Vodafone clashes with UK’s competition watchdog over Three merger
Vodafone and Three have rejected claims by the UK’s competition watchdog that their proposed merger would lead to higher prices for millions of mobile users. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has “provisionally concluded” the deal would weaken competition between mobile networks. It has particular concerns that customers who are least able to afford mobile […]
Marmite-owner Unilever snaps up snack brand Graze
Graze Anthony Fletcher is chief executive of Graze Marmite-owner Unilever has bought healthy snack brand Graze, which started life a decade ago as a snack box delivery service. Graze produces nuts, seeds, trail mixes and snack bars, with no artificial ingredients and Unilever said the purchase would accelerate its presence in healthy foods. The sale […]
Solar power could help Bridlington Town cut ticket prices
A non-league football club has completed the first phase of the installation of 400 rooftop solar panels after being taken over by a green energy firm. Bridlington Town was bought by HDM Worldwide, a Hull-based company, earlier this year. The panels at the 2,800-capacity Mounting Systems Stadium have been installed as part of a project […]
The actor portraying Paul Hollywood in GBBO musical
Danny Kaan The real Paul Hollywood with John Owen-Jones, who is playing a character based on him How on earth do you whisk the Great British Bake Off into a musical? “That was the million dollar question,” said West End star John Owen-Jones, who is tackling his hardest role yet based on Paul Hollywood. The […]
How Vienna prepared itself for a 5,000-year flood
Getty Images Vienna escaped Storm Boris relatively unscathed due to its flood defences (Credit: Getty Images) Storm Boris is the latest deluge in one of the most flood-plagued periods in Europe in the past 500 years, but one city escaped relatively unscathed. The steps Vienna took to prepare for extreme rainfall may hold lessons for […]
India central bank hikes interest rates after two years
Getty Images Prices of food and fuel have soared in India India’s central bank has raised the benchmark interest rate for the first time in two years in an attempt to rein in high consumer prices. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised the repo rate – at which it lends money to commercial banks […]
Cranfield University develops 3D printing parts with Mars potential
Components used in a 3D printer that could be used on future missions to Mars were developed by scientists at a Bedfordshire university. Cranfield University helped to develop the 3D printer in collaboration with Airbus before it was sent to the International Space Station in January, where astronauts printed a metal part in space for […]
Netflix star Keri Russell wants to learn Welsh
Getty Images A star of TV series The Diplomat wants to learn Welsh to speak to her son in the language. Keri Russell is in a long term relationship with Cardiff-born actor Matthew Rhys, who she met on the set of spy drama The Americans. The 48-year-old said she had picked up the basics from […]
Pandemic putting big pressure on NI horticulture
BBC It’s known as the Orchard County, but Armagh is also home to a thriving trade in flowers. Every year Shane Donnelly grows millions of lilies and scented stock for supply to florists & supermarkets. But with the coronavirus lockdown orders plummeted. Supermarkets were concentrating on stocking their shelves with food. Non-essential items were not […]
Huddersfield charity partners with cancer app to boost wellbeing
The Ella Dawson Foundation The Ella Dawson Foundation was set up in memory of Ella who died from cancer in 2021 The family of a 24-year-old woman who died from cancer is helping to develop an app aiming to improve the wellbeing of young people with the disease. Huddersfield-based charity the Ella Dawson Foundation is […]