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Brits don't think about the environment when shopping

BRITS  prioritise cost and convenience over sustainability when making a purchasing decision.

A study of 2,000 adults found only a third will think about the environment when shopping.

And a quarter admitted to not having changed their buying habits over the last five years to be more environmentally friendly.

However, two thirds said they would care more about sustainability if they had a better understanding of the impact technology can have.

The study, commissioned by IBM, found energy saving appliances are considered the best innovations when it comes to tackling climate change, followed by solar panels and wind turbines.

But a third of Brits believe artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to create a greener future, with the ability to track consumer buying habits so retailers can plan stock quantities and reduce surplus.

Andy Stanford-Clark, chief technology officer, IBM UK and Ireland, said: “We are experiencing a time of rapid change with many of us looking for new ways to reduce our environmental footprint.

“But not all consumers are taking action. There is optimism that the latest technologies can – and should – play a critical role in our quest for a more sustainable world.

“Artificial Intelligence, blockchain and the Internet of Things are just a few of the tools already at our disposal."

The study also found that Brits believe AI will have the greatest impact on sustainability in the future.

ETHICAL SHOPPERS

And almost a fifth think blockchain will make a difference by tracing the journey of food products and allowing shoppers to see how far products have travelled.

Meanwhile, the Internet of Things (connecting everyday objects to the internet) ranked third with 18 per cent believing it will have a fundamental impact on sustainability.

The research also found the nation's biggest concerns when it comes to the environment with two thirds concerned about plastics ending up in the ocean.

And as a result, eight in 10 of those polled, via OnePoll, are worried about eating microplastics in their food, with four in five now considering where the plastics they dispose of end up.

More than three quarters are attempting to limit the amount of single-use plastic they buy.

To help address this issue, IBM has joined a partnership to build an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that will cross the Atlantic in September 2020, the fourth centenary of the original Mayflower voyage.

Led by marine research not-for-profit ProMare, and with research spearheaded by the University of Plymouth, seawater will be analysed to advance understanding of the origin, distribution and potential impact of microplastics in the ocean.

Andy Stanford-Clark added: “IBM helped put man on the moon and we’re now excited by the challenge of using advanced technologies to cross and research our deepest oceans.

“By providing the brains for the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, we are pushing the boundaries of science and autonomous technologies to address critical environmental issues.”

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Spoilers: The police are on the hunt for Robert and Aaron in Emmerdale tonight

Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) and Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) were forced to take drastic action in Emmerdale last night, after they discovered that rapist Lee had died in hospital. As a result, Robert knew he’d risk being charged with murder, and thus he resolved to flee the village with husband Aaron at his side. However, things get a tad more complicated tonight, when the police begin asking questions.

Last night, an emotional Victoria informed her brother that Lee had died. Robert was devastated, as he knew the rapist’s death could result in him being charged with murder and thus have to spend life in prison.

As Robert discussed his options, Liv provided him with an answer, as she suggested that he could go on the run with Aaron.

After some deliberation, they agreed to do just that and Aaron headed off to inform mum Chas (Lucy Pargeter) of his plan and, although she was horrified at the prospect of losing her son, she ultimately bid him farewell, as both he and Robert drove off to start their new life together.

However, the reality of the situation will no doubt hit those who remained behind in the village during tonight’s episode, as the police begin to ask questions.

With Lee having only recently died, the police are sure to put two and two together when they realise that Robert and Aaron have vanished.

The question is: will Robert and Aaron manage to get out of dodge before the law tracks them down?

What’s more, will Chas and Liv be able to remain calm knowing what they know, as the police investigate?

Emmerdale continues on Wednesday 16th October at 7pm on ITV.

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Birds Eye issues urgent recall for chicken nuggets

Birds Eye issues urgent recall for chicken nuggets that may contain small pieces of PLASTIC

  • The frozen food giant is urging customers not to eat them over safety fears 
  • The product recall applies to 790g packs of chicken nuggets with wholegrain
  • If you’ve got one of the packs in question you should avoid eating them and instead return them to the shop where you bought them from to get a full refund 

The frozen food giant is urging customers not to eat them over fears they could be harmful

Birds Eye has issued an urgent recall for its popular range of chicken nuggets which could contain small pieces of plastic. 

The frozen food giant is urging customers not to eat them over fears they could be harmful. 

Packs are sold in all of the big four supermarkets apart from Tesco, and cost between £3 and £4 each. 

They are also sold in the upmarket chain Waitrose. 

The product recall applies to Birds Eye’s 790g packs of chicken nuggets with golden wholegrain that contains 50 pieces each.

The affected products come with the batch code ‘L9208 W V124’, ‘L9208 X V124’, ‘L9208 Y V124’ or ‘L9208 Z V124’.  

