While millions of Britons are struggling on shared dining tables or working from bedrooms, Whitehall staff have used taxpayers’ cash to buy top of the range kit for their home offices. More than £10million has been spent across Government departments on working from home since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to a joint investigation … Read more
Remote North Welsh island will become first in the world to be powered completely by ‘blue energy’ thanks to £1.2m wave power scheme Bardsey Island off North Wales could be powered entirely by tidal wave energy Nova Innovation secured the £1.2million investment from Welsh Government The remote island currently relies on diesel to power its … Read more
Backpacker who strangled writer, 53, and left her body in a cattle pen on remote farm is sent to Broadmoor Kate Bevan was strangled to death by fellow farm volunteer worker Luigi Palmas She had ‘enraged’ the 27-year-old by telling him off for hitting the cattle Police initially thought she had been trampled but later found scratch … Read more
The waters around Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited islands, have been set up as a marine wildlife sanctuary that is three times the size of the UK. The government of the islands — a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic — has declared a 265,000 square mile area as a marine protection zone. The … Read more
Mothers are having their newborn babies taken into care following virtual family court hearings from their hospital beds, a new report shows. Around half of parents or relatives involved in remote hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic did not understand exactly what was happening in the proceedings, a study published today by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory found. … Read more
Dropbox will make working from home permanent for its 2,800 employees even after the pandemic and will create ‘studios’ in key cities for staffers who need to collaborate San Francisco-based company Dropbox announced Tuesday it will make remote work permanent even after the pandemic ends The file hosting company unveiled its new ‘Virtual First’ approach … Read more
Only the most eagle-eyed players can spot the TV remote lost among the various pieces of furniture in this fiendishly tricky seek-and-find puzzle. The brainteaser, by UK-based sofa and carpet specialist ScS, challenges you to find the control hidden between plants, clocks and various chairs. The puzzle creators claim that on average it takes 40 … Read more
Friends of Priti Patel reacted with fury today over leaks that suggested she was behind a range of madcap ideas including processing asylum seekers thousands of miles from Britain. Reports have suggested the Home Secretary was looking at ‘offshoring’ refugees arriving in Britain in places including Ascension island and St Helena in the south Atlantic, … Read more
Companies are now hiring ‘directors of remote working’ to manage new armies of staff who never see the office – as one in five employees now works exclusively from home Employers are hiring ‘head of remote’ to manage staff working from home Data shows that vacancies for remote roles have risen by 147 per cent … Read more
Off on a stag night? Majestic deer is spotted ‘waiting for a train’ on a remote Highland station platform John McGowan stumbled across impressive stag as if it was waiting for a train McGowan had stopped at Achnasheen Railway Station when he saw the stag After seeing John, the stag hopped a wire fence and wandered … Read more