Channel Four pays £150,000 ransom
Paying kidnappers is supposed to be a definite no for anyone or organisation to even consider as an option. For one reason there is the possibility that the hostage will not be released, or that the payment will just encourage them to do the same thing over again as it is a good money spinner.
Obviously [...]
The cost of burying your pet
Arranging funerals for pets is fast becoming a big business and as this sector of industry expands the more companies become interested in getting involved.
With prices ranging from £50 right up £500, there is the potential for a good caring business which can help grieving pet owners say goodbye to their faithful friends in a [...]
Job cuts in Finance sector
With news coming across from the states saying that around 20,000 jobs could be at risk in the financial services sector, it is only natural that we in the UK should be concerned as what happens there normally drifts across the water and affects here.
Unfortunately in this case the trend has remained true, and according [...]
Saving your pennies does pay
An American cent is sometimes called a penny, and in this case one mans collection of 301 pennies has surprised everyone by become the star lot at a auction held in Long Beach, by the auction house, Heritage Auction Galleries.
The collection was owned by Walter J Husak, who became interested in coin collecting when he [...]
Tom Jones insures his chest
He may be getting a little older but apparently Tom Jones has still got it and he needs to insure it, his hairy cheat we are talking about here!
So in order for him to be able to continue his hip shaking and with his shirt undone to his trousers he needs to insure his chest [...]
$50 million painting stolen
Thieves broke into a museum in Brazil a got away with a massive haul of valuable paintings which included a Picasso and Portinari, the raid on the Sao Paulo Museum of Art only lasted three minutes but in this small amount of time the thieves got away with the top exhibits.
Among the haul was the [...]
Forty million Americans cannot afford healthcare
There is one thing about the NHS that everyone should remember and that is being free at source, because we have taken this granted it is easy to think that this service is not up to standard, but in order to put this into perspective maybe we should look at the problems in the States!
In [...]