‘I just want to see how big it was and it’s huge’
Kate Scotter and Mariam Issimdar BBC News, East BBC People gathered at the port and on the beach at Felixstowe to see the Ever Given arrive A huge container ship that disrupted global trade when it got wedged in the Suez Canal has arrived at its berth in Felixstowe. It was welcomed in by dozens […]
Arrests after activists bring Ashton-under-Lyne slaughterhouse to standstill
BBC Activists locked their arms in concrete blocks outside the Tulip plant A meat-processing plant has been brought to a standstill by animal liberation protesters. Activists blocked the entrance to the Tulip factory in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, in protest at the slaughter of pigs at the site. Smash Speciesism is urging the company to change […]
Nia Griffith urges Labour anti-Semitism apology
Nia Griffith said there was “absolutely” a need to apologise Nia Griffith, Labour’s defence spokeswoman, said the party’s handling of the issue “is a shame on us”. She told a BBC Wales election debate the party had not been effective as it should have been in dealing with it. Earlier, Mr Corbyn declined to apologise. […]
Uber sells self-driving cars to focus on profits
Reuters Uber’s self-driving car programme met with setbacks after a deadly crash in Arizona in 2018 Uber is selling its driverless car subsidiary to start-up Aurora Technologies, abandoning a unit that Uber’s founder once hailed as critical to the future of the firm. Aurora, founded in 2017, said the deal will help it “accelerate” its […]
Elephant at Warsaw Zoo to test cannabis-extract oil
Warsaw Zoo Fredzia has been selected to be the first animal at the zoo to be given the hemp oil This year has been a difficult time for Fredzia, a young female African elephant at Warsaw Zoo in the Polish capital. The zoo’s four elephants became three in March, following the death of Erna, the […]
Fife beach ‘worst’ for nurdle pollution
Kevin Keane BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent FIDRA About 450,000 plastic pellets, known as “nurdles”, have been found on a single beach in Fife as part of a UK-wide survey. North Queensferry, about 12 miles from the Ineos Polymers plant where nurdles are produced, recorded the largest number, weighing 9.35kg (20.6lb). In the marine environment, the […]
Restaurant fish fraud not being caught, experts warn
Getty Images The number of fish samples submitted to the Food Standards Agency is significantly smaller than meat samples Rogue restaurants think they can get away with passing off catfish as cod because there is so little testing of seafood, experts have warned. “Fish fraud” sees cheaper fish being passed off or mislabelled as a […]
UK visa plan will not fix lorry driver shortage, says boss
Reuters Plans to offer temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers will not make a big difference to the UK’s skills shortage, the boss of one of Europe’s biggest goods vehicle firms has said. There was no longer an “endless amount of labour” in eastern Europe looking for such jobs, said Jens Romer Sode, chief operating […]
Venezuela to investigate ex-oil tsar over corruption
Reuters Rafael Ramírez was a close associate of former Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez The Venezuela authorities say they are opening a corruption investigation into one of the country’s most influential political figures, the former oil minister Rafael Ramírez. Mr Ramírez ran the state oil company, PDVSA, for 12 years until 2014. Last week he was […]
Russia launches largest drone attack of war on Ukraine
Ukrainian State Emergency Services Emergency services survey the damage following a drone strike in the region of Dnipropetrovsk Russia launched the largest single drone attack on Ukraine on Saturday night, officials have said. Ukraine’s Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ignat, said a “record” 267 Russian drones were launched in a single, coordinated attack. Some 138 […]