March 2024

Ukraine said sea drones were used to target Russia’s Sergei Kotov patrol ship near the Kerch Strait.

1 hour ago About sharing Shoppers in Gravesend talk about their finances ahead of the Budget By Shanaz Musafer Business reporter, BBC News Joe Makin, 23, earns £22,000 a year working in admin and says almost two-thirds of his take home pay is eaten up by rent and bills. He says he feels “semi-comfortable but…

32 minutes ago About sharing Gary Goldsmith is the younger brother of Kate Middleton’s mother Carole By Yasmin Rufo & Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Gary Goldsmith, an uncle of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has entered the Celebrity Big Brother house. In his pre-filmed introduction video, he said it is the one show he had…

6 hours ago About sharing Watch: Why this Super Tuesday isn’t as exciting as past ones By Jude Sheerin BBC News, Washington Super Tuesday, the biggest day so far in the 2024 race for the White House, is upon us. On 5 March, voters in 15 states and one US territory choose candidates for president….

33 minutes ago About sharing The Nova festival was one of the sites of alleged sexual violence on 7 October A UN team has concluded there are “reasonable grounds to believe” sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, was committed during the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October. They also said there was “convincing…

12 minutes ago About sharing Zouahra says her husband was killed when he was hit in the head by fire from an Israeli gunboat By Fergal Keane BBC News, Jerusalem In the moments when she is not in the tent caring for the children, Zouahra looks out at the sea that forms the western border…

32 minutes ago About sharing Claire Dignam says she was approached by a British officer after her husband’s murder By Peter Taylor BBC NI Spotlight The widow of a man murdered by the IRA as an informer, has told the BBC that the British Army tried to recruit her as an informant. Claire Dignam said…

28 minutes ago About sharing By Christy Cooney BBC News Birmingham City Council is set to vote on a wave of cuts to local services and a 21% rise in its rate of council tax. The council, the largest local authority in Europe, declared itself effectively bankrupt last year and is now trying to make…

50 minutes ago About sharing Wetherby Young Offender Institution holds some of the most complex and vulnerable young prisoners, inspectors say. By Callum May BBC News A vulnerable girl in a young offenders institution twice had her clothes removed under restraint, by an all-male team of prison officers, a report says. The inmate had been…

3 hours ago About sharing A woman and child stand among makeshift tents at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza By George Wright BBC News Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency’s visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal…