Die Home-Office-Debatte bei Mercedes zeigt: Optimierung von Arbeit wird oft falsch gedacht. Von einem Umdenken könnten alle profitieren.

It’s high time we rediscovered these delicious nuts, but be warned: like the Victorians, squirrels can’t get enough of them

When I think of the crops I’m eager to grow, my mind rarely goes to nuts. But when I spotted the last of the season’s cobnuts at the greengrocer’s, it occurred to me that this could be one to consider. The nuts that come from the hazel – a tree that grows in many a woodland and also my front garden – have been foraged for millennia and cultivated versions have existed since Roman times.

It’s the cultivated varieties you want to plant for a decent crop of cobnuts, as wild hazel produces smaller yields. This is a tree that prefers mild conditions, hence their connection to Kent, where they were grown abundantly during the Victorian era (one of the most popular varieties is called the Kentish cob.) They prefer a sunny spot, in free-draining earth – a challenge for me with my clay soil – in a sheltered position where they’ll be protected from frosts that would affect pollination.

In 1985, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him.

Warning: this article contains graphic photographs

On 7 August 1985, five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex, England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas; and her adoptive parents, June and Nevill Bamber. All five had been shot with a rifle. Caffell’s 24-year-old brother, Jeremy Bamber, who was also adopted, had alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and was outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizoaffective disorder and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the rifle lying on her chest, pointing towards her neck. There were two gunshot wounds to her neck and chin, and a bloodied Bible by her side.

Caricom commission chair Hilary Beckles wants king to ensure Commonwealth becomes a ‘moral institution committed to human justice’

The head of the Caribbean’s reparations commission has appealed to King Charles III as a “human brother” whose family he said had benefited from slavery to support reparations talks at next month’s Commonwealth leaders meeting in the Caribbean.

Speaking at a press conference ahead of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) in Antigua and Barbuda next month, professor Hilary Beckles urged the king to use his influence to advance slavery reparations talks between Britain and the Caribbean.

Schickt der Präsident die Einwanderungsbehörde vor die Wahllokale? Lässt er Urnen beschlagnahmen? Die Zwischenwahlen in den USA werden von vielen Befürchtungen begleitet. Womit zu rechnen ist – und womit eher nicht.

Miatta Fahnbulleh says reference to ‘awkward’ interview was meant to be lighthearted and self-deprecating

The energy secretary has been forced to clarify that she backs Shabana Mahmood’s migration policy, after earlier joking that she had not been able to “lie” about supporting a key element of the changes.

Miatta Fahnbulleh made the original remarks to a journalists’ event in Westminster, referring to an “awkward” Sky News interview in which she repeatedly refused to say she was in favour of plans to make foreign workers wait 15 years to get permanent residency.

British authorities were unable to investigate case of Christopher Mooty, who went on to commit another offence

The US military failed to notify British police of an allegation that one of its airmen had been drink-driving in Suffolk, preventing the British authorities from being able to investigate the offence.

The failure broke a longstanding formal agreement with British police that enables the UK to investigate alleged illegality by US military personnel who are stationed in Britain.

As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides

• Heavy metals make Norwegian village’s tap water toxic

On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a glaciologist, Andy Hodson, points out the “ears” of ice, white against the rock, that gave Foxfonna glacier its name, after the arctic fox.

The small glacier, on a mountain 8 miles (15km) outside the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen, is a popular summer hike for tourists who come here seeking the Arctic experience.

Cutting out dead material will make the plant look better without damaging it. But be careful not to slice into the living leaf

The problem
You can really love your plants and still be rewarded with crispy, brown leaf tips. While they won’t kill your plant, they aren’t aesthetically pleasing.

The hack
The tidy-up is simple: cut off the dry, brown parts of the leaf. The plant looks instantly better, and the theory is this does no harm because the tissue is already dead. But the worry is it will hurt the plant or make the browning worse.