F-TYPE Gains All-Wheel Drive and Manual Transmission Options as the Range Grows from Six to 14 Derivatives

Brits prove their generosity over the Christmas period, as almost a third of the British have donated food to vulnerable people in need. Despite the chaos and excitement of the festive period, almost a third (32%) of the British public have remembered vulnerable people in need by generously donating food to those in need across
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David Beckham Attends British Brand Belstaff’s Flagship Store Opening Leather Clad Beckham & Celebrity Guests Celebrate Belstaff Bond Street Flagship Store   David Beckham, David Gandy, Jemma Kidd (Mortington), Jodie Kidd and Pixie Lott, celebrated global British luxury lifestyle brand Belstaff’s newest flagship store in London, at 131-135 New Bond Street. In line with the
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A Hundred Reasons to Laugh I read that a child laughs 400 times a day on the average, while an adult laughs only 15 times. Which puzzles me – what do you think the children are laughing at? During one particularly dark period of my life I didn’t laugh even 15 times a day. Not
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Do You Believe In You? Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his mental ability. Or that Beethoven’s music teacher said about him, “As a composer he is hopeless”? What if young Ludwig
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Art and designThe influence of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Birmingham School of Art made Birmingham an important centre of Victorian art, particularly within the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements. Major figures included the watercolourist David Cox, whose later works make him an important precursor of impressionism; the Pre-Raphaelite and symbolist
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Theatre and performing arts Among the many theatres in Birmingham, the largest are the Alexandra (“the Alex”), The Rep, the Hippodrome and the Old Rep. The Crescent Theatre and Old Joint Stock Theatre are other city centre theatres. Outside of the city centre are the Drum Arts Centre (on the site of the former Aston
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Music in Birmingham has had a vibrant and varied musical history over the last century. Birmingham bands have made a major contribution to the musical culture of the United Kingdom, with many contemporary bands citing Birmingham bands as a major influence. In the 1960s, the “Brum Beat” era featured blues and early progressive rock bands,
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With a GDP of $90bn (2008 est., PPP), Birmingham has the second-largest urban economy in the United Kingdom and the 72nd-largest in the world. Although the city grew to prominence as a manufacturing and engineering centre, its economy today is dominated by the service sector, which in 2008 accounted for 86% of its employment. Birmingham
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Today Birmingham is a major international commercial centre, ranked as a gamma- world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network; and an important transport, retail and conference hub. With a city GDP of $90m (2008 estimate, PPP), its urban economy is the second largest in the UK and the 72nd largest in the
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