Comic strips offer children with dyslexia and autism an alternative way to learning subjects at school, a Scottish entrepreneur has suggested.
Rossie Stone has set up Dekko Comics to create educational comic strips after drawing his own while at secondary school to help him revise.
A comic book he drew as revision notes for a Higher Modern Studies exam earned him an “A”.
Pupils at five Scottish schools have tried Dekko Comics’ strips so far. More
Comic book heroine Wonder Woman is to be named as a new honorary ambassador for the United Nations (UN).
The character will be used to promote messages about women’s empowerment and gender-based violence, the UN said.
DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson will accept the role for her company’s comic book, TV and film character at a ceremony on 21 October.
The DC comics site hinted that actresses who have played Wonder Women will also attend the event.
The campaign is being sponsored by Warner Bros and DC Entertainment who are supporting the UN and Unicef’s year-long campaign for gender equality and women’s empowerment. More
The NHS is failing to meet the needs of transgender adults and children, says a nurse who has first-hand experience both working in a hospital and as a transgender patient.
Kirsty Cass, 53, works at a private hospital in southern England. But in 2012, she was an NHS patient having gender reassignment surgery.
When she woke up from her operation, she remembers a member of staff on the ward referring to her as “he”.
On 7 October 1946 a male presenter introduced the very first episode of Woman’s Hour.
Created as a time-filler for housewives, its early broadcasts were criticised for being “patronising” and obsessed with the routine of domestic chores.
Three months after the programme’s launch, the first female presenter was at the helm and the show went on to become a Radio 4 staple – the longest-running radio magazine programme in British broadcasting.
From how to cook with whale meat to contraception and “the perfect affair”, the shifting nature of its subjects shines a light on the changing nature of the issues affecting women. More
Few plays open in the West End with an entirely black cast. But the main characters of One Night in Miami, set in 1964, are all icons of black America – including the activist Malcolm X and Cassius Clay, just as he takes the name Muhammad Ali. The actors say wholly black casts are only one way to improve diversity in the theatre. More
On the far side of the Moon lies the Maunder crater, named after two British astronomers – Annie and Walter Maunder.
Annie worked alongside her husband at the turn of the 19th Century, recording the dark spots that pepper the Sun.
The name Maunder is still known in scientific circles, yet Annie has somehow slipped from history.
“I think the name Maunder is there and we have all rather forgotten that that’s two people,” says Dr Sue Bowler, editor of the Royal Astronomical Society magazine, Astronomy and Geophysics.
“She was acknowledged on papers, she published in her own name as well as with her husband, she wrote books, she was clearly doing a lot of work but she also clearly kept to the conventions of the day, I think.” More
A statue of Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from the UK to Australia, has been unveiled in Hull.
Actress Maureen Lipman unveiled the statue, built to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the pilot’s death.
It also marks the end of the two-month Amy Johnson Festival in East Yorkshire in celebration of her life. More
Football legend Laurie Cunningham has been honoured with a blue plaque at his childhood home.
Cunningham was one of the first black footballers to play for England and was the first British footballer to play for Real Madrid.
His plaque was unveiled in Stroud Green, north London.
It has been revealed only 4% of the 900 plaques on buildings in the city are for black and Asian figures. More
Oscar Wilde’s former home, the estate of “the first modern lesbian” and a memorial to a trans spy have been given special status by Historic England.
Six “historic LGBT venues” landmarks are being recognised for reflecting England’s “queer history”.
Chief executive Duncan Wilson said the influence of men and women “who helped build our nation has been ignored” because they came from minority groups. More
Before she began working on her new film A United Kingdom, Amma Asante had never heard of Seretse Khama.
Now she’s bringing his story to the big screen and hopes it will illuminate a seemingly forgotten part of British post-war history. More