First Group’s largest shareholder demands chief executive resigns

First Group’s largest shareholder demands chief executive resigns as it steps up battle with transport group By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 17:11 EDT, 26 July 2021 | Updated: 17:43 EDT, 26 July 2021 Fist Group’s largest shareholder has demanded its chief executive resign as it steps up its battle with the transport … Read more

Fist Group’s largest shareholder demands chief executive resigns

Fist Group’s largest shareholder demands chief executive resigns as it steps up battle with transport group By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 17:11 EDT, 26 July 2021 | Updated: 17:11 EDT, 26 July 2021 Fist Group’s largest shareholder has demanded its chief executive resign as it steps up its battle with the transport … Read more

Byron Baes begins filming without consulting local Indigenous groups 

Netflix’s upcoming reality show Byron Baes has sparked more controversy, this time for not consulting local Indigenous groups or the Byron Council before filming.  According to independent newspaper Echo, the Byron Council ‘passed an urgency motion’ that would require producers to get permission before any further filming. Speaking to the paper, independent Councillor Cate Coorey said: … Read more

Hertfordshire deploys 50 ‘hate crime champions’ into community groups

Hertfordshire deploys 50 ‘hate crime champions’ into community groups to support victims and encourage them to report abuse to police Hertfordshire has deployed 50 ‘hate crime champions’ into community groups They help to raise awareness of hate crime and support the victims Encourage victims to report to police or at third-party reporting centre  By Georgia … Read more

Holly Willoughby reveals socialising at ‘mum groups’ helped her as a new mother

‘It would get me out of the house:’ Holly Willoughby reveals socialising at ‘mum groups’ was one the ‘most important’ things that helped her as a new parent By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 14:30 GMT, 23 March 2021 | Updated: 14:59 GMT, 23 March 2021 Holly Willoughby has revealed that socialising with other parents … Read more

Covid UK: Outbreak shuts Leicester primary school and most year groups left at Wigan secondary

Covid outbreak closes Leicester primary school until after Easter while just one year group is left at Manchester secondary after pupils test positive St Mary’s Fields Primary School has sent 480 pupils home after a Covid outbreak Two secondary schools in Wigan have sent year groups home after positive tests St Mary’s Catholic High School … Read more

At least ten hacking groups, some linked to China, use flaws in Microsoft mail to break servers

At least ten hacking groups, some linked to China, are using flaws in Microsoft mail to break servers, with tens of thousands of organisations already compromised Security researchers have found holes in Microsoft’s mail and calendar system  This could allow hackers to steal emails from anyone with ease, experts fear  Warnings have been issued by … Read more

Doctors refuse to work across Myanmar in protest over military coup as activist groups grow online

Doctors in Myanmar are refusing to work on non-emergency patients in protest against the military coup after soldiers detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders in a series of dawn raids on Monday.  Soldiers and tanks are patrolling major cities but the military takeover, which has ended the country’s brief experiment with democracy, has … Read more

Facebook says it will permanently stop recommending political groups to users

Facebook says it will permanently stop recommending political groups to users in an extension of a temporary ban brought in before the election Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a conference call on Wednesday Facebook introduced a temporary halt to political recommendations in October   He said they were considering reducing the amount of political content … Read more

Cambridge trial allowing electric cars to use a bus lane criticised by campaign groups

The trial launched on 14 December 2020 and could run for 18 months while Cambridgeshire Country Council reviews whether to extend the scheme Cambridge has become one of the first UK locations to allow electric vehicles to use bus and cycle lanes in a trial that – if deemed successful – may be extended across … Read more