April 2024

Video filmed by a bystander shows police chasing a suspect as he climbs over garage roofs in Hainault.

For King Charles, this must have been one of the longest stretches of his adult life without any public engagements. Since he was a young man, as Prince of Wales before becoming King, he has had a regular round of royal visits, in what must sometimes seem like a loop tape of cars pulling up,…

Several people, including two police officers, have been injured by a man armed with a sword in east London.

The Metropolitan Police has just released further details. “Police and other emergency services are in Hainault, east London, at a serious incident in which a man with a sword has been arrested,” it said. “We were called shortly before 07:00 BST to reports of a vehicle being driven into a house in the Thurlow Gardens…

The BBC’s Jonathan Head witnessed the confrontation in the disputed South China Sea.

Dr Coree Brown Swan, a lecturer in British politics at Stirling University, talks us through the process after Humza Yousaf’s resignation as first minister. Speaking to Good Morning Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland, Swan thinks that Yousaf refraining from resignation with immediate effect is “very important”. “It means that the 28 day countdown for the…

1 hour ago About sharing Photos of the last three first ministers of Scotland – Humza Yousaf, Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond – on a wall at Bute House in Edinburgh By James Cook, Scotland Editor & Natalie Higgins BBC News A minority government scrambling for support might look chaotic but the Scottish Parliament was…

46 minutes ago About sharing Whitefield’s calming rooms were bare, lacking natural light and ventilation and could not be opened from the inside By Noel Titheradge & Annabel Deas Investigations correspondent & File on 4 producer Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at a special school and leaving them in their urine, the BBC…

8 minutes ago About sharing Grounded Rwanda deportation flight, June 2022 By Harry Farley & Paul Seddon BBC News Most of the asylum seekers initially earmarked for Rwanda cannot be immediately located for deportation, the Home Office has admitted. Home Office documents published quietly reveal 5,700 asylum seekers have been identified in an initial cohort…

28 minutes ago About sharing Transgender women should not be put on single-sex female NHS wards, the government is proposing. The measure is part of a raft of changes to the NHS Constitution for England, the charter of rights for patients. The proposals stress the importance of biological sex for the first time when it…