June 2016

This week we trawl back through history to 1768 when Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first automobile – a steam-powered tricycle with a top speed of 3.6 km/h and able to carry four people. He went onto construct two steam tractors for the Frenc…

Remembering back to the eighties always brings a flood of contrasting imagery. From a B-Grade actor playing his biggest role as POTUS through to an Australian Prime Minister making world headlines for wearing a terrible jacket whilst celebrating an A…

I took my wife for a romantic trip to Paris at the beginning of last year to celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary and as we walked the streets of the City of Love, my wife would look for quaint cafes to eat at and interesting shopping location…

The mention of the acronym SARS strikes fear into anyone old enough to remember back to November 2002 when there was a worldwide outbreak of the disease. There were 8,096 cases reported and 774 deaths across 37 countries as a direct result of Severe …