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  • Rainmakers: Will drones make cloud seeding more effective?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7095/live/a810f030-bb31-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.png”] Rainmaker Rainmaker’s drones were used over Alaska this year On 23 August, Cooper Freeman had no idea clouds above his head were being filled with a silver compound in order to cause rainfall. Neither did thousands of other residents in Homer, Alaska, who later discovered San Francisco start-up Rainmaker conducted an experiment…

  • BBC Time writer Jimmy McGovern calls young offenders staff lazy

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7187/live/a166f120-c226-11f1-b7d8-6f930589c871.jpg”] BBC/BBC Studios/Peter Marley McGovern said he was “appalled” after visiting young offender institutions to research his series Bafta-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern has said going into young offender institutions to research his new drama left him believing that keeping inmates isolated from each other for long periods allowed staff to “sit on their…

  • How the drought hit UK farms: Half the harvest, double the bills

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5256/live/f0b93700-c15f-11f1-ae7b-cfc528a6c828.jpg”] The hottest summer on record, the longest drought, the worst harvest. West Country farmers are counting the cost of a “terrible summer”, as one put it. The wheat harvest on Charles Day’s family farm in Gloucestershire was cut in half. “It’s just soul-destroying,” he says. Dairy farmers had to rip open silage…

  • Blind and visually impaired people fear smart glasses backlash

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a539/live/b5a8b330-c181-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.jpg”] BBC Darren Paskell is visually impaired and uses smart glasses at home Sitting at his desk with some post in front of him, Darren Paskell puts on his glasses and says: “Hey Meta, read aloud all the text you can see on the letter.” Within seconds a female voice reads the words…

  • Where has £450m of investment for the Border region gone?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/cb54/live/2b585b90-c163-11f1-ae7b-cfc528a6c828.jpg”] BBC The 10-year Borderlands Growth Deal was signed five years ago, with the intention of funding projects across the border region to boost growth and connectivity It began as a promise to boost the economic fortunes of the five council areas either side of the England-Scotland border. After years of negotiations, the…

  • Man warns about ‘knock-off- vapes after wife’s bag explodes

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/e034/live/31aa91f0-c1a6-11f1-8fa2-19a1e9b6288f.jpg”] BBC Dusty Sheppard says he wants to raise awareness about what happened A man is warning about the dangers of “knock off” batteries after his wife’s vape blew up “like a firework”. Dusty Sheppard said he was outside a pub in Gomshall in Surrey on Friday when “all of a sudden flames…

  • Froyo’s made a comeback. But at £12 a tub will it last?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/272f/live/082e6960-c1a5-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Getty Images Froyo has made a return with several stores opening across the UK this year Kiersten Paterno was one of the many people willing to queue up to an hour to treat herself to some frozen yoghurt. “It was a 45-minute wait for my turn but the whole experience of choosing…

  • Order of the Sinking Star: Jonathan Blow on making ‘ the biggest puzzle game ever’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/cb59/live/11c39bd0-be71-11f1-8a45-cd59664d243b.jpg”] Thekla, Inc., Arc Games For ten years, Jonathan Blow has been working with a small team on what he believes is “the biggest puzzle game ever made”. The American developer is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern indie game movement, creating the genre-defining puzzle-platformer Braid in 2008. Now, a…

  • UK risks being ‘uninvestable’ if new oil and gas fields not approved, warns Equinor

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a744/live/c3d0e5f0-c1a8-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] BBC Anders Opedal said Equinor would have to take “a hard view” about future investments in the UK if it were to reject new drilling Oil giant Equinor has warned it may shun further investments in the UK if new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved. “The…

  • England player ratings: How Three Lions played rated v Czech Republic

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/961a/live/7b935fd0-c1c5-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.jpg”] Kane scores twice but who else was a ‘real threat’? England player ratings Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Harry Kane scored twice on his 125th appearance for England – but who else impressed? By Sami Mokbel Senior football correspondent Published 1 hour ago Harry Kane scored twice as England cruised to a…