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I seem to find that Tesco’s grocery website doesn’t really work for me. I have successfully ordered several deliveries but sometimes I just can’t get the website to work. It is often unavailable and the special offers never work. It seems to crumble under the sheer weight of products and users but it is just [...]

After being bitten by a toxic spider in France, Paula Radcliffe found that she could climb upside down and shoot webs from her wrists. The 34-year old Olympian is planning to use her new-found superpowers to claw back her marathon title: “It’s really amazing the speed that you can get up through the air” Radcliffe [...]

In a web exclusive, Linda Haywood interviews Ian Russ, press officer of Marshall Milton Keynes Athletic Club, about the prospects of the young Olympian, Greg Rutherford, and the club itself which will be 123 years old this week.
Greg Rutherford hit the athletics scene in 2005 when he won the senior AAA long jump title - [...]

After the failed attempt to bag the 10,000m and marathon together at the Athens Olympics in 2004, Paula Radcliffe is this year attempting to win the marathon gold only. Despite an stress fracture of the femur sustained earlier this year, Radcliffe is listed on the Great British Team.
The athletes are currently preparing in Macau [...]

Countryfile recently had their 20th anniversary and took the opportunity to appreciate the stewardship of the upper moorlands provided by grouse gamekeepers. The money provided by game shooting during the season generates enough income to pay for heather burning and management of the birds. Most of the endangered peat and heather hilltops would be covered [...]

The list of athletes competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is below. A total of 313 athletes will be competing in 20 sports. 236 British officials will also be taking part in the Olympics, which run from the 8th of August until 24th August 2008:
Aquatics:
Aquatics – Diving:
Synchronised:
Men’s Springboard (3m): Ben Swain and Nick Robinson-Baker
Men’s Platform [...]

The Newcastle University Alumni Service generously hosted a free wine and nibbles night at the Baltic in Newcastle last week. The “Gold Network” teamed up with One North East to deliver the “Live Local: Think Global” theme on Thursday 17th July 2008.
Joanna Berry Academic Director of Executive MBA Programmes, Newcastle University Business School, kicked off [...]

I recently attended a rather useless networking event in the North East which shall remain unidentified. I have previously resisted all attempts to lure me to any “networking” events. I always imagine them to be a bad version of The Office with minor players handing out business cards left right and centre. A relative who [...]

Preparations for the coronation of George Tupou V have been marred by demonstrations and talk of revolution. Following the declaration of a republic in Nepal and the request by the British Queen for more money from her subjects, Tonga’s wrestle with democracy is part of a growing question over the rationale for feudalism. The Tongan [...]

Bastille Day commemorates the day, in 1789, when civil unrest led to the storming of Bastille prison and the beginning of the French Revolution. The downfall of the monarchy ensued and “liberte, egalite, fraternite” became the slogan of the new French Republic.
The Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées are today decorated with French and European [...]