September 2, 2023

4 minutes ago About sharing Head teacher Caroline Evans and her staff sit in a temporary staffroom in the corridor of Parks Primary School in Leicester By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Headteachers in England are in a race this weekend to find ways to reopen their schools after being told to shut buildings made with…

20 minutes ago About sharing Jimmy Buffett had suffered ill-health in recent months, forcing him to cancel some of his shows By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News US singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his 1970’s hit Margaritaville, has died aged 76. “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1 surrounded by his family,…

1 hour ago About sharing Hundreds attended Bilal Kissi’s funeral in Saidia on Thursday A Moroccan man has described how the Algerian coastguard opened fire on him and three other tourists who had strayed into Algerian waters. Mohamed Kissi was the only survivor to make it back. His brother and a friend were killed and…

22 minutes ago About sharing The RSV Nuyina set off from Hobart in Tasmania last week By Graeme Baker BBC News Australia has launched an urgent operation to rescue a researcher with a “developing medical condition” from the remote Casey outpost in Antarctica. The icebreaker RSV Nuyina left from Tasmania last week, the Australian Antarctic…

7 minutes ago About sharing By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg Exactly 12 months ago, Rishi Sunak was preparing to be a good loser. Even though he’d been thumped by Liz Truss over the summer in the Conservative Party leadership contest, the day before the result was confirmed, he was in our studio…

8 minutes ago About sharing Sweden’s king hands out awards at the Stockholm ceremony in 2022 By Paulin Kola BBC News The Nobel Foundation has reversed a much-criticised decision to invite Russia, Belarus and Iran to this year’s awards ceremony in Stockholm. “We recognise the strong reaction in Sweden,” the foundation said. Russia and its…