Getty Images A significant number of Labour MPs are threatening to vote against the government’s working-age welfare reform plan when it comes before the House of Commons next week. The reforms are designed to reduce the overall working-age welfare bill by about £5bn a year by the end of the decade. The rebel MPs have…
The badger bridge at Marazanvose under construction – credit, SWNS Nationally protected badgers have just been given the right of way by Cornwall council, with a new wildlife crossing that will allow them to pass over a busy road unharmed. To reach across the four-lane divided highway, the crossing, nicknamed the “badger bridge,” is nearly…
The Daily Telegraph describes the UK’s purchase of twelve jets, which will carry US tactical nuclear weapons, as a “landmark deal”. The Guardian says their acquisition will “substantially expand” Britain’s nuclear deterrent, and says it is bound to provoke alarm among arms control experts. “The world has changed” reads the Daily Mirror editorial, adding: “peace…
Vera Rubin Observatory Debuts Stunning Celestial Photos to Rival the James Webb Space Telescope–LOOK
The Tifrid and Lagoon nebulae – credit NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Your iPhone 16 camera has 48 megapixels. Astronomy’s latest toy has 3,200. That’s because the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side. It…
Charlotte Cox BBC News, Devon John Danks BBC News, South West Watch: CCTV captures one of the bears helping itself to supplies outside the bear house Two bears who sparked the evacuation of a wildlife park involving trained firearms staff and police had headed straight for the honey store, the park has said. Wildwood Devon,…
Specialist Han Li reconstructing wall plaster from fresco – Credit: Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) Excavations at a London development site have yielded one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever discovered in the capital. The painted wall plaster once decorated a high-status Roman building in Southwark, which was demolished some time…
PA Media Singer Jessie J says she has undergone surgery for breast cancer and is now resting at home while awaiting her results. In a social media post, the 37-year-old star thanked her doctor, surgeon and “all the nurses who cared for me”, sharing series of photos and videos of her time in hospital. She…
Majesty with her new friend Taylor Swift – credit Shaneka Holloman, via GoFundMe GNN loves seeing celebrities channel their influence for good, and there are few better at it than America’s undisputed sweetheart of sweethearts. Taylor Swift, having recently concluded the record-breaking Eras tour, visited Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Florida. Passing between rooms in…
Danny Fullbrook Culture reporter Claudio Giovannini/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The painting will be returned to the exhibition when it is restored A 18th-century oil painting has allegedly been damaged after a museum visitor tripped while taking a selfie. Florence’s Uffizi Gallery said a tourist fell backwards while trying to “make a meme in front” of a portrait of…
Nihonbashi Bridge before WWII – credit Urbz CC 2.0. via Flickr Imagine the outrage if construction of a highway interchange was approved directly overhead of the Brooklyn Bridge—that’s what one Tokyo neighborhood has had to deal with for more than 60 years. The most historic bridge in the city has long been bathed in the…
