Posting in a Facebook group, he said: “In TV dramas there is always ‘artistic licence’, however when a drama is based on real events and claimed to have been thoroughly researched you would expect a degree of accuracy. “On the ITV drama White House Farm, which is based on a tragic real life event in […]
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Offshore, Act Two: New owner repowers 20-year-old wind farm off Swedish coast
Enlarge / Scroby Sands offshore wind farm, Caister, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. (credit: Photo by: Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images) In November, a Danish asset management group called Momentum Gruppen recommissioned five turbines at a 20-year-old offshore wind farm located 4km (2.5 mi) off the coast of Sweden. Momentum purchased the wind farm and upgraded the […]
E. coli outbreak from romaine lettuce traced to at least 1 California farm
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said 59 people have now been sickened by the tainted lettuce. Officials said a water reservoir at Adams Brothers Farms in Santa Barbara County, Calif., tested positive for the bacterial strain and the owners are co-operating with U.S. officials.
Raceday focus: Best bets at Warwick Farm
SINCE arriving at Cameron Crockett’s stables, Reprimand hasn’t been tested in her easy wins, but on Wednesday at Warwick Farm she will face her stiffest test. The I Am Invincible mare lines up in a Benchmark 70 Handicap (1000m) after belting up three fields by a combined total of 14 lengths, including a 6¼-length demolition […]
The Hidden Link Between Farm Antibiotics and Human Illness
For decades researchers sought evidence that antibiotics fed to farm animals transferred super bacteria to humans. Now a single study has provided a much needed smoking gun. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b8eec059c837e2f56c19abc/master/pass/Ideas_Art_Maryn-ChickenDisease.jpg
Largest offshore wind farm opens off England’s coast
The largest offshore wind farm to date has officially opened off of the Cumbrian coast in the Irish Sea and it has the ability to power 590,000 homes. The 659-megawatt Walney Extension takes up an area roughly the size of 20,000 soccer pitches and is made of 87 wind turbines. “The UK is the global […]
Daily Podcast: Mailbag, Peter Gets Locked Out, Tom Cruise, Crazy Rich Asians, Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm, Men in Black, & Avengers: Infinity War
On the August 2, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to have a brief water cooler discussion, dig into the mail bag and discuss the latest film and TV news, including Tom Cruise, Crazy Rich Asians, Andy Serkis’ Animal Farm, Men […]
Couple forced to live outside UK have house turned into weed farm and destroyed by fire
A British man, whose wife has been prevented from entering the UK and who was told in March that his house had been turned into a cannabis farm by illegal immigrants, has now discovered that it’s been destroyed by a fire. The blaze at his home in Northumberland has left 47-year-old Michael Grieve on the […]
How Pharma Hides Data About Farm Antibiotic Use
Other nations report and track exactly how and where antibiotics are given to livestock, but in the US, that data is tied up in political football. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1ac93311196626aaeb15e7/master/pass/ideas_mckenna_livestock_data1-FINAL.jpg
The Stillness of the Wind returns to a lonely apocalyptic goat farm
Indie designer Coyan Cardenas is going back to the farm with The Stillness of the Wind, a sequel to his 2017 game, Where the Goats Are. Once more, it’s you and your animals in a lonely, dreamy landscape burnished with deep golds and reds. It has a larger scope, so Cardenas has teamed with publisher Surprise […]
