How an Australian business is trying to transform mental health at work
Klawe Rzeczy/ BBC (Credit: Klawe Rzeczy/ BBC) Cherie Clonan, CEO of marketing agency The Digital Picnic, explains how perks like free dinners, burnout-preventing days off and even ADHD assessments have boosted employee wellbeing – and her bottom line. If you walk into the offices of The Digital Picnic (TDP) in Melbourne, Australia, there’s a high […]
Coventry United Women: Lee Burch named as new manager
Coventry United Women have appointed Lee Burch as their new manager for the upcoming 2022-23 Women’s Championship season. Burch has experience of managing in the top two tiers of English women’s football having previously been at Millwall, Yeovil and London Bees. He guided London Bees to fifth place in the 2019-20 Championship season before leaving […]
Keeping rats out of kitchens and bedbugs out of hotels
Getty Images Getting rid of pests is big business When construction work disturbed a pack of rats near his commercial kitchen business in County Wicklow, Ireland, Shane Bonner knew he needed a savvier approach to pest control. His existing contract, which used a no-frills bait box and regular site inspections, was falling short at Newmarket […]
Trump raises pressure with sanctions on metals
AFP Iran insists its latest actions are within the deal US President Donald Trump has raised the pressure on Iran on the day Tehran said it was suspending some commitments to a landmark nuclear agreement. Mr Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Iran’s metals industry – its second biggest export earner after oil. […]
Women’s FA Cup final: Emma Hayes – ‘I’m only a role model because I’m female’
Chelsea Ladies manager Emma Hayes says people call her a “role model” because she is female when she wants to be known for her coaching success instead. Hayes’ team face Arsenal in Saturday’s Women’s FA Cup final at Wembley (17:10 BST), which will be live on BBC One. The 41-year-old, who is 33 weeks pregnant […]
The people making money from just surfing the internet
Getty Images Most of what we look at on the internet is tracked The details of what each of us look at online are an incredibly valuable resource. This tracked data helps the likes of Google and Facebook earn billions and billions of dollars a year in advertising revenue, as they use the information to […]
Greens’ bill ‘would cost NI £1bn a year’
Press Association Edwin Poots’ draft climate change bill sets a target of achieving at least an 82% reduction in emissions by 2050 Edwin Poots has claimed that the 100% target for reducing emissions in the Green Party’s climate change bill would cost “an additional £1bn a year”. There are currently two separate pieces of climate […]
Result hands Trump free rein
Reuters Donald Trump has done it again. Eight years after his stunning upset of Hillary Clinton and four years after Joe Biden evicted him from the White House, the former president is about to return to power. On the back of a victory that swept across the key early voting battleground states – and improved […]
Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine ineffective says Fauci
US President Trump on Dr Fauci’s approval rating: “Nobody likes me” US President Donald Trump has again defended the use of hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus, contradicting his own public health officials. He said the malaria medication was only rejected as a Covid-19 treatment because he had recommended its use. His remarks come after Twitter […]
Families may ‘pay the cost of making homes green’
Getty Images New legislation for new builds is not expected to make the installation of solar panels mandatory Families will have to shoulder the cost of making homes eco-friendly if the government does not tighten regulations for new builds, residents have said. Ministers are preparing to publish new regulations for new builds, but the legislation […]