They also have a best before date of October 2020, which can be found on the back of the bag.

Customers are urged to avoid eating the nuggets and instead return them to the shop where they were bought from for a full refund.

Customers are urged to avoid eating the nuggets and instead return them to the shop where they were bought from for a full refund

In a statement on the Food Standards Agency website, the frozen brand said: ‘Birds Eye apologises for the inconvenience to all our consumers.

‘The presence of plastic makes this product unsafe to eat.’

Birds Eye said all of its other batch codes and products are safe to eat. 

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WWE boss Vince McMahon fires Eric Bischoff and replaces SmackDown chief with Bruce Prichard – The Sun

ERIC BISCHOFF has been fired by WWE boss Vince McMahon just months after returning to the company.

The 64-year-old former WCW president, who attempted to put WWE out of business in the 90s, was appointed as executive director of SmackDown Live in June.



Now the company have confirmed he is no longer with them as they announced he had been replaced by Bruce Prichard.

A statement from WWE said: “Prichard brings nearly 40 years of experience in sports entertainment with an extensive background in character development and creative storytelling.

“Over the course of his career, Prichard has served in a variety of roles including announcer, producer, agent and on-screen personality.”

Bischoff, who is believed to have been informed of the decision at a creative meeting at WWE HQ in Stamford, Connecticut, responded to the news with a Twitter message last night.

He wrote: “Bruce is a great producer, good friend and I am certain he is going to thrive in his position.

“He’s going to be working with a great team of the most dedicated and hardworking people I have had the pleasure of working with and getting to know.”

Prichard, 56, will be reporting directly to WWE Chairman and CEO McMahon.

The wrestling veteran, who previously performed on-screen as Undertaker’s manager Brother Love, worked for WWE for 20 years until 2008.

He was rehired in February as part of the creative team and will now oversee the storylines of the new Friday Night SmackDown on Fox.

The show kicked-off with a blockbuster premiere on the network a fortnight ago, with both Tyson Fury and UFC legend Cain Velasquez making shock appearances.

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7am Tottenham news LIVE: Vorm re-signs for Spurs, Bruno Fernandes for £65m, Eriksen offered new deal – The Sun

SPURS will look to get their season back on track when they face Watford this Saturday.

It's been a tough campaign so far for Mauricio Pochettino, having had to re-sign Michel Vorm following Hug Lloris's injury – while Christian Eriksen's future continues to remain unclear.

Get all the latest Spurs news here…

  • TOTTENHAM are hopeful all their stars have come through the international break without injuries.

    Heung-min Son, Christian Eriksen and Davinson Sanchez were all playing for their countries on Tuesday at the end of the lengthy October break.

    And all look to have come through unscathed, leaving boss Mauricio Pochettino breathing a sigh of relief as he plans for the return to Premier League action on Saturday.

    Spurs face Watford looking to get their season back on track following a dismal week leading up to the international break.

    First they were thrashed 7-2 by Bayern Munich before crashing to a 3-0 defeat at Brighton in a match which saw Hugo Lloris suffer a serious elbow injury.

    Pochettino is hopeful the break will have done his squad some good and they all return focused on delivering a much-needed victory over the struggling Hornets.

  • FORMER Leeds and Coventry striker Noel Whelan believes it would make total sense for Victor Wanyama to return to Celtic in January.

    Speaking to Football Insider, he said: “It looks like Wanyama’s Tottenham career is coming to an end.

    “He’s had a lot of injury problems in the last few years and he can’t get in the team.

    “No player can be happy not playing. He’ll want to get his career back on track and a move to Celtic on loan makes total sense.

    “He knows the club really well, he knows Neil Lennon thinks the world of him and he would be playing regularly. I can see him joining in January, definitely.”

  • SPURS have reportedly offered Christian Eriksen a new contract in a last-ditch effort to tie the Danish playmaker down to a new deal.

    The ex-Ajax ace will become a free agent at the end of the season.

    According to AS, Tottenham have offered him a four-year deal worth £5.25million-a-year.

    They also claim that Real Madrid are happy to match contract offer Spurs have put on the table.

  • MAURICIO POCHETTINO is targeting the Manchester United job, according to Duncan Castles.

    It is reported that the Argentine is ready to leave Spurs – but is keen to stay in the Premier League.

    On The Transfer Window Podcast, Castles said: “The information I have from someone close to Pochettino is he has very much targeted a new job.

    “In his head, he has made the decision he will be moving on from Tottenham Hotspur.”

    Before he added: “And the club I'm the told he is targeting at his next job is Manchester United.”

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Dave East Spills Details Over His Altercation With Two Women in Las Vegas

In an interview with ‘The Morning Hustle’ in Washington D.C., the rapper and actor recalls the time when one of the women ‘threw three bottles at me. Cut my arm, my leg, all that.’

