£125,000 to come up with slogan
Leisure and tourism is a major boost to any economy, but for whatever the reasons local authorities feel the need to tell people where they are when they leave the airport, you would have thought that they would have known where they were going to!
Anyway the people at Glasgow airport have replaced all of their [...]
Call to boycott The Golden Compass
Spending $180 million, hiring stars like Daniel Craig & Nichole Kidman and some pretty spectacular special effects would normally result in film that more or less everyone would want to go out and see. However the film The Golden Compass, could be heading towards a clash with The Catholic League for Religious and Civil [...]
November 27, 2007China builds giant underwater museum
China is planning on building a massive underwater museum which will be over the site of an old ship wreck, we say old but in reality this wreck is ancient around 800 years old. The display will include the wreck itself and all of the treasures that come with it.
The Chinese provincial government of Guangdong [...]
Steve McClaren gets the sack
When you hear that someone has lost their job, the first response is the feeling of sadness for them, and yet we hear that the former England boss has been sacked, which was no surprise to many people and we feel sad for the treatment he receives.
However what is even more of a surprise is [...]
England dumped out of Euro
Well it’s all over, all the hype and promises have faded away. The dreams of spending the summer of next year in Austria and Switzerland, waving the flag of St George and sitting around in those pleasant town squares drinking the local brew are now gone.
So what now? Well clearly the manager Steve McClaren [...]
Good memory needed for travel
There has been some concern of the amount time needed to get through the immigration control in the USA, waiting times of over forty five minutes etc, and we think that is bad!
Well that is nothing compared to the plans that UK government have to control immigration, in fact there is debate whether the controls [...]
IM for leisure and dumping
The exact figure of how many people use Instant Messaging is not really known, but what is known is that it started off as a simple way of communicating while using the internet, however those day are long gone and the simple communications have now become full of adds and marketing material.
However there is another [...]
Great Diving Resource
Learning to scuba dive can be a really great thing to do, and the best thing is that there is no real age limits so this sport and holiday activity is suitable for all, you do not even have to do a great swimmer as when you are floating under the waves the water does [...]
November 14, 2007Airlines not happy with airport security
UK airports are not improving security and are just inconveniencing the air travellers, according to the International Air Transport Association, they explain that by limiting the passenger to only a single piece of hand luggage this benefits only the airport operator BAA, but as they do not run all of the UK airports and after [...]
November 13, 2007Googles Masseuse one in a million
In 1999 Bonnie Brown was living with her sister after just coming through a divorce, keen to start a new life for herself she answered an ad for the position of “In House Masseuse” with a start up company called “Google” they were based in Silicon Valley and had forty employees.
She started the part time [...]