Trump appoints UN ambassador Elise Stefanik and border tsar Tom Homan
US President-elect Donald Trump has made two more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January. Tom Homan, 62, will serve as Trump’s “border tsar”, having previously served as the returning president’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, 40, has also been made ambassador […]
TV chef ‘proud’ to be made a dame
PA Media Mary Berry with her husband Paul Hunnings after she was made a dame TV chef Mary Berry has said she is “proud and honoured” to be made a Dame Commander for services to cooking, writing and baking. Dame Mary was honoured on Wednesday by the Prince of Wales during an investiture ceremony at […]
Lib Dem election campaign ‘a high-speed car crash’, says party inquiry
Getty Images Jo Swinson lost her seat in December’s election The Liberal Democrats’ campaign during December’s general election has been likened to a “high-speed car crash” by an internal inquiry. The party returned just 11 MPs, one down on the 2017 tally, and lost its then-leader Jo Swinson. The Lib Dems initially pitched for votes […]
Women in computing – there is good news and bad
Duraham University Durham attendees at an annual conference for women in computing I’ve been told two stories in recent days about the gender gap in computing education. The good news: a major university has doubled the number of women arriving to study computer science in the space of a year. The bad: the latest GCSE […]
Lewis Hamilton takes 100th career pole at Spanish Grand Prix
Verstappen had looked the man to beat going into the final part of qualifying after he set a stunning lap in the second knock-out session. He was 0.5secs clear of the Mercedes on his first run and did not bother going out for a second, and even so the Mercedes drivers could only get to […]
Rural Wales could soon get urgent deliveries via aircraft
Urgent parcels and medical supplies could soon be delivered to isolated areas in Wales by drones to help speed up the process. Manufacturers have been testing out the technology in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia. The chief executive of drone company Windracers, Simon Muderack, said they hope to set up a partnership with postal services […]
The migrants who passed through Ellis Island
Getty Images Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US from the Soviet Union in 1930. On 12 November 1954, a Norwegian seaman Arne Petterson was questioned by […]
Persuading China to switch to ‘fake’ pork
Omnipork David Yeung is one of the new wave of environmentally concerned entrepreneurs “Ma po tofu has to be a favourite,” says David Yeung, a smile evident in his voice. “It’s very spicy, a little bit numbing, and usually sprinkled with minced pork.” Hong Kong-based Mr Yeung is the founder of OmniPork, part of the […]
Commons staff told to study abuse report ‘very carefully’
John Bercow was asked earlier this year about bullying allegations against him Senior House of Commons staff need to make radical changes, a report into bullying and sexual harassment in Parliament has said. Dame Laura Cox’s report details alleged sexual harassment by MPs by women who say they were “inappropriately touched” and “repeatedly propositioned”. “Disturbing” […]
Breaking down barriers in the fight against cyber-crime
BBC Louise Meney said the course had increased her confidence after her job search was hit hard by Covid Louise Meney was 12 when she discovered hacking while browsing the internet with her first computer. More than two decades later she now dreams of making a living from it thanks to a pioneering new course […]