Women’s Sport Week: Nicole Cooke on fair pay & corruption
For some, of course, success and the money it brings overrides fairness. So if it’s life-changing wealth and the greed it generates that corrupts fairness, does a lack of money equate to cleanliness? And in that case, would we be better advised to keep women’s sports impoverished to ensure clean competition? The answer is more […]
New plan to pay farmers who protect winter soil
Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst Getty Images The empty brown fields of England’s winter countryside could be transformed under government plans for farming. Cold naked acres will in future be clothed in vegetation as farmers are paid for sowing plants that bind the soil together. The aim is to hold precious topsoil on the land, […]
Taste for takeaways outlasts Covid lockdowns
Elisabeth Mahy Wake Up to Money, BBC Radio 5 Live Carol Deeney Cafe owner Carol Deeney says 50% of sales are now via delivery app If any of Carol Deeney’s customers fancy a bacon roll or a haggis toastie, they can pop down to her Scottish Street Food café in east London. But she says […]
Dina Asher-Smith: British sprinter calls for greater exposure of elite sporting females
Dina Asher-Smith wants the sports industry to consider “who we elevate, and why” in order to help young girls grasp what they are capable of. The world 200m champion, 25, believes too many marketing messages featuring women focus on aesthetics. She feels some girls may learn to prioritise looks over sporting success. “With men, it […]
Rail industry urges workers not to spurn the train
Getty Images Unless workers start taking the train again, there could be long-term adverse effects on city centres and High Streets, the rail industry has warned. Train commuting is still just 33% of its pre-Covid rate, while car journeys have reached pre-pandemic levels, said the Rail Delivery Group (RDG). If workers continued to go by […]
World Athletics Championships 2017: Eilidh Doyle named GB captain
Men 100m: James Dasaolu, Reece Prescod, CJ Ujah 200m: Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Danny Talbot 400m: Dwayne Cowan, Matt Hudson-Smith, Martyn Rooney 800m: Elliot Giles, Kyle Langford, Guy Learmonth 1500m: Josh Kerr, Chris O’Hare, Jake Wightman 5,000m: Andrew Butchart, Mo Farah 10,000m: Mo Farah 3,000m steeplechase: Rob Mullett, Zak Seddon 110m hurdles: David King, David […]
50,000 more HGV driving tests promised a year
Getty Images The government has confirmed plans to speed up the process of obtaining an HGV driver licence, amid a nationwide shortage of drivers. Up to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year by shortening the application process and the tests themselves, it said. The UK faces a shortfall of around […]
Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas
PA Media Up to 10,500 lorry drivers and poultry workers can receive temporary UK visas as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas. The government confirmed that 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers will be eligible to work in the UK for three months, until Christmas Eve. The scheme is […]
Military to deliver petrol to UK garages from Monday
PA Media Armed forces personnel will begin delivering petrol to garages across the UK from Monday, the government says. Almost 200 servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide “temporary” support to ease pressure on stations. Ministers have also announced that up to 300 overseas fuel tanker drivers will be able to work in […]
Northern Ireland ‘losing out on tens of millions of EU funding’
Pacemaker Finance Minister Conor Murphy said £70m had been lost to the Stormont executive Northern Ireland is losing out on tens of millions of pounds with the end of funding which had previously come from the EU, the finance minister has said. Conor Murphy said £70m had been lost to the Stormont executive, with a […]