Category: Technology, Culture, Food, World
Bar and restaurant owners react to measures
PA Media The NI Executive has announced that delivery and takeaway-only services will be allowed from food establishments from Friday, with shorter periods for selling…
Bedford house fire victim thanks charity for support
BBC Calara Joseph and her four children “lost everything” after a fire destroyed their house in Bedford A woman whose home was destroyed in a…
Waitrose bans sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s
Alamy The ban by Waitrose follows concerns over the impact of sugar and caffeine on children Waitrose is to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy…
NI’s younger workers hit hardest by pandemic
John Campbell BBC News NI Economics & Business Editor Connor Lilley says his move from bar manager to trainee welder has been good Younger age…
India bans tourism at holy Jain site after protests
Getty Images There have been countrywide protests against the decision Sammed Shikharji is located in an environmentally sensitive area atop Jharkhand state’s highest mountain. The…
Call for rethink on ditching thousands of EU laws
Adrian Browne BBC Wales political reporter BBC National Farmers Union Cymru fears important agricultural regulations could be lost UK government plans to scrap thousands of…
Are we going to get a ‘pudding tax’?
Getty Images After a Christmas of over-indulgence for many, the idea of a “pudding tax” may seem like a good idea. Public health experts have…
Oasis contract requesting ‘sober-speaking’ staff to be sold
Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images The auctioneers say Oasis fans could whip up a “bidding frenzy” An Oasis gig contract requesting “sober-speaking” helpers and “quality lager” for…
TV and film sectors ‘need government help’
Teleri Glyn Jones BBC Wales News BBC Production on the next series of His Dark Materials halted when lockdown began Independent drama production in Wales…
The charity helping women move out of prostitution into work
Lucy Adams BBC Scotland social affairs correspondent BBC Sarah told the BBC her first encounter with sex work came when she was a 19-year-old student…