AceShowbiz -Last month, Dave East was caught in a legal trouble after he got into an altercation with two women at a hotel room in Las Vegas. The rapper has finally opened up about the matter in an interview with “The Morning Hustle” in Washington D.C.

Claiming that there were more people in the hotel room than him and the two women, East denied that there were any plans of a threesome as they were just hanging out in the hotel room. Things took a sour turn when one of the women went to the bathroom and was later found trying on a piece of jewelry with his daughter’s initials.

This prompted East to ask what she was doing, but “her friend caught an attitude” and insisted that the girl didn’t try to steal the jewelry. “First of all I ain’t say nobody was trying to steal why you say that? Matter of fact y’all get y’all s**t. Get out,” the “Beats” star recalled. “And it went from that to bottle service. Shorty threw three bottles at me. Cut my arm, my leg, all that. She done already dialed 911 in the bathroom. Got the phone on speaker phone. Cops hearin’ all of that, I’m screamin’.”

East and the girls ended up charged with battery after police found out he was the only one with visible scratches and injuries. “It wasn’t nothing. They patched me up, brought me to the little s**t. Gave me a battery charge. Gave her one because they just went off the stories,” the rapper continued, before blaming himself for inviting them in the first place. “My mistake was even chilling with them in my room at all. It all went down in my room so it looked bad. And then it’s two girls claiming I’m attacking them.”

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Priti Patel says she will HALVE migrant Channel crossings within weeks

Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will HALVE migrant Channel crossings within weeks and virtually eliminate the trips by spring next year

  • Home Secretary vows to halve illegal migrant crossing by the end of this month
  • Action plan with France vows to make crossings an ‘infrequent phenomenon’
  • More than 1,400 people have crossed Channel illegally in the past ten months 

Illegal migrant crossings of the Channel will be halved by the end of this month, Home Secretary Priti Patel vowed on Tuesday night.

It came as she agreed an ambitious new action plan with the French which will aim to virtually eliminate the crossings by next spring.

The UK and France agreed to halve crossings in just a fortnight’s time. Within six months the dangerous journeys will be an ‘infrequent phenomenon’, according to the action plan.

Police patrols along the northern French coast will be doubled, with beaches under round-the-clock surveillance for the first time.

Illegal migrant crossings of the Channel will be halved by the end of this month, Home Secretary Priti Patel vowed last night

New detection equipment will be used so French authorities can intercept boats before they leave shore.

More than 1,400 people have crossed the Channel illegally in the past 10 months, unofficial figures show. 

Miss Patel said: ‘I am absolutely committed to doing everything in my power to stop these dangerous Channel crossings.’

The ‘immediate objective’, by the end of October, is to halve the number of migrant crossings accounted for over the summer and reduce it further by the end of December so that by the spring it has become an ‘infrequent phenomenon’, according to the pledges made in the document by the Home Secretary and French interior minister. 

Millions of euros in funding could be used to tackle the problem – and once this is spent ‘additional UK support’ may be needed to pay for resources, the paper said.

More ‘intelligence sources’ will be sent out in France to gather information on organised criminal gangs behind the crossings, while migrants would be encouraged to stay in the country rather than travel to the UK with action being taken to ‘deter repeated attempts to cross the Channel’.

The agreement was made in August and details were eventually published on Tuesday.

In it, Priti Patel and Christophe Castaner vow to put into motion the ‘urgent action’ they said was needed to stop the wave of crossings when they met.

The patrols are ‘crucial’ to meeting the 50% reduction target and are believed by the UK and French Governments to be the best chance at having the most impact in preventing boats leaving the continent before crossing the water.

In the agreement, Priti Patel and French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner (pictured) vow to put into motion the ‘urgent action’ they said was needed to stop the wave of crossings when they met

So far this year, UK authorities are thought to have intercepted more than 1,000 migrants – and it is understood there were more than 300 crossings in August alone.

The document frequently refers to the large numbers of incidents – but never commits in numbers how many crossings have taken place.

The Home Office has so far declined to provide an exact, up-to-date figure.

Loss of life at sea ‘is to be avoided at all costs’, the document made public a day after two migrants were found dead also said.

The bodies of two Iraqis were found washed up on a beach in northern France on Monday.

The pair – aged 17 and 22 – were discovered on the same beach at Le Touquet at different times of the day.

It is thought they were trying to reach the UK by boat. One was found near a small boat with two oars and a life jacket, according to reports.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: ‘Our thoughts and sympathies are with the friends and families of those involved.

‘An investigation into the circumstances is being run by the French authorities and we are ready to assist if required.’

The action plan said there would be ‘direct engagement and deterrence’ by ‘debriefing teams’ speaking to migrants on beaches and at camps about the ‘relative attractiveness of France compared to the UK as a destination for asylum seekers’. 

