parking ‘blue badge’ by his local council in the UK. His doctor wrote a sarcastic letter to the Coucil regarding growing his leg back. Disabilities | Equality | Ethics | UK FACT BOX: In England (UK) a ‘blue badge’…
UK’s Boris Johnson is breaking his own election manifesto promises by hiking UK tax rises ECONOMICS | FINANCE | TAX | UK Next week will see UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce that he is breaking his own election manifesto promises by hiking taxes. The UK has been hit by…
Angry customers in London are leaving Vodafone following months of signal failure and now the removal of wifi access on the tube Technology | Computers and Phones | Data, Wifi and Mobile Signal | London | Vodafone Fact Box: Vodafone is now the only major network in the UK not…
Europe’s hottest ever temperature recorded on Italy’s largest island – Sicily Climate Change | Mediterranean | Italy | Sicily Fact Box: Wild Fires are common in the Mediterranean, yet summer 2021 has seen record high temperatures and the most intense fires on record spreading from Turkey, across Greece, the Balkan…
Failing to wear a face mask on the London Underground to be a criminal offence COVID19 | Face Masks | Law | Crime | London Fact Box: The metro (or Subway for our American readers) in London is officially called the “Underground” but is more commonly referred to as the…
UK Black outs due to electric cars as island nations still planing to ban petrol and diesel by 2030 Cars | Electric Cars | Technology | Climate Change | Renewable Energy Fact Box: The UK government has faced questions and concerns regarding the strength of the island nation’s energy infrastructure….
Germany launches military ‘space command’ to tackle Russia and China SPACE | MILITARY | EU | GERMANY FACT BOX: ‘The Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space’ is a 1981 UN resolution that reaffirms the fundamental principles of the 1967 ‘Outer Space Treaty’ and bans the weaponisation of space. The USA…
Supreme Italia boss sentenced to 8 years by London court with his son sentenced to 3 years Fashion | Law FACT BOX: Supreme, based in USA, owned by Vanity Fair Corporation (the original brand) and Supreme Italia are not the same company nor brand nor are they owned or founded by the…
