Unseen photos show first women’s football stars
Lizzy Ashcroft Collection One photograph shows Dick, Kerr Ladies with players from top Belgium and French teams The images capture the lives of the Dick, Kerr Ladies team and their superstar striker Lily Parr, as the club enjoyed the height of their success in the 1930s. The images were owned by Lizzy Ashcroft, who played […]
New blueprint to bring investment to Wolverhampton
A fresh plan to maximise new jobs and business opportunities in Wolverhampton is set to be approved by councillors. The City Investment Plan has been drawn up to attract new firms, and encourage existing employers to grow. The document said the council would “accentuate the benefits” of the city, and target firms looking to relocate […]
Italian authorities bust ‘international forgery ring’
Police in Italy say they have busted a major European criminal network forging and selling artworks by some of the biggest names in modern art. More than 2,100 forged artworks were recovered, including works attributed to Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. Thirty-eight people were arrested over the forgeries, which carried a potential sale value […]
India’s luxury airline flies into the sunset
Getty Images Vistara will become fully integrated with Air India starting Monday Indian full-service carrier Vistara will operate its last flight on Monday, after nine years in existence. A joint venture between Singapore Airlines and the Tata Sons, Vistara will merge with Tata-owned Air India to form a single entity with an expanded network and […]
Slaughtered pigs outnumber Spanish population
Getty Images Fifty million pigs were slaughtered in Spain in 2017 – 3.5m more than the Spanish population New statistics on the number of slaughtered pigs in Spain have stirred fears in the country’s media that the animals may soon outnumber the human population and end up hogging local resources. The Ministry of Environment released […]
Boris ‘worse for Scotland than Thatcher’
Daily Record While Tuesday’s leadership debate dominates the front pages, the Daily Record leads with comments from Nicola Sturgeon on Conservative front-runner Boris Johnson. The first minister said he could do more damage to Scotland in 18 weeks at Number 10 than Margaret Thatcher’s government did in 18 years, the paper reports. The Times The […]
Google and big tech are ‘institutionally racist’
WATCH: Timnit Gebru accuses Google and the wider tech sector of institutional racism Timnit Gebru, a highly influential artificial-intelligence computer scientist, is at the centre of a race row that has engulfed Google’s AI research workforce and raised passions beyond. She says she was fired by Google after it took issue with an academic paper […]
Northern Ireland: Former women’s boss Kenny Shiels’ exit offers ‘fresh start’ – Angela Platt
Qualification for last summer’s Euros was the first time Northern Ireland had ever reached the finals of a major competition. They followed that up in September by completing their World Cup qualifying campaign with away wins over Luxembourg and Latvia, before an impressive home victory over Italy in a friendly in November. Shiels’ departure and […]
Britain’s ‘best new building of 1996’ to be demolished
Salford University’s Centenary Building, which won Britain’s most prestigious architectural award when it was first built, is to be demolished. The building was the inaugural winner of the Stirling Prize in 1996, but has been vacant for the past eight years. Judges had once declared it Britain’s best new building, saying it was “a dynamic, […]
Floods ‘spreading oil pollution’ in South Sudan
Getty Images Herders scooping murky water from a small pond in grasslands in South Sudan are well aware of the dangers they face if they drink it. “The water is dirty because this place has oil – it has chemicals in it,” says their chief, Chilhok Puot. Nyatabah, a woman from this community raising cows […]