Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
Fabric nightclub, in Farringdon, London, is now shut.Image: UIG via Getty Images/twitter/mashable composite LONDON After hours of discussion, police got what they asked for: the closure of one of the world’s most well-known nightclubs. The local council said Fabric had failed to control the use of drugs on its premises. The decision to revoke Fabric’s […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
Airbnb is threatening legal action against New York over a new bill.Image: robert nickelsberg/Getty Images Airbnb isn’t going down in New York without a fight. The home-sharing company on Tuesday sent a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the speaker of the New York State Assembly and the New York Senate president threatening legal […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
This pink crocheted house aims to give hope to people who’ve lost their homes due to conflict and persecution.Image: OLEK LONDON There’s no place like home. But each day 34,000 people are forced to leave the place they call home due to conflict or persecution. SEE ALSO: Powerful photo series honours refugee fathers around the […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
Image copyright PA Activity in the UK housing market has “settled down” after a Brexit surprise, surveyors say, with sales and prices expected to rise in the coming months. Property sales in the aftermath of the referendum dropped sharply, but had now stabilised, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said. Its members predict that […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
Two men have been arrested in London on suspicion of terror offences. The men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested at a property in west London as part of a planned operation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. The teenager was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. The second man’s arrest was on […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
In Louisiana, real estate and adoption attorneys and even prosecutors are filling the gaps left by an unreliable public defense funding program Last fall, insurance attorney Ryan Goodwin found himself in a visiting area of the Caddo correctional center in Shreveport, Louisiana, bracing for an awkward conversation. He had to make an admission to […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling for the labelling of products encumbered with digital rights management. Its increasingly important as we trust technology with our lives Digital products are weird: they are inert without software to animate them, and software is so technologically and legally weird that it can be very hard to know exactly […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 9, 2016
It was the gaudy Disneyland of its day which beguiled Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and now hosts some of Gehrys boldest creations. Stephen McLaren goes treasure hunting for the architects new home and finds a beachfront town that has undergone more reinventions than a Hollywood C-lister Cycling through Venice for the first time in […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 8, 2016
An eight-month-old baby from Rochdale has died after being taken to hospital suffering from multiple injuries. Emergency services were called to a property in the Spotland area at about 09:30 BST on Tuesday after reports of concern for his welfare. A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and of causing or allowing […]
Posted by John P. Bradford // September 8, 2016
Image copyright PA Image caption Conditions at the firm’s Shirebrook warehouse have been compared with those of a “Victorian workhouse” In Tuesday’s report, Sports Direct pledged to abolish zero-hours contracts for its directly employed, casual retail staff, and make sure all staff were paid above the national minimum wage. Later, the firm said it would […]