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Women must be offered smear tests and mammograms on lunch breaks, report demands

A report on plummeting cancer screening rates recommends introducing more convenient test times for women.

Patients must be able to attend cancer screenings during evenings and weekends, and in locations close to their home or work, the Government-ordered review said.

Professor Sir Mike Richards said women need to be given more choice over where they go for tests, including for cervical or breast cancer.

The former national cancer tsar believes the changes could halt the worrying decline in the number of people attending screenings.

His study looked in detail at the NHS screening programmes for abdominal aortic aneurysm, bowel cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer and diabetic eye screening.

It said outdated IT systems used for screening must be overhauled as they are currently too fragmented and lead to errors, risking patient safety.

Furthermore, delays in introducing new types of screening – such as a delay of over a decade in bringing in the new bowel cancer test – end up costing lives.

The study found people would be more likely to accept invitations for screening if appointments were available either near their home or workplace – at convenient times.

Some women also prefer to be screened at sexual health clinics, it said.

The document noted GPs must be "incentivised" to provide convenient appointments and ensure people take up screening.

Text message reminders could also be sent to increase uptake of appointments, although current IT systems hinder access to mobile phone numbers.

More should also be made of social media campaigns to raise awareness of the importance of screening, the report said.

The study also said trans people and gender diverse populations are "currently poorly served by screening services" and this must be improved.

It said: "Transmen may have a cervix and thus be at risk of cervical cancer.

"However, their gender may be recorded as male and thus they would not be routinely called for cervical screening.

"Transwomen are at an increased risk of breast cancer compared to cisgender men if using hormones, but are only invited for screening if registered as female."

The report welcomed the Government's new funding to replace MRI machines, CT scanners and breast screening equipment, saying some equipment was hugely outdated.

It noted that some mobile vans for breast screening were "at least 17 years old" with "leaking roofs".

And while most patients get the results of their screening on time, just 23.2% of women received their cervical screening results within the recommended two weeks in April 2019 due to a changeover to a new system.

The report said the current screening service saves over 10,000 lives a year but there is a sense "that we are now slipping" and each screening service could "do better".

It was also unclear who is accountable for the screening service – with Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England both having key roles – and the report said responsibility must be transferred to NHS England.

"The current system lacks clear leadership and accountability," the report said.

"The rationale for dividing responsibilities across PHE and NHSE is often unclear and creates confusion, delays and risks to patient safety."

On IT, the study said the current systems used for screening "are woefully out of date and long due for replacement", leading "to inefficiencies and errors".

It added: "Some of the systems – particularly those for breast and cervical screening – are old and liable to fail."


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Notorious child abuser who 'burned toddler in baking hot oven scalds another boy with boiling hot water after being let free’

AN alleged child abuser notorious for apparently throwing a toddler in a hot oven has been accused of scalding another with boiling water.

Terry May, 47, burned the terrified three-year-old boy last month after the child accidentally wet himself, according to police in Florida.


Daycare teachers spotted the child's horrific injuries and reported them to Volusia County Sheriff’s Office on September 27.

A police report said severe burns covered half of the toddler's back – from "the very top of his back all the way to the bottom."

The boy's mother told cops that the marks were accidental and the result of him being pulled across a trampoline.

But the tragic youngster is said to have told officers: "My back hurts. Terry burned me", the Miami Herald reports.

It is unclear what relationship May has to the boy or his mother.

TAKEN INTO CARE

Florida Department of Children and Families later took the child into care before leaving him with relatives.

May, of Deltona, Florida, faces a charge child abuse causing greater bodily harm.

It comes after May was accused last year of putting a three-year-old girl in an oven and switching it on.

The alleged sickening attack on the daughter of his ex-girlfriend left the toddler with horror burns to her ears and feet.

May was branded "Scumbag of the week" by Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood after the alleged January 2018 attack.

But prosecutors later revealed they had insufficient evidence to bring May to trial.

That left him free to allegedly commit another attack on a helpless child.

May's bond has been set at $250,000.

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Miranda Kerr and Evan Spiegel Welcome Baby No. 2

The runway beauty and the Snapchat founder ‘couldn’t be more excited’ to welcome the newest addition to their growing family, more than a year after their first child was born.

AceShowbiz -Model Miranda Kerr is a new mum.

The 36-year-old Australian and Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel have welcomed their second child.

“We are overjoyed at the arrival of Myles and so appreciate everyone’s kind words and wishes during this special time,” the pair write in a statement. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome our beautiful son into our family.”

Miranda and Evan are also parents to 17-month-old son, Hart, while the model is mum to eight-year-old son Flynn from her marriage to actor Orlando Bloom.

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