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
- 04:33 Passing driver helps catch burglars who stole nappies and make-up...
- 04:33 Woman bitten by out-of-control dog in Wigston park as she tried to...
- 03:27 Trump's plan to sign antisemitism order raises fears it could...
- 03:25 Anthony Joshua tells Deontay Wilder to get in touch if he’s serious...
- 02:56 Drug deaths inquest: Gladys Berejiklian says she is 'closing the...
- 02:42 Avoid the traffic - here are the planned roadworks that could...
- 02:42 Avoid the traffic - here are the planned roadworks that could...
- 02:42 This is where mobile speed cameras will be located in Derbyshire...
- 02:42 Two injured after Chapel-en-le-Frith crash
- 02:42 Drivers face 40-minute delay on A42 after vehicle breakdown
- 02:41 General election 2019: Row over use of 'fake newspapers'
- 02:41 Trump meets with Russian foreign minister amid impeachment chaos
- 02:41 Birth of boy sparks renewed calls to rescue Australians in Syria's...
- 02:33 White Island volcano: New volcanic activity hampers recovery efforts
- 02:33 Anger as new Indian citizenship bill excludes Muslims
- 02:33 General election 2019: Your questions on HS2 answered
- 02:11 Foreign experts quit Hong Kong police brutality inquiry over lack...
- 02:02 Pensacola attack: US grounds Saudi aviation students after navy...
- 02:00 World's first fully electric commercial aircraft takes flight in...
- 01:54 Parent school donations 'exacerbating inequality'
- 01:52 Algeria's serial protesters: 'Why I give up my weekends to march'
- 01:52 New Zealand volcano: Can we predict eruptions?
- 01:52 Climate change: Major emitters accused of blocking progress at UN...
- 01:43 White Island eruption: 'too unsafe' to retrieve bodies as volcanic...
- 01:37 New Grimsby general election poll shows astonishingly close race...
- 01:20 'Four hours to walk off pizza calories' warning works, experts say
- 00:59 Derbyshire schools to get share of £1.6 million for building...
- 00:59 New toilets open in Derbyshire village as loos close across area
- 00:59 Sign children up for free outdoor sessions in Buxton
- 00:59 Freezing fog to descend on Derbyshire tonight as temperatures...
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