Double date<\/p>\n
This year, Orthodox Easter is on the same date as the western Easter, 20 April. How common is that? The Orthodox Church has a different date for Easter because it still calculates the date according to the Julian calendar, which runs 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar. But the dates coincide when the first full moon after the spring equinox occurs relatively late. The dates last coincided in 2017, but eight years is a relatively long run without this happening. This year is the ninth occasion this century when western and Orthodox Easters have been on the same day. A common date for Easter will next happen in 2028, followed by 2031, 2034, 2037 and 2041.<\/p>\n
Steel yourself<\/p>\n
In 1875 Britain was the world\u2019s largest producer of steel, accounting for 40 per cent of global production. Where does it fit in now? In 2023 the world produced 1,892 million tons of steel. The biggest producers, in millions of tons, were:<\/p>\n
China 1,019<\/strong><\/p>\n India 141<\/strong><\/p>\n Japan 87<\/strong><\/p>\n US 81<\/strong><\/p>\n Russia 76<\/strong><\/p>\n South Korea 67<\/strong><\/p>\n Germany 35<\/strong><\/p>\n Turkey 34<\/strong><\/p>\n Brazil 32<\/strong><\/p>\n Iran 31<\/strong><\/p>\n Britain is in 26th place, with 5.6m<\/strong> tons.<\/p>\n Driven to succeed<\/p>\n Where are you most likely, and least likely, to pass your driving theory test? Pass rate between April and September 2024:<\/p>\n Highest<\/p>\n Kyle of Lochalsh 70%<\/strong><\/p>\n Tain; Huntingdon 61%<\/strong><\/p>\n Brodick 56%<\/strong><\/p>\n Mallaig 55%<\/strong><\/p>\n Diss 54%<\/strong><\/p>\n Lowest<\/p>\n Newton Stewart 26%<\/strong><\/p>\n Porthmadog; Cromer 33%<\/strong><\/p>\n Stornoway 34%<\/strong><\/p>\n Worksop; Bala 35%<\/strong><\/p>\n Cyber insecurity<\/p>\n How big a problem is cyber crime?<\/p>\n \u2014 43%<\/strong> of businesses and 30%<\/strong> of charities report a cyber breach in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n \u2014 Not all are criminal acts; some are accidents. 20%<\/strong> of businesses and 14%<\/strong> of charities report experiencing cyber crime.<\/p>\n \u2014 The average cost of a breach was \u00a31,600<\/strong> for businesses and \u00a33,240<\/strong> for charities. Just 45%<\/strong> of businesses and 34%<\/strong> of charities were insured against breaches.<\/p>\n Source: Dept. for Science, Innovation and Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Double date This year, Orthodox Easter is on the same date as the western Easter, 20 April. How…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,3751,393,4884,15986,1144,712,1218,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-26238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-easter","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-hacking","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-steel","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}