Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
‘How we quit our jobs to travel’
Daniel Noll Features correspondent how we quit Quitting your job to travel is not only an option for those who go solo. Here is how…
Cumbrian F1 Academy driver Jess Edgar shows ‘girls are good enough’
Cumbrian racing driver Jess Edgar has praised the success of the inaugural F1 Academy series in boosting prospects for women in motorsport. The 18-year-old is…
A turning point for Indian sport?
Getty Images Manika Batra celebrates after winning the gold in the women’s singles table tennis With 66 medals, this year’s Commonwealth Games marks one of…
Why do con artists and fraudsters fascinate us?
Reuters Anna Sorokin swindled hotels, banks and her friends The story of Anna Sorokin, the German woman who pretended to be a billionaire heiress, swindling…
Arsenal Women 3-0 Aston Villa Women: Frida Maanum scores twice and makes one
Arsenal beat Aston Villa to set up a home Continental League Cup semi-final tie against holders Manchester City. Frida Maanum scored the first with a…
Irish government: Who are the kingmakers?
Aoife Moore Dublin reporter PA Media Michael Lowry, Barry Heneghan and Kevin “Boxer” Moran of the Regional Independent Group in Dublin Ireland’s parliament will sit…
‘Young people don’t have mom in the kitchen’
Jacqueline Schneider Features correspondent American food icon Ina Garten sits down with the BBC’s Katty Kay on Influential The American television personality, author and food…
Councillor ‘steps aside’ over court reference
Brendan Hughes BBC News NI political reporter BBC Brian Tierney, a former mayor of Derry and Strabane, gave a court reference for an Irish soldier…
British Cycling wants a million more women riding bikes
Prior to the 2008 Games, British women had won only one Olympic cycling medal: Yvonne McGregor’s bronze in 2000., external But female British riders claimed…
Wheelchair Tennis Masters to be staged at Olympic Park
London’s Olympic Park will host the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters for three years starting in 2014. The competition is the season finale to the wheelchair…