Wessex Water has been fined £500,000 for polluting two rivers and killing thousands of fish. The company admitted a series of failures which led to untreated sewage being discharged into the rivers in Wiltshire and North Somerset in 2018. Janine Maclean, from the Environment Agency, said: “These cases are further examples of a water company…
Tesselaar’s Blue Storm Agapanthus is worth growing because it’s a high-impact, no-nonsense plant, not because it typifies the 2016 Color of the Year “Serenity” – photo credit: Tesselaar Plants, 2006 Though I enjoy dressing well, I’m no fashionista. For the most part, I can ignore the “collar in or out this season?” “jeans high or…
Here is what is inspiring me today: The World Beach Project – it is an online gallery of art made by all kinds of people. It features stones gathered on beaches from around the globe. The project was devised by artist-in-residence Sue Lawty in association with the always-inspiring Victoria & Albert Museum. Building on the…
The Jonas Brothers have paid tribute to Liam Payne following the singer’s shock death last month. Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas and Joe Jonas sang a rendition of the One Direction hit song Night Changes as they performed in concert in California on the weekend. Nick, 32, who is believed to have been friends with Payne,…
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Casey Clausen, the football coach at Bishop Alemany for the last seven seasons, said Friday he is stepping down from his alma mater. The Warriors lost their first-round Southern Section Division 9 playoff game to Sonora on Thursday night, ending their season at 5-6. Clausen, a former Tennessee quarterback who was a star high school…
The Bristol Myers Squibb research and development center at Cambridge Crossing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bristol Myers Squibb on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that blew past Wall Street’s expectations thanks to its blockbuster blood thinner Eliquis and a portfolio of drugs…
Chris Baraniuk It’s estimated that one third of the world’s airline seats are made in Northern Ireland In a warehouse building in a quiet town in Northern Ireland, a robot arm is opening and closing an airplane meal table over and over again. It has been programmed to carry out this mundane task no fewer…
Getty Images Fujitsu Europe’s boss has admitted he “does not know” if the Post Office Horizon IT system at the heart of hundreds of sub-postmasters’ wrongful convictions is reliable. Paul Patterson told the inquiry into the scandal there “have been bugs errors and defects” in the accountancy system and it is clear “that there is…