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Sensors & Instrumentation Live NEC Birmingham(B40 1NT) 25/09/2019 - 26/09/2019 Sensors & Instrumentation Live will celebrate its 10 year anniversary in 2019 and the UK’s (more) NEC, Birmingham(B40 1NT) 01/10/2019 - 03/10/2019 The UK’s largest ever event in the processing and packaging sector calendar. With over 350 exhibitors (more) |
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The government’s announcement that all sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans would be banned from 2040 wasn’t entirely unexpected, but buried within the detail was the implication that hybrid vehicles would also be off the menu. That leaves us with only electric vehicles to get us (more...)
Published: - 27th July 2017
At a typical high street fast food restaurant chain, you’ll pay in the order of £4.50 for a decent sized cheeseburger with fries and a soft drink. My local slightly more upmarket high street eatery wanted to charge me £12.50 for much the same meal. Granted you pay a premium for an (more...)
Published: - 26th June 2017
I’ve learned over the years from watching numerous cookery programmes on TV that seasoning essentially means adding salt. And a pinch of salt is more or less a handful. Of course, we are continually told that salt is very bad for us; in particular, it is one of the principal causes of high (more...)
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Published: - 17th May 2017
Stood in a long queue at the ‘orders to collect’ counter in M&S to pick up a chocolately gift to take to the inlaws for the weekend, my daughter asked me if this was something we really ought to be buying. When I asked why, she replied, in a much louder voice than was really (more...)
Industrial Technology - NEWS
Published: - 21st April 2017
The first internet-enabled kettle must have seemed a marvellous thing. From an app on your phone, you could turn on your kettle from any room in the house, and the water would be freshly boiled by the time you reached the kitchen. Switch it on from your car when you were five minutes out, and you (more...)
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Published: - 27th March 2017
Some people think football is a matter of life and death, said legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, adding: “I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” And we can see today just how important it is, by focusing on the impact of football, and of Arsenal manager Arsene (more...)
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Published: - 20th February 2017
As preparation for a visit to the cinema to watch the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One, I thought it prudent to watch the previous seven films, just as a refresher. Not binge watching, mind. I spread it over a few days, which gave me plenty of time to discuss plot lines, character development, Easter (more...)
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Published: - 23rd January 2017
There are some things in life that you never see coming: Ed Balls hanging on in Strictly; the Conservatives winning the last election; Brexit; and Donald Trump winning in the US. Every American I spoke to, while agreeing that these were probably the worst two candidates they’d ever had to (more...)
Published: - 23rd November 2016
To say that my uncle’s shed sits at a bit of an angle would be, quite possibly, the understatement of the year so far. The way it leans over its sub base and in towards the garden is the very definition of precarious. It could fall at any second. The door no longer closes because of the way (more...)
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Published: - 24th October 2016
When I was growing up and first starting to get into listening to music, I was encouraged by my parents not to inflict my evolving musical tastes on them. Headphones, then, were the order of the day. And back then, headphones were big. Never would I venture outside wearing a set, and neither did (more...)
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Published: - 16th September 2016
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