On 29 November 1781, Capt Luke Collingwood faced a decision. He was in command of a ship called the Zong, which departed Accra with 442 Africans to be sold into slavery. However, the crew of the Zong kept getting lost on the way to Jamaica. Now their overcrowded cargo was ridden with disease and dehydration.
Gerry Adams allegedly stated to a fellow republican that he was prepared to 'wade up to my knees in Protestant blood to a united Ireland', a claim made in the early 1970s.
The study concludes that the rail link could deliver strong economic returns under both two-runway and three-runway expansion scenarios at Heathrow Airport, indicating its potential impact on regional connectivity.
FirstRand has criticized the regulator's intervention into the car finance market as 'disproportionate and unfair', warning that it will now be forced to pay out as much as £750 million to motorists who were mis-sold finance deals.
Oil and gas companies have had their North Sea profits all but wiped out by a punitive energy profits levy that has made the UK virtually uninvestable.
