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largest ever tremorBritain’s only active fracking site has
recorded its largest ever tremor,
beating a record set days earlier.
Cuadrilla, the energy firm,
confirmed a tremor measuring 2.1 on
the Richter scale was detected on
Saturday at its facility near Blackpool,
Lancs.
According to the British Geological
Survey, the tremor had a depth of
1.2 miles and was felt by residents in
areas including Great Plumpton,
Blackpool and Lytham St Annes.
Regulators were informed and the
“integrity” of the well has been
confirmed, Cuadrilla said.NEWS BULLETIN
Two killed after light
plane crashes into fieldTwo people died yesterday after a light
aircraft crashed into a field. The pilot
and the passenger were the only two
people on board the small biplane
when it crashed in Stonor, near
Henley, Oxon.
Thames Valley Police received
reports of the crash at about 2.10pm,
while fire and ambulance services also
attended.
The two people were pronounced
dead at the scene, and nobody on the
ground was injured. Their next of kin
have been informed.
Police said officers were assisting
the Air Accidents Investigation
Branch.Metal detector couple
unearth £5m hoard
A metal detecting couple have
unearthed one of Britain’s biggest
treasure hoards that could be worth up
to £5 million.
Adam Staples and Lisa Grace
discovered 2,571 ancient silver coins
dating from the time of the Norman
Conquest in 1066, when they searched
farmland in Somerset.
Their “once in a lifetime” find is
smaller than the Staffordshire Hoard- the biggest collection of buried
artefacts discovered in Britain – but
thought to be worth at least £1 million
more. Mr Staples and Miss Grace, both
42, from Derby, made the astonishing
find while searching an unploughed
field in January.
Employment law ‘must
recognise menopause’
Menopausal women should be given
the legal right to change their shift
patterns or take time off work, MPs
have said.
As many as one in four females
struggle with symptoms such as
anxiety, confusion and loss of
confidence, with some complaining
that they have ruined their careers.
Politicians are pushing for
workplace policies that they believe
should be as commonplace as
maternity schemes, The Guardian
reported.
Rachel Maclean, Conservative MP
for Redditch in Worcestershire, said:
“Menopause is the last taboo.”News
PM: BBC should fund free TV licences
By Charles Hymas
Home AffAirs editor
THE BBC has clashed with Boris John-
son as the Prime Minister demanded it
“cough up” the money to pay for TV
licences for over-75s.
In his first comments on the BBC’s
decision to axe its free TV licences
since becoming Prime Minister, he
suggested the corporation had welshed
on a deal where it got inflation-proof
rises in the licence fee in return for
funding the benefit for the elderly.
It followed the BBC’s decision to
abolish free TV licences for more than
three million over-75s from June 2020.
Only households with someone in
receipt of pension credit will be able to
claim a free TV licence, meaning
around 3.7 million over-75s will have to
pay the annual £154.50 fee.
Asked if he would honour the 2017
manifesto pledge to maintain free TV
for over 75s, Mr Johnson told journal-
ists at the G7 summit in Biarritz: “The
BBC received a settlement that was
conditional upon their paying for TV
licences for the over-75s. They should
cough up.”
Mr Johnson branded the BBC the
“Brexit Bashing Corporation” during
the campaign hustings, and has previ-
ously questioned why it should con-
tinue to spend millions on the salaries
of “highly expensive presenters” whilecharging the over-75s for the licence
fee. The broadcaster spent £157 million
on BBC talent last year, up from
£147.6 million the year before.
The BBC hit back, however, saying it
was the Government that decided to
stop funding free TV licences for the
over-75s.
“There was no guarantee that the
BBC would continue to fund free li-
cences for the over-75s, as the culture
secretary at the time confirmed,” said a
spokesman.
“We’ve reached the fairest decision
we can in funding free TV licences for
the poorest pensioners, while protect-
ing BBC services. If the BBC funded all
TV licences for the over-75s it wouldmean the closure of BBC Two, BBC
Four, the BBC News Channel, the BBC
Scotland channel, Radio 5 Live, and
several local radio stations.
“It is a matter for the Government if
it wishes to restore funding for free li-
cences for all over-75s.”
No 10, however, countered by point-
ing to comments by Tony Hall, the BBC
director general, that the licence fee
settlement in 2015 was a “strong deal”
for the BBC and provided financial sta-
bility.
A Downing Street source said: “It saw
BBC income boosted by requiring
iPlayer users to have a licence, and un-
froze the licence fee for the first time
since 2010 – with it rising each yearwith inflation. In return, we agreed re-
sponsibility for the over-75 concession
would transfer to the BBC in June 2020.
The BBC must honour this agreement.”
James Roberts, political director of
the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “After the
kickback against dragging pensioners
into paying the dreaded TV tax, the PM
is tuning into the public mood.”
However, Tom Watson, the shadow
culture secretary, accused Mr Johnson
of an “appalling disregard” for older
people. “He is trying to blame the BBC
for his own Government’s policy, but
this obfuscation will not work,” he said.
“The blame for scrapping free TV li-
cences lies firmly with the Govern-
ment”.Jargon in job
adverts leaves
graduates
in the dark
JARGON used in job adverts is putting
off potential applicants, a survey has
found, as firms are urged to stick to
plain English.
Research shows around half of uni-
versity graduates have been dissuaded
from applying for jobs because of
“deliberately ambiguous” language in
their descriptions.
