Happy Valley creator says TV soaps have become unbelievable
Duncan McGlynn/Shutterstock Wainwright picked up the best drama prize for Happy Valley at the Edinburgh TV Awards Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright has said TV…
High-altitude spying marks new low for US-China ties
Reuters Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden smiled for the cameras at the G20 summit in November Even before America’s top diplomat Anthony Blinken postponed…
Chappell Roan to headline Reading and Leeds festival
Getty Images Singer Chappell Roan and rapper Travis Scott will headline Reading and Leeds festival next year. Metal band Bring Me The Horizon and singer-songwriter…
Michel Barnier: Macron to name new French PM in coming days after government collapses
Parties divided over who should be next PMpublished at 17:20 Greenwich Mean Time 17:20 GMT Laura GozziEurope reporter Already today, many potential names have been…
Scots Tories against fishing policy extension
BBC Douglas Ross said his fellow Scottish Tories MPs could not back any extension to the Common Fisheries Policy Scottish Conservatives could vote down a…
Sweden’s surprising rule for time off
Alamy Stock Photo Sweden has a unique system of granting workers leave to allow them to potentially launch a new business as entrepreneurs (Credit: Alamy…
Netball has ‘nothing to hide’ over lack of drug testing
The FA and RFU “bolster” testing from Ukad with their own funding, while the ECB covered the full cost of testing between 2013 and 2017…
Charity warns some Scots face winter eat-or-heat crisis
Getty Images Some people in Scotland will face a choice of heating their homes or eating this winter, a charity has warned. Citizens Advice Scotland…
Belarus threatens to cut off gas to EU in border row
Reuters Thousands of people are stranded in freezing conditions at the Belarusian-Polish border Belarus’s leader has threatened to cut off gas supplies to Europe if…
Mariéme Jamme
Piero Zagami and Michela Nicchiotti The woman building an army of female coders, one line at a time. Founder of iamtheCODE Mariéme Jamme is on…