Smoke alarms fail in a third of house fires
Getty Images Industry figures suggest that one in 10 households do not have a working smoke alarm, while 22% never test theirs Lifesaving battery-powered smoke alarms failed in more than a third of house fires in England last year, new analysis shows. Firefighters attended more than 7,500 fires in homes with battery-powered alarms in 2018, […]
Disallowing Sam Dalby goal ‘not within the rules’ – Dundee United’s Jim Goodwin
The United boss said he had met Collum on Thursday. “I am not going to go into too much detail with regards to the type of conversation we had and Willie’s views,” Goodwin said. “I just said to Willie that we all had a meeting at Hampden at the beginning of the season and the […]
National Grid promises to learn lessons from blackout
The National Grid’s operations director explains why nearly one million people lost power on Friday National Grid has said it will “learn the lessons” after nearly one million people across England and Wales lost power on Friday. But director of operations Duncan Burt told the BBC that its systems “worked well” after the “incredibly rare […]
Durham College electric battery centre to boost skills
BBC A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the facility’s opening A training centre aimed at bolstering the region’s electric vehicle battery industry has opened. The National Battery Training and Skills Academy will support hundreds of new recruits for a so-called gigafactory being built next to the Nissan plant on Wearside. It is hoped the Durham facility will […]
Eleven miners brought to surface alive
TV footage from China showed the first miner being brought to the surface after two weeks underground Rescuers in China have freed 11 gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks. TV footage showed the first miner, who was blindfolded to protect his eyes from the light, being lifted out as […]
Suffolk Police control room performance ‘improving enormously’
A project to revamp and modernise a police contact and control room (CCR) has been praised for “enormously” improving its performance. Tim Passmore, Suffolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner, said a £1.4m investment in the scheme was “paying dividends” and he was confident better response times would “play a major role in keeping crime levels down”. […]
What now for the country that bet its security on Wagner?
Feras Kilani BBC Arabic, Mali BBC Children sit in a makeshift classroom at a refugee camp in eastern Mali As Mali fights Islamist militants and separatists, it has turned to Wagner mercenaries for security. But the group’s leader is now presumed dead, UN peacekeepers are leaving and Mali faces a crisis. The BBC’s Feras Kilani […]
Bright picture develops for photo film and prints
Martin Heath & Kate Bradbrook BBC News, Northamptonshire Kate Bradbrook/BBC Adrian Clarke said more young people were coming into his shop to print photos The owners of two photography firms said they had witnessed a rise in young people taking an interest in the technology of yesteryear, with more demand for shooting on film and […]
Farmers could ‘comfortably’ cut emissions by a third
Kevin Keane BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent Getty Images The study suggests using additives in cattle feed Scotland’s farmers could “comfortably” reduce their emissions by 38% over the next 25 years using established technologies, a report has claimed. The study for WWF Scotland said farm level and system-wide changes could see greenhouse gas emissions fall by […]
London-based Napier AI announces more than 100 jobs at new Belfast office
Gráinne Connolly BBC News NI BBC Napier AI’s chief executive Greg Watson, Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald and Invest NI chief executive Kieran Donoghue attended the announcement on Tuesday A London-based artificial intelligence (AI) company is creating more than 100 jobs at its new office in Belfast. Napier AI provides technology to help banks and other […]