Britain and India sign pact to make innovation more innovative
Felicity Bunce finds Britain and India preparing to turn research into products by first giving the process enough programmes to qualify as a product, then scheduling its launch.
Felicity has been in a six-year dispute with a supermarket loyalty scheme over seven missing points. She owns a filing cabinet containing every receipt issued to her since 1993 and has successfully returned a toaster on the grounds that “the toast had become complacent.” Retailers generally know her simply as Mrs Bunce Again.
Felicity Bunce finds Britain and India preparing to turn research into products by first giving the process enough programmes to qualify as a product, then scheduling its launch.
Mara Quill has found the ideal response to a demand for better financial governance: improve the filing system until it can supervise the finances.
Penny Ledger examines the online pet retailer whose accounts were dormant, whose addresses travelled internationally and whose customers waited for parcels and refunds.
Felicity Bunce finds the Bank of England’s Leeds expansion wonderfully efficient: local representation now comes with a larger lease and a distinctly London sense of importance.
Early support hubs received real funding, while a fictional blank sign challenges the word pathway.
New technology aims to make rail replacement coaches more accessible, while the mystery bus is finally asked to explain where it is going.
A rail freight growth target sets a long term ambition, while a fictional container seeks strategic status.
A Europa ammonia discovery gives scientists a fresh chemical clue while the icy moon keeps its ocean behind a locked door.
Wales needs a new traffic commissioner after Victoria Davies announces her departure, leaving one job applicant to regulate buses and distrust the word “due”.
Talyllyn Railway funding will improve stations, workshops and volunteer facilities, giving a historic railway a better plan than Britain’s transport system.