Votes needed to immortalise Gutenberg as Lego character
Toy giant Lego could make a working model of Gutenberg’s famous printing press if a product idea proposed by a member of its creative community gains enough support.
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Toy giant Lego could make a working model of Gutenberg’s famous printing press if a product idea proposed by a member of its creative community gains enough support.
Roy and Pat Coxhead pictured at Diana Thompson's wedding Coxhead's father was in the army, and as a result he was born in Quetta Cantonment, Balochistan, Pakistan. He went on to be educated in the UK and started his career on local newspapers, followed by a stint in Australia during his early married life. He later returned to the UK overland with his wife Pat in a VW. His career included communications roles for Reed International and then the British Printing Company where he worked for ten years, departing just prior to the Robert Maxwell era. He then joined Benn Publications where he wa...
Are private schools really worth the money any more? Sexual-abuse allegations, a fall in the number of Oxbridge admissions and ever-increasing fees – is it time to reassess independent schools? 30 April 2021 • 5:00am Left: Eton, Berkshire £42,500 per year — 48 pupils offered places at Oxbridge in 2021; right: Brampton Manor Academy, Newham £0 per year — 55 pupils offered places at Oxbridge in 2021 Credit: Getty A year ago, during the height of the first lockdown, Amy and Simon Eccles, both NHS consultants at a central London teaching hospital, had a conversation with their five-yea...
01:36 AM Trade association techUK has published a plan setting out 10 recommendations to accelerate the digitalisation of the health and care sector. The Ten Point Plan aims to ensure digital technology is at the forefront of improving outcomes for citizens and transforming how care is delivered nationally. It focuses on empowering the public, embedding standards and interoperability, digitising social care, supporting the health and social care workforce and reforming business environment and procurement. Among the recommendations, it calls for the Department of Health and Social Care to ce...