Explaining the uses of AI, Prof Sloan said a farmer growing plants in fields needed to check for pests.
“Go back even 10 years, you would have had to manually go around and actually look at all of those plants,” he said.
“Now what you can do, is you can take a machine… you can scan individually, you can compare what you’re seeing very quickly to what a healthy plant looks like.”
He said it was the same with animals, adding: “A cow can tell you by the way it walks, the way it sits, how it spends its time, whether it’s OK or not OK.”
It took time and experience for a person to check them, he said, but with cameras, “we can spot them, we can see them, and we can act really quickly to keep the animals healthy”.
The team behind the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer is hoping to raise £135,000 to replace “vital components” ahead of the 80th anniversary of its launch.
The sum is just a small part of the £1.5m required to repair the Waverley, which is due to visit the Bristol Channel in late May 2026.
Waverley was built in Glasgow to connect rail passengers to seaside towns, and now offers cruises to the public.
Paul Semple, general manager of Waverley Excursions, the company that runs the trips, said: “We are preserving her truly unique character. As the world continuously changes around Waverley, she becomes even more special as she represents a moment in time when she was first designed and built.”
The renovations will also be funded by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society and the steamer’s owning charity, Waverley Steam Navigation Co.
The £135,000 is needed to replace the ship’s two masts and several windows in the dining saloon with authentic materials.
Mr Semple said: “They are vital components that really give the authentic nature to Waverley.
“Essentially, many parts of the ship could be replaced with more modern materials and fittings which may last longer, but collectively that would change the look and feel of the ship.”
Waverley was built shortly after the Second World War for the London and North Eastern Railway, connecting passengers from Glasgow to towns such as Rothesay and Dunoon.
It was launched in October 1946 and entered service the next year.
Following the end of its working life, the ship was gifted to the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society in 1974 for £1.
The renovations will also be funded by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society and the steamer’s owning charity, Waverley Steam Navigation Co.
The £135,000 is needed to replace the ship’s two masts and several windows in the dining saloon with authentic materials.
Mr Semple said: “They are vital components that really give the authentic nature to Waverley.
“Essentially, many parts of the ship could be replaced with more modern materials and fittings which may last longer, but collectively that would change the look and feel of the ship.”
Waverley was built shortly after the Second World War for the London and North Eastern Railway, connecting passengers from Glasgow to towns such as Rothesay and Dunoon.
It was launched in October 1946 and entered service the next year.
Following the end of its working life, the ship was gifted to the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society in 1974 for £1.
Jordan was one of the first donors to give stem cells to an anonymous recipient at the new Anthony Nolan Cell Collection Centre in Nottingham
Each time stem cells are sent to a new destination for transplant from Nottingham, staff proudly stick a pin on the location on a map on the wall.
Those at the Anthony Nolan Cell Collection Centre, based at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), have been mapping its progress across the globe since it opened in July.
So far, 59 donors have given cells for transplant and 32 samples have gone to patients in the UK and the rest around the world.
Mike Smith, stem cell laboratory manager, said: “Across the globe, transplant recipients are being given that second chance.”
Laboratory manager Mike Smith in front of a map on the wall marked with pins where cell donations have been sent
Mr Smith said the unit was having an increasing impact and cells had gone to more than 12 countries.
“So we’ve gone to America, Canada, down to South America and Buenos Aires, all the way across to Australia, which was one of our first donations, a lot in Europe and then in India.”
The Anthony Nolan charity said the centre would create 1,300 new donation slots a year, helping to tackle a “longstanding global shortage of cell collection facilities”.
Since the first donors were welcomed, Anthony Nolan said it had been getting the donations to transplant teams quicker.
Jordan, from London, was among the first to donate at the unit.
He said he was “proud to be helping a stranger”, and hoped the unit would be a “gamechanger” in getting cells to transplant recipients in a more timely way.
Fin, 19, from Leicestershire, donated stem cells just before Christmas for research designed to improve treatments
The centre has also collected cells for research into new treatments from 28 patients.
Fin,19, from Leicestershire, was one of the latest people to donate for that purpose just before Christmas.
He said: “I’m not great with needles, but I just had to look away and just pretend it wasn’t actually happening.
“Obviously, it’s a little bit strange to be hooked up to a machine. I’ve never really been to hospitals before, and it feels great that I’m doing something good.”
Anthony Nolan said the beauty of the new centre was that they have full control of when they can book donors in and improve the chances of the cells getting to the patient’s medical team at the time they wanted them. The aim was to transplant cells within 72 hours of collection.
The charity continues to recruit new potential donors and targets people aged between 16 and 30 to sign up to the Anthony Nolan register.
It has more than 900,000 potential donors currently on the list. Although people can only sign up before their 31st birthday, the charity allows cells to be donated up to the age of 61.
Most will never get the call to say they are a potential match for a patient, but those that do have the opportunity to potentially save a life.
Senior police officer Javed Alam Odho formally took charge as the Sindh inspector general of police (IGP), becoming the 86th officer to lead the province’s police force.
In order, to keep providing you with our global services, Maersk is revising the Port Additonals / Port Dues Export (PAE) & Import (PAI) for the scope of Nelson, New Zealand to/from World with effective from 1st of February 2026 until further notice.
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Nelson, NZ to Algeciras, ES
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