Carmarthenshire broadband firm Broadway Partners hits trouble
BBC Residents in Carmarthenshire are seeking clarity over their broadband situation Some rural communities say they are “in limbo” after one of their broadband service providers went into administration. Broadway Partners had been hoping to deploy its own full fibre broadband (FTTP) to homes in mid and west Wales. Some residents in Carmarthenshire are now […]
Jamie Foxx injured in altercation at his birthday dinner
Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx’s birthday dinner was cut short after he was involved in an altercation at a Beverly Hills restaurant, leaving him needing stitches, his representative said. The Django Unchained and Ray star was celebrating his 57th birthday on Friday. Someone at another table “threw a glass that hit him in the mouth” and […]
Several hundred feared dead after Cyclone Chido
Watch: Cars smashed and walls knocked down following Mayotte cyclone The search for survivors in Mayotte, a French island territory in the Indian Ocean, continued on Sunday after it was hit by a powerful cyclone. Rescue workers are still attempting to reach some communities and it is feared the eventual death toll could stretch into […]
Australia expels Vietnamese woman over pork haul
Australian Department of Agriculture Authorities said the woman was found with raw pork, quail, pate and squid Australian authorities have expelled a Vietnamese woman after officials found 10kg of undeclared food in her luggage. The 45-year-old arrived at Sydney airport on Saturday with raw pork, quail, pate, squid and other food items, officials said. It […]
Nando’s employees call for changes to cleaning pay policy
Getty Images Staff at the chicken chain Nando’s claim they sometimes have to clean its restaurants without pay. Current and former Nando’s employees at multiple restaurants told the BBC they had to scrub cookers and disinfect toilets after being clocked out. One claimed the same mops were used in toilets and kitchens while another said […]
Queen’s Baton Relay in Wales
“Host sisters” proud to be nominated for baton stage The Queen’s Baton Relay has arrived in Wales to tour the nation before the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The baton will spend five days in Wales, celebrating community heroes. Almost 400 baton carriers will take it from Anglesey on Wednesday through to Swansea on Sunday, stopping […]
Britain ‘floundering’ in online mephedrone crackdown
He said: “I don’t want to get to a situation where I have to go to the home secretary every month and ask for something else to be banned. “It’s a new highly profitable industry. It’s a game between the chemical manufacturers who are obviously quite smart chemists, internet dealers and the law.” Critics say […]
Who’s posting extreme ‘terror pranks’?
Met Police Security footage shows the panic caused by a prank at London’s National Portrait Gallery Fake bombs, staged murders, stunts that resemble acid attacks – as competition for eyeballs on YouTube gets fiercer every day, popular vloggers are resorting to extreme pranks to get clicks. Arya Mosallah’s video channel had more than 650,000 subscribers. […]
Mortgages fuel Brazilian housing boom
“In Brazil there are eight million families who do not have a house to live in,” says Mr Crestana. “That means 30 million people, equivalent to the whole population of Argentina, do not have a house. “So on the demand side we have nothing to worry about for the next 15 years at least,” he […]
UK-based chip designer sold to US firm Nvidia
Getty Images/ARM UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia. The deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn. ARM’s technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices. Nvidia has promised to keep […]