News Headlines - 17 March 2014
▽The 5 richest families in Britain prove the theory that money follows money | theguardian.com
Today's statistics from Oxfam fall into the same category: the five richest families in Britain have more wealth than 12.6 million Britons put together. Next to such staggering realities, Oxfam's proposed response is strikingly mild. Close tax loopholes, support a living wage, consider a wealth tax. These are decent enough measures in themselves, but it would be useful just occasionally to break down the social meaning of such information, and work out a response on that basis.
First phase of high-speed railway’s construction will extend beyond Birmingham, while ministers are told the only way of keeping costs down is to start building now
▽Morrisons employee arrested over supermarket data theft - The Independent
A Morrisons employee has been arrested in connection with the allege theft of payroll data on the same day the supermarket issued a huge profit warning.
▽Google Chromecast rumoured to be coming to UK on 19 March
Google's Chromecast is currently a US exclusive but recent rumours have claimed the streaming stick will be coming to the UK.
Even more recently, an internal listing at Dixons retail stores obtained by Android Police has suggested that it will be coming very soon, just two days away on 19 March.
▽Astronomers discover echo of the Big Bang - ITV News
The Harvard University team used a specially designed telescope facility in the South Pole to search for microwaves generated when the universe exploded into existence around 14 billion years ago.
The project, named BICEP2, involved trying to find a signal of "inflation", the process by which the universe expanded extremely rapidly in the fraction of a second which followed the Big Bang.
