It would seem that not only are the roads becoming hard to navigate in the wintry weather much of the UK is having. Travel and weather related websites across Britain having been struggling to cope with the high demand that they are currently experiencing due to the snow and icy conditions. Hundreds of thousands of [...]

The buy-out firm, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, has apparently fallen short on its yearly targets. The company that is the owner of car hire giant Hertz closed the year with an accumulative $5 billion, but was short of the $7.5 billion target they had set themselves. CD&R finished the year off spending however, with the [...]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office has said this week that they had information on the man who attempted to blow up a Detroit bound plane. They say they passed on data on the Nigerian national, but did not register him as a high risk suspect. The Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was included on a list [...]

Virgin Trains has had their best year to date in 2009 after the introduction of Virgin High Frequency (VHF). The service was launched on the 14th December 2008 and in their first full year they have handled 25.4 million customers to date, their best annual figures. This was largely due to the 30 per cent [...]

Monarch Airlines, one of the UK’s largest carriers, has hit out at an online betting website after it was offering odds on them becoming the next flight company to go bust. Paddy Power had odds on Monarch of 50-1 before Christmas, but dropped those odds to 4-1 after a spate of bets were laid over [...]

In the aftermath of the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines plane in the US the British Government have said they are willing to spend the earth on full body scanners to help better protect the sky. The machines will do an x-ray of the entire body and is able detect if items have been [...]

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), who own the car rental group Hertz, are just about to become the proud owners of British Car Auctions (BCA) in a multi-million pound deal. The owners of the rental chain are purchasing the group from another buyout company, Montagu Private Equity, for what is thought to be around £390 [...]

A British man who went missing on Christmas Day in the French Alps is thought to have been killed by an avalanche. A body, believed to be that of the 42-year-old Nigel Jackson, was found on Boxing Day between to two marked out pistes. Police believe that the man was caught out by a small [...]

A student that was based in the UK is to be charged with attempting to blow up a jet as it came in to land at Detroit Airport on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, who was aboard the Delta Airways flight from Amsterdam, tried to fuse to substances together as the plane was flying [...]

The stunning Marina Beach in Chennai that was severely affected in the 2004 tsunami has been officially reopened to the public this month after a massive clear up and rebuilding operation. The tsunami struck the coast line around 08:30 on Boxing Day morning destroying the local fishing community and causing havoc for tourists that flock [...]