Glasgow electric buses withdrawn over ‘technical failures’
First Bus has withdrawn 30 buses from its fleet in Glasgow after “technical failures”. The issue was raised in December with affected vehicles now temporarily replaced by ultra-low emission diesel buses from across the UK. They were part of an order of 50 electric buses in 2023, with batteries designed to run for over 370km […]
Dangerous road in Devon to get £1m for speed cameras and AI
A notorious stretch of road in Devon will have £1m spent on artificial intelligence (AI) and speed cameras to cut offences by drivers and prevent other incidents. The A361 between Ilfracombe and Barnstaple has been identified as a “high risk” road by the Department for Transport (DfT), with three deaths and 30 serious injuries between […]
Campaign launches training for female election candidates
BBC Women In Public Life inspires and supports the women of Guernsey to stand for public office Women in Guernsey are being offered free training in campaigning skills ahead of this year’s election. As part of its #WomenStandGsy initiative, the organisation Women In Public Life has launched a ‘Train to Campaign’ programme. The training is […]
Why influencers are facing a pushback
Serenity Strull/ BBC (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC) Rejecting the “haul” culture of excessive shopping and promoting conscious consuming, the de-influencer movement is going mainstream – here’s why. In 2019, Diana Wiebe was deep in a social media scroll when she came across an influencer promoting heatless curling rods. “They were rods you could sleep in […]
Former Lanarkshire coal mine to be turned into giant battery park
Robbie McCrone The first phase of the battery farm is being built beside the M74 motorway near Lesmahagow Work is under way to create what has been described as Europe’s largest battery storage project at Coalburn in South Lanarkshire. Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms – one at the site of a former […]
Arctic development frozen despite Trump’s interest
Sondre Alnes-Bonesmo Fisherman Sondre Alnes-Bonesmo does five-week tours of the Arctic Ocean The Arctic recently made headlines after Donald Trump repeated his desire to buy Greenland. Trump cited national security interests, but for many the territory’s vast mineral wealth is the main attraction. Yet economic development elsewhere in the vast polar region has ground to […]
‘I’m sad that I didn’t have sex until I was 37’
BBC While the average person loses their virginity in their late teens, this is not true for everyone. “Joseph”, who is 60 and a widower, found it was a source of great shame and frustration. Here he shares his story. I remained a virgin until my late 30s. I have no idea how unusual that […]
Love Island: Why are viewers complaining?
ITV Marcel Somerville and Camilla Thurlow are among the contestants Viewers have been complaining about Love Island – but not for the reason you might think. The ITV2 show sees single men and women put together in a Majorcan villa to find love and win a £50,000 prize. So far this series, there have been […]
Australia pay dispute: Are the Ashes really under threat?
Yes. What got the players and their representatives irreversibly offside from a more enduring policy perspective was CA’s formal offer, issued in March, removing a key tenet of industrial agreements since 1997 known as the revenue-sharing model. Under this, anywhere from a fifth to a quarter of all CA incomings has been returned to players […]
North Korea says new hypersonic missile will ‘contain’ rivals in Pacific
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which “will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region”. The launch on Monday – Pyongyang’s first in two months – came as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Seoul for talks with some of South Korea’s […]