Articles by: Kristina Howells

Global Protection employees refuse to control freight trains to England

Employees of the company Global Protection, who are in charge of monitoring an area of​rail freight at Eurotunnel, didn’t control freight trains bound for the UK earlier this month. The reason for their strike was due to the fact that they are at the end of their contract between their company and the company Réseau Ferré de France. On May[Read More…]

Barclays bank blunder will cost millions to sort out

Barclays bank blunder will cost millions to sort out

It has recently been reported that Barclays bank has leaked account details of up to 27,000 files. It is seen as the worst breach of bank data ever witnessed in banking history. There has been a cache of personal and financial details stolen and then sold onto rogue traders. When they had received the information, unscrupulous dealers used this information[Read More…]

The Rwandan Intelligence chief finally sent to court

The Rwandan Intelligence chief finally sent to court

It was recently reported that a court in France has begun the hearing of a former Rwandan intelligence chief charged with complicity in the 1994 genocide. Pascal Simbikangwa, is a paraplegic after a car crash in 1986 and has used a wheelchair ever since. He joined the secret service and in 2008 and was arrested in Mayotte – a French[Read More…]

Francois Hollande

French President “causes mass depression amongst his people”

The emergency address made by President Francois Hollande on French television last night could certainly be a good political move to calm down his political rivals. The reason for this last minute emergency address was due to the revelations of his affair with Julie Gayet. He wanted to avoid any more embarrassing revelations getting out. He claimed that he and his[Read More…]

First it was tobacco and now it is sugar

First it was tobacco and now it is sugar

Sugar now makes up the world’s largest killer. With a rise in obesity and diabetes, food chiefs have now intervened to ask big food co-operations to cut the amount of sugar they put in its industrialised food. Researchers have found that zero-fat yoghurts can contain five teaspoons of sugar, whilst Heinz tomato soup has four, and a Mars bar has[Read More…]