Pacemaker The cricket club in Comber had organised the children’s event There are plans to hold a cross-community sports summer camp at a new venue after an Orange lodge opposed the involvement of a “small group of children from a GAA club”. North Down Cricket Club, based in Comber in County Down, had planned to […]
PA Media Sandie Peggie complained about sharing changing facilities with a transgender doctor A nurse who complained about sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor has been cleared of gross misconduct following disciplinary proceedings by NHS Fife. Sandie Peggie was suspended from her role last year after she objected to Dr Beth Upton, who […]
Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist RBG Kew The renovation will begin in 2027 and will take an estimated five years It’s a makeover on a massive scale – it involves moving 1,300 plants, replacing 16,000 panes of glass and cleaning up hundreds of tonnes of iron. This is the ambitious £50m plan to renovate the […]
Bourigault et al. 2024 Thousands of scans of each participant are recorded and stored as part of the imaging project. Here showing images of the abdomen and major organs Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. […]
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental […]
Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt BBC News Climate & Science Getty Images Reservoirs in the Midlands are showing lower levels than usual The East and West Midlands have officially entered drought, joining the North West and Yorkshire, after yet another hot and dry spell of weather. The Environment Agency announcement follows England’s driest start to […]
PA Media Tánaiste Simon Harris says the impact of 30% tariffs from the United States would be “extraordinary” Ireland is “now at a moment of major economic challenge”, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Harris has said. It comes after US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 30% tariffs on imports from the European Union […]
Listen to the sounds three different plants might make if they were stressed Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them. In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying their […]
Rescue effort under way after boat carrying 18 people capsizes in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands. Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 11 people who went missing after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province, according to a local search and rescue agency. Dozens of rescuers and […]
More than 120 firefighters are tackling a grass fire in Dagenham that temporarily forced some residents from their homes. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said 25 fire engines and a wildfire response vehicle are at the blaze that covers around eight hectares (20 acres) of grass, shrubland and trees, as well as fences and garden […]