内容摘要：The 53-year-old says it took so long to do the school run she "spent the whole day" waiting for her children to finish school.

The 53-year-old says it took so long to do the school run she "spent the whole day" waiting for her children to finish school.

"Per Ardua" is a reference to the RAF motto "Per ardua ad astra", which translates as "Through adversity to the stars".Homosexuality was illegal in the armed forces until 2000, and Ms McCourt crossed out "ad astra" in her work, in a reference to the stars being unattainable for LGBT personnel before the ban was lifted.

The spiral design represents a "constant loop of adversity", the artist said.The ban was repealed after a campaign led by a group of veterans called the Rank Outsiders.In 2023, Rishi Sunak, who was prime minister at the time,

of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the military for being gay.Ms McCourt said she grew up with an interest in aeroplanes along with "the conflict felt as a queer kid growing up in Bomber County".

She added: "I remember entering an armed forces recruitment office in my teenage years. It was a terrifying experience for fear of being 'found out'.

"Thankfully, I eventually discovered my calling in the arts."Few 27-year-olds look at used cooking oil and see a green business opportunity to produce soap or dog food.

But that is what Hugo Daniel Chávez, a project manager for the NGO Sustenta Honduras, has done."We have so many businesses and domestic practices that create waste, so we are trying to transform waste and give it a second life," he tells the BBC.

Across Latin America, several million tonnes of cooking oil are consumed every year. It is often used to fry food, mostly chicken, plantain strips, chips and pork.But reusing and heating it too often - as is often the case in Honduras, where there is a huge black market for used cooking oil - can create compounds which are bad for consumers' health.