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Are Dating Apps Going the Way of the Dodo?

Whitney Wolfe Herd built Bumble into a company worth billions. Her platform gave women control over the first message and reshaped how millions of people approached online romance. So when she told an audience that dating apps are "feeling like a thing of the past," people paid attention. The founder of one of the largest dating platforms in the world had openly questioned the future of her own industry.

The numbers behind her statement tell a familiar story to anyone watching tech stocks. Bumble's share price sat above $75 when the company went public. It now hovers around $8....

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Better care plans will reduce A&E admissions

Plans to improve out of hospital care for the elderly and vulnerable will reduce emergency admissions, the Department of Health and Department for Communities and Local Government have announced.

Following a review of the first set of local plans for the Better Care Fund, a renewed agreement has strengthened a commitment to bring health and care service providers closer together to make joint decisions, ensuring more people receive joined-up, personalised care closer to home. The fund and the benefits it is creating will be an enduring feature of health and care provision beyond...

Growth deals: firing up local economies

As part of its long-term economic plan to secure Britain’s future, the Government today is agreeing a series of Growth Deals with businesses and local authorities across England.

The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister will announce the first instalment of plans to invest at least £12 billion in local economies in a series of ‘Growth Deals’.

The money will go towards providing support for local businesses to train young people, create thousands of new jobs, build thousands of new homes and start hundreds of infrastructure projects; including transport improvements and...

Prevent further deaths from Carbon Monoxide

Wales & West Utilities has joined forces with three other gas distribution networks to help raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.

This year’s carbon monoxide conference, Knowledge is Power, is hosted by The Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM), and aims to highlight the preventable deaths and injuries that occur in the UK every year.

In the last 12 months alone there have been 2,417 carbon monoxide related incidents reported across the Wales & West Utilities network.

In Devon there have been 232 reported incidents in...

Firefighters set to strike for eight days

Firefighters in England and Wales will strike on eight consecutive days this month, saying that the current proposals by government are unacceptable, unworkable, unrealistic and nothing short of a “vicious“ attack on firefighters’ pensions. Strikes will take place as follows: Monday 14 July: 6am–8am and 5pm–7pm Tuesday 15 July: 6am–8am and 5pm–7pm Wednesday 16 July: 6am–8am and 5pm–7pm Thursday 17 July: 6am–8am and 5pm–7pm Friday 18 July: 6am–8am and 11pm–1am on Saturday 19 July Saturday 19 July: 11am–1pm and 11pm–1am on Sunday 20 July Sunday 20 July: 5pm–7pm Monday 21 July: 6am–8am and...

£15 million cycle rail boost

Train stations across the country will benefit from improved cycling facilities thanks to £15 million of new government funding, Transport Minister Baroness Kramer announced today (4 July 2014) on the eve of the Tour de France coming to the UK.

The improvements will make it easier for people to ride bicycles and use trains by providing more and better cycle parking and other cycle-friendly facilities at railway stations, helping cut pollution and ease congestion on our roads.

Baroness Kramer said: "When people take rail journeys they need to know how they will get to and...

PCSO hailed a hero for saving baby

A police community support officer has been praised by a father after he dramatically stopped a car, with a baby girl inside, from rolling down a hill in St Agnes.

PCSO Richard Hill (pictured) was parked nearby when he saw what he thought was an empty convertible rolling backwards down the slipway towards the beach at Trevaunance Cove.

He saw a man frantically trying to stop the Audi A3 from rolling but the car was gathering pace, heading towards a number of pedestrians who would not have had chance to avoid the car.

He quickly drove his marked police car into the...

Major rail improvements for South West

Cornwall will benefit from a multi-million pound package of rail improvements that will lift the local economy, create new jobs and provide faster train journeys, the Prime Minister announced today (3 July).

The £146.6 million deal has tourism at its core. Passengers travelling by sleeper train into the county will be able to start their holiday relaxing in newly refurbished carriages.

The deal will ensure:

the interior of the Night Riviera Sleeper trains, which run between Penzance and London - one of only two sleeper services in the UK - will be completely

Roller coaster tester wanted

Loopings, barrel rolls, corkscrews and a lot of G-forces: do you think you can handle this?

Uitmetkorting.nl, Holland’s biggest leisure site, is looking for a roller coaster tester.

You get to test more than 50 coasters, in eight different theme parks in England - just to let the Dutch people know how awesome all the English theme parks are and why Dutch coaster enthusiasts should visit your beautiful and thrilling country. For a couple of years the website has been doing research in the fun factor of roller coasters in Holland, as to inform the visitors of the website....

Firefighters to join mass strike action

Firefighters in England and Wales will join hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers taking strike action on Thursday 10 July, the Fire Brigades Union has announced.

The long-running dispute over firefighters’ pensions will see a further day of strikes at the same time as a walk out by local government workers, teachers and civil servants over a range of issues, including attacks on pay and pensions and workloads.

The strike will last between 10am and 7pm and will be the 15th in the FBU’s campaign. The union is also expected to announce further action later this...

Calls for change in attitude to disabled

The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities are calling for a change to the language used about people with learning disabilities and the way they are represented in the media, in order to tackle the increase in bullying, harassment and hate crime.

Social media and the internet are places where high levels of bullying and hate crime are experienced by people with learning disabilities, as well as when they are at home, at work or out in their communities.

As well as campaigning for more positive representation in society and the media, the Foundation, working with...

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Are Dating Apps Going the Way of the Dodo?

Better care plans will reduce A&E admissions

Growth deals: firing up local economies

Prevent further deaths from Carbon Monoxide

Firefighters set to strike for eight days

£15 million cycle rail boost

PCSO hailed a hero for saving baby

Major rail improvements for South West

Roller coaster tester wanted

Firefighters to join mass strike action

Calls for change in attitude to disabled

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