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The Milkman has been an essential part of British life for generations and now following the trend of many major UK services they are now online.
One of the faces of Milk delivery is Gary and he is a real milkman, too.  Gary has seen a few changes over his eight years as a milkman on [...]

Dopplr, the online service for smarter travel, today shared the results of its recent research into the travel patterns and preferences of the world’s best-connected frequent travellers. Two insights stand out in the research:
- First, how early in the decision process digital influencers share their travel plans. When people share a trip through Dopplr, 2/3 [...]

The force of the knock across the financial sector over the past 12 months has exposed the weaknesses in the global financial tectonic plates.  From New York to London to Hong Kong to Tokyo, the newly formed global network cracked under the strains of the economic quake as the ground shook.  Some of the institutional [...]

Another man’s pain is another man’s gain and more so now than ever.  The beleaguered hedge fund industry is rife with talk of consolidation as the downturn provides an opportunity for larger firms to acquire smaller firms at a bargain rate.  This is driven by dramatically shrinking assets making the smaller firms not the lucrative [...]

Lenders to Four Seasons Healthcare, the heavily indebted care homes group, are considering a last-ditch plan for a restructuring that would about halve its £1.5billion debt. If there is no agreement, the company will be sold.
Four Seasons has been at a centre of a battle between creditors for more than a year over the terms [...]

Britain’s least enduring medieval meme, Morris-dancing, sits on the brink of extinction, warns Charlie Corcoran, bagman of the Morris Ring.
Britain’s least enduring medieval meme, Morris-dancing, sits on the brink of extinction, warns Charlie Corcoran, bagman of the Morris Ring. He’s not being alarmist enough though. The Morris tradition isn’t so much sitting on the brink [...]

I went back to Maranhao, one of many cities that had been devastated by floods last month, to survey the progress after the damage.
The waters that were once nearly up to roofs have almost totally receded, leaving a huge amount of toxic mud that has dried in the harsh tropical sun and is now blowing [...]

The ‘Gold Coast’ name comes from the times when people used to steal gold from Spanish Galleons wrecked along the coast, which apparently carried large amounts of gold and silver coins.  This stunning shoreline of about 60 miles on the Atlantic features a string of sandy beaches running from Jupiter in Palm Beach County to [...]

Hedge funds have been around since the fifties but only grew in popularity in the 1960s. With big names like George Soros and Michael Steinhardt, fund management gained a high profile within the investment community and beyond. During this time, what didn’t gain quite the exposure was what a hedge fund actually did.
Hedge funds are [...]

Hedge funds are very similar to mutual funds except for fewer regulations and therefore can invest in a broad range of investments including shares, debt, commodities and so forth. Hedge funds have the freedom to seek to offset potential losses in the principal markets invested in by hedging their investments using a variety of methods, [...]