Odeon cinema set to open in 2025
A city shopping centre will soon have a new cinema, replacing one which closed last year. Cabot Circus in Bristol has been without a cinema since the Showcase De Lux there closed in 2023. A new Odeon theatre will open in the same place, likely in 2025. Cabot’s owner, Hammerson, said it had canvassed customers, […]
Herefordshire Council’s parking machines to be updated
Pay and display machines in Herefordshire’s council-run car parks are being temporarily deactivated to allow upgrades so people can continue to use cash and cards at the sites. The machines currently rely on 3G for transactions – the wireless network previously used by mobile phones. But 3G has been superseded by 4G and 5G, and […]
Sewage spills into Norfolk Broads river for nine days
As storms have swept across the county, an overflow has been spilling sewage into a Broads river for nine days. According to Anglian Water’s live monitoring assets, waste has been discharged into the River Ant from a pipe in Horning, Norfolk, since 19 November. The company has blamed persistent high groundwater levels, which have not […]
Lincolnshire Co-op staff get body cameras due to ‘daily abuse’
Bodycam footage shows moment shop worker in Lincolnshire is attacked by shoplifter A supermarket chain is giving body cameras to staff following a rise in abuse by customers. Lincolnshire Co-op has spent £200,000 issuing the technology at its 99 food shops and 44 pharmacies. Security manager Mark Foulds said there had been “a steady increase” […]
Russian spies surveilled Ukrainian troops at US airbase, trial hears
Supplied Vanya Gaberova, Katrin Ivanova and Tihomir Ivanchev, all from London, deny a charge of conspiracy to spy A Russian spy ring operating out of the UK tried to use sophisticated surveillance equipment to compromise and track the mobile phones of Ukrainian soldiers being trained at a US airbase in Germany, a court has heard. […]
Kaduna’s Tudunbiri village mourns deaths a year on
Gift Ufuoma / BBC An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms with the killing of his seven-year-old daughter in drone strikes by Nigeria’s military during a religious festival in their large but sparsely populated village exactly a year ago. The military said the bombing was caused by “a failure of […]
When will UK interest rates fall, making mortgages cheaper?
BBC The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4.75% in December – following two falls in 2024. Interest rates affect the mortgage, credit card and savings rates for millions of people across the UK. The first drop in rates for more than four years came in August, followed by another in November. Some […]
Aveva invests £1.4m in new research and development centre
SOPA Images/Getty Images Cambridge-based Aveva, which first established a presence in Londonderry in 2015, says the investment in a new research and development centre will double its workforce in the north west A software company is to create 23 jobs through a £1.4m investment in a new research and development (R&D) centre in Londonderry. Cambridge-based […]
‘It is a wonderful thing we are still here’
Lewis & Cooper Lewis & Cooper was founded in 1899 on the High Street in Northallerton An independent food shop is celebrating 125 years of trading in a North Yorkshire town. Lewis & Cooper, which describes itself as a gourmet grocery store, has been trading in Northallerton since 1899. Although its old trolley and pulley […]
‘I feel intimidated and judged at the Jobcentre’
Getty Images York and North Yorkshire is one of eight areas to trial ways of getting people back to work A £10m government funding package has been announced to help unemployed people in York and North Yorkshire get back to work. The programme was announced alongside the government’s Get Britain Working white paper, with the […]