Euro Weekly News | Nora Johnson
ACCORDING to latest figures, the average pay in 2010 for FTSE 100 company directors – most of whom live in London - was £2.7m (43 per cent increase on the previous year).
MUCH has been made in the press recently about the alleged ‘cowardice’ of the Costa Concordia’s Captain Francesco Schettino.
SPAIN'S new government will implement in March the so-called Sinde law abandoned by the previous socialist government of PM, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
NEWS that dark, alternative TV comedy shows like Psychoville and The Office are being replaced by old-fashioned slapstick sitcoms in front of live studio audiences is hardly surprising given the current financial crisis when people crave comfort viewing.
I LOVE lists. Especially lists in alphabetical order. In fact, I love them so much I will share with you my latest for 2012.
Whatever the UK’s ultimate position in Europe, the EU’s political correctness/ ‘elf'n'safety’ brigade isn’t far away.
FOR the first time since its rapid growth in the early 1990s, Ryanair’s passenger numbers have FALLEN - by 8 per cent – after grounding up to 80 aircraft due to high fuel costs and the struggling economy.
Nora Johnson - SOMETIMES, a movie creates a world we wish we could simply step into – far from the imploding global financial crisis engulfing us. The graphic violence of Michael Winner’s Death Wish sequels; the horrors of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie franchise, anyone? No, we could think of…
WELL, what a year it’s been! It doesn’t take more than a moment or two to list all the financial, natural and manmade disasters we’ve experienced so far in 2011.
MICHAEL O’LEARY, Ryanair’s CEO, plans to launch an app for Ryanair passengers to watch in-flight pornography on their iPads and, it’s claimed too, he intends to have outside smoking areas on the wings once he's convinced Health and Safety colleagues it's perfectly safe.
I LOVE browsing through dictionaries, especially newly-published ones – I suppose it’s something of an occupational hazard! Anyway, I was flicking through one recently and came across a number of new expressions – or, in any event, new to me. Not surprisingly, a large number arise from the world of…
WELL, what a momentous few weeks! Hot on the heels of the Fox/Werritty saga, there’s been an ETA cease-fire announcement.The death of Gaddafi.The first free elections in an Arab Spring nation, Tunisia. The Occupy London movement (though only in daylight hours, please!).
REGULAR readers of this column may recall I wrote earlier about pet hates which got me thinking about some others and… Well, with my Starred Double First in Sourpuss Studies from Meldrew University, let’s just stick with a few of these today.
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