What is the first thing you do when you get home from work? Check Facebook. How do employees pass the time on their lunch break? With social media. Social media has established itself into everyday life, and it’s not going to budge anytime soon. Businesses should stop looking at social media as a social out [...]
A german doctor who killed a patient after confusing morphine for another drug has failed in a legal bid to stop the sons of the deceased patient talking to the media about the case. Dr Daniel Ubani was struck off by the General Medical Council, but objected to the sons of David Gray calling him [...]
Asil Nadir returns to the UK at 69 years of age to face his multimillion-pound fraud charges almost 17 years ago. The charges affected the success of his business causing Polly Pecker to completely collapse, a very successful food and electronics empire that he built from scratch. Nadir will arrive at Luton Airport around lunchtime [...]
Barry George, the man convicted of murdering Jill Dando in 2001, has won the right to claim compensation from the government for what his legal team calls a “miscarriage of justice”. Mr George was convicted of shooting dead the CrimeWatch presenter outside her home, but he was freed following a retrial in 2008 after serving [...]
Troops in Mexico have uncovered a mass grave containing 72 bodies, following a shoot-out in the North of the country. The corpses were found near San Fernando in Tamaulipas state and are thought to have died as a result of drug related violence. The discovery was made after a shoot-out with a suspected drug gang [...]
The BBC and HarperCollins appeared in London’s High Court yesterday to commence a legal battle over a publication that reveals the true identity of Top Gear’s The Stig. The Stig is never seen without his helmet on the show and his identity is shrouded in secrecy. They say the book published by HarperCollins would breach [...]
A pathologist who carried out a post-mortem examination on a man who dies at the G20 protests was not qualified to carry out the procedure. Dr Freddy Patel failed to meet the criteria to be on the Home Office register, but was still asked to work on the high profile case in which Ian Tomlinson [...]
It is believed 45% of consumer’s time is spent using various kinds of media. This comes from research regulated by “Ofcom”, the first to track exactly how long consumers spend using various kinds of media. Consumers can now access information from mobile phones, ipads, TV’s radios and the Internet. Increasing the amount of time absorbing [...]
Eric Schmidt comments come as hundreds of millions of web users worldwide are increasing the amounts of personal information using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twiter and other sites, the chief executive warned that users may not be fully aware of the consequences. He believes that all young people will eventually be allowed to [...]
The French Football Federation has come down hard on the players who were deemed to be a disruptive influence during their failed World Cup campaign. Les Bleus failed to get past the group stage in South Africa amid internal arguments between players and staff. New France manager Laurent Blanc responded to the problems by dropping [...]
