Races won by women up 76% in five years as ‘Just Jockeys’ campaign launched
Horse racing is a rare sport in that women regularly compete against men at the top level on an equal footing. The campaign, which features female and male riders including champion Flat jockey Oisin Murphy, is aimed at showing there is no need to differentiate between the exploits of male and female jockeys – they […]
Charlotte Jenner: Apprentice jockey calls for rides ‘equality’
“Sometimes it is strength and they can be as strong, but it’s also finesse. I had a flat horse a little while ago, all kinds of really top male jockeys rode him, one day I had a top women jockey on him and he won when she rode him.” The British Horseracing Authority insists there […]
New tax divides India’s booming computer games sector
Kamala Thiagarajan in Madurai, India Getty Images Charanjot Singh, closest to the camera, plays football computer games for India Charanjot Singh plays football professionally, only he doesn’t wear a pair of boots and run around on a pitch. The 20-year-old instead earns a living playing football computer games, including the tournaments organised by the electronic […]
Bianca Devins murder images flood Instagram
Williams/Devins family Bianca Devins Instagram is struggling to remove images of the body of a 17-year-old – apparently posted by the man who has now been charged with her murder. Bianca Devins was killed in Utica, New York, on Sunday morning. The images were posted on Brandon Clark’s account on messaging app Discord, where other […]
Japan’s tennis star Kimiko Date on her comeback career
Getty Images Kimiko Date, one of this year’s BBC 100 Women, was the first Asian female tennis player to be ranked in the world’s top 10. But arguably her biggest achievement was to come out of retirement at the age of 37 to enjoy a 10-year swansong that only ended in September. She was called […]
How the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign is tackling salary inequity
Klawe Rzeczy Dianne Greyson, founder of the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign, talks to the BBC about staggering wage disparities for ethnic minority groups (Credit: Klawe Rzeczy) On Ethnicity Pay Gap Day, campaign founder Dianne Greyson enters the BBC’s Executive Lounge to talk about the savvy strategy to tackle salary disparity around the globe. A shifting […]
Tanya Scholtz: South Africa call-up for Guernsey-based accountant
But for the pandemic Scholtz could have made her debut for the Springboks already – she took part in a training camp with South Africa before the onset of Covid-19. Alongside players from famous South African club names such as the Sharks, Western Province and the Bulls, Guernsey’s Scholtz is the only Europe-based player to […]
A Bollywood marital drama that’s relevant even after 50 years
Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi SMM Ausaja archive As the 1973 Bollywood hit film Abhimaan, with superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya in the lead, turns 50 this year, the BBC examines the enduring charm and impact of this movie. Amitabh Bachchan is best-known for his role as the angry young man of Bollywood […]
‘I want Telford sex abuse inquiry as a model for other areas’
Tom Crowther KC said he was proud of the work done in Telford since the inquiry The man who led the inquiry into the Telford child sex abuse scandal believes children are safer today and will be in the future. Tom Crowther KC has spoken after agreeing to work with the government on five local […]
Gloucestershire ‘well placed’ to benefit from AI investment
Reuters The county’s cyber industry has long benefitted from government intelligence hub GCHQ (pictured) in Cheltenham Tech experts in Gloucestershire expect the county to benefit from investment in Artificial Intelligence. The county is home to government intelligence centre GCHQ. The Prime Minister has announced he wants to “unleash AI” across the UK to boost growth […]