1 hour ago About sharing By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight. He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza…
1 hour ago About sharing The black and white picture was found in a Victorian photo album By Sophie Parker BBC Wiltshire A man depicted on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been revealed as a 19th Century thatcher. The figure is most likely Lot Long from Mere in Wiltshire, photographed by Ernest…
30 minutes ago About sharing A woman drinks water in Istanbul as it bakes in 40C heat in July of this year By Matt McGrath & Mark Poynting BBC Climate & Science It is now “virtually certain” that 2023 – a year of deadly heatwaves, floods and fires – will be the warmest on record,…
36 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma. A punctuation mark in an autumn of familiar political sentences. The government set out the hoped-for legal architecture to make their recent promises a reality. Those hoping for a frisson from the unexpected…
50 minutes ago About sharing The tumour in Ray’s jaw was diagnosed only after he paid to see a dentist privately By Ruth Green BBC News Lack of access to dentists is costing lives because mouth cancers are not being spotted or treated early enough, a health charity has told BBC News. The disease killed…
29 minutes ago About sharing Nitrous Oxide user Ali says he needed to use a wheelchair as a result of using laughing gas Possession of nitrous oxide, also known as NOS, has become a criminal offence in the UK. Now categorised as a class C drug, possession of laughing gas for its “psychoactive effects” will…
Labour’s Imran Hussain says his view on Gaza “differs substantially” from that of leader Sir Keir Starmer.
Activism / November 7, 2023 What It’s Like to Take Over the Statue of Liberty Hundreds of Jewish Voice for Peace members calling for a Gaza ceasefire occupied the pedestal of the statue. This is how it happened. Sophie Hurwitz Ad Policy Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace occupy the pedestal of the Statue of…
40 minutes ago About sharing Over three decades, George Alagiah was a familiar and much-loved presence on British screens By Jon Kelly St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Hundreds of people attended a memorial service for BBC News presenter George Alagiah, who died in July. Colleagues and family members alike paid tribute to one of British television’s best-loved…
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: Scenes from Charles’ first King’s Speech By Becky Morton Political reporter Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has put law and order at the centre of the King’s Speech as he sets out his priorities ahead of the next general election. Tougher sentences for the most serious criminals and measures to…