The worst terms identified include
“blue-sky thinking” (being open-
minded) and “thought shower” (a meet-
ing to discuss new ideas).
Phrases said to be the most misunder-
stood were “growth hacking”, “brand
architecture” and “low-hanging fruit”,
according to the study.
According to Milkround, a London-
based graduate recruitment firm,
around half of jobseekers said they had
not applied for a job because they did
not understand the advert. The firm
surveyed 2,000 adults.
Georgina Brazier, of Milkround, said:
“Our research shows the need for busi-
nesses to offer concise information and
clarity so top talent isn’t put off by jar-
gon, abbreviations and buzz-phrases.”
Steve Jenner, from the Plain English
Campaign, has said: “Fill your job de-
scriptions with jargon and – strangely
enough – you’ll attract candidates who
think you need to speak like this to get
the job.
“This will in the first instance lead to
candidates presenting themselves for
gobbledegook-filled job interviews.
“Worse still, it increases the likeli-
hood that a candidate will be appointed
who thinks it is a requirement to speak
to the public like this.
“Perhaps even worse still, someone
who hasn’t really understood what the
job entails is more likely to be ap-
pointed.”
Blood test could identify
symptomless head injuries
BLOOD tests that identify concussions
where there are no symptoms could be
available within two years, a study
has found.
Doctors say that injuries just below
the concussion threshold – known as
subconcussive – often fail to show im-
mediate effects, but can cause wear
and tear on the brain over time with re-
peated injuries.
A US study, published in the journal
BMJ Paediatrics Open, includes more
than 700 emergency room patients of
all ages. The findings bring nearer a
standard blood test to spot these inju-
ries as early as possible.
Dr Linda Papa, the lead author and
an emergency doctor at Orlando
Health, said: “A unique feature of this
study is that it includes patients who
hit their heads but have no symptoms.
“This group is rarely – if ever – in-
cluded in biomarker studies.”
She said the blood test looked for two
proteins called GFAP and UCH-L1 –
found in our brains and released into
blood after an injury, higher levels of
which could indicate a concussion or
subconcussive injury.
In the past, people who suffered a
head injury without concussion symp-
toms may have been classified as having
“no injury.”
Dr Papa said: “It is estimated that up
to 3.8 million concussions occur in the
US annually from organised and recre-
ational sports – and there are more than
two million ER visits for traumatic
brain injuries and concussions.”
The study looked at patients with
concussions, those with head trauma
without overt signs of concussion and
those with body trauma without head
trauma or concussion.
Dr Papa said the blood test went
even deeper than a routine CT scan.
“The study includes an array of pa-
tients with different injury mecha-
nisms ... It is not limited to just one
group of injury types.”
She added that the technology “is
only a year or two away”.Birds fed on cheeseburgers
develop cholesterol issues
JUNK food raises birds’ cholesterol,
scientists have found, after crows
feasted on cheeseburgers.
Researchers found that a diet of hu-
man foods, such as discarded fast food,
may be responsible for birds in towns
and cities having higher blood choles-
terol levels than their rural cousins.
The team sampled the blood choles-
terol levels of 140 crow nestlings in ur-
ban and rural areas in California,
returning to track their survival rates
after they fledged. They found that the
more urban the environment, the
higher the blood cholesterol of the
crow nestlings raised there.
To directly test the effects of human
food, the researchers provided nest-
lings in a rural New York population
with a regular supply of McDonald’s
cheeseburgers and compared their
blood cholesterol levels with those of
nearby crows who had to fend for
themselves. They found that crows
who were fed cheeseburgers had
higher cholesterol levels than theirneighbours, similar to those of the ur-
ban crows in California. But whether
all that cholesterol was actually doing
the crows any harm is trickier to an-
swer, according to the researchers.
Survival rates during the first three
years of life were lower for urban crows
than rural ones, but cholesterol wasn’tthe culprit. In the New York popula-
tion, nestlings with higher cholesterol
scored higher on measurements of
their body condition.
Study leader Dr Andrea Townsend,
an assistant professor of biology at
Hamilton College in New York, said:
“Despite all the bad press that it gets,
cholesterol has benefits and serves a lot
of essential functions.”Lottery cash clears
up bat droppings in
historic church
By Gabriella Swerling sociAl And
religious AffAirs editorA HISTORIC church has been freed
from a plague of bat droppings after be-
coming one of the first in the country to
benefit from a lottery-funded scheme.
For years, the congregation at All
Saints Church in Braunston-in-Rutland
has been struggling to clear up faeces
dropping from the ceiling, where a
500-strong colony of the pointy-eared
mammals now reside.
Now, however, the congregation re-
mains clean and dry. Following a pio-
neering new scheme, entitled the Bats
in Churches project, work has been
done to fill the gaps in the ceiling to
prevent faeces and urine soaking
through without harming the animals.
It is illegal to stop bats – which are a
protected species – from reaching their
roost. All Saints Church was one of the
first to benefit from £3.8 million of Her-
itage Lottery Funds to reduce the impact
of bats on the buildings across the UK.Hornet’s nest Beekeepers have announced a week of national action between Sept 9 and 15 to identify the Asian hornet,
above, because of fears that bee colonies could be wiped out by the predators. The British Beekeepers Association hopes it
will encourage the public to report any encounters with the hornets and advises that nests should not be approached.GETTY IMAGESNews
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