A Wirral care home resident has celebrated her 101st birthday this week. Staff at The Manor House in Upton decorated Ethel Griffin's room with balloon and banners, and the kitchen team cooked her ...

In 1911 a nearly penniless widow who called herself Katharine Gibbs sold her jewelry, scraped a $1,000 loan together, and bought a ramshackle “business school” in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, ...

Matt Fallaize joins Tony Curr on the steps of the Royal Court to recap the final day of this week’s meeting. Tony Curr and Matt Fallaize round up the latest from the States as members back a move to ...

Attending Boardman schools, she was a very bright student, excelling in typing and shorthand dictation, which garnered her first job at the steel mill offices. She met the love of her life ...

Speech-to-text used to be regarded as very niche, specifically just used for busy people who needed dictation software, or else had accessibility needs. However, speech-to-text is moving more and ...

Shorthand remains an essential skill for would-be journalists even though it may “soon become obsolete”, according to a group of regional editors. Peter Sands, left, the former Northern Echo editor ...