Start-up billed as ‘Zoom for medics’ aims to raise £100m

British technology start-up billed as ‘Zoom for medics’ mulling a fundraising of up to £100m to help support growth in UK and overseas By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:46 BST, 11 July 2020 Signed up: ITV’s This Morning doctor Zoe Williams is an adviser to … Read more

ESTHER KRAKUE: I dared to question the aims of Black Lives Matter

When I first moved to the UK from Ghana with my family in my early teens, the country that welcomed me was one where multiculturalism flourished and neighbours were warm and unassuming. Your achievements were not prefaced by the colour of your skin or your place on the totem pole of identity politics. People from … Read more

The avowed aims of the British arm of Black Lives Matter

Who are Black Lives Matter? Where did they come from and what, exactly, do they believe in? These may seem silly questions. But in a month when Premier League footballers have joined Sir Keir Starmer and other British celebrities in ‘taking the knee’ to express their ‘collective support for the Black Lives Matter movement’, it … Read more

British firm Cannaray aims to grow marijuana

A British company which has assembled a heavyweight board and is planning to grow marijuana in England is plotting a £100 million float that would make it the largest cannabis business on the London Stock Exchange. Cannaray will become the only London-listed UK grower of cannabis next summer if it secures its licence to cultivate … Read more

Boris Johnson hails British ‘fortitude’ as he aims to draw a line under confusion over new rules

British people’s ‘fortitude’ will enable then to survive the Covid-19 crisis and regain ‘the freedoms they hold dear’, Boris Johnson declares today. The Prime Minister says that the epidemic has brought out ‘the best in humanity’ and that the public’s ‘perseverance’ and ‘good common sense’ will enable the country to ‘inch forwards’ out of lockdown … Read more

Tinder testing out a new video feature that aims to match users via a live-streamed game of trivia

Tinder is testing out a new video feature that aims to match users via a live-streamed game of trivia Tinder is testing out a video feature that brings in-app trivia to the platform The feature will pit users against one another in a game of live-streamed trivia It is currently testing the feature out with … Read more

‘Porridge and lentil soup’ diet aims to curb diabetes in Scotland

Doctors in Scotland to trial an 850-calorie ‘porridge and lentil soup’ diet to curb the nation’s spiralling diabetes epidemic A total of 15,980 new patients diagnosed in 2018 – including 205 under age of 30 The 850-calorie daily diet plan includes five portions of fruit and vegetables Participants will lose a stone a month and ‘diabetes … Read more

Rolls Royce aims to have mini-nuclear reactors running by 2029

Rolls-Royce aims to have at least ten ‘mini nuclear reactors’ that it can transport on lorries running by 2029 in plan which could revitalise energy industry Construction at Hinkley Point C is expected to be £3billion over budget  Small modular reactors are portable enough to be transported on a lorry Proponents believe SMRs have better … Read more