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Lockdown locks: Haircuts in Dundee through the decades © DC Thomson Students at Angus College were making use of their hairdressing talents in February 1993 as they provided cuts and styles in aid of Leukaemia Research. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up As hair salons and barbershops around Dundee open their doors today, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take a trip down memory lane and visit some of the salons that ke...

Of the hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste we produce each year, it’s estimated that around ten million tonnes enters the ocean. Roughly half of the plastics produced are less dense than water, and so they float. But scientists estimate that there are only about 0.3 million tonnes of plastic floating at the ocean surface, so where is the rest of it going? Consider the journey of a plastic fibre that’s shed from your fleece. A heavy rain washes it into a storm drain or a nearby river. Does the tiny fibre settle there? Or does the river carry it out to the coast where it lingers...

While the establishment of wineries in Martinborough decades ago heralded the first wave of visitors, people were now being pulled in by the allure of a country lifestyle. Many houses in the town were owned by Wellingtonians, used as boltholes away from the capital, but demand was driving prices and squeezing lower income residents out of the market. PIERS FULLER/Stuff South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen says his district needs more than just an ATM to serve its residents. Conor Kershaw owns the Four Square supermarket and Mitre 10 hardware store and said many of his 70-odd staff faced an u...

Canada is adopting standards aimed at helping pilots land on slippery runways It will be the first aviation authority to apply benchmarks to help improve pilots’ ability to judge how—or even whether—to land. Do they go far enough? By Christine Negroni January 28, 2021 Southwest Flight 1248 skidded off the runway in 2005, killing six-year-old Joshua Woods (Historic Collection/Alamy) Fifteen years ago, a Southwest Airlines flight landing in snow skidded off the runway at Chicago Midway Airport. It blasted through a perimeter fence, landing atop a car carrying the Woods family. ...

Body of woman found floating near Sea Point Swimming Pool Police confirmed that a death inquest case would be opened. Sea Point promenade, Image by Bruce Sutherland, City of Cape Town 96 days ago CAPE TOWN - The body of a woman has been discovered floating offshore in the Sea Point area in Cape Town. Lifeguards found her outside the boundaries of the sea Point Swimming Pool on Sunday morning. Police confirmed that a death inquest case would be opened. The City of Cape Town’s Zahid Badroodien, said, ...