How artificial intelligence may be making you buy things
Getty Images If you are getting told off for spending too much on wine, maybe you can blame it on artificial intelligence The shopping lists we used to scribble on the back of an envelope are increasingly already known by the supermarkets we frequent. Firstly via the loyalty cards we scan at checkouts, and more […]
Scottish FA team up with Uefa to grow girls grassroots football
This year there were 1,515 Scottish Women’s Football registered players aged 12-13 and just 533 players aged 16-17. The programme may well nurture the next crop of Scotland stars who have been inspired by a Scottish presence in the Champions League or Scotland qualifying for the World Cup. However, for Gillies reaching girls at this […]
Wales 20mph: Top Tory’s 20mph tweet damaged Senedd
Getty Images The default 20mph speed limit has been in place in Wales since September 2023 The Conservative leader in the Senedd has been judged to have brought the Welsh Parliament into disrepute by calling Wales’ 20mph speed limit a “blanket” policy on social media. Andrew RT Davies had insisted that his choice of words […]
British woman ‘proud’ to be in world sailing race
A British sailor hoping to follow in the footsteps of Dame Ellen MacArthur by sailing solo, non-stop, around the world has said she is “so proud” to be one of six women taking part. Pip Hare, 46, was brought up in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and learned to sail with her parents on the River Deben in […]
The Queen praises the ‘courage and sacrifice’ of D-Day
The Queen recalls words from her father, King George VI The Queen has paid tribute to the “heroism, courage and sacrifice” of those who died in the D-Day landings. She was joined by 16 world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, in Portsmouth to commemorate the 75th anniversary of history’s largest combined land, air and […]
Should we trust big tech with our health data?
Getty Images Cognitivity Neurosciences’ app can spot potential problems that can then be flagged up to a specialist Sitting, tablet in hand, I’m playing a weird kind of cognitive video game. Split-second images flash in front of me, and I’m supposed to indicate with my thumbs whether I’d seen an animal or something else. It’s […]
Strategy to focus on crime prevention
BBC A smaller jail will be built at Cornton Vale to house 80 women prisoners The Scottish government has announced a greater emphasis on crime prevention as part of its new justice strategy. Justice Secretary Michael Matheson published the new priorities as he started the demolition of Scotland’s only women’s prison at Cornton Vale. Two […]
Syria: UK ‘keeping close eye’ on British jihadists
Reuters Dozens of Britons who travelled to support jihadist groups are believed to be held in camps in northern Syria Any prospect of British jihadists returning from Syria would be “a concern” and the UK is keeping “a very close eye” on the situation, a Home Office minister has said. Dame Angela Eagle, the minister […]
Fears others will suffer when lockdown lifts
Jasmine Hayer Jasmine Hayer has started a blog to help raise awareness of the symptoms of long Covid A former health coach who said her life had been “destroyed” by long Covid is worried more people will suffer from it when restrictions are lifted. Jasmine Hayer, 31, had to give up her life in London […]
Keir Starmer welcomes fall of Assad’s ‘barbaric regime’ in Syria
Reuters UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “barbaric regime” in Syria, as he called for the restoration of “peace and stability”. The ousted Syrian president – who Russian state media report is in Moscow having been granted asylum by Russia – fled the country after his government fell […]