A Job Centre is advertising a "witch" vacancy with tourist site Wookey Hole, in Somerset, for £50,000 a year. The witch, who has to live in the site's caves, is expected to teach witchcraft and magic. Wookey Hole staff say the role is straightforward: live in the cave, be a witch and do the things witches do. The advert for the post, placed in the local press as well as job centres, says applicants must be able to cackle and cannot be allergic to cats. The job has come up after the previous witch retired from the role. "We are witchless as the moment so need to get the role filled as soon as possible," said Daniel Medley from the tourist destination. More ... Source : BBC | |
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The witch job that earns £50,000
Young slumdog moves into new home
Young slumdog moves into new home
Azharuddin's mother says she is happy they have "a roof over our heads"
One of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has moved from his Mumbai (Bombay) shanty dwelling into a new home in the city.
Azharuddin Ismail, who played the youngest version of the main character's brother Salim, will now live in an upmarket suburb nearby.
He said his new home was "really nice" but he would miss his old friends.
A trust set up by the film's producers bought the property after Azharuddin's
family was made to leave the slums.
The Jai Ho Trust, named after the film's sound track, says it is still looking for a new home to buy for co-star Rubina Ali.
'Roof over our heads'
Azharuddin, nine, and his family moved into the property in the Santa Cruz area of Mumbai after being given the keys on Friday.
 Danny Boyle set up a trust which is supposed to look after the child stars |
"I like it here, it is really nice," Azharuddin told Reuters news agency. "But I will miss my old friends back in Bandra. Maybe I will go and visit them once in a while."
His mother said: "We have lived on the road for so many years. I had never dreamed that we would have a roof over our heads."
Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars in February and has made more than $200m (£140m) in box office takings around the world.
Film director Danny Boyle has strongly denied charges of exploitation.
The Jai Ho Trust bought the property on Azharuddin's behalf and it will become his when he turns 18 and finishes his education.
There was uproar in May when the family's corrugated iron hut in the Gareeb Nagar area of Bandra was torn down for being illegal. Rubina Ali's suffered a similar fate but she has yet to be rehoused.
Source : BBC
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Hummer to be sold to Chinese firm
 GM bought the Hummer brand in 1999 |
General Motors is to sell its Hummer brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery for an undisclosed amount.
It is part of GM's plan to reinvent itself by concentrating on fewer brands following Monday's bankruptcy filing.
GM says it hopes the deal will save about 3,000 jobs in the US. Hummer will remain based in the US.
Tengzhong specialises in making equipment for the road, construction and energy industries.
It is based in China's Sichuan province.
Hummers were originally built as military off-road vehicles by a company called AM General.
GM bought the Hummer brand in 1999. Its sales have suffered as the gas-guzzling performance and military image have become less popular.
When it began the sale process a year ago, GM had hoped to make more than $500m (£302m), but analysts say that it is likely to have made about $100m from the sale.
Source : BBC
GM bankruptcy plan gains approval
 GM is to be relaunched in July |
A US judge has approved a bankruptcy plan for car giant GM, which allows the firm to transfer its profitable assets to a new government-backed firm.
Judge Robert Gerbert gave the plan the go-ahead late on Sunday, saying the sale would prevent "the death of the patient on the operating table".
GM filed for bankruptcy protection on 1 June, saying it would be forced to liquidate if the plan was not approved.
The new streamlined General Motors will be 60% owned by the US government.
The bankruptcy plan had been opposed by several groups - including some of GM's bondholders, unions and consumer groups - who had argued that their needs were being ignored in favour of the interests of the carmaker and the government.
But Judge Gerbert argued that the 850 objections were not valid.
In a 96-page opinion, he said: "If GM liquidates, there will not only be nothing for stockholders - there will be nothing for unsecured creditors."
This would be a "disastrous result", he added.
Source : BBC
The Office Star Jenna Fischer Is Engaged!
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The actress, 35, got engaged to writer Lee Kirk, 37, on June 30 while both were vacationing in Europe.
Although they've been dating since January of last year, they stepped out publicly for the first time at the Emmy Awards in September 2008, when Fischer described Kirk to PEOPLE as "my super-cute boyfriend."
This is the first marriage for Kirk. Fischer was previously married to director James Gunn [they divorced in July 2007].
Source : http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289690,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
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