Former mining community in Kelloholm seeks skill centre boost
A skills and innovation centre in southern Scotland hopes to help regenerate a former mining community. Plans have been lodged to build the facility in Kelloholm to create new training and employment opportunities. It has been estimated the centre could help to support up to 200 jobs across the area over a five-year period. It […]
Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ falls flat in West Bank
EPA The first part of the plan focuses on the Palestinian economy, rather than the more difficult issues More than two years after US President Donald Trump promised a plan to end the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict, the first stage is being officially revealed at an economic workshop in Bahrain. “It has the ability to fundamentally […]
Leicestershire cancer charity scammers jailed
Leicester Mercury Kalvinder Garcha (left) and Lynn Middleton carried out their fraud over about two years Two women who scammed a cancer charity and a local council out of thousands of pounds have been jailed. Kalvinder Garcha and Lynn Middleton created a fake employee at a Leicestershire local authority and pocketed the pay for themselves. […]
The Corrs to perform in Plymouth in 2025
Irish pop group The Corrs are to play at next year’s Plymouth’s Summer Sessions, organisers have said. The Grammy-nominated family four-piece, known for songs such as Breathless and What Can I Do?, will be supported by Australian actor and singer Natalie Imbruglia on 14 June 2025. Organisers said the other headliners for the four-night concert […]
Hard to control food prices, Filco boss says
Food inflation costs are starting to slow but it could be hard to “get price increases under control”, according to the boss of a Welsh supermarket chain. Matthew Hunt, who runs independent Filco Supermarkets with nine stores across south Wales, said there was a “a road to go on this journey”. Latest figures showed food […]
‘I wouldn’t leave South Africa, I have a kid here’
Stanford Mogotsi Stanford Mogotsi (left) and Kabelo Mashishi have made software systems for the likes of Heineken and Fifa Software firm boss Stanford Mogotsi says he remains committed to South Africa, despite the challenges of running a small IT firm in the country. “It’s my home, I have a kid, I have a family here,” […]
From Rhondda to Greenham and the US Supreme Court
Brinkworth family photo The sisters began their protest camping out in Porth 1981. Bucks Fizz win Eurovision, Raiders of the Lost Ark tops the box office, and Swansea City are promoted to the First Division. Meanwhile the threat of nuclear war draws a step closer, as fears from new longer-range Soviet missiles are followed by […]
Will Trump’s tariffs stop Chinese espionage?
Getty Images US company AMSC had its wind turbine software stolen by its one-time Chinese partner Sinovel Windpower Dan McGahn says it was a case of attempted murder. The victim was his business American Superconductor (AMSC), and the perpetrator was a Chinese company called Sinovel Windpower. The two firms had been partners, but Sinovel bribed […]
Bristol women’s computer club making websites
BBC Teacher Lisa Cole said the women “now have a nice round skill set” Cracking IT, based in Bristol, is led by website designer and teacher Lisa Cole who said their aim was “to become a group of women who are self-funded”. Ms Cole said: “In the first lesson we learned how to use Instagram, […]
Arundhati Roy’s much-awaited second coming
Mayank Austen Soofi Arundhati Roy waited for 20 years to write her second novel “Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence,” writes Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy in The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness, her whimsically titled […]