Eton to fund three new sixth form colleges aimed at young people who live in deprived areas

Eton College has signed an agreement with an academy trust to open three selective state sixth form colleges for young people who live in deprived northern areas.   The landmark agreement, which was signed this month, has seen the 581-year-old independent boarding school form a partnership with Star Academies to open three highly selective sixth … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completes a sixth flight despite some ‘unexpected motion’

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived its sixth flight on the Red Planet, but not everyone went to plan, with some ‘unexpected motion’ in the final few feet. This motion was from an ‘image processing issue’ but the 4lb copter ‘muscled through’ the final 213ft of its 703ft flight over the Martian surface, NASA JPL … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter to attempt its SIXTH flight on Mars next week

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is going to attempt a sixth flight on Mars next week, reaching speeds of up to nine miles per hour and flying for over two minutes. This will be the first flight as part of the ‘operations demonstration phase’ that includes helping the Perseverance rover in its mission to find ancient signs … Read more

Stephen Graham shoots new Peaky Blinders scenes for the eagerly awaited sixth series

Stephen Graham was spotted recording new scenes for Peaky Blinders at the Bramley Moore Dock in Liverpool, as his mysterious character remains firmly under wraps.  The former Line Of Duty actor, 47, joins a sterling cast, which includes Cillian Murphy, for the highly-anticipated sixth series.  And he proved it was business as usual on Friday … Read more

Line Of Duty’s sixth season is heading to screens in China after ITV bosses ink lucrative new deal

Line Of Duty’s sixth season is set to hit screens in China, after ITV Studios bosses inked a new deal with local video app Pumpkin Film. The hit BBC show, which came to a nail-biting conclusion earlier this month, is also set to launch on Britbox in North America next week and has been picked … Read more

Line Of Duty’s sixth series reaches its conclusion as H is FINALLY unmasked

Line of Duty fans across the nation were left ‘fuming’ as the nail-biting series finale drew to a close tonight and the mysterious antagonist ‘H’ was finally unmasked.  Seasoned fans took to social media in their droves to share their frustrations as officers from the police anti-corruption unit AC-12 discovered the identity of the elusive ‘fourth man’, … Read more

Line Of Duty’s sixth series reaches its conclusion as H is FINALLY unmasked

Line of Duty fans across the nation were left ‘fuming’ as the nail-biting series finale drew to a close tonight and the mysterious antagonist ‘H’ was finally unmasked.  Seasoned fans took to social media in their droves to share their frustrations as officers from the police anti-corruption unit AC-12 discovered the identity of the elusive ‘fourth man’, … Read more

STDs reach all-time in US for sixth consecutive year

The number of sexually transmitted diseases reached an all-time high in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive year, a new report finds. In 2019, there were 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, the three most commonly reported STDs, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on … Read more

Sixth person dies after being shot by ex-NFL pro Phillip Adams in South Carolina

A sixth person has died following a shooting earlier this week at the hands of a former NFL player who also killed four members of a South Carolina family, local officials said on Saturday. Robert Shook, 38, an air conditioning technician from Cherryville, North Carolina, has died from injuries sustained in the Wednesday shooting while … Read more

Crisis talks in Northern Ireland after eight police officers were injured on sixth night of rioting

Violence flared up in Belfast again this evening as youths hurled petrol bombs at police officers in what has been described as the worst riots ‘in years’.  Police in Belfast faced a barrage of petrol bombs and rocks on Thursday, an AFP journalist said, as violence once again flared in Northern Ireland despite pleas for … Read more