THE record for running the Isle of Wight Coastal Path was beaten in spectacular style in the week before Christmas. The 71-mile course, from Cowes anti-clockwise to East Cowes, was completed by Island-raised athlete Russ Tannen in 11 hours, 11 minutes and 47 seconds. Tannen, 34, shaved an hour and 13 minutes off the previous record, set in June 2018 by Daniel Williams. Despite competing with mist, rain, heavy mud and darkness at both ends of his run, Tannen averaged six miles an hour for the route the equivalent of almost three marathons. He said: “I ve wanted to have a crack at this for a long time, but probably didn’t make the smartest choice in terms of timing – the second shortest day of the year, following a week or so of rain.
The team at Innovative Physics have another reason to celebrate. SHANKLIN technology company Innovative Physics has added another coveted business award to its list of recent honours. The company, based in Landguard Manor, has been announced winner of the Business and Product Innovation Award category at the South East Final of the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards. They will now go forward to contest the national awards at a Champions Club event in May. The regional award recognised Innovative Physics’ pioneering innovation in AI technology to assist sectors including cancer detection, homeland security and nuclear decontamination. With more than a dozen employees, the company has at the heart of its success strong links with market contacts and government departments in 35 countries across the world.
and rifles in 1862 which by the last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental in getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of parent rifle cannon at the cold spring army, which is just across the hudson river from west pointe. so lincoln was very much open and on top of the changing technology of warfare, and did, in fact, play a creative role in getting more advanced weaponry for the union army and navy. what about davis? davis is less hands-on than lincoln but i think every bit as interested in the potential of technology, and innovation and indeed in almost any conflict in history the underdog is the one who is mos
next on fox 45 morning news. a toddler s death, why investigators now think it was child abuse. a shooting survivor. her chilling call to 911. and it s a multimillion-dollar home with a triple digit price tag. how you can win it for $100. good morning. it s wednesday, august 19th. i m patrice harris. you re waking up to a wet start to the morning, but not only is it wet, it s hot and muggy out there. jessica starr says it s going to stay that way. she is here now with all of the details for our forecast. we got the heat and the humidity to worry about and bill. and bill, we have afternoon thunderstorms that will pop up today just as yesterday. we have things going on weather wise. it s kind of very uncomfortable out there this morning. as we show you on sky watch hd radar, the rainshowers that you may have heard overnight, those are moving out into the atlantic ocean. we will wake-up to hazy sunshine. that will warm up the atmosphere right up, and will have showers and