Cardiff lifelike dummy helping ultrasound training
Meet Eve. She looks and feels like a patient, but she is in fact a very lifelike dummy, created by a film and TV props company to help a Cardiff tech firm develop cutting edge ultrasound technology. MedaPhor in Cardiff will be using Eve – and more like her – to train in using the […]
My Brexit box: The people stockpiling food
Justyna Kowalczyk Justyna Kowalczyk says the “Brexit box” was her partner’s idea “It might sound a bit crazy,” admits Justyna Kowalczyk. She’s talking about her “Brexit box” tucked under the kitchen table. In the plastic container, which is around the same size as a small box of photocopier paper, she has bottles of tonic water, […]
Elon Musk sued for libel by British Thai cave rescuer
AFP Mr Musk (R) alleged that British diver Mr Unsworth (L) had a “child bride” A British cave diver is suing tech billionaire Elon Musk for defamation after his repeated claims the diver is a child abuser. Vernon Unsworth helped with the rescue of 12 Thai teenagers from a flooded cave in July. Mr Musk […]
Phone networks agree rural coverage boost in NI
Getty Images Dependent on planning permission, up to 11 mobile phone masts could be built in Northern Ireland Three mobile phone networks have agreed a deal to build and share masts to improve 4G in rural parts of Northern Ireland. O2, Three and Vodafone could construct up to 11 masts. The building of the masts […]
Facts are up against fear ahead of Fukushima water release
Watch: Shaimaa Khalil visits the treatment plant to see how it works In a white coat and gloves, Ai Kimura is cutting up a fish sample at the Tarachine lab, about an hour’s drive from the now-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s eastern coast. Four times a year, Ms Kimura and her team […]
Row over Tayside health board’s use of charity fund
BBC NHS Tayside has needed tens of millions of pounds in loans from the government in recent years Scotland’s health secretary has been urged to step in to settle a row over NHS Tayside’s use of charity funds. It has been claimed the health board used cash from an endowment fund to cover planned expenses […]
Up to 175 jobs cut at Hereford’s Gelpack companies
Google Maps Gelpack Industrial Limited and Gelpack Excelsior Limited had suffered “difficult” trading conditions, administrators KPMG said Up to 175 people have been made redundant at two plastic packaging companies. Staff at Gelpack Industrial Limited and Gelpack Excelsior Limited in Hereford were told the news earlier, days after the firms went into administration. Despite Gelpack […]
Google and Microsoft bosses pledge support to India
Getty Images Google boss Sundar Pichai (L) and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella have both pledged to help India fight the pandemic Google and Microsoft have pledged to support India as it tackles record numbers of coronavirus cases that have overwhelmed the country’s hospitals. Sundar Pichai, the head of Google and parent company Alphabet, said he was […]
Young people behind a ‘rising trend’
Vinayak Shanker Sharma Ripple says it is Cardiff’s first zero-waste store Young consumers are behind a boost to “ethical” companies, according to a business academic. Jonathan Deacon of the University of South Wales said Generation Z is forcing companies to “think beyond their profits” to attract new clients. The number of zero-waste shops in Wales […]
A&E chaos and ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’
A number of the papers report on the “serious concerns” raised by NHS inspectors at an overcrowded A&E department in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. the Times leads on detail of how on one occasion an inspector had to intervene to stop someone falling from a trolley as they tried to push themselves over the […]