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| |  | Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill 30 January 2024 | | | Good morning. Today we're waking up to the news that the DUP have agreed a deal to end their Stormont boycott, returning Northern Ireland to a power-sharing government. We'll also get the latest from a report which reveals widespread harassment and abuse in the music industry. Elsewhere, Elon Musk's company Neuralink has successfully implanted a computer chip in a human brain for the first time, we'll discover how India's carpet industry is using AI, and hear from actress Lily Gladstone. | | | |
 Image: Getty Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the main Unionist party in Northern Ireland, the DUP, has endorsed a deal to return to power-sharing government. At an executive meeting on Monday night - which lasted more than five hours and was plagued with arguments and security issues - he said it provided a basis for the return, subject to new legislation being passed in parliament, and final agreement on a timetable. Nearly two years after the DUP collapsed the Northern Irish Assembly in protest against post-Brexit trade arrangements, Donaldson said the legislation agreed with Westminster would "remove checks on goods moving within the UK and remaining in NI, and end NI blindly following EU laws". Chris Heaton-Harris MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, said: "This is a welcome and significant step." | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| NHS adds digital prescriptions to app From today, NHS App users in England will be able to collect medication from a pharmacy without having to visit a GP or health centre. The news comes after a year-long trial involving over a million users, and NHS Digital says every order fulfilled will save the GP three minutes. Find out more. | | | |
| | 'Women sit next to abusers at music industry parties' MPs warn The Women and Equalities Committee have warned in a report that the music industry is still a "boys' club" where sexual harassment and abuse is common. The document makes a series of recommendations to tackle the problem of misogyny and the "culture of silence", but also says a shift in the behaviour of men is needed. Their findings follow an inquiry which began in 2022, with MPs concluding that the issue was "endemic" and calling for urgent action to tackle it. The inquiry heard evidence from people including the former BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus, who said there was a "tidal wave" of revelations about sexual assault in the music industry waiting to be told. | | | | | |
| Musk announces first Neuralink wireless brain chip implant Tech billionaire Elon Musk says his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time. Initial results detected promising neuron spikes or nerve impulses, and the patient is recovering well, he said. In time, the company hopes to connect human brains to computers in a bid to help tackle complex neurological conditions. | | | |
Essential read | | | | | Kashmir's carpet industry is trying to maintain its traditions while staying competitive. | | | | | | | |
|  Image: Reuters Lily Gladstone: The actress who could make Oscars history Lily Gladstone has already made history, and she could be about to make it again. The 37-year-old is the first Native American woman to ever be nominated for best actress at the Oscars, and at the ceremony on 10 March, we will find out if she is also the first winner. Gladstone is not a newcomer to acting - viewers may have seen her in TV series such as Billions and films including Certain Women, but she was not a household name until she appeared last year in Killers of the Flower Moon - a 3.5-hour epic directed by Martin Scorsese. So what made her performance so magnetic? And can she beat her co-frontrunner Emma Stone? | | | | | |
|  | | BBC Sounds How significant is it and could it reduce the number of children using disposable vapes? | | | | |  | | BBC iPlaYER The definitive origin story of a once-in-a-generation genius footballing mind. | | | | | | | |
| Many of today's papers carry images of King Charles who has left hospital after treatment for an enlarged prostate. The Guardian leads with a story centring on a deal to address the "worsening financial crisis hitting town halls across the country", while the Telegraph focuses on French farmers who on Monday began moving hundreds of tractors in an effort to blockade key routes into Paris. The Times reports on claims that Tehran is using criminal gangs as proxies, as Britain sanctions spies over a plot to kill Persian-language journalists in London, and the Mail says the prime minister is "at war" with rail bosses over strikes. In other news, the i reveals that David Cameron will soon make his first major speech since re-joining the government. See all today's front pages. | | | |
| | England's hedgerows would stretch almost ten times around the Earth if lined up end to end, according to a new map. Laser scanning from the air reveals a total of 390,000 km (242,335 miles) of hedges, with the South West boasting the most hedgerows, led by Cornwall. Ecologists hope the data will lead to better protections for the much-loved lines of trees and shrubs that provide food and shelter for wildlife, and store large amounts of carbon. | | | |
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