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After seventeen years of legal battles, famous Greek shipowner Panagiotis Laimos is facing a sentence of 15 years in prison for the “Albion 2” shipwreck. Seventeen years ago, the tragic event led to the death of 25 people. Now, the 84-year-old shipowner has been found unanimously guilty by the Piraeus Three-Member Felony Court of Appeals for disruption of water transport safety.
£2 coin could be banned by more supermarkets due to fakesCo-Operative considers following Morrisons in banning £2 coin from self-checkout tills after people use foreign coins of similar size and shape
Global super-rich on the march as personal fortunes swellNumber of high net-worth individuals rose by 1.76 million to 13.7 million around the world, with 62,000 more in Britain aloneIn Britain, more than 62,000 people became HNWIs last year, bringing their numbers to a record high of 527,000 – or one in every 121 of the population.George King, RBC's head of portfolio strategy, who advises the super-wealthy on where to invest their money, said there are now so many super-rich people that it is hard to distinguish "millionaires next door" from the general population. "Most of them are quite normal," he said, adding that "90% plus are people next door, they're not oligarchs, they don't look any different. They're not ostentatious."Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, said the report highlighted concerns that a "super-rich clique appear to be hogging the proceeds of growth for themselves" while real wages for ordinary workers are falling or are under pressure.Ireland and the United Arab Emirates shared the distinction of creating new wealth at the fastest rate, with the number of HNWIs increasing by almost a quarter in both countries.
Poverty hits twice as many British households as 30 years agoThe UK economy has doubled in size since the early 1980s – yet the number of those suffering below-minimum living standards has grown by more than twice, a study claims
Albanian police burn crops and continue assault on Europe's marijuana capitalLazarat is believed to produce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year, worth some 4.5 billion eurosIn their most ambitious effort so far, 500 police officers were deployed this week to impose law and order in Lazarat as part of a nationwide anti-drug operation— only to be met by rocket-propelled grenades, mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire once they reached the outskirts of the village.
Fully electronic trademark registration system to be deployedThe trademark registration system will be fully digitised in one or two months, cutting down on red tape and reducing businesses' costs, Deputy Development and Competitiveness Minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos said at the Conference on Trade Marks and Measures Against Counterfeiting, held at Zappeio Mansion, as part of the Greek EU presidency.Greece must obtain a single modern self-managed trademark office not only to the benefit of Greek brands, but also for the world community, the president of the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) Antonio Campinos noted.
London City Airport was evacuated after a passenger who was running late for a flight to Germany triggered a fire alarm.The passenger, who was due to travel on a British Airways flight to Frankfurt, is said to have smashed the alarm in an attempt to gain access to the plane from another gate after being blocked from boarding it.
Quote from: Maik on Saturday, 24 May, 2014 @ 16:26:00How to Update Windows XP After End of SupportFor info only: at own riskSuper find Maik !!I've been experimenting with this new info and it does exactly what it says on the tin. PerfectIf anyone else is put off by the negative comments re. "lack of Office support", then that's easily resolved by creating a second .reg file to turn OFF the change by setting DWord to 0
How to Update Windows XP After End of SupportFor info only: at own risk
... But it's all a bit complicated for the rest of us who don't feel so confident messing with the registry
XP Update Extender allows you to receive updates for Windows XP until 2019. Therefore all it does is to set a registry key pretending to be a version of XP Embedded called “POSReady“. It does not modify any system files.Pretending to be running this particular version of Windows, you will receive updates made for exactly this version of Windows XP.Those updates may not have been properly tested for your version of Windows XP and might harm your system. Use at your own risk!Microsoft can prevent this “hack” any time.
Terry, 33, included amongst them a shot in which he stands shirtless beside wife Toni, cheerfully displaying his toned abs while the couple cruise the Aegean. Behind them, the breath-taking Kefalonian coastline
Guess it's true, then: Kef has transferred from the Ionian to the Aegean!
[I said low cost airlines might mean lowlives coming to Kef!/quote]Yep hear Dappy's on his way once he's paid his latest GBH fine
QuoteAlbanian police burn crops and continue assault on Europe's marijuana capitalLazarat is believed to produce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year, worth some 4.5 billion eurosIn their most ambitious effort so far, 500 police officers were deployed this week to impose law and order in Lazarat as part of a nationwide anti-drug operation— only to be met by rocket-propelled grenades, mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire once they reached the outskirts of the village.Nice to see the Albanian Government cracking down on the canabis industry. It will make a big difference to the drug smuggling over the nearby Greek border. Lazarat is very close to where we stayed overnight in May. Now I know why there were so many new Mercs and BMs!http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/albanian-police-burn-crops-and-continue-assault-on-europes-marijuana-capital-9545719.html
Quote from: Maik on Thursday, 19 June, 2014 @ 07:46:37QuoteAlbanian police burn crops and continue assault on Europe's marijuana capitalLazarat is believed to produce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year, worth some 4.5 billion eurosIn their most ambitious effort so far, 500 police officers were deployed this week to impose law and order in Lazarat as part of a nationwide anti-drug operation— only to be met by rocket-propelled grenades, mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire once they reached the outskirts of the village.Nice to see the Albanian Government cracking down on the canabis industry. It will make a big difference to the drug smuggling over the nearby Greek border. Lazarat is very close to where we stayed overnight in May. Now I know why there were so many new Mercs and BMs!http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/albanian-police-burn-crops-and-continue-assault-on-europes-marijuana-capital-9545719.html