20 minutes ago About sharing Ciran Stapleton confronted knifeman Matthew Lennox in the school corridor, as pupils hid under desks By Nathan Standley BBC News A knifeman who put a school into lockdown for nearly two hours has been detained indefinitely in a secure psychiatric hospital. Matthew Lennox entered St Joseph’s Catholic High School, in…
1 hour ago About sharing By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Foreign governments will be banned from owning UK newspapers and news magazines, the government has said. The move follows concern about the potential takeover of the Daily Telegraph and Spectator by a group fundedby the United Arab Emirates. Labour has indicated it will back the…
A spokesperson for the Speaker said he “ran out of time” to call Ms Abbott in PMQs.
Trailblazing footballer Josh Cavallo says “it felt right to share this special moment on the pitch” after he proposed to his partner at Adelaide United’s Coopers Stadium. Cavallo came out in 2021 and at the time was the world’s only top-flight openly gay male professional player. The Australian midfielder, 24, thanked the A-League club for…
1 hour ago About sharing Itay Regev was among 105 hostages who were released during a brief truce in November By Lucy Manning, special correspondent & Daniel Wittenberg BBC News An Israeli hostage freed from Gaza three months ago has accused the world of forgetting those still held by Hamas and urged the Israeli government…
13 minutes ago About sharing By Matt Murphy & Natalie Sherman BBC News, in Washington DC & New York The US House of Representatives has approved a landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America. The measure gives the social media giant’s parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake, or the…
52 minutes ago About sharing UNRWA said up to 60 people were believed to have been working at its Rafah distribution centre when it was hit The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says a member of staff was killed and 22 others were injured when Israeli forces hit a food distribution centre in Rafah, in…
29 minutes ago About sharing Killer whales are among five whale and dolphin species that go through menopause By Helen Briggs and Victoria Gill Science correspondents, BBC News Whales that go through the menopause live longer, enabling them to care for extended family, scientists have found. The research gives clues to the origins of menopause,…
17 minutes ago About sharing Diane Abbott has accused Commons Speaker Sir Lyndsey Hoyle of failing democracy for not selecting her to speak at Prime Minister’s Questions. The half-hour session was dominated by a row over comments a Tory donor had allegedly made about Ms Abbott. The MP repeatedly tried to ask the prime minister…
34 minutes ago About sharing Starmer: Is PM proud to be bankrolled by man using racist words? By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has resisted opposition calls to return money to a Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott “should be shot”. The PM said Frank Hester’s alleged comments were “wrong”…