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A HISTORIC textile firm run by Great British Sewing Bee star Patrick Grant has been boosted with a major investment in new technology. Cookson & Clegg has been based in Blackburn for over 160 years and hopes that its involvement with Made Smarter, a technology adoption programme, could be what takes it to the next level. The programme will see new investment in data systems that could see an increase in profitability, which in turn could lead to better pay and conditions for the firms 40 ...

Great British Sewing Bee’s Cathryn on playing hive mother role after TV exit The East Yorkshire contestant has talked about her experiences on the TV craft show Cathryn Tosler-Waudby - Hive Mother for the rest of The Great British Sewing Bee contestants (Image: BBC) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsle...

College students have got involved in a fashion project which aims to help Lancashire grow its own clothes.

Great British Sewing Bee journey over for East Yorkshire’s Cathryn after emotional goodbye Grime music-loving former dinner lady is out of the contest to find the UKs top amateur stitcher Cathryn Tosler-Waudby has trouble matching stripes in the pattern challenge on The Great British Sewing Bee (Image: BBC) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the inform...

What’s on TV tonight: Mobeen Azhar follows The Battle For Britney, from Louisiana to LA The i 3 hrs ago Gerard Gilbert © Provided by The i Mobeen Azhar with Hayley Hermes, Britney Spears fan and "Free Britney" activist (Photo: BBC/Forest Ventures Limited) Pick of the day: The Battle For Britney: Fans, Cash And A Conservatorship 9pm, BBC Two Since a mental-health crisis 13 years ago, Britney Spears has seen her career and finances placed in the hands of the legal team led ...

From Multistory Media PAUL OGRADYS FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS Ep5 Wednesday 5th May 2021 on ITV Pictured: Paul OÕGrady with a boisterous border collie called Charlie who has a bad hip Paul OÕGrady meets some beautiful dogs who are all Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs (ITV, 8pm) REHOMING an unwanted pet isn’t easy at the best of times, but if the animal in question also has a medical problem, it can be almost impossible. So spare a thought for the staff at Battersea when, in the final pro...

Last year’s series of BBC 2’s  The Great British Sewing Bee was, for me, one of the only joys that came from the first lockdown of 2020. I would even go so far as to say that series six of  Sewing Bee got me through the months of April, May and June as each episode became a momentary escape to a place more light-hearted than the world beyond my front door. I remember saying how the weekly instalment of  Sewing Bee had the power to really lift my mood during lockdown, whilst my friend...

Vermont focuses on education to protect ash trees State Entomologist for the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets Judy Rosovsky wraps up an ash log in her lab in Berlin, Vt., Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The log, which was cut in Orange, Vt., and contains evidence of emerald ash borer activity, is kept in a freezer with other samples of trees containing the larvae of the invasive insect to prevent its spread. Following a survey of towns bordering the four-town area where it has been confirmed, offi...

Arguing With Racists Epigraph: “Unhappy the land that has no heroes.” “No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.”~  (Brecht) Preface. St Augustine said he thinks he knows what time is but if someone were to ask him “What is time?”, he would find it difficult to answer. So it seems with the word “race”. We think we know its meaning and use the term with casual confidence. In literary theory, the Russian Formalists drew attention to the fact that language is the medium of literatur...

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The story of how tortured maths genius Alan Turing helped break the wartime Enigma ciphers is a favourite of television historians.