Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder
BBC Roman Friday, one of the stowaways, in São Paulo. “I wanted a brighter future,” he said (Victor Moriyama/BBC) Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on the rudder of a tanker. They had no idea they were bound for Brazil, and a two-week ocean voyage that would nearly kill them. A little after midnight […]
Scots bakers lose jobs with heritage
Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland McVitie’s McVitie’s brands include Digestives, Rich Tea, Club, Penguin, Jaffa Cake and Hobnobs McVitie’s biscuit brands each day accompany many millions of cups of tea, growing out of an Edinburgh shop 190 years ago to have the biggest share of Britain’s £3bn biscuit barrel. Corporate control has passed […]
Airport tests demanded and call for daily checks for MPs
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Sunday morning. We’ll have another update for you on Monday. 1. Labour demands airport testing review Testing for coronavirus at airports should be considered as a way of cutting the number of travellers who must spend two weeks in quarantine, the Labour […]
Government to take 20% stake
Simon Jack Business editor Getty Images The government plans to take a 20% stake in a £20bn large-scale nuclear plant at Sizewell, the BBC has learned. French developer EDF will also take a 20% stake in the Suffolk power station. Ministers hope the confirmation of two cornerstone investors will encourage infrastructure investors and pension funds […]
Welsh meat industry warning on post-Brexit recruitment
BBC Gwyn Howells said he did not want workforce limits to restrict the ability of firms to supply meat The Welsh meat industry needs assurance systems will be in place to allow it to employ enough workers and vets from EU countries after Brexit or it will face a “huge problem”, AMs have been told. […]
The underwater ‘kites’ generating electricity as they move
Tim Ecott Business reporter, Tórshavn Minesto The energy-generating kites “fly” under the water, tethered to the seabed A pair of sleek, winged machines are “flying” – or at least swimming – beneath the dark waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Known as “sea dragons” or “tidal kites”, they look like aircraft, but […]
‘The world’s longest and most spectacular hijacking’
Bangor Daily News Airline official Norman Kaye looks out at hijacked TWA85 at Bangor airport, Maine At the high point of the 1960s spate of hijackings, a plane was held up on average once every six days in the United States. Fifty years ago this week, Raffaele Minichiello was responsible for the “longest and most […]
Trump says Zelensky to sign ‘very big agreement’ in US on Friday – live updates
No security guarantees in initial agreement, Zelensky sayspublished at 13:29 Greenwich Mean Time 13:29 GMTBreaking James WaterhouseUkraine correspondent in Kyiv Image source, Reuters President Zelensky says he hopes an initial mineral agreement with the US “will lead to further deals”, but confirmed no American security guarantees have been agreed yet. The deal was referred to […]
Clare Smyth talks long hours and chopping onions with blogger Rosie Bensberg
MARTIN EBERLEN Rosie Bensberg is a 23-year-old food blogger from Oxford who’s gone from learning to cook carbonara with her dad to graduating with a Cordon Bleu diploma. Clare Smyth, 40, grew up on a farm in County Antrim to become the world’s best female chef and cater for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s […]
Could English wine conquer the world?
Daniel Thomas Business reporter BBC Lucy Fernandez from Toronto says she wouldn’t buy Chapel Down’s white wine France, Italy and Spain are some of the world’s best known wine producing countries but could a growing English wine making industry ever threaten their dominance? At English winemaker Chapel Down the opinions of a group of tourists […]