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TV licence may be cut – minister
Jul 17th
17 July 2010 Last updated at 10:11 ET
The television licence fee could be cut under the government’s public spending austerity drive, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Hunt attacked the BBC’s “extraordinary and outrageous” waste.
He said he could “absolutely” see viewers paying less than More >
Appeal in Salinger copyright case
May 2nd
An appeal against the banning of a book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has been given the go-ahead.
In July, a judge in Manhattan’s federal court blocked the US publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through The Rye by Swedish novelist Fredrik Colting.
On Friday, More >
Appeal in Salinger copyright case
May 2nd
An appeal against the banning of a book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has been given the go-ahead.
In July, a judge in Manhattan’s federal court blocked the US publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through The Rye by Swedish novelist Fredrik Colting.
On Friday, More >
Bid to ban ‘racist’ Tintin book
Apr 28th
A Congolese man is trying to get a controversial Tintin book banned in the cartoon star’s home country of Belgium.
The ginger sleuth’s “little (black) helper” in Tintin in the Congo is seen as “stupid and without qualities”, Bienvenu Mbutu is quoted as saying.
“It makes people think that blacks have More >
Author Alan Sillitoe dies aged 82
Apr 25th
The author Alan Sillitoe has died aged 82 at Charing Cross Hospital in London, his family has said.
The Nottingham-born novelist emerged in the 1950s as one of the “Angry Young Men” of British fiction.
His son David said he hoped his father would be remembered for his contribution to literature. More >
Poet Porter dies at the age of 81
Apr 23rd
Peter Porter, a winner of both the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and the Forward Prize has died at the age of 81 after being treated for cancer.
The Australian-born poet, who moved to England in 1951, worked as a bookseller while he developed his literary career.
His first collection, Once More >
Maths book makes prize longlist
Apr 21st
Books on maths, cookery and music have been nominated for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Alex’s Adventures In Numberland, Alex Bellos’s attempt to demystify maths, is one of 19 titles on the longlist.
It is joined by The Music Instinct, a study of the brain’s response to Lady Gaga More >
Principles Of Business Credit
Nov 11th
Every individual person engaged in his own business knows the importance of building his business credit. It is very important for you to follow certain strategies and factors that you can do to improve or build your business credits if you want to have a good credit standing. Recently, i More >
Medical Magazines And Publications
Nov 6th
I am working in a medical centre, for quite some years and it is very important to me to get up to date information and details regarding my profession.So, i often try to read some medical magazines and publications to update my knowledge about the latest information on diagnosis, treatment options, More >
A Easy Way To Search e-Books
Oct 23rd
I am doing my Master’s Degree, I would always sort out to searching for e-books for my resources. These e-books is very helpful for me to complete my assignments, report work and even projects. But, searching for the e-books that I really needed is not that easy. I would always More >
Caller Wiki
Sep 22nd
If you are not at home, sometimes you have somebody that call to your phone in the house. It can happen that the caller number is unknown on your telephone. And when you come back home, you have no idea who called you before, when you’re not home. So, how More >
Calculus Help
Sep 12th
Education helps you all the time even when you are facing a critical situation. With the help of your educational knowledge and skill you can tactically get out of that situation. You may be studying mathematics from the school days. Many sub divisions are available in mathematics and the most More >
Google making it possible to print public domain books
Aug 31st
Google has been very much about saving out of print books by moving them into a digital format over the last seven years. This has been a part of their Google Book Search project, which involved pulling books out of libraries and scanning them in, and thus preserving them forever. More >
