Olympic and Paralympic sports fear ‘cliff edge’ moment
“You simply can’t do that in team sports because you have so many individuals and you have to build them together.” As it stands, of British Volleyball’s three disciplines, only women’s beach volleyball will be financed through to 2016, with the indoor and sitting programmes to receive nothing. Paralympic sports as a whole fared well […]
London 2012: Olympic sport this week
HOCKEY – FIH Champions Trophy, external, Argentina (28 Jan – 5 Feb); the last ranking event before the Olympics features eight nations, including Great Britain. The GB women are in Group A with China, Japan and the Netherlands. Live coverage of GB’s opening match against Japan on the BBC’s red button at 1800GMT on Saturday. […]
Is WeWork really worth nearly $50bn?
WeWork Inside a WeWork office The We Company is a business that defies description, at least according to its co-founder and chief executive Adam Neumann. But for many it’s the firm’s valuation that is really defying explanation. As it prepares for a stockmarket listing, the parent company of WeWork, provider of trendy shared office space, […]
179 jobs at risk in Poole
Google Walstead is holding a 45-day consultation with Southernprint’s 179 staff A printing plant that produces magazines for some of the UK’s best known publishers has been earmarked for closure. Walstead Southernprint, based in Poole, Dorset, has begun a 45-day consultation with its 179 staff. Owner Walstead said the proposal was the result of falling […]
London 2012: Kelly Smith on her battle to make the Games
But after more than a decade at the top of the game that has also seen her battle injuries and alcoholism, Smith is facing another fight to be fit for a home Olympic Games. It would be a fitting climax to the career of a standard-bearer for women’s football in the UK, but the player […]
Seven celebrities who are (or were) also inventors
BBC Sir Roger Moore died on 23 May at the age of 89 According to journalist Chrissy Iley, the James Bond star once said in the 1960s his one wish would be for ice cream company Wall’s to produce a choc ice on a stick. The company apparently sent him a version of his wish, […]
Aldi plans to open a new supermarket each week
BBC Aldi’s profits fell 18% last year Aldi plans to open a new store in the UK every week on average for the next two years, its boss has told the BBC. Giles Hurley said the discount retailer would invest £1bn to achieve its aim. “The reality is that almost 50% of the population of […]
Shanaze Reade says Worlds are harder to win than Olympics
The meeting over four days, 24-27 May, includes a two-person Great Britain women’s elite team in the shape of Reade and Sheffield’s Abbie Taylor. Four British men – Liam Phillips, Grant Hill, Curtis Manaton and Tre Whyte – complete the line-up. For many, the event at the National Indoor Arena, external provides the final major […]
Taking an invention from idea to the marketplace
Riut Limited Products like this backpack emerged due to Covid and the lockdown When Dr Fransisco Velasco started work on a Covid ward, he found himself commuting to work with his laptop and notes in a bin bag. His brand new rucksack was made of canvas and could not be sterilised at the end of […]
The blistering drama showing the US’s racist past from a new, first-person perspective
L Kasimu Harris (Credit: L Kasimu Harris) The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel about two boys at an abusive “reform” school and shoots it from their point of view. The effect is profound. There’s no film this year, perhaps no film this decade, that looks and feels like Nickel Boys. The […]