2015年6月14日 星期日

2015-06-15 U.K. Spotlight


Arrested Mount Kinabalu 'nudist' admits 'stupidity'   
BBC News
A British woman arrested for posing naked on Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu has admitted she was "stupid and disrespectful", her father says. Eleanor Hawkins, 23, from Derbyshire, is among a group of 10 people who stripped before taking photographs at the ...


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Thirteen vehicle pile-up in London Road, Southborough   
Kent Online
The huge pile-up happened in London Road, Southborough, close to the junction with Holden Park Road at 3.30pm yesterday. One man was arrested. More than six police cars, two ambulances, a fire service vehicle and the air ambulance descended on the ...


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Financial Times
   
Anxious Greeks pull money from banks amid fears of capital controls   
Financial Times
Two weeks after Greece's leftwing Syriza party won power at a general election in January, Panayotis Fotiades pulled his deposits from an Athens bank. “I felt certain there'd be a confrontation before long with the troika [of bailout monitors],” said the ...


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Telegraph.co.uk
   
How to create your own 'mini meadow' in a small space   
Telegraph.co.uk
Any meadow area is best made using a wildflower seed mix. There are many different mixes now available. Make sure that you choose one for your particular soil type. Low fertility is good. Poor soils, well-drained soils, even dry ones, are much better than ...


   


BBC News
   
The 'dragons' who want to help disabled people start their own business   
BBC News
At a breakfast meeting in the City of London, a group of venture capitalists are making a presentation about a fund with a difference. It's called Kaleidoscope and it's aimed at giving financial backing to disabled entrepreneurs. Kaleidoscope's founder, Hardeep ...


   


Financial Times
   
Two dismal economic plans for Greece   
Financial Times
There are now two proposals on the table — one from the creditors and one from Greece. What they have in common is that neither of them will fix the Greek economy. They do not even pretend. Both deserve to be rejected flat-out. Whenever European ...


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The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 9, The Dance of Dragons   
The Verge
By the time we finally made our way to Meereen this week in the Game of Game of Thrones, I felt like Wun-Wun after a long walk in the snow: kind of over this. The gladiatorial drums of the fighting pits hammered away, as if to say "another day, another child ...


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The Himalayan tea train that's running out of steam   
BBC News
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway once took precious tea from the foothills of the mountains to the teapots of the world. But it's become a victim of the colossal inefficiency of the state-run system and is facing a slow extinction through neglect, says David ...


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The Inquisitr
   
Woman On Mountain Strips Naked, Eleanor Hawkins' Nudist Photo Caused ...   
The Inquisitr
After a woman on a mountain stripped naked as part of a nudist stunt on top of Mount Kinabalu, some politicians are blaming Eleanor Hawkins for causing Malaysia's earthquake by showing “disrespect to the sacred mountain.” The angry spirits supposedly ...


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ESPNcricinfo.com
   
I knew World Cup axe was coming - Dwayne Bravo   
ESPNcricinfo.com
West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo has revealed that his exclusion from the squad for the World Cup did not come as a surprise, and he and Kieron Pollard were expecting the axe - which he called a "big joke" - from the West Indies Cricket Board selection ...


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