Struggling budget chain Poundland has been sold for £1 and now faces a shake-up of the business. Its owner Polish firm Pepco confirmed it had sold the brand for a “nominal” sum to US investment firm Gordon Brothers. Poundland has 825 UK stores and around 16,000 staff and was struggling to compete with other discount...
Alex Green BBC News, South West David Braine BBC South West senior broadcast meteorologist Heather Hamilton/@cornwallunderwater The mauve stinger likes to feed on other small jellyfish and oceanic sea squirts, according to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Beneath the surface of the ocean is a world filled with a vast array of fauna and flora but...
Earlier this month a group of Jewish students chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University to make demands related to Mahmoud Khalil’s case. After a few hours, campus security cut the chains and removed the protesters. This was presented as a sign of the school’s new, tougher approach to civil disobedience. Today, another group...
Community members from all ages in the small town of Chelsea, Michigan, a small town of 5,000 people, rallied to help a bookshop move to a new location by forming a human chain. A total of 9,100 books were moved one-by-one to the new retail space, about a block away. Read full article at source...