Explore news for you
Visit by the 1903 Dreadnought motorcycle to Cornwall
The niece of its creator is able to see after 120 years her Uncles most famous creation still working. Date Friday 15th October Time 10.00- 12.00 Place Inn for All Seasons, off the old Redruth Bypass Please note that Mrs Hambly is a little reluctant to have too many interviewsContinue Reading
Cork couple reveal trauma of learning their baby’s organs were incinerated
Warning: The content below contains details which may be distressing A Cork couple has spoken of the trauma of learning that their baby’s organs were incinerated abroad without their knowledge or consent. An investigation is underway at Cork University Maternity Hospital after it emerged the organs of 18 babies sentContinue Reading
Labour conference: members aren’t quite tearing chunks out of each other but a distinct air of unease remains
Getting off the bus and walking to the Brighton Centre, the main venue for this year’s Labour conference, it was hard – impossible even – not to ponder on the pathetic fallacy. I’m not referring to a party that won only 202 seats in 2019 fooling itself into thinking itContinue Reading
Covid-19 may stay with us forever
Many scientists expect that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease. Does that mean accepting some deaths as inevitable?Continue Reading
Why the UK childcare system is at breaking point
Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this summer by Mumsnet (in partnership with other parenting and campaigning organisations) have honed in on some startling figures. Of the 2,047 respondents MumsnetContinue Reading
Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon review: it’s a must-see
Review at a glance T he centrepiece of this show is a beautifully shot video, made this year. It ends with archive footage of a young Theaster Gates telling an interviewer that he is “dying to do a short film about clay”. It took the 48 year old a whileContinue Reading
Global Britain is becoming a stooge of the US
The scenes as American and British troops withdrew from Afghanistan were heartbreaking. People desperate to leave the country they love, offering up their children for transportation to a more peaceful country, being crushed to death for a chance at freedom. Those horrific scenes were also visual confirmation of Britain’s waningContinue Reading
Germany election: Olaf Scholz’s social democrats come out on top but smaller parties hold the key to government
Election night in Germany proved inconclusive. There were some clear winners and losers, but not such that we can be sure of the shape of the next German government. The social democratic SPD came out on top, crowning a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes. In 2017, it bagged the worstContinue Reading
Hossam Metwally case: how exorcism can become a cover for domestic abuse
Tinnakorn jorruang/Shutterstock The sentencing of Hossam Metwally for poisoning his partner, Kelly Wilson, in a series of “exorcisms” was always likely to attract attention. The former NHS anaesthetist from Grimsby in the east of England has been jailed for 14 and a half years for what a judge described asContinue Reading
‘Firth’ to go one better on a retrieving mission!
Firth Of Clyde, mount of champion jockey Oisin Murphy, clear top-rated on BHA ratings and my time-handicap, is by far the most experienced and, from in-form yard of Paul Cole, represents a start of the week ‘special’ in the eight-runner Novice Stakes over a mile of ‘firm’ ground Bath; aContinue Reading