Derry~Londonderry in the news this week with the announcement of the winner of the Turner Prize 2013. All four short-listed artists are being displayed in the city, the first time the award has left England. Appropriately for a city in peaceful transition, the works will…
A man who is developing the energy-generating power of the footstep is part of Prime Minister David Cameron’s trade trip to China (December 2013). Laurence Kemball-Cook, CEO of Pavegen, has the opportunity to present his product, essentially a rubber tile that generates 7 watts every…
Americans have stepped beyond their traditional list of preferred cities and towns in the UK, and have given Chester their vote ahead of them all as one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. The only places ahead of Chester in the poll by USA Today were…
Kingston-upon-Hull, or Hull as everybody knows it, has been chosen ahead of Dundee, Leicester and Swansea Bay to become UK City of Culture for 2017. It will be only the second city of culture, after Derry-Londonderry which has the accolade for 2013, and has been…
How often to customers in pubs and restaurants, when ordering fish, make their choice according to the sustainability of that particular species? How many decide not to ask for fish at all because the menu doesn’t tell them where it came from, and the serving…
It was always so easy to hurry on past Exeter, on the way to the seaside resorts of Devon and Cornwall. But there are good reasons to resist the siren call of the beach, at least for a while. My list of the things to…