IP communications provider ShoreTel has appointed Peter Blackmore as its president and chief executive officer.

Not to be outdone by recent Chinese and Indian adventures in space, the Brits have upped their game and launched four teddy bears wearing space suits to an altitude of just over 30 km.

One is an inventor who made his fortune from developing the kettle thermostat, one is a world famous physicist who made his name explaining time, and one has been dead for 232 years. Together, this unlikely trio have brought us perhaps the oddest clock on the planet.