News archive from 16 October 2014
Tweedie to take reins at Brewin Edinburgh
Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has promoted a former major in the British Army to head up its Edinburgh office. Jonathan Tweedie takes over from previous boss Marc Wilkinson, who will now concentrate on his role as regional director for Scotland and...
Weir mining expansion with Trio acquisition
Engineering group Weir has flexed its takeover muscle with a $220 million (£137.8m) deal to expand its mining services
Farmers to have a say on further devolution hopes
Scotland's farmers will have their views fed into the special commission chaired by Lord Smith of Kelvin which will oversee the devolution of further powers to Scotland promised during the run-up to the independence referendum. And with just over a...
US takeover of Shire put in doubt by tax clampdown
The £32 billion takeover of UK pharmaceuticals firm Shire is in danger of collapse as a result of a tax crackdown announced by the White House. AbbVie said that its board will meet on Monday to reconsider the purchase of Basingstoke-based Shire, which...
Comment: Car sales motoring but for how much longer?
Things seem to be motoring along just fine for Britain's car dealers. Low interest rates are underpinning some very generous finance deals, new models are drawing in curious punters and fuel costs are easing. Vertu added to that feel-good factor...
Find out what the celebrities and their professional dance partners will be performing on this weekend's...
An unforgettable Movie Week truly brought out some star-studded performances last time out and this weekend Strictly Come Dancing returns with the remaining 13 pairs vying for your votes. So from 6.30pm on Saturday, October 18, the following routines...
Doncaster teen wins the Foyle Young Poets of the Year award
Anne Widdowson, age 17 from Doncaster, has won The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2014. Anne was at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on National Poetry Day, Thursday October 2, at a special ceremony introduced by children’s author Julia Donaldson...
Pep Guardiola: all I do is look at opponents and try to demolish them
In the summer of 2013 Pep Guardiola, recently appointed as the manager of Bayern Munich, granted Martí Perarnau, a friend and journalist, full behind-the-scenes access to his new club for a year. He shadowed the Spaniard on and off the pitch through...
Delay in diagnosing babies with cleft palate ‘unacceptable’
One in six babies born with a cleft palate is not diagnosed with the condition when they are first examined within 72 hours of their birth, paediatricians reveal. Failure to spot that they have a cleft palate can lead to newborns suffering impaired...
Mistakes cost NHS up to £2.5bn a year, says health secretary Jeremy Hunt
Hospitals are wasting up to £2.5bn a year of the NHS’s budget through poor care and medical errors, such as giving patients the wrong drug, the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will claim on Thursday. Hunt will renew his criticism of inadequate patient...
Exercise three times a week ‘can beat depression’
ADULTS who are physically active three times a week cut their risk of depression significantly, according to a major new report. Researchers found that people in their twenties, thirties and forties who were not active and then took up some form of...
British jihad suspect ‘sang about slitting throats’
A BRITISH man accused of plotting a terrorist attack was caught on a bugging device laughing and singing along to violent jihadist videos in his car, the 
partly secret trial has heard. Erol Incedal, 26, is on trial at the Old Bailey on...
Ebola ‘running faster than us and winning the race’
THE United Nations' Ebola mission chief believes the world is falling behind in the race to contain the virus. Anthony Banbury, speaking by video-link from West Africa to the UN Security Council, said: “It is running faster than us, and it is winning...
Data processor sparks governance row at U.S. exchanges
A lobby for the brokerage industry late Tuesday urged that the conflict, in which stock exchanges can both bid to operate a "securities information processor" (SIP) and vote for themselves, be resolved before a scheduled conference call on...
Realtime News
- 09:44 Burnley MP backs local 'health and care heroes' for NHS birthday...
- 09:44 Watch drink driver's wild ride which was caught on her own dash cam
- 09:44 DERBYSHIRE: Safeguarding training for taxi and bus drivers
- 09:43 Staff, students and parents at a Cumbria school have condemned the...
- 09:43 Carlisle's historic Waverley Viaduct set to reopen as river crossing
- 09:43 Have you seen missing Spalding man Szymon Janczewski?
- 09:42 Tributes paid to young Leeds man killed in Doncaster horror smash
- 09:42 Double-amputee climbs 2,700 steps using just her arms
- 09:42 Caught on camera in Leeds: Can you help police identify these people?
- 09:42 FEATURE: 'How HS2 has affected my life for the last seven years’
- 09:41 Couple fuming after 15 hour flight ends with them back at same...
- 09:41 CCTV APPEAL: Elderly Preston couple conned out of home and savings
- 09:41 Carlisle's historic Waverley Viaduct set to reopen as river crossing
- 09:41 Bourne Rotarians donate VR headsets to hospice
- 09:41 Halsey is going to freeze her eggs at 23
- 09:40 The best historic halls in Lancashire
- 09:40 Court briefs: Fine for stealing four bottles of Jack Daniels
- 09:40 The best historic halls in Lancashire
- 09:40 Plans unveiled for new Wigan hotel, pub and restaurant
- 09:40 When and why did North and South Korea divide?
- 09:40 Old labs make way for new car park at Wigan Infirmary
- 09:40 There was just one country that ‘didn’t see’ Jim Jong Un’s...
- 09:38 Hundreds raised at Banbury quiz inspired by dad’s dementia
- 09:38 Project Update: Blackpool church site earmarked for new apartments
- 09:38 Steven Gerrard faces IMPOSSIBLE task at Rangers unless one policy...
- 09:38 FEATURE: 'How HS2 has affected my life for the last seven years’
- 09:38 The best historic halls in Lancashire
- 09:37 ‘We need darkness for our health’ councillors claim as they approve...
- 09:37 Hostile environment policy leaving doctors without visas, say NHS...
- 09:36 These are all the jobs up for grabs working at Buckingham Palace
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