Mattress landfill to be tackled by industry scheme
Zero Waste Scotland Bed manufacturers are being urged to design longer-life mattresses that are easy to repair and can be recycled. About 600,000 mattresses are sent to Scottish landfill sites each year, with less than one per cent being recycled, according to Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS). The government-funded body is working with the National Bed […]
How South Wales Police caught a sexual predator
A grainy CCTV image was matched with an old custody shot A grainy image captured by CCTV on a bus was key to catching a sexual predator who has been sent back to prison. Along with a 14-year-old police custody picture, facial recognition software helped officers track down Craig Walters, a day after he attacked […]
Vogue boss Anna Wintour on her public persona and being told ‘no’
Getty Images Anna Wintour sporting her signature sunglasses Anna Wintour walks into our interview with her trademark dark glasses firmly on. I’m meeting the woman who has been editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine since 1988 at VOGUE: Inventing the Runway, the show dreamt up by Wintour about the history of the catwalk. Our rendezvous is in […]
How slimmed-down websites can cut their carbon emissions
Nicholas Mastoras Valentina Karellas’s knitwear website features large pictures and video – both use a lot of data “I’m horrified,” says Valentina Karellas. “I know grams because I work with them every day and I know how much 10g weighs. And that’s just one page.” She’s just learned that every visit to her website’s homepage […]
Putin says sanctions making Russia stronger
Russian government Russia will continue to oppose Western sanctions, President Vladimir Putin has said, following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. His address to a virtual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit was his first to an international meeting since last month’s mutiny in Russia. Mr Putin backed trade accords between SCO nations in local currencies – seen as […]
Bake Off Briony’s kitchen hacks and Kitch the rapper
SIMON – Hello, it’s the Ouch talk show for November 2018. Disability talk at its best. Well, we think so anyway. I’m Simon Minty, and filling in for Kate this month is actress, Shannon Murray. Hello. SHANNON – Hello. Thank you for having me. It’s a proper tasty one this month, with three awesome guests […]
Northern Lights illuminate Wales’ dark sky potential
Sorcha Lewis Sorcha Lewis captured aurora borealis lighting up the sky over the Elan Valley in Powys, a Dark Sky Park area The Northern Lights are called northern for a reason: They usually light up the Arctic zone with dazzling displays. But with advances in modern technology, the otherworldly lights of the aurora borealis colouring […]
Whisky and salmon exports ‘surge’
Getty Images Whisky and salmon from Scotland led the way to a surge in exports of food and drink from the UK during the first three months of this year. Figures compiled by the Food and Drink Federation showed that total UK exports by firms in the sector were up more than 10% on the […]
Can new Apple iPhone 15 thunder without lightning?
Reuters As I write this there are still several hours before Apple unveils the latest version of its best-selling product, the iPhone. In the last few weeks we’ve seen the handset come under pressure separately from both the EU and China. Globally, smartphone sales in general are slowing, and Apple’s highly anticipated virtual reality headset […]
‘My family were very worried’
Jason Hetherington “It was very erratic behaviour on my part – I was partying too hard,” says Liam Payne In the offices of Liam Payne’s management company, just north of Soho in central London, there’s a bottle of Bacardi inscribed with his name. It was sent as a gift, after the singer immortalised the drink […]