Month: February 2018

Swarms could attack green grass and cause a ‘global scandal’, says agriculture ministry officialSwarms of locusts pose a threat to Russia’s World Cup because they could attack pitches, causing a “global scandal“, an agriculture ministry official said on Wednesday.President Vladimir Putin is hoping to use the the World Cup from Read more…

Amanda Spielman says religion is being used to ‘actively pervert’ education and school leaders should not fear causing offence when setting policiesOfsted’s chief inspector has warned of the danger posed by people who use religion to “actively pervert” education as she made an unusual intervention in a dispute between parents Read more…

Experts say there is no single cause for rise Via: Antisemitic hate crimes hit record high as violent assaults increase by more than a third in a year

Impact of replacing free movement with stricter immigration controls will hit economy hard, secret Whitehall analysis concludes Via: Brexit: Cost of reduced EU migration far greater than benefits of US trade deal, leaked analysis shows

Local wine council says some chateaux lost up to 90% of their crop during country’s worst harvest since 1945Wine production in the French region of Bordeaux shrank 40% last year, the Bordeaux wine council said on Wednesday, with severe frost sapping yields in a year that nonetheless produced a good Read more…

Farkhad Akhmedova yet to pay ‘a penny’ in appeal against settlement, high court hears A Russian billionaire who was ordered to pay £453m to his former wife in what is believed to be Britain’s biggest divorce case was named at the high court on Wednesday as Farkhad Akhmedov.However, the court Read more…

Catering service buys 500 reusable 'keep cups', but only sells four of them Via: Parliament told to put 'house in order' after it emerges Commons bought more than a million disposable coffee cups and lids in last year alone