Malvern’s touchscreen tech secrets now on your radar
It was dubbed “the hidden Bletchley” after the place where World War Two codebreakers cracked the German’s Enigma Code. The Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern in Worcestershire is the place where scientists fine-tuned radar that helped lead the Allies to victory. During the Cold War scientific leaps that are now part of everyday life were […]
Betty White, the Golden Girl with a heart of gold
Getty Images Betty White was US television’s Golden Girl with the heart of gold, celebrated for her comic acting abilities from TV’s early days up to the 21st Century, while remaining committed to her animal activism. “I have to keep acting so that I can afford to keep doing my charity work!” she joked to […]
ESA and UK Space Agency increases jobs at satellite laboratory
ESA The European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications employs more than 100 people in Harwell More than 100 new jobs are set to be created at a space centre in Oxfordshire. The European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) currently employs more than 100 people in Harwell. The UK and European space agencies […]
Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You went from modest 1990s hit to Christmas’s defining song
Getty Images When it was first released in 1994, it made a mere ripple – but 30 years on, it is a track that reigns supreme over the holiday season. What is the secret of its success? There are now three things that are certain in life: taxes, death and that every December Mariah Carey’s […]
What does the International Criminal Court do?
The court, in the Dutch city of The Hague, was established in 2002 to hold rogue leaders responsible for atrocities to account. World leaders had increasingly pushed for its creation in the wake of the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan Genocide. It is a court of last resort, intervening only when national authorities cannot, or […]
Farmers ‘deserve credit for sequestering carbon’
Northern Ireland’s agriculture industry is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases in the local economy and farmers are under pressure to reduce their emissions. However, many farmers are working hard to implement more environmentally-sustainable ways of producing food to reduce the carbon footprint of their business. One County Tyrone dairy farmer said new working practices […]
Plaid procedures failing women, says Leanne Wood, former leader
Getty Images Plaid leader Adam Price: “Misogyny has no place in our politics” Plaid Cymru’s internal procedures “are failing women”, according to the party’s former leader. Leanne Wood said Plaid has a “vetting system designed to filter out those whose views should exclude them from any role in public life… yet they still get through”. […]
‘I froze when penis picture dropped on to my phone’
BBC Looking at my phone on the journey to work, a picture of a naked man pops up on the screen, and a heatwave of embarrassment warms my body, as if I were the one naked and exposed. My iPhone was asking me whether to accept or decline a nude picture from a stranger via […]
New Essex football centre aims to produce next Lionesses
John Fairhall/BBC Maddie Biggs, an Ipswich Town player and University of Essex student, hopes to benefit from the centre A new football centre of excellence hopes to produce the next generation of female players and coaches. The University of Essex will be the first FA women’s high performance centre in the East of England. Tracy […]
Ukraine’s hopes and challenges after long wait for F16s
Ukrainian presidency Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has been waiting for the F16s for a year and a half The first F-16 fighter jets are set to arrive in Ukraine from Nato member states, after many months of preparation and pilot training. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said they are essential to help Ukrainians push back against […]