Obesity strategy delay immoral, shallow and weak
Getty Images The government’s decision to delay parts of its obesity strategy is “morally reprehensible”, former Conservative Party leader Lord Hague has said. Curbs on multi-buy deals in shops and on TV adverts for junk food have been put on hold for at least a year. Ministers said the delay would give them time to […]
The Ashes 2023: England ‘exceeded public’s expectations’ in Women’s Ashes – Nat Sciver-Brunt
Australia were overwhelming favourites at the start of the series, having won the past two Ashes series and as the current world champions in both T20 and ODI formats. That only grew when they won the Test at Trent Bridge and opening T20 at Edgbaston, but England fought back to win the final two T20s […]
The man who helped feed the world
Getty Images Norman Borlaug is credited with saving millions of people from starvation In the early 1900s, newlyweds Cathy and Cappy Jones left Connecticut in the US to start a new life as farmers in north-west Mexico’s Yaqui Valley, a little-known dry and dusty place, a few hundred kilometres south of the Arizona border. When […]
Drugs testing in football: Women’s Super League testing must increase – Sue Smith
Figures obtained by BBC Sport under the Freedom of Information Act covered the 2016-17 season in the men’s game, which did not run parallel with the women’s football calendar. The time period covers half of the 2016 WSL season, including the latter stages of both the Women’s FA Cup and League Cup, and the entire […]
Google’s rival to ChatGPT launches for over-18s
Google The Bard chatbot answering questions Google has started rolling out its AI chatbot Bard, but it is only available to certain users and they have to be over the age of 18. Unlike its viral rival ChatGPT, it can access up-to-date information from the internet and has a “Google it” button which accesses search. […]
Four solutions to the disposable coffee cup problem
Getty creative Is the price of our growing addiction to takeaway hot drinks an ever higher mountain of landfill? Since last year, when we were all made aware of the UK’s unrecycled cup mountain, some of us have found it hard to buy a takeaway coffee without being wracked with guilt. In the UK, we […]
Women’s Premiership: Growing domestic women’s game ‘left to us’ – NIFL CEO Lawlor
BBC Sport understands several Glentoran players have signed new deals, however, the majority of the Women’s Premiership clubs were against paying players for the new season and NIFL decided the league will retain its amateur status in 2022. Speaking to the BBC, Lawlor said it was “unfair” that NIFL has been tasked to come up […]
Image of cardboard tube MRI scanner released
University of Nottingham Sir Peter Mansfield showing, by use of a cardboard tube, how the scanner would work Previously unseen images of the pioneer of the MRI scanner have been released including one showing him inside a cardboard model of the machine. Sir Peter Mansfield led a University of Nottingham team that created Magnetic Resonance […]
‘The tariffs will wipe out total profitability’
A leading dairy co-operative has warned that a no-deal Brexit would “wipe out” profitability in the dairy sector. Nick Whelan, chief executive of Dale Farm, said steep EU export tariffs in the event of a no-deal would crush the sector. Dale Farm is owned by 1,250 dairy farmers in Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The […]
How Poland’s business community is helping Ukrainians
Getty Images Refugees crossing over the border from Ukraine in to Korczowa in Poland on foot Mariana Zlahodniuk spent days trying to persuade her mother, Olena, to get out of Ukraine. “She wouldn’t come, was adamant in fact,” says Mariana, a 27-year-old marketing and business adviser from Ukraine, based in the Polish capital since 2012. […]