England Beat Australia To Reach Women’s World Cup Final
England reached the Women’s World Cup final for the first time as they spoiled co-hosts Australia’s party on a historic evening in Sydney. Silencing a sell-out crowd at Stadium Australia with their 3-1 victory, the Lionesses became the first England football team since 1966 to reach a senior final on the world stage. It caps... Read More
Junior Doctors In Scotland Accept New Pay Offer
Scotland’s junior doctors have voted to accept a pay offer from the Scottish government. The deal will include a 12.4% pay increase for 2023/24. This is in addition to a wage rise of 4.5% for 2022/23 with ministers also promising talks on future pay increases. Junior doctors had been planning to take strike action before... Read More
Wage Surge Raises Prospect Of Further Interest Rate Hike
Wages grew at a record annual pace in the April to June period, according to new official figures. Regular pay rose by 7.8%, the highest annual growth rate since comparable records began in 2001. The stronger-than-expected increase has fuelled forecasts the Bank of England will be forced to raise interest rates again to calm inflation.... Read More
Internship At The UK, Opportunities For Students In London
An internship is an opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain hands-on experience in a professional setting. Internships provide the opportunity to learn new skills, develop professional contacts, and apply academic knowledge to real-world scenarios. Internships can be paid or unpaid, part-time or full-time, and can last anywhere from a few weeks to a... Read More
WW2 Aerial Photos Opened To Public For First Time
A collection of photographs taken during World War Two have been opened to the public for the first time. The aerial images were taken by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) Photographic Reconnaissance units while stationed at bases across England in 1943 and 1944. The 3,600 photographs offer a birds-eye view of the country as... Read More
Software Developer – High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Software Developer – High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire A Software Developer is needed to join our team at RedTitan on a remote (work-from-home), full-time basis. We are one of the oldest IT start-ups in the UK, providing digital document and printing solutions to large companies around the world! We have a small company culture where each of... Read More
Officers Looking Over Their Shoulders – PSNI Data Breach
“We were now looking over our shoulder, but now even more so.” “This has done half the job for the people who want to target officers.” These are some of the remarks from serving and recently retired members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) who spoke to the BBC this week. They were... Read More
RMT Union Announces New Weekend Walk-Outs
More rail strikes over pay and conditions will take place on Saturday 26 August and Saturday 2 September, the RMT union has announced. About 20,000 members working for 14 train operating companies are expected to take part. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that its members would “continue fighting”. But the Rail Delivery Group (RDG)... Read More
SNP MP Announces Expulsion From Party After Chief Whip Row – Angus MacNeil
MP Angus MacNeil has announced he has been expelled from the SNP after he was suspended from its Westminster group last month. The Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP had been suspended after reportedly clashing with party chief whip Brendan O’Hara. The SNP conduct committee met on Thursday after he refused to rejoin the... Read More
British Sign Language Gets Climate Change Update
Deaf scientists and sign language experts have created hundreds of new signs for British Sign Language (BSL). Expanded BSL vocabulary now includes climate-related terms like “greenhouse gas” and “carbon footprint”, for which there were no official signs. That meant children, teachers, and scientists would often have to finger-spell long, complex, scientific terms. “We’re trying to... Read More