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St Margaret’s Sewing Bee Challenge
St Margaret’s Hospice is on the search for talented sewers to take part in their Sewing Bee Challenge. The hospice is inviting people to buy materials up to the value of £10 from one of their charity shops and transform them into an item which can be worn throughout theContinue Reading
This tiny solar-powered factory cleans up dirty water
For large parts of the world, good quality drinking water is hard to come by. The first solar-powered beverage factory is helping fix the problemContinue Reading
Netflix’s Squid Game draws you in with so much more than bloody gore
W atercooler moments are back, and the subject to know is Squid Game. Netflix dropped the dystopian South Korean drama on Sept 17 and in just a few weeks, it’s on track to become the streaming site’s most popular series of all time, leaving reigning number one, the spoon-licking frill-festContinue Reading
£10,000 raised for Calvert Trust Exmoor after London Marathon Fundraising
Participants in this year’s London Marathon have together raised more than £10,000 for Calvert Trust Exmoor. The money has been generated through the fundraising efforts of Frazer, Matthew, Roy, Clive and Stacey who took part in the marathon in London through their charity places and Alice, a virtual marathon runnerContinue Reading
‘Point’ of the exercise is to ‘Go’ for it!
Go Bears Go is worth chancing as an each-way proposition, price-wise, for a compelling group one Dewhurst Stakes over seven furlongs of ‘good to soft’ Newmarket this afternoon and I’ve two reasons for ’tilting at windmills!’ Rossa Ryan, a raging ‘favourite’ of this column, will be aboard Go Bears GoContinue Reading
Abraham to start for England in Andorra after quitting Chelsea to join Roma
FORMER Chelsea frontman Tammy Abraham is set to start for the Three Lions in tonight’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra, according to Sky Sports. The 24-year-old has impressed since his £34million switch to Roma in the summer. 1 Abraham (L) in England trainingCredit: Getty Abraham has scored four times andContinue Reading
COVID-19 could nudge minds and societies towards authoritarianism
shutterstock Eric Crudup/Shutterstock It is a little-known fact that humans have not one but two immune systems. The first, the biophysical immune system – the one we’ve all heard much about – responds to infections as they enter the body, detecting and eliminating intruders such as the coronavirus. The secondContinue Reading
Singapore to open ‘vaccinated travel lanes’ with 8 more countries as it aims for ‘new normal’
People walk at a pedestrian crossing along the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore on September 7, 2021. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore announced Saturday it will be opening new travel lanes for vaccinated visitors from 8 more countries. It came as its Prime MinisterContinue Reading
COVID: why are people testing positive on lateral flow tests then negative on PCR?
Basilico Studio Stock/Shutterstock In the UK over the last few weeks, there have been a growing number of reports of people testing positive for COVID on a lateral flow test (LFT) but then negative on a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. This stands out because we’ve been led to believeContinue Reading
We used 60-year-old notebooks to find out why male hippos have bigger tusks than females
Courtship behaviour of a male and female hippopotamus in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, showing the larger head and tusk sizes of the adult male on left. Graeme Shannon, Author provided Male hippopotamuses are an unusual size. Among mammals, males are usually much larger than females, but in hippos the sexesContinue Reading