News archive from 1 August 2014
Scots universities warned on gender equality
UNIVERSITIES and colleges could face funding "penalties" if they fail to get more women on to their governing boards and studying traditionally male-dominated courses. Education secretary Michael Russell has warned this must be an “immediate...
Sex change DJ to get "patterned penis' made out of tattooed skin from his arm
A sex-swap DJ is set to have his manhood made out of the skin from his tattooed arm - leaving him with a tribal-print penis. Billy-Joe Newington, 25, was born as a girl called Connie but has been desperate to be a boy since the age of four. He started...
Sharknado 2 Whips Up Storm On Social Media
A sequel in which a tornado inexplicably whisks hundreds of sharks into the air and dumps them on New York has taken the US by storm. Nearly four million people tuned in to watch Sharknado 2: The Second One, starring American Pie's Tara Reid and...
COMMENT: Banking hurdles | Spirits woes
THE underlying financial health of Britain's big banks is robust as the UK economic recovery holds firm. It would translate to impressive statutory profit numbers as well if they could only get out from under a succession of hefty financial provisions...
Diageo stung by China writedown
Crackdowns on lavish spending among Chinese officials and volatility in other emerging markets have dented annual sales and profits at spirits giant Diageo. Scotland’s biggest whisky distiller said it had written down the value of its 40 per cent...
Bin Ladens buy Tuscany’s Carrara marble quarries
CENTURIES after becoming the favourite white stone of Roman emperors and sculptors down the ages - including Michelangelo and later Antonio Canova - the marble from Tuscany's fabled Carrara quarries has
China: Gay man sues over shock ‘treatment’
A GAY Chinese man is suing a mental health clinic for carrying out electric shock treatment meant to turn him heterosexual. Yang Teng yesterday also revealed he planned to sue the internet search engine Baidu for advertising the clinic which he...
MH17 crash site breakthrough
An international team of investigators has for the first time reached the crash site of the Malaysia Airline flight MH17 in war-torn eastern Ukraine. Fighting along the route to the site of the wreckage between government troops and pro-Russian...
Second debt default in 13 years rocks Argentina
THE collapse of talks with creditors in the United States has sent Argentina into its second debt
Patients receiving 'second choice' drugs because of supply shortages
A number of doctors reported their patients coming to harm as a result of medicine shortages. Photograph: BSIP SA / Alamy/Alamy Fears have been raised that many patients are receiving "second choice" drugs because of supply shortages. A poll...
NHS to sequence DNA of 75,000 patients over next four years
Pancreatic cancer cells dividing. The project will aim to allow doctors to discover which mutations are driving the growth of patients' tumour cells. Photograph: Visuals Unlimited/Dr Stan/Getty Images Tens of thousands of NHS patients are to be...
‘Remembrance must mark conscientious objectors’
THE former army chaplain in charge of Scotland's Great War commemorations has acknowledged the "sacrifice" made by conscientious objectors. Rev Norman Drummond signalled that Scottish Government events marking the 100th anniversary of the...
Switching broadband is too costly, claims watchdog
Tens of thousands of broadband customers in the UK are having to pay "costly" charges to change supplier, Citizens Advice has warned. It says the average cost of ending a contract is £190, with some fees said to be as high as £625. Often...
Astrazeneca predict healthy sales
AstraZeneca reported a 4 per cent hike in second quarter revenues to $6.45billion (£3.8billion), its second consecutive quarter of growth, driven by demand for its heart drug Brilinta and new diabetes treatment Farxiga. US and European sales did well,...
£18bn Shell-out to shareholders
The oil giant's profits rose by a third to £3.6billion compared with the previous year on the back of rising production and prices, despite impairment charges of about £1.1billion, largely for US shale assets. Shell expects to buy back a total of up...
Realtime News
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- 10:27 Croatia beat France in Belford ‘World Cup’
- 10:27 Summer clothing sales hold back inflation
- 06:12 Chelsea transfer news: Jamaal Lascelles wanted by Blues - but...
- 10:27 Man jailed for string of Stratford burglaries
- 06:12 Ruth Davidson: Putin-sychophant Trump will never destroy Western...
- 10:27 Beat-Herder shines once again as thousands herd 'em up
- 10:27 The poisonous plants that could harm your children - and the...
- 07:28 Possessive thug throttles wife, bangs her head on floor then kicks...
- 10:27 Banbury says farewell to an inspirational singing tutor
- 07:28 Absconded prisoner from Doncaster still on the run
- 10:27 Louth dressage rider called up for British junior team
- 10:27 Lidl and Office outlets set to close in Lincoln
- 07:28 Nurses at West Cumberland Hospital get treat for hard work
- 10:27 Woman rushed to hospital after Lark Lane house fire leaves street...
- 10:27 Urgent review needed into how MOD records ‘increasing’ veteran...
- 07:28 Council urges parents to apply now for funded free childcare
- 10:27 Bassetlaw Hospital patient has recalled the time he worked as a...
- 10:27 Today’s transfer gossip from around the papers
- 10:27 Highest Scouting award for 'exceptional' Jill
- 10:27 1950 photo showcases Leicester's thriving industrial landscape
- 10:27 Woman killed in crash near Corby
- 10:27 This is the letter John Woodcock has today sent to Jeremy Corbyn in...
- 10:27 Updates as police launch murder probe following death of man in...
- 10:27 The poisonous plants that could harm your children - and the...
- 10:27 Poundworld to axe 531 jobs as 40 more stores set to close
- 10:27 Take a foodie tour of the UK’s regional treats
- 07:28 How Coventry City and Rotherham fans reacted to Jonson...
- 10:27 Fresh appeal in search for Brighouse hard hat burglars
- 10:27 The poisonous plants that could harm your children - and the...
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