How an Australian business is trying to transform mental health at work
Klawe Rzeczy/ BBC (Credit: Klawe Rzeczy/ BBC) Cherie Clonan, CEO of marketing agency The Digital Picnic, explains how perks like free dinners, burnout-preventing days off and even ADHD assessments have boosted employee wellbeing – and her bottom line. If you walk into the offices of The Digital Picnic (TDP) in Melbourne, Australia, there’s a high […]
Coventry United Women: Lee Burch named as new manager
Coventry United Women have appointed Lee Burch as their new manager for the upcoming 2022-23 Women’s Championship season. Burch has experience of managing in the top two tiers of English women’s football having previously been at Millwall, Yeovil and London Bees. He guided London Bees to fifth place in the 2019-20 Championship season before leaving […]
Women’s FA Cup final: Emma Hayes – ‘I’m only a role model because I’m female’
Chelsea Ladies manager Emma Hayes says people call her a “role model” because she is female when she wants to be known for her coaching success instead. Hayes’ team face Arsenal in Saturday’s Women’s FA Cup final at Wembley (17:10 BST), which will be live on BBC One. The 41-year-old, who is 33 weeks pregnant […]
Result hands Trump free rein
Reuters Donald Trump has done it again. Eight years after his stunning upset of Hillary Clinton and four years after Joe Biden evicted him from the White House, the former president is about to return to power. On the back of a victory that swept across the key early voting battleground states – and improved […]
Families may ‘pay the cost of making homes green’
Getty Images New legislation for new builds is not expected to make the installation of solar panels mandatory Families will have to shoulder the cost of making homes eco-friendly if the government does not tighten regulations for new builds, residents have said. Ministers are preparing to publish new regulations for new builds, but the legislation […]
Australian football suffers despite Matildas
Getty Images The Matildas have become national heroes And yet, these days, Matildas captain Sam Kerr is the face of football in the country – something unimaginable for a female player even a decade ago. So watching her beloved team kick off their World Cup campaign on home soil, you’d be forgiven for thinking that […]
Norfolk college helping students get ‘heat pump ready’
Getty Images Heat pumps are expected to be the main replacement used for traditional gas boilers A college said it hoped its new training centre would help meet a need for more engineers to install heat pumps. Easton College, near Norwich, said its new Renewables Hub had £100,000 of equipment for students and apprentices to […]
Trial begins for Nxivm ‘sex cult’ leader
Reuters Suspected sex cult leader Keith Raniere appears in court A Brooklyn courtroom has heard opening statements at the sex trafficking and conspiracy trial of Keith Raniere, the leader of a suspected sex cult. Speaking in court on Tuesday, Assistant US Attorney Tanya Hajjar called Mr Raniere a “predator” who exploited women, including a 15-year-old […]
Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
Alamy It’s no secret that images of models are often retouched to make their bodies look thinner or curvier in certain places, to lengthen their legs to mannequin-esque proportions, or to smooth out their skin and widen their eyes. From Sunday, in France, any commercial image that has been digitally altered to make a model […]
Hull and Blackpool businesses given Government heat pump funding
Two businesses, in Hull and Blackpool, have been awarded multi-million pound government funding to increase the production of heat pumps. Ideal Heating, based on National Avenue, has been awarded £5.2m alongside cylinder manufacturer Gledhill. Both are subsidiaries of Groupe Atlantic. Miatta Fahnbulleh, minister for energy consumers, visited Ideal Heating’s headquarters in Hull and national training […]