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Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jacob Wilson's solo homer (9)
Watch Lebanon softball get final out, celebrate first state final appearance since 2017 Lebanon softball beat Lancaster 2-0 in extra innings on Saturday to earn a spot in the OHSAA Division I state final for the first time since 2017.
BBC News
a day ago
- Business
- BBC News
University of Lancaster to cut jobs to save £30m from budget
A university is to cut jobs in a bid to save £30m in the wake of rising costs and a drop in international student numbers. The University of Lancaster said there were no plans to close any departments and it hoped to reduce staff by voluntary it said it could not rule out compulsory job City councillors said they had "grave concerns" about the job losses. The university employs the full-time equivalent of 1,300 academic staff and 1,700 professional services staff. Almost 40% of full-time research and teaching staff are non-British, and it recruits staff from over 60 countries and has students from 142 university has around 10,000 students from Great Britain and the EU, with another 3,000 from overseas.A university spokesperson said it "achieved significant savings on non-payroll and through a voluntary severance scheme this year". But the spokesperson added: "Unfortunately our financial projections show that payroll savings of about £30m are required over the next academic year to ensure our ongoing financial sustainability."The University Executive Board has proposed a plan to ensure its "future size and shape is sustainable, while also enabling the university to continue to thrive".This plan is being shared with staff and "recognised" trade spokesperson said it is not "planning to reduce payroll costs through the closure of academic departments". "Proposed savings have been identified to achieve strategic efficiencies which will be shared across all academic departments and professional services"."Our preference has always been to achieve these changes through voluntary means... we can't rule out the possibility of compulsory redundancies as a last resort," the spokesperson added. 'Important for area' The university said it was in a "better financial position than some other universities", which had "bought us time to work through strategic options" that would "ensure that research and the student experience is prioritised and protected".Councillors highlighting the potential impact on staff, students and the wider district's economy at council meeting on Wednesday. Green council leader Caroline Jackson said: "I guess we knew this might happen. I have great concerns about the loss of jobs."Labour Councillor Sandra Thornberry added: "We used to have a representative on the university council. But the city council lost its seat. "However, would the university re-accept a representative? The university is a major employer and how it works is very important for the area, for students, for staff, and local businesses."Ms Jackson said she would ask the city council's chief executive to pass on the request to the university. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
Hospital surgeon tells sexual assault trial he was 'only flirting'
A senior heart surgeon who denies sexually assaulting other hospital workers and has been accused of having a "god complex" told police he was "only flirting".The jury in the trial of Amal Bose has retired to consider its verdicts on the 14 charges he faces relating to six women at Blackpool Victoria 55-year-old has been accused by the prosecution of committing the offences while he "felt untouchable in his role".Defending, Tom Price KC, told Preston Crown Court some of the allegations which include pulling on a work colleague's bra strap "simply cannot amount to sexual assault". The court heard the surgeon from Thurnham near Lancaster, was the hospital's head of the cardiovascular surgery one incident, he is accused of pulling on a work colleague's bra strap and waist band. He told the court it was immature and stupid but denied it was sexual assault and described the actions to police as being part of a "banterous relationship". 'Horrible' The court heard Dr Bose told police on his arrest that it was only flirting and at interview he was "sorry for everything". When asked in court what he was sorry for, he replied: "I was sorry for the situation".At the trial, the prosecution accused Dr Bose of having a 'God-complex', and said he committed the offences 'because you were in a position of power to get away with it'. Mr Bose replied: "I deny having ever done them."Prosecution counsel Huw Edwards said Dr Bose was "a man who felt untouchable in his role, while touching up female members of staff – believing himself to be beyond reproach"."He was in his mind, so invaluable that he could do whatever he wanted", Mr Edwards accused Dr Bose of saying "horrible, misogynistic, sexualised things to women in lower positions".Mr Price said the evidence given by one of the complainants was "inconsistent, unreliable and unsupported".The jury are out to consider their verdicts after hearing two weeks of evidence. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
The Philpster exhausts his repertoire with return to Rwanda at PMQs
