Lloyds Bank in Gorleston set to close in January
Google Lloyds Bank on Gorleston High Street is expected to close in January 2025 A coastal town is set to be left with no high street bank. Lloyds Bank in Gorleston, Norfolk, will close on 20 January 2025. The bank said it was due to more customers banking online. Kevin Huggins, chair of Gorleston Traders […]
Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use
BBC Mowi operates numerous fish farms in Scotland The world’s biggest salmon farming company is one of a number of firms under investigation for possible misreporting of chemical use. The BBC can reveal Mowi, formerly known as Marine Harvest, is among those being investigated by Scottish regulators. Farmed salmon are treated with medications to ward […]
Electric car battery charges in under five minutes in track test
Nyobolt The sports car powered by the quick-charging battery An electric car battery developed by UK start-up Nyobolt has successfully charged from 10% to 80% in four minutes and 37 seconds in its first live demonstration. It was achieved with a specially-built concept sports car on a test track in Bedford, and is part of […]
Scotland’s papers: Clutha compensation victory
BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC The son of Clutha victim John McGarrigle has told The Scottish Sun that he has been vindicated by his compensation win, after claiming lawyers had tried to prove that he did not love his father, who died along with nine other people in the […]
Google gender gap questioned
A Google engineer has posted a 10-page treatise about bias, criticising the company’s left-leaning culture and policies meant to increase diversity. Zoe Jervier, global talent director at Entrepreneur First, said early intervention is key to solving the gender gap. She told the Today programme: “If you think how career roles are normalised or the gender […]
UFC: Molly McCann, Valentina Shevchenko & Joanne Calderwood encourage more women to take up MMA
The UFC celebrated its 25th anniversary last year but it is only since November 2012 that women have competed on the promotion, with American Ronda Rousey paving the way as the first female champion. McCann says part of the attraction for women is being on the same pay grade as their male counterparts and being […]
When rockets go wrong – protecting the environment from catastrophe
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Space launches are increasing and the rockets are getting bigger. What’s the environmental impact on the surrounding areas, particularly when things go wrong? When SpaceX’s Starship slowly hauled itself off the launchpad and into the Texas skies on 20 April 2023, few people expected the maiden flight of the world’s […]
Sir Salman stabbed and drought ‘will shrink crops’
Reuters Author Salman Rushdie was attacked onstage in New York after decades of death threats over his novel The Satanic Verses Many of the papers picture author Sir Salman Rushdie receiving first aid after he was attacked onstage at an event in New York on Friday. The Daily Mail says the author was stabbed up […]
Tasmania elects majority of women in Australia state first
TASMANIA LABOR Tasmania’s opposition leader Rebecca White (left) and her deputy, Michelle O’Byrne Tasmania has become the first state in Australian history to elect a majority of female MPs to its legislature. The state, Australia’s smallest, held its election on 3 March, but counting was not finalised until this week. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), […]
‘I was raped at 14, and the video ended up on a porn site’
Rose Kalemba Last year Rose Kalemba wrote a blog post explaining how hard it had been – when she was raped as a 14-year-old girl – to get a video of the attack removed from a popular porn website. Dozens of people then contacted her to say that they were facing the same problem today. […]