6 minutes ago About sharing British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant looms large on the skyline of the town By Simon Jack & Lucy Hooker BBC News British Steel plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk. The business, owned by China’s Jingye Group, wants to replace them with…
The Prince of Wales was said to have “kept up really well” during a dragon boat training session.
27 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Drone video shows fireworks being fired at police Eight police officers have been injured in what police described as organised Bonfire Night clashes in Scotland. The most serious disorder took place in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh, where a group of 50 youths threw fireworks and petrol bombs at…
7 hours ago About sharing Barbra Streisand: “I’m a very private person. I don’t enjoy stardom.” By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent When Barbra Streisand was 17 years old and living away from home for the first time, she set herself a goal. “I have to become famous,” she told herself, “just so I can…
10 minutes ago About sharing By Panorama team BBC News Fast-fashion firm Boohoo has broken promises to make its clothes fairly and ethically, a BBC Panorama investigation has found. An undercover reporter at the company’s Manchester HQ saw evidence of staff pressuring suppliers to drive prices down, even after deals had been agreed. It comes…
Pictures and videos shared on social media capture the brightly coloured phenomenon.
51 minutes ago About sharing By Hugh Pym & Aurelia Foster BBC News The government has agreed to fund a one-off bonus for health workers who missed out previously because they worked for non-NHS organisations. A payment of at least £1,655 was agreed as part of the NHS pay deal in England this year, to…
29 minutes ago About sharing Anthony Blinken has faced a challenging few days on his visit to the region By Anthony Zurcher Travelling with the US secretary of state For three days, the US’s top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has been dashing around the Middle East, trying to contain a situation that threatens to spin out…
43 minutes ago About sharing By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News Licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea are set to be awarded annually, under government plans. There is currently no fixed period between licensing rounds – but this would change under a bill to be announced in Tuesday’s King’s Speech….
1 hour ago About sharing By Lucy Hooker Business reporter, BBC News Elon Musk has launched an AI chatbot called Grok on his social media site X, formerly Twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users. “In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,” he posted on X, before…