Fell runners banned from using GPS in Welsh races
Getty Images Race organisers want competitors to use their wits and training in races, not technology Fell runners have been banned from using GPS to help them navigate in competitive races in Wales. Runners can record their route on a GPS watch, but cannot follow a pre-set route, use a device showing a map or […]
Business trip: San Francisco
San Francisco’s skyline from Pier 7. (Phil Coblentz/SFCVB) Business travellers lucky enough to be visiting the Bay Area city find the restaurants, hotels, airport and public transportation are “all good”. “It’s all good!” is a phrase embedded into the Bay Area vernacular. It is used when deals are done, disputes are settled and to simply […]
Ed Sheeran surprises Laxfield school Lego club with donation
Ria Cox The school thanked the couple for their “amazing generosity” A surprise gift from singer Ed Sheeran means pupils will be able to build their own Lego House, inspired by the star’s hit. The Lego club organiser at All Saints Primary School in Laxfield, Suffolk, said she asked Sheeran and his fiancee Cherry Seaborn […]
The complicated allure of industrial tourism
Industrial tourism focuses on the beauty of factory sites, such as an abandoned power plant in Belle Isle, Virginia. (Suemedha Sood) Tours around the world focus on finding grandeur and beauty in what many see as unsightly sources of pollution. In Kawasaki, Japan, tourists are flocking to a new kind of attraction: a power plant. […]
Technology brings St Asaph Cathedral’s history to life
Church in Wales The cathedral dates back to the 13th Century Technology is being used to bring the history of one of the oldest cathedrals in Wales to life. Visitors will be able to delve into the past at St Asaph Cathedral, in Denbighshire, through interactive displays. It comes after a £600,000 project, including the […]
What’s really inside babies’ first foods
Getty Images A mother breastfeeds her child during the “all for breastfeeding” festival in Bogota, Colombia (Credit: Daniel Garzon Herazo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Scientists are discovering the extraordinary power of human milk and the benefits it brings to infants, but there are also some hidden contaminants that can lurk in breast and formula milks. It […]
How orange juice took over the breakfast table
Proformabooks/Getty images Splash from glass of orange juice (Credit: Proformabooks/Getty images) Orange juice used to be a treat you had to squeeze out yourself. More than a century ago, an overproduction of oranges helped create the morning staple we know and love. The staid carton of orange juice has long sat next to tea and […]
Story of ski-jumping inventor who escaped the Nazis
Tina Ramujkic “The inventor must have a calm head, he must always observe everything,” Florjancic said He was at various times an Olympic athlete, film actor, author, and friend of the rich and famous. But throughout his extraordinary life he had one chief passion: the everyday. Florjancic was fixated on inventing ways to make life […]
Has Europe’s plan arrived too late?
Umesh Samani The chip shortage is hitting Umesh Samani’s business All his customer wants is a white, standard model, manual transmission VW Golf. But Umesh Samani, a car salesman in Stoke-on-Trent, can’t say when it will arrive. It could be many months, or he fears even a year until delivery. Extraordinary delays have hit car […]
Top jobs that involve heavy business travel
(Press Association) If you love travelling, chances are, you’ve dreamed about having the kind of career that would keep you constantly in trains, planes or automobiles. While that sort of career brings to mind obvious choices, like flight attendants or airline pilots, there are plenty of other jobs outside of the travel industry that might […]