The first migrants have been detained under the UK’s new “one in, one out” deportation deal with France after crossing the English Channel. Pictures showed the migrants wearing life jackets disembarking from Border Force boats in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force. The Home Office said those detained will…
A male Montagu’s harrier in a wheat field – credit, Sumeetmoghe CC 4.0. BY-SA Adrift amongst a sea of wheat on an English farm, 4 extremely rare birds have successfully fledged, and are almost ready to strike out on their own. The successfully raised chicks are Montagu’s harriers, England’s rarest breeding bird, and the news…
A record number of 18-year-olds are likely to get into their first choice of university this year, the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) has said – even if they narrowly miss their grades. Dr Jo Saxton said universities were keen to enrol UK undergraduates because there was more “uncertainty” around international…
Muhammad Ali and Michael J Fox, two of the most famous Parkinson’s patients, prepare to speak to the Senate – public domain For 10 million worldwide patients with Parkinson’s disease, news out of Japan that a large pharmaceutical corporation is seeking approval for a new stem cell-based treatment should be hugely encouraging. Following a successful…
PA Media A poster for BrewDog has been banned by the advertising watchdog for implying that alcohol can beat boredom, loneliness or frustration. The ad for the firm’s Wingman beer, seen in May, was headlined: “BrewDog. Always Got Your Back.” It continued beneath: “Some things in life go AWOL – WiFi fails, the weather turns…
34 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee released documents describing his invention of the World Wide Web. The English computer scientist designed and built the first web browser to access the new information management system. His Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) would be used for contacting informational servers anywhere in the world, the first of which was…
Carol Kirkwood Lead weather forecaster BBC Sometimes I’ll be walking around a supermarket, and a shopper will approach me in the aisle. “I hosted a barbecue on Saturday and you told me it was going to rain,” they will say. “And it didn’t. Why did you get it wrong?”. Or the opposite: they planned for…
British Adventurer Sets Sail to Become First Person to Circumnavigate the Globe by Land, Air and Sea
James Ketchell training in his yacht – credit, Premier Marinas Englishman James Ketchell is looking to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe on land, in the air, and at sea as he sets off in a sailboat from a harbor in Hampshire. 30,000 miles and 9 months now await Ketchell, who is undertaking…
Emma Saunders Culture reporter Getty Images TV presenter Jay Blades has been charged with two counts of rape. Mr Blades, best known for hosting BBC show The Repair Shop, will appear in court next Wednesday over the allegations, police said. A West Mercia Police spokesperson said: “Jason Blades, 55, of Claverley in Shropshire, has been…
80 years ago today, Plaid Cymru or the Party of Wales, was founded with the aim of supporting Welsh culture in government as the progress of the 20th century led to fears that the Welsh language would become extinct. From the beginning, Plaid Cymru was stuck between Labor, the Liberals, and the Tories, arguing that the greatest…
