Yellow Diamond - More than 110 carats!!

Alan Hart, Natural History Museum's minerals curator gave an interesting insight into how colours from Diamonds appear.    Most of us are familiar with the one carat Diamond,  This is really exceptional.  I, for one will be going to see it at London's Natural History Museum.

Public Sector Contracts - strong controls and scrutiny needed

The Defence Secretary Liam Fox is right in his comments. If anything, more scrutiny and controls of expenditure on Public Sector Contracts are needed. There have been many instances in the last few years where there has been a major overspend on Public Sector Contracts and in some instances Projects did not deliver.

A good example of this are some of the many IT and Computer projects in various government departments and local authorities that had to be scrapped altogether or modified at very great expense and financial loss.

Money that could have been better spent on much needed resources like Health, Policing and infrastructure