FTSE 250 company, which employs 35,000 people, further extends deadline for Sidara to make firm takeover offer

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Wood Group has come a step closer to becoming the latest company to leave the London Stock Exchange, after the board of the British oil services company said it was minded to accept a reduced takeover offer from a Dubai-based suitor.

Sidara, the Middle Eastern engineering company Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Shair and Partner Holdings, initially proposed a 35p a share offer in April.

Activists claim Anant Ambani’s Vantara facility has no plan to return its endangered species to the wild

India’s supreme court has ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest person.

Vantara, which describes itself as the “world’s biggest wild animal rescue centre”, is run by Anant Ambani, a son of Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire head of the conglomerate Reliance Industries.

Safeguarding minister says tool used to decide which domestic abuse victims get support doesn’t work

The main screening tool used to determine which domestic violence victims need support has “obvious problems” and should be replaced, the UK safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said.

Phillips is reviewing systems, including the Dash (domestic abuse, stalking, harassment and “honour-based” violence) questionnaire, largely relied on by police, social services and healthcare workers across the UK since 2009 to assess risk.

Bristolian Luke Grenfell-Shaw decided to ride from Bristol to Beijing when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer – which makes for a good story but a rather annoying film

Bristolian Luke Grenfell-Shaw, a keen cyclist and runner, was barely out of university and looking forward to a life of rugged adventure and sporting challenges when he discovered he had a rare form of cancer that had already metastasised to his lungs. His stage four diagnosis looked especially grim, with mutterings that he might only have months to live. But this galvanised Luke to decide to travel from Bristol to Beijing on a tandem bicycle, should he go into remission. Lo and behold, that’s just what happened, sort of, with a film crew in tow and a variety of friends and family members popping in at various points along the way to help with the cycling on the back of the bike.

Naturally, there are drama-generating hiccups to contend with, such as the Covid-19 pandemic breaking out; this meant getting into a very locked-down China at the end was tricky. On top of that, it’s revealed that Luke has a tetchy relationship with his mother, Jenny, passive-aggressive in both directions judging by what little we see. She keeps coming out to meet him in various countries to help with the cycling but over and over again, the two of them get into intense sotto voce snits with one another over careless words of criticism. It’s mentioned but quickly passed over that Luke’s dad left Jenny for another woman who promptly got pregnant, so there’s a whole other melodrama going on around the fringes of the story, semi-separate from person-with-cancer-triumphs-over-adversity main narrative.

After a wrecked ship spewed oil into the pristine waters off Pointe d’Esny, destroying sea life and livelihoods, a group of women turned to the land to change their fortunes

Sandy Monrose never imagined herself as a farmer. Descended from generations of fishers on the breezy south-eastern tip of Mauritius, she has the Indian Ocean running through her veins. But when a merchant ship slammed into the coral reef, turning the sea inky black with toxic fuel and sinking the local economy, she and a group of local women turned to the land to feed their families.

Five years after the Japanese-owned MV Wakashio ran aground off the white sands of Pointe d’Esny, her “model farm” in the nearby nature reserve of La Vallée de Ferney is flourishing. Sitting under a metal-roofed gazebo, she surveys the formerly tired plot she secured from landowner Ferney Ltd, now a joyous riot of greens, bursting with papaya and banana trees, and patches of onions, potatoes, taros, manioc, bok choi, winged beans and lots more besides.

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

One of many things I did not expect to learn in this book is that the BBC benefited from Nazi technology. Its standard tape recorder, in use till the 1970s, was called the BTR-2: EMI’s original model, the BTR-1, had been copied from a captured example of the German “magnetophon”, as used by Hitler to record a radio broadcast.

Musicians who liked fiddling with machines, too, benefited from this legacy. Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneer who produced the original Doctor Who theme tune and otherwise particularly enjoyed playing an enamel green lampshade, influenced Paul McCartney’s experiments with tape loops, while Steve Reich hit upon his compositional technique of “phasing” phrases in and out of sync with one another on tape recorders, before training live musicians to do the same.