Maisie Summers-Newton awarded MBE at Buckingham Palace
Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire Maisie Summers-Newton was awarded her MBE at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace Paralympic swimming champion Maisie Summers-Newton has been made an MBE by the Princess Royal. The 20-year-old, from Wollaston in Northamptonshire, won two gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Miss Summers-Newton was presented her MBE for services to swimming by […]
Humza Yousaf reaches out to opponents ahead of no confidence votes
Getty Images Humza Yousaf has written to Scotland’s opposition parties asking them to find “common ground” ahead of confidence votes in his leadership. The first minister is facing a serious challenge at Holyrood following the collapse of the SNP government’s power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens. But his appeal was immediately rejected by the Scottish […]
Women’s Super League: Manchester City must show ‘the fire’ against Chelsea
Gareth Taylor wants to see “the fire” in his Manchester City players’ eyes when they host Chelsea in a Women’s Super League fixture he has called a “must-win” for their title chances. Leaders Chelsea have a game in hand and are two points clear of third-placed City, in a four-way title race. And Taylor knows […]
Welsh Labour agrees to plans for more politicians in Welsh Parliament
BBC Mark Drakeford arrived for the conference in Cardiff Bay on Saturday afternoon Welsh Labour has agreed to back leader Mark Drakeford’s proposals to expand the Senedd and change how it is elected. A specially-held conference in Cardiff Bay agreed with plans that will see the number of Senedd members increase from 60 to 96. […]
Microsoft says 668 more jobs to go
Getty Images LinkedIn owner Microsoft has announced a fresh round of job cuts, with around 670 roles set to go. The social network company says the jobs affected are across its engineering, talent and finance teams. “Talent changes are a difficult, but necessary and regular part of managing our business,” the firm wrote in a […]
‘BBC fuelled Diana’s paranoia’ and vaccine success
The Daily Mail leads, like many others, with Thursday’s publication of a report into how the former Panorama journalist Martin Bashir obtained his interview with Princess Diana in 1995. The paper reports that an independent inquiry, led by retired judge Lord Dyson, found the BBC had fallen short of its “high standards of integrity and […]
Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester
Atash Shakarami Nika was just 16 years old when she disappeared during protests against Iran’s strict dress code for women An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says. It has let us map what happened […]
Smart home gadgets in domestic abuse warning
Getty Images A list offering guidance to those affected by smart home devices being used to control or harass them within abusive relationships has been published online. It is largely aimed at women. A recent report by the New York Times detailed examples of “technology-facilitated abuse”. This involves devices being activated remotely in order to […]
Sarina Wiegman: England manager ‘had to pretend to be a boy’ to play football as a child
England manager Sarina Wiegman says she “had to pretend to be a boy” to play football as a child in the Netherlands. Wiegman, 51, went on to win more than 100 caps for her country as a player before moving into coaching, leading the Netherlands to the women’s Euros title in 2017. “When I started […]
Female engineers deleting myth that tech is for men
Growing up, Zoe Thomas never thought she could work in computing “I foolishly thought coding was for men good at maths.” Zoe Thomas, 29, from Caerphilly, felt she needed a new challenge but never thought she could work with computers. But after taking evening classes in coding she switched careers from customer service to software […]