Category: Technology, Culture, Food, World
Fife beach ‘worst’ for nurdle pollution
Kevin Keane BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent FIDRA About 450,000 plastic pellets, known as “nurdles”, have been found on a single beach in Fife as part…
Restaurant fish fraud not being caught, experts warn
Getty Images The number of fish samples submitted to the Food Standards Agency is significantly smaller than meat samples Rogue restaurants think they can get…
UK visa plan will not fix lorry driver shortage, says boss
Reuters Plans to offer temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers will not make a big difference to the UK’s skills shortage, the boss of one…
Venezuela to investigate ex-oil tsar over corruption
Reuters Rafael Ramírez was a close associate of former Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez The Venezuela authorities say they are opening a corruption investigation into one…
Russia launches largest drone attack of war on Ukraine
Ukrainian State Emergency Services Emergency services survey the damage following a drone strike in the region of Dnipropetrovsk Russia launched the largest single drone attack…
Feeling the impact of Trump’s foreign worker squeeze
Stav Dimitropoulos Business reporter Jiri Stejskal Jiri Stejskal first came to the US when he was he 27 Jiri Stejskal is the type of entrepreneur…
UK government ‘could retain fisheries negotiations veto’
Kevin Keane BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent Getty Images The UK government would retain a veto over Scotland in international fisheries negotiations, according to a draft…
Can Irish Sea border ‘teething problems’ be solved?
John Campbell BBC News NI Economics & Business Editor Getty Images As Joe Biden was being inaugurated on Wednesday members, of the UK’s shadow cabinet…
Weedkiller glyphosate a ‘substantial’ cancer factor
AFP A US jury has found that one of the world’s most widely-used weedkillers was a “substantial factor” in causing a man’s cancer. Pharmaceutical group…
Aldi looks at online move as shopping habits change
Emma Simpson Business correspondent, BBC News United National Photographers Clive Perkins hasn’t been to a supermarket since March, but he’s just driven to an Aldi…