14 minutes ago About sharing Watch: ‘It’s time to move on’ – McConnell announces he’ll step down By Phil McCausland & Anthony Zurcher BBC News, Mitch McConnell, the US Senate’s longest-serving Republican leader, has announced he is stepping down from his leadership position in November. The Kentucky politician said it was “time to move on”…
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20 minutes ago About sharing There is a “growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned. Speaking to a round-table of police leaders, he said we “cannot allow a pattern of increasingly violent and intimidatory behaviour” to stop elected representatives doing their job. Mr Sunak did not spell…
32 minutes ago About sharing Odysseus at the moment of touchdown. A stantion to one leg at left is broken By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmos The first clear images of the Odysseus robot on the surface of the Moon have just been released. They show the American mission lying to one side, having broken…
Paul Connell was offered the role only a couple of days before the event Morven Mckinnon Glasgow and West Reporter 8 hours ago An actor who played Willy Wonka at a cancelled event in Glasgow says he understands why families were angry about the experience. Paul Connell said he was given the role just days…
“It’s about time, I thought, to give my own side to what’s happened.” That is what Iain Packer told BBC investigative reporter Sam Poling during their first interview in November 2018. He had approached Ms Poling after she had filmed a documentary about Police Scotland. Packer had been described in the press as a “forgotten…
7 minutes ago About sharing Emma Caldwell murder was one of Scotland’s best known unsolved cases By Megan Bonar BBC Scotland News Iain Packer has been jailed for at least 36 years for the murder of Emma Caldwell in remote woods 19 years ago. The 27-year-old’s death in April 2005 had been one of Scotland’s…
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49 minutes ago About sharing By Sam Poling & Anton Ferrie BBC Disclosure Police missed the chance to catch Emma Caldwell’s killer in the months after her murder because senior officers repeatedly dismissed him as a suspect, BBC Scotland can reveal. Iain Packer has now been found guilty of the crime, almost 19 years after…