As Royal Mail launches new stamps featuring world-famous Dundee-made computer game Lemmings, Michael Alexander speaks to two of the game’s early-1990s programmers about its development and legacy. From humble beginnings to becoming an industry now worth approximately £4 billion in Britain alone, the popularity boom of video games as a …
Read More »Meghan Markle boards Canadian seaplane to visit women’s shelter after fleeing UK
Meghan Markle broke cover for the first time on Tuesday leaving the palatial $14million Canadian home where she has been holed up since last week to visit a women’s shelter in Canada’s poorest neighborhood. The Duchess of Sussex left the Vancouver Island ocean-side mansion shortly before 10am local time and arrived at …
Read More »Barton Royal British Legion club set for council house decision
A PLAN to build new council-owned homes on the site of a former Royal British Legion club will be discussed tomorrow. Seven homes could be built on the site of the Barton Royal British Legion club on Edgecombe Road, and there are plans to etch a poppy symbol into the …
Read More »Mail on Sunday could call Thomas Markle in high court defence | UK news
Thomas Markle could be called to give evidence at the high court against his estranged daughter Meghan, as part of her ongoing legal action against the Mail on Sunday, after it emerged that the paper’s defence appears to rely on his account. The Duchess of Sussex is suing the newspaper …
Read More »Huge Singapore appoints Ben Skelsey as group vice president
Huge, a global experience agency, has appointed Ben Skelsey to the role of group vice president. Skelsey will report to Martin Riley, managing director of Huge APAC. In this new role, Skelsey will be responsible for leading the agency’s SK-II account globally, continuing to drive the high quality of work …
Read More »Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing 20-year-old Queen leading a lion sells for a record £530,000
Victorian-era £5 gold coin showing the 20-year-old Queen leading a lion representing the burgeoning British Empire sells for a record £530,000 The 1839 ‘Victoria Una and the Lion’ five pound shows the queen leading a lion Shows Victoria as Una, from Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan poem Faerie Queene Only 400 of …
Read More »Meghan Markle’s deteriorating relationship with father Thomas outlined in court documents | Royal | News
The Duchess of Sussex was dealt a fresh blow after it emerged she faces the prospect of being pitted against her father in the witness box in the trial of the century. Meghan is suing Associated Newspapers, who own the Mail on Sunday, for publishing a handwritten letter she wrote …
Read More »Firefighters DON’T want Scott Morrison to call a royal commission into the bushfires
Firefighters DON’T want Scott Morrison to call a royal commission into the bushfires – and call for real action to help tackle the blazes Firefighters are urging Scott Morrison not to call a bushfire royal commission United Firefighters Union of Australia says there’s already been fire inquiries It is calling …
Read More »Intellectual property lawyer trademarks US Sussex Royal brand
Jard Fogelson, an intellectual property lawyer from LA, claims to have applied for the Sussex Royal trademark in the US An intellectual property lawyer claims to have trademarked the ‘Royal Sussex’ brand in America to teach Harry and Meghan a valuable lesson about planning. Jared Fogelson, from Los Angeles, filed …
Read More »Thumb and dumber! Idiot drivers are caught on their phones
Thumb and dumber! Idiot drivers are caught on their phones – with one motorist caught with no hands on the wheel as he sucks his THUMB while playing with his hair Lorry, van and car drivers all caught using their phones on the A338 in Dorset One motorist is seen …
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