47 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News This time last week the ITV drama on the Post Office scandal hadn’t even finished. And now the government has announced a change in the law with massive constitutional, political, practical and financial implications. The wheels of politics suddenly whizzing around, after the…
18 minutes ago About sharing By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Most key NHS targets have been missed for at least seven years across the UK, BBC News research shows. The review of records going back 20 years also reveals Northern Ireland and Wales have never met the four-hour accident-and-emergency (A&E) target. The analysis focused on…
28 minutes ago About sharing By Panorama Team BBC News Fast-fashion firm Boohoo put “Made in the UK” labels on potentially thousands of clothes that were actually made in South Asia, BBC Panorama has found. Plain T-shirts and hoodies had their original labels removed at Boohoo’s flagship factory, Thurmaston Lane in Leicester, last year. On…
27 minutes ago About sharing The warnings from Sweden’s defence leaders are being seen as a wake-up call By Paul Kirby BBC News A warning to Swedes from two top defence officials to prepare for war has prompted concern and accusations of alarmism. Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin told a defence conference “there could be…
5 minutes ago About sharing Chris Christie campaigns in New Hampshire. By Kayla Epstein BBC News Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has announced he is suspending his presidential campaign. The Republican, who has run as a harsh critic of Donald Trump, lagged in opinion polls from the outset. Mr Christie had faced pressure to…
3 hours ago About sharing By Philippa Roxby Health reporter Why are diseases more common in some parts of Europe than others, and why are northern Europeans taller than their southern counterparts? An international team of scientists say they have unearthed the answer in the DNA of ancient teeth and bones. The genes which protected…
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny made his first public appearance in a video call since being moved to an Arctic prison.
2 hours ago About sharing Even before she inherited millions of euros, Marlene Engelhorn made clear she planned to give most of it away By Bethany Bell BBC News, Vienna An Austro-German heiress is setting up a citizens group to decide how she should give away much of the fortune she inherited from her grandmother….
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: Armed men interrupt live broadcast and threaten presenter (contains distressing scenes) By James Gregory & Will Grant BBC News in London and Guayaquil Soldiers are on the streets in several cities in Ecuador as the country reels from an unprecedented day of violence. Masked gunmen stormed a public TV…
35 minutes ago About sharing By Sean Seddon & George Wright BBC News Hundreds wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal could have their names cleared this year, as emergency laws were announced to “swiftly exonerate and compensate victims”. Postal affairs minister Kevin Hollinrake said that hundreds fell victim to a “brutal and arbitrary exercise…