The underwater ‘kites’ generating electricity as they move
Tim Ecott Business reporter, Tórshavn Minesto The energy-generating kites “fly” under the water, tethered to the seabed A pair of sleek, winged machines are “flying” – or at least swimming – beneath the dark waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Known as “sea dragons” or “tidal kites”, they look like aircraft, but […]
‘The world’s longest and most spectacular hijacking’
Bangor Daily News Airline official Norman Kaye looks out at hijacked TWA85 at Bangor airport, Maine At the high point of the 1960s spate of hijackings, a plane was held up on average once every six days in the United States. Fifty years ago this week, Raffaele Minichiello was responsible for the “longest and most […]
Trump says Zelensky to sign ‘very big agreement’ in US on Friday – live updates
No security guarantees in initial agreement, Zelensky sayspublished at 13:29 Greenwich Mean Time 13:29 GMTBreaking James WaterhouseUkraine correspondent in Kyiv Image source, Reuters President Zelensky says he hopes an initial mineral agreement with the US “will lead to further deals”, but confirmed no American security guarantees have been agreed yet. The deal was referred to […]
Clare Smyth talks long hours and chopping onions with blogger Rosie Bensberg
MARTIN EBERLEN Rosie Bensberg is a 23-year-old food blogger from Oxford who’s gone from learning to cook carbonara with her dad to graduating with a Cordon Bleu diploma. Clare Smyth, 40, grew up on a farm in County Antrim to become the world’s best female chef and cater for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s […]
Could English wine conquer the world?
Daniel Thomas Business reporter BBC Lucy Fernandez from Toronto says she wouldn’t buy Chapel Down’s white wine France, Italy and Spain are some of the world’s best known wine producing countries but could a growing English wine making industry ever threaten their dominance? At English winemaker Chapel Down the opinions of a group of tourists […]
How the new coronavirus will finally get a proper name
Jasmine Taylor-Coleman BBC News Reuters Volunteers disinfect a railway station in Hunan province, China It has infected thousands of people, closed borders and put parts of China into lockdown. But the virus causing the outbreak of illness does not yet have a proper name. It has been referred to as the coronavirus. But that is […]
Dairy giant Arla says driver crisis hitting milk supply
Arla Foods Dairy giant Arla, which supplies milk to all major UK supermarkets, has said a lorry driver shortage has forced it to cut back on its deliveries. UK managing director Ash Amirahmadi said the firm normally supplied 2,400 stores a day, but had been experiencing driver shortages since early April. “Last Saturday, there were […]
DUP calls passport plan ‘a distraction dish’
BBC A Covid vaccine passport QR code for domestic use in Northern Ireland can be downloaded through the COVIDCert NI app The Covid-19 passport plan is ministers serving a “distraction dish” that will not relieve the pressures on hospitals, the DUP has said. People will have to provide a passport or proof of a Covid […]
UK pig exports ‘facing a crisis’
BBC There are currently about 100,000 pigs stuck on UK farms, according to the National Pig Association A “perfect storm” of Covid impacts and post-Brexit bureaucracy threaten to plunge British pig farmers into a crisis, an industry body has warned. The National Pig Association (NPA) said there were 100,000 animals in the UK unable to […]
Government accused of ‘rowing back’ on workers’ rights
Getty Images Employers’ groups and trade unions have expressed concern at the lack of an Employment Bill in the Queen’s Speech. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had previously promised such a bill amid fears that workers’ rights could be watered down after the UK left the EU. But Downing Street blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the […]