Mike Ridley

3 weeks ago | thesun.co.uk | Mike Ridley

RAF chiefs have paid tribute to the last of The Few — by painting his name on a fighter plane that starred in movies. died last month aged 105. The decorated hero was the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot. He was shot down four times during World War Two, and flew Hurricanes during the battle for Britain’s skies in the summer of 1940. Today the Royal Air Force will unveil one that took part with Dublin-born Paddy’s name painted on the fuselage.

4 weeks ago | thesun.co.uk | Mike Ridley |Lana Clements |Tom Bryden

AFTER months of speculation, Rachel Reeves today unveiled her Spring Statement with welfare cuts galore - and we caught up with some Sun readers to see how they’ll be affected. The Chancellor confirmed in Parliament that Universal Credit incapacity benefits for new claimants will be frozen until 2030, and that there will be tighter restrictions on claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP).

4 weeks ago | thesun.co.uk | Mike Ridley

ARTIFICIAL intelligence is everywhere – even taking on the terraces of our top football clubs.  That’s because these images are all computer-generated likenesses of terrace stereotypes – based on the fans of a string of top clubs. It’s all the work of social media site Reimagine UK.  Their tech wizards get ’bots to scour thousands of fan pictures and descriptions of supporters to analyse the defining traits of each.

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Mike Ridley

IN the boxing ring, George Foreman – who became world heavyweight champ twice, some 20 years apart – was a lean, mean fighting machine. With fists like wrecking balls and a piledriver punch, all bar eight of his 76 wins ended in a knockout. He fought in probably the most famous boxing bout in history, the 1974 Rumble In The Jungle against Muhammad Ali, who beat him using a strategy he coined “rope-a-dope”. But Big George, who died on Friday aged 76, was no dope.

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Mike Ridley

STARS Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry have backed a plan for kids to write to World War Two veterans. To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, when the war in Europe ended, schoolchildren are being encouraged to learn more from survivors. Bombardier Tom Jones, 103, launched the project at a Manchester primary school, where he showed pupils how to work a Morse code machine. He and four other vets have written letters about their service which all UK schools can request, and the children can write back.