Thoughts and prayers with Alex Burghart. Not so long ago, the shadow chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster was allowed out by Kemi Badenoch to stand in for her at prime minister's questions when Keir Starmer was otherwise engaged. Though this may be a memory Alex wishes to forget. It wasn't his finest hour. Angela Rayner ran rings around him without even breaking sweat. So, on Wednesday, Alex found himself sidelined. Not wanted on voyage. From time to time, he would check his phone for messages. Just in case he had missed something. Willing his phone to ping with a late call-up. Nothing. He just had to suck it up. Take his place on the opposition frontbench and cheer on some other poor sucker. Maybe it was for the best. Some men are born failures. Some achieve failure. Some have failure thrust upon them. Alex is unique. A combination of all three. Instead it was Chris Philp who got the job. Given the nod by Kemi shortly after breakfast and with next to no time to prepare. The last man standing who can be trusted to be loyal. Or more or less competent. In his own way. At least some of his neural pathways function as they should. The Philpster is Team Kemi through and through. Up until Team Kemi is no longer a thing. Much as he was with Team Truss. Then he will be his own man. Left to ponder that no one will ever be Team Philp. Chris even looks and sounds a bit like Kemi. Just not as good. Imagine. But this was his moment. His time. It might never happen again. He could be a hero. Just for one day. Also having an unexpectedly good day was Keir. Of all the days to miss PMQs, this was a good one. A nice snooze on the flight back from Canada. No tricky questions on why the G7 turned into the G6. No having to cover for a US president who seemed to imagine he was the star of his own first-person-shooter computer game. No having to look his own MPs in the eye as his government published its new welfare bill. Over to Angie. Philp stuck to what he knew. Grooming gangs and immigrants. Which all felt rather familiar. As if we all knew what everyone was going to say before they said it. After all, Kemi had had her say in answer to Yvette Cooper's Commons statement on Monday. The next day she and the Philpster had held their own press conference to fill in any gaps. And now? Now, it was third time lucky. So far, they had consistently struck the wrong note. Maybe this was the chance they needed. And it wasn't as if Chris was capable of coming up with any other questions. This was all about the survivors, said Philp. Which was a decent place to start, given that he and Kemi had previously made it all about them. A bit of a stretch given that neither had shown much interest in the scandal when they had been in government. Rayner thanked him for his tone and assured the house that the inquiry would be comprehensive and would put the victims first. After that, it was all rather downhill. Maybe it was nerves, but the Philpster got increasingly shouty and squeaky. His voice racing through the octaves. Starmer should apologise for calling people 'far right' and 'racist' for having demanded an inquiry. Ange corrected him. Keir had only been calling out those who had previously shown no interest in grooming gangs and, besides, he had also done more to secure convictions as director of public prosecutions than the Tory government had managed in 14 years. It was just weird to think that Philp and Kemi were now positioning themselves as the champions of the survivors, but we were where we were. Chris moved on to his next pet subject. Illegal immigrants. One or two of the people who had arrived on small boats were implicated in child sexual exploitation. Therefore, it followed that every illegal immigrant was probably a paedophile. And should be killed. Or something. And another thing … The Philpster was racing through his desperately limited repertoire and was already struggling. Rwanda. If only Labour hadn't closed down the Rwanda scheme, then already more than a million immigrants – although why stop at those arriving by small boat? Why not go for those with visas too? – would have been safely rehoused in Rwanda to fight in the war with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 'The deputy prime minister has a brass neck,' he declared. For … for stating the obvious. That Rwanda was always going to fail. Rishi Sunak would never have called a general election last July if he had believed in the scheme. But to his dying breath, Chris will insist otherwise. He just needed a few more days, a week, even. Then he coulda been a contender. We ended where we always end on these occasions. Nowhere very much. Philp may have disappointed the Tory benches who had been hoping for a miracle, but Rayner hadn't exactly shone. It was as though she didn't believe the lines she had been given to read out. Was starting to wonder if neither the Tories nor Labour had all the answers. A revelation that comes to all sentient politicians in the end. You could chalk it up as a win for Ange. Largely because she's the more engaging. She connects to people. They believe her. Well, not all. Labour's Sarah Champion managed to throw a dampener on proceedings, saying she had had enough of point scoring from all sides of the house over the grooming gangs. The victims had even been failed by the criminal injuries compensation scheme. Time for everyone to up their game.
Cambrian News
2 days ago
- General
- Cambrian News
Ceredigion war veteran gets flypast to celebrate his 103rd birthday
Speaking of his survival over the skies of Germany and capture, John said: "I was literally blown out of the Lancaster and the first thing I knew when I regained consciousness was seeing a huge piece of aircraft coming by.
