‘With YouTube people feel like they know you’
Caroline Hirons: ‘With YouTube people feel like they know you’ YouTube stars and fans are gathering in London for Summer in the City, the UK’s largest and longest-running online video festival. We meet the people who get to call YouTube their job. Caroline Hirons, a 49-year-old aesthetician and beauty consultant turned blogger and YouTuber, says […]
Amanda Holden was first choice for show
Getty Images This is how the Smack The Pony line-up could have looked The groundbreaking female-led sketch show Smack the Pony burst on to screens exactly 20 years ago. It’s hard now to imagine the Channel 4 show without the leading trio of Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. But the show’s creator, Victoria […]
Scarlett Johansson tops Forbes highest-paid actresses list
Getty Images Only two women make Forbes’ top 10 best-paid actors list The 34-year-old’s income of $56m (£45.7m) lands her below seventh-placed male actor Adam Sandler. She earned $15.5m (£12.6m) more than she did in 2018, thanks largely to the success of Avengers: Endgame. Modern family actor Sofia Vergara is the only other woman to […]
Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?
AAKA Space Studio India’s first ‘analog’ space mission Hab-1 was tested in the mountains of Ladakh Could this egg-shaped structure be what the future home of Indian astronauts in space looks like? The Hab-1 – short for Habitat-1 – is Indian space agency Isro’s first-ever “analog mission” which means simulation of space conditions to prepare […]
Young Enterprise market sees pupils turn business ideas into reality
BBC The team behind Down to Earth from Wallace High School Hundreds of young entrepreneurs from across Northern Ireland have been putting their business skills to the test at the annual Young Enterprise NI Big Market. Many of the 130 student companies from 80 schools and colleges chose to create business plans with a sustainability […]
Real Wolf of Wall Street sues film studio for $300m
Getty Images Jordan Belfort was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013 film Jordan Belfort, the former stock broker whose story inspired the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street, is suing the filmmakers for $300m (£229m). Belfort was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film, which was Oscar-nominated and a box office success. He […]
Cheese wire victim’s family offer £10,000 reward for DNA
PA Media George Murdoch was murdered in Aberdeen in 1983, but the killer has never been found The family of a man murdered with a cheese wire in Aberdeen more than 40 years ago have offered a £10,000 reward to help police close in on his killer. Taxi driver George Murdoch was found dead beside […]
What next for women’s boxing? Shields v Marshall II; three-minute rounds; big fights on horizon
There is no shortage of big fights to be made in the UK and abroad. Should Jonas be successful in her bid to add the IBF title to her collection on 12 November, she could face domestic rival Harper early next year in an all-British undisputed light-middleweight fight. An all-Australian showdown between Ebanie Bridges and […]
Marshall v Shields is ‘first rivalry in women’s boxing’ – promoter
Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields have the first rivalry in women’s boxing to take the sport to new heights, according to promoter Ben Shalom. The two boxers will face off at London’s O2 Arena next Saturday for the undisputed middleweight championship. Both England’s Marshall and American Shields will defend their unbeaten professional records as they […]
Shields v Marshall: ‘I was an angry kid’ – the making of one of boxing’s most remarkable champions
Her only dream, however, was to be the first female Olympic boxing champion. She had no aspirations to turn professional. “When I first came on the scene people would say you do not fight like a girl, you fight like a man,” she says. “But now that I’m a woman I say, I fight like […]