Heather Widdows, a philosophy professor and beauty expert, has pointed out that while you might buy some of the products in an advent calendar individually, it’s highly unlikely you’d buy all of them. “Beauty calendars may offer you lots of products for a really good price. They can also be a bit of fun and…
Mars and Jupiter will appear to be very close to each other in the sky on the 15 and 16 November. Mars is currently high in the eastern sky, with Jupiter below but appearing brighter. “They will be separated by just 1.2 degrees, or roughly the width of a finger held at arm’s length,” according…
A woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis married her partner of 15 years in the hospital where she is receiving palliative care – and her horses even made the ceremony. Maggie Heginbothom, 68, who has advanced liver cancer, thanked staff at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor for organising a wedding ceremony on Monday, just two days…
More than 430 million people use Microsoft 365 apps according to Microsoft’s website. The full scale of the outage has not been confirmed, but monitoring website Downdetector had 140,000 people from 74 countries report issues with Outlook on Thursday evening. The real figure affected is likely much higher because Downdetector relies primarily on users self-reporting….
Microsoft and cyber-security experts have ruled out a cyber-attack being the cause of the outage, which has affected Outlook, Teams and Copilot. The tech firm said a large number of its servers had become “unexpectedly available”, meaning traffic was sent to the servers that remained online, putting them under strain. “Just like on a motorway,…
Some young people could see reductions to the benefits they are entitled to under a radical overhaul of the welfare system to be recommended by a government-commissioned review. As reported in the Times,, external Alan Milburn’s year-long report, to be published on Tuesday, is expected to recommend moving under-25s off the main sickness and disability…
The UK economy grew at its fastest rate for more than two years in the three months to September. Between July and September, the economy expanded by 0.7%, accelerating from the three months previously, official figures, external show. The robust growth suggests a far more resilient economy than expected over the summer, despite the impact…
