Two men, twenty-one year old Cart Keatley and Jordan Caroll have been jailed for the murder of Michael Eccles, who was walking home from a shop in Staffordshire. Jordan’s father, Edward Caroll was also jailed for three years after trying to cover for his son’s murder by washing the blood stained clothes, as well as blood off the head.

The poor man was simply walking home after purchasing a bottle of wine and a bottle of milk when the savage pair intimidated and later murdered Mr Eccles by repeatedly kicking and thumping him to death. The cowardly pair have been sentenced to a minimum of over ten years in jail.

Twenty-one year old, Sheffield United striker Jordan Robertson pleaded guilty in Leicester Crown Court for death by dangerous driving. Robertson crashed into the car on Christmas day on the M1, Leicester. The casualties include Mr Mohamed and his kids. Mr Mohamed later died on Boxing day.

Both drivers had been driving down the M1 junction near Lutterworth when Robertson’s sports car hit Mr Mohamed’s Ford Galaxy. Robertson told police he had been retuning a song on his mp3, which distracted him from the events on the road. Robertson was on loan to Southampton at the time of the crash.

One of the popular London newspapers, the London Evening Standard is now going to be free to citizens. Around 600,000 of the newspapers costing 50p each are going to be given out free in London from 12th September.

The current circulation is around 250,000. This move comes about after Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev taking control of the standard from daily Mail-owner associated newspapers in January. A rival, the London Lite paper was already free, though that paper ceased publication. The general idea was that the Lite paper which had a circulation of around 400,000 would merge with another newspaper, leaving just one paper left in London.

The long-awaited Wispa franchise recently hit shelves in the United Kingdom after a long-fought Facebook group attempting to bring back the popular chocolate franchise. Now Cadbury have once again brought about their Wispa Gold bar, which contains caramel compared to its predecessor, the original Wispa bar which just contained chocolate.

The Wispa Gold bar was originally released in 1995 but has is now being sold in many retailers for the average price of 55p. Other flavours in the Wispa franchise that may join in include Wispa Mint, Wispa Egg and the coffee Wispaccino.

Mars Inc, the owners of the Mars bar franchise have once again unleashed the ever-so popular dark flavoured Mars bar in the United Kingdom.

Having already been released and already been a favoured chocolate bar, the flavour has a second chance of success on the high streets. Not as popular as its predecessor bar, the original Mars bar, it still managed a fair success. Many people favour milk or white chocolate to dark chocolate due to its strong flavour, although it is good for the heart. An average Mars bar contains 259 calories per bar, which is 13% of an adult’s daily intake.

Many people have bought new digital TVs over the last few years and have now switched over to digital. Some people who may have a nearly new TV might have bought a digital set top box so the can watch digital TV on their analogue Television.

Whatever situation you are in it is worth taking note that from lunchtime tomorrow you will need to re-tune your digital television service to pick up new channels and to receive channels whose frequency is changing.
The digital service needs to move channels around to make room for freeview HD channels. This could mean problems for people who do not know how to retune their boxes and some viewers boxes may no longer work completely. We will wait for Friday afternoon to find out.

The youth of today could be forgiven at not knowing who Chas and Dave are. The enigmatic pair recorded a number of catchy (or some say annoying) songs during the 1970’s and 80’s and have influenced many budding artists over the years. Songs such as Snooker Loopy, Rabbit and the Sideboard Song elevated them to stardom. But, sad news reaches us that the pair have decided to call it a day after 35 years together. They had eight top 40 singles over the years but pianist Chas Hodges will now go it alone under the name ‘Chas and his Band’. Dave Peacock will retire from the music business after the death of his wife Sue from Cancer. One of their last major performances was at the Glastonbury festival in 2005.

A meeting of wildlife experts and officials form around the world has discussed the reintroduction of the cheetah to India. The big cat s[species has been extinct in the country since the 1960’s. Reintroduction of large animals is always difficult, but with cheetah numbers falling in Africa and especially Iran the reintroduction could be just the lifeline the big cat needs.

The initial phase will see the animals introduced to semi-captive conditions, but further work must be done to also restore valuable habitat and increase the cheetahs natural prey requirements. Cheetah numbers in India were around 10,000 during the reign of the Mughal emperor Jahangir but had fallen to just over only 200 in the early part of the last century, with no cats reported in the wild after around 1968.

Adidas and Puma have finally decided on a date to end the shoe wear war that has been ongoing for the last 60 years. On Monday the 21st of September, employees from both companies will play a charity football match in aid of the Peace One Day organisation.

The companies have been in competition since brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler fell out during the Second World War. They both stated new companies at the time on different sides of the river in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach. Communities became divided due to the fierce competition between both factories with many families being divided because of their allegiance to one factory.

The Renault Formula 1 team have decided not to contest the charges brought against them concerning the alleged race fixing furore surrounding Nelson Piquet Jr’s crash at the Singapore Grand Prix last year.

Piquet Jr was sacked by the team earlier in the season and had since suggested that Renault asked him to crash to further the chances of team mate Fernando Alonso.

As a result of the allegations Renault were asked to answer charges with regard to the incident in question. As a result, the two men that Piquet Jr testified had instructed him to crash the car, Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds, have now left the team.

Renault had previously stated that Piquet Jr had made false allegations and would be taking legal action against him. It now seems likely that this will not happen and the removal of the two men by Renault themselves could be read as an admission of guilt by Renault.

What punishment they will receive is yet to be seen, but it is not a good day for Formula 1.