Bristol Harbour Festival to return to city in 2025
A popular harbourside festival will return in 2025 with an “expanded programme.” Bristol Harbour Festival will run from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 July and is one of the country’s largest free cultural events. Organisers are calling on local performers, traders and venues to get involved with more than 200,000 visitors expected across the three-day […]
What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable?
Winta Zesu Winta Zesu has made a business out of rage-baiting “I get a lot of hate”. The words of content creator Winta Zesu, who last year made $150,000 (£117,000) from posting on social media. What separates Winta from other influencers? The people commenting on her posts and driving traffic to her videos are often […]
Bourdain: ‘Hopefully we will endure’
Paulo Fridman/Getty Anthony Bourdain offers a perceptive look at how travel and food intersect (Credit: Paulo Fridman/Getty) Impassioned and perceptive, the king of TV travel doesn’t disappoint in his interview. We talk about Persian chicken, interviewing Obama in Vietnam and the sauces of Oaxaca, Mexico. More than 15 years in, Anthony Bourdain is still the […]
‘The women are smashing it!’ England fans at home react to World Cup drama
BBC The dream for England is over, just as the sun sets on Battersea Park. Under a cloud of disappointment, England fans who’ve been glued to the big screen for 90 minutes file home, swigging the last of their beers. There were England shirts, men in suits, well-behaved dogs, women with St George’s flags painted […]
Robot company Starship Technologies plans 1,000 delivery bots
Starship A company which specialises in delivery robots plans to expand its operations from two campuses to twenty by 2019 with a fleet of a thousand. Starship Technologies is partnering with the Co-op in Milton Keynes to deliver groceries there. It follows trials with Just Eat to deliver takeaways in South London. One expert told […]
Mining the Pacific – future proofing or fool’s gold?
BBC/Lindle Markwell Plans to mine the Cook Islands’ seabed have drawn condemnation from activists who fear damage to the environment “They look like chocolate truffles, just don’t eat them,” jokes Jean Mason, the curator of the Cook Islands Library and Museum as she reaches into a display cabinet and pulls out a black, knobbly rock. […]
A must-visit mile for beer lovers
Bermondsey, beer Known in the 19th Century as London’s Larder, the riverside neighbourhood of Bermondsey has recently developed a new claim to fame: its mile of top-notch, artisanal microbreweries. In hindsight, Jack Hobday wishes he had made just one decision differently. Along with lifelong friend Paul Anspach, in the span of 14 whirlwind months, the […]
How an aspiring athlete keeps on track in lockdown
A young athlete has described her determination to keep training hard in lockdown after the season was cancelled due to Covid. Millie King, 16, is currently ranked fourth in the UK in the 200m for Under-17 women and is aiming to run for England in the future. Instead of her usual club sessions, the teenager […]
Cyber-firm Darktrace eyes ‘£3bn’ London share listing
Getty Images Darktrace’s Poppy Gustafsson says her company is very different from Deliveroo Cyber-security firm Darktrace has said it intends to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange. Darktrace did not indicate how much it is seeking to raise, but media reports suggest it could be as much as £3bn. The move is seen […]
Technology festival’s sock that detect Alzheimer’s signs
BBC Socks to spot dementia, invented by Dr Zeke Steer Socks that detect the early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease. A pregnancy test that blind women can use. And a holographic Barack Obama you can chat with. These are some of the things you can find at Bristol’s technology festival. Dave Harvey has been for a […]