If you live in or occasionally visit the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and have an electric scooter, this will affect you. As from 18th October, under the new Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) implemented by the local Council, using it along the pedestrian parts of the Thames Path has become illegal. The purpose […]
If you’re moving into new accommodation, what are the basic commodities you need to bring with you or purchase if you don’t already have them? For anyone who’s not completely sure, the Sofa & Carpet Specialists ScS, whose HQ is in Sunderland, north-east England and has 98 stores around the UK, has provided a checklist […]
“The fashion industry’s reckoning has arrived. With concerns surrounding waste,ethical treatment of workers and inclusivity, the status quo is no longer sustainable”. This declaration by the Huffington Post’s lifestyle commentator, Jennifer Barton, in September 2020 and her prediction that the brands would need to “pivot quickly” to stay relevant and desirable accurately anticipated the changing […]
“People in Britain are happy with their lives but not the state of the world”. That’s the conclusion from research conducted for the Guardian newspaper and cited by it’s social affairs correspondent, Robert Booth, on 6th July. Although many of those questioned agreed that recent years have been especially traumatic, with everything that’s happened – […]
How many trees are there in the UK? The Woodlands website has calculated the number to be about three billion. That’s around 45 per person, increasing to 400 per individual in Scotland because it’s more sparsely inhabited but has almost half Britain’s trees. Despite these impressive-sounding statistics, as Mary Gagen, a Professor of Physical Geography […]
“The easiest and most powerful way to increase customer loyalty is really very simple: Keep them happy”. That, in the opinion of the American marketing professional, Kevin Stirtz, is the obvious route to business success. This, however, then raises the question as to exactly how companies can attract customers in the first place and then […]
“British fashion must speak to a country in paralysis”. This was the urgent message that Jonathan Anderson, the House of Loewe’s creative director, conveyed to the Guardian’s fashion editor, Jess Cartney- Morley prior to the start of the latest London Fashion Week (17th – 21st February). There’s no denying, he declared, that Milan and Paris […]
“Water is an essential service that should be reliable, safe and affordable for everyone”. That’s the view of Emma Clancy, chief executive of the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), quoted by the Evening Standard reporter, Josie Clarke on the 8th December 2022. Recent opinion polls, however, suggest that a large proportion of residents in the […]
“It may improve air quality, but the Mayor’s charge on polluting vehicles is meeting some resistance”. This observation by the BBC reporter Tim Donovan on the channel’s “London Politics” programme on Sunday 22nd January somewhat understated the extent of the challenge to Sadiq Khan’s plan to extend the current “Ultra Low Emission Zone” […]
“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead”. This was how Roald Dahl, the renowned British novelist and poet, viewed the first month of the year. The American author, Melody Beattie, by contrast, has rather more enthusiastically proclaimed the New Year to be “like a […]