30 minutes ago About sharing Seven-year-old Sara suffocated as people pushed on to a boat heading across the English Channel By Andrew Harding Paris correspondent, Calais Ahmed Alhashimi stood on the beach, howling at the retreating waves, beating and clawing at his own chest, and surrendering to the grief and rage and guilt that would…
35 minutes ago About sharing Watch: How sword attack carnage unfolded in Hainault By George Wright BBC News King Charles’s “thoughts and prayers are with all those affected” after a sword attack in north-east London, Buckingham Palace has said. A boy of 14 died in Tuesday’s attack in Hainault. Four people including two police officers…
2 hours ago About sharing Protesters at Hamilton Hall highlighted that the building had also been a focal point of student activism in 1968 By Nomia Iqbal at Columbia University, Sam Cabral and James FitzGerald BBC News Dozens of pro-Palestine demonstrators at Columbia University have escalated their protest over the war in Gaza by occupying…
Will Cathcart reveals how many people are secretly using his app in countries where it is banned.
2 hours ago About sharing Homes have been destroyed in towns and villages across south Lebanon By Carine Torbey BBC Arabic, Beirut Spiralling tensions and cross-border strikes which have killed more than 70 civilians in Lebanon have turned parts of south into ghost towns. Residents have fled, leaving their homes at risk of destruction. The…
10 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News Wherever you live in England and Wales, you have a vote on Thursday. Assuming, that is, you decide to use it and you are on the electoral roll. There are elections for: 11 mayors in England 107 councils in England 37 Police and…
Watch the key developments of the day in Hainault, which led to the death of a 14-year-old boy.
1 hour ago About sharing Campaigners for a compensation scheme gathered in London earlier this year By Jim Reed Health reporter A final compensation scheme for infected blood victims could be running by the year’s end after the government made a key concession in the Lords. Ministers accepted a Labour amendment to the Victims and…
27 minutes ago About sharing The failed asylum seeker is likely to have flown to Kigali, the Rwandan capital By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News The UK has returned a first failed asylum seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary removals programme, it is understood. Under the scheme, announced last month, migrants whose claims are…
51 minutes ago About sharing By Mark Lobel, in Hainault BBC News The sickening images being shared among people in Hainault capture in unforgiving detail the horror which unfolded here today. As panic spread around this corner of north-east London, some did the only thing they felt they could: took out their phones and captured…