25 minutes ago Comments About sharing By Simon Jack & Karen Hoggan & Tom Espiner Business editor & reporters Thames Water is in a race to find extra cash after its investors said they would not give the struggling water giant extra cash unless bills rise. The UK’s largest water firm has been pushing for…
5 minutes ago About sharing Noora Mohammed can’t get the treatment she needs in a Gaza hospital By Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor, Jerusalem After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a manmade famine. It has increased the pressure on…
6 hours ago About sharing By Mobeen Azhar BBC News The man in charge of compensating sexual abuse victims of Japan’s most famous pop Svengali says the scandal goes further than first thought. Noriyuki Higashiyama told the BBC he believes there were two more perpetrators at Johnny Kitagawa’s agency Johnny & Associates. He believes these…
Figures released in February by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed the UK fell into a recession in the second half of 2023. GDP fell by 0.3% in the last three months of 2023 – which was a sharper fall than economists were expecting. This gave us two consecutive falls in GDP after a…
Fellow television personalities are paying tribute to George Gilbey.
21 minutes ago About sharing Around 14 million Easter getaway trips are planned by drivers between Thursday and Easter Monday By Katy Austin, transport correspondent, & Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Drivers are being warned to expect long delays as millions of Britons set off on Easter getaway trips. Transport analysis company Inrix predicted Thursday afternoon…
14 minutes ago About sharing “Peggy and Molly” regularly feature in videos playing together and have millions of fans on social media By Hannah Ritchie in Sydney An Australian state premier has backed a campaign to return an Instagram-famous magpie to its human carers after it was seized by wildlife authorities. The bird, dubbed Molly,…
5 hours ago About sharing The headteacher of the Maurice Ravel Lycée thanked his colleagues for their support (file pic of school) By Hugh Schofield BBC News, París There is indignation in France after the headteacher of a Paris school resigned because of fears for his life. The head was sent death threats after he…
1 hour ago About sharing By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York The bodies of two people have been recovered from a red pickup truck, which was submerged under the water where the Baltimore bridge collapsed Eight construction workers were on the bridge when a ship struck it, plunging them into the waters below. Two…
20 minutes ago About sharing Glenda Hoskins was killed by Victor Farrant, who drowned her in the bath of her home in Portsmouth By Callum May & Tim Johns BBC News and the Jeremy Vine programme A man who killed a mother of three is being considered for release from his whole-life prison sentence, his…