Tesco pay claim and Musk’s rocket success
Hello. Here’s your morning briefing: Getty Images Tesco faces record equal pay claim The supermarket chain Tesco could face a bill of £4bn in a case over equal pay for women, writes BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed. Lawyers say female staff could get up to £20,000 in back pay, having received less money than men […]
‘Magic Monday’ as lockdown easing to begin
EPA Mr Johnson will review the lockdown with his cabinet on Thursday The majority of Thursday’s papers are focused on the prospect of some possible changes to the lockdown. It is not the only front page to do so. The Daily Mail proclaims “Hurrah! Lockdown freedom beckons”, while the Daily Express goes for: “First steps […]
Chelsea: Five games which defined Women’s Super League title win
Chelsea’s 33-game unbeaten run ended when they lost to a struggling Brighton side in February. Manager Emma Hayes had left Ji So-yun, Pernille Harder and Fran Kirby on the bench but needed to bring all three on 10 minutes into the second half. They could not find the winner, though, and Megan Connolly scored for […]
Hunt rules out change to abortion law
Reuters Jeremy Hunt has ruled out any changes to abortion law if he becomes the UK’s next prime minister. The Tory leadership contender has been criticised after saying his “personal view” was that the legal time limit for an abortion should be reduced from 24 weeks to 12. But he told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg: […]
NWSL: Serena Williams & Natalie Portman invest in new LA women’s football team
A group including Serena Williams will fund a new Los Angeles-based women’s team to launch in time for the 2022 National Women’s Soccer League season. Tennis great Williams joins several other high-profile women, including Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, in founding the female-majority group. The team name and home venue are yet to be decided, but […]
Breaking the contraception taboo in India
PFI Nirma Devi has persuaded 200 women in her village to talk about and use contraception Contraception is a taboo topic in India – resulting in high fertility rates. In Bihar, one of the country’s poorest states, women have an average of three or more children. But in a remote village, one woman is trying […]
Lioness Millie Bright set to receive Freewoman of Derbyshire honour
PA Media The Chelsea defender was born in Derbyshire Millie Bright is set to receive an honour from her former local council. Derbyshire County Council said it planned to make the England captain an Honorary Freewoman of the county, after the Lionesses reached the final of the Women’s World Cup last month. The Chelsea defender […]
Week ahead at Holyrood: Controversial parking levy debate
Thinkstock Plans to give councils the power to introduce a parking levy have proven controversial Buses, trains and automobiles will be the focus of MSPs attention this week as Holyrood when they debate the Transport Bill. And it all ties in with that other B-word – Budget, not Brexit. In order to strike a Budget […]
The app that makes writing less lonely
Inkvite If you see a writer in a movie, most likely she (or he) will be tapping on a laptop. But many young writers are doing it on mobile phones, and sometimes in teams. Daniel, who uses the pen name LisVender, begins the story, which his writing team decides to call A Small Case of […]
Breakaway Super League, Tokyo’s ‘Covid Games’, cricket’s racism crisis – a huge year for sports news
China will continue to cause controversy, with February’s Beijing Winter Games approaching, and not only because of the challenge that organisers now face over the Omicron coronavirus variant. Already hit by a flurry of diplomatic boycotts because of widespread allegations of Chinese human rights atrocities, there will be significant interest in how athletes handle the […]