2 minutes ago About sharing Conservative Chris Skidmore will quit as an MP next week over the government’s energy plans, triggering a by-election to replace him. The former minister said he could not continue as a Tory MP ahead of a vote on a bill on Monday to guarantee annual oil and gas licensing rounds….
8 minutes ago About sharing Nicholas Rossi has been returned to the US to face rape charges An American suspected of faking his own death and hiding out in Scotland has been extradited back to the US. A court ruled the man claiming to be an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight was actually registered sex…
26 minutes ago About sharing Fifty new potential victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have contacted lawyers after ITV broadcast a drama about the case this week. Neil Hudgell, a lawyer acting for claimants, told the BBC that the new enquiries include former sub-postmasters who were given convictions. Between 1999 and 2015, the…
His wife Helen Snell said he died “after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family”.
31 minutes ago About sharing Prince Andrew was named in unsealed court documents relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein By James Gregory BBC News The Metropolitan Police says it is not investigating allegations against the Duke of York detailing connections to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In unsealed US court files, Prince Andrew…
Correspondent Sean Dilley has been getting to know his new guide dog, also called Shawn.
1 hour ago About sharing By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals. Images from a space mission in the 1980s showed Neptune to be a rich blue and Uranus green. But a study has discovered that the…
2 minutes ago About sharing Derek Draper and TV presenter Kate Garraway married in 2005 Derek Draper, the author and former political adviser, has died aged 56, his wife Kate Garraway has said. Draper had been living with extreme complications from Covid since contracting the disease in March 2020. TV presenter Garraway confirmed his death…
1 hour ago About sharing Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005 By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A second batch of court papers connected to late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein has been released. The 300 pages of documents appeared to offer little in the way of blockbuster new revelations. They were…
29 minutes ago Comments About sharing Sir Howard Davies is the chair of the NatWest group By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News NatWest’s chair has said he believes it is not currently “that difficult” for people to get on the housing ladder. Sir Howard Davies said people have always had to save for a…