2 hours ago About sharing Watch Big Keith’s iconic scotch egg scene from The Office By Yasmin Rufo BBC News Actor and comedian Ewen MacIntosh, best known for his role as “Big Keith” in The Office, has died aged 50. The character, Keith Bishop, was a scotch egg-loving accountant who had a monotone answerphone message…
7 minutes ago About sharing Alexei Navalny, pictured here at a rally in 2020, was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic By James Gregory BBC News The UK has frozen the assets of six Russian prison bosses in charge of the Arctic penal colony where opposition leader Alexei Navalny died. The sanctioned individuals will also be…
46 minutes ago About sharing Henry Staunton had been the Post Office chairman since December 2022 The former Post Office chairman has claimed he was told to “hobble” into the next election without solving the company’s long-term problems. Henry Staunton, who was sacked last month, said the comment was made by a senior civil servant…
As we’ve been reporting, MPs will vote later today on the SNP’s call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. It is the second such motion tabled by the party. The previous vote, in November, saw ten Labour frontbenchers quit to support the SNP’s position. Now, Labour is for the first time since the…
7 hours ago About sharing By Marianna Spring BBC disinformation and social media correspondent The Premier League is fighting a rise in social media threats against both its players and their families, with a team dedicated to hunting down online trolls. For a new series exploring extraordinary cases of online hate, the BBC gains exclusive…
17 minutes ago About sharing By Lucy Hooker Business reporter, BBC News The government finances showed a large surplus last month, more than double the surplus last January. The surplus – the difference between spending and tax income – rose to £16.7bn in January, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. These are the last…
6 hours ago About sharing Don Henley is expected to be called as a witness in the trial By Brandon Drenon BBC News Handwritten pages inscribed with the first known iterations of legendary rock song Hotel California will take centre stage at a criminal trial on Wednesday. Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski have…
33 minutes ago About sharing Ruby spoke to BBC Newsnight about how she was groomed and abused by a gang for four years from the age of 12 By Victoria Derbyshire, Sean Clare & Hollie Cole BBC News A victim of a Rochdale grooming gang has said she was raped more than 100 times from…
20 minutes ago About sharing Palestinians search for bodies and survivors after Israeli air strikes in southern Gaza on Tuesday China has sharply criticised the US for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Beijing said the move sent the “wrong message” and effectively gave a “green light to the…
1 hour ago About sharing Artwork: Europe’s Earth Remote Sensing satellites weighed about 2.5 tonnes at launch By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmos A pioneering European satellite is due to fall to Earth in the coming hours. ERS-2 was a cutting-edge observation platform when it launched in 1995, forging technologies that are now used routinely…