12 minutes ago About sharing Sir Roy Calne’s son, Russell, said he was “an incredible person to have as a father” By Lewis Adams BBC News, Cambridgeshire Pioneering British surgeon Prof Sir Roy Calne, who undertook the first liver transplant operation in Europe, has died at the age of 93. Sir Roy led the operation…
56 minutes ago About sharing Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer praised the support of his wife Victoria Starmer By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Sir Keir Starmer admits he worries about the toll of a general election year on his two teenage children. The Labour leader said he and his wife, Victoria Starmer, have tried to…
31 minutes ago About sharing Hamza Al-Dahdouh (right) and his father Wael Al-Dahdouh By Shaimaa Khalil BBC News, Jerusalem The eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza. Hamza al-Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera network journalist and cameraman, was with other journalists on a road between…
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: Sunak says Post Office scandal is “appalling miscarriage of justice” By Dearbail Jordan Business reporter Measures are being considered by the government to clear hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal. More than 700 branch managers were convicted of false accounting, theft and…
The prime minister says it was his job to scrutinise policies after the BBC reported he had concerns.
1 hour ago About sharing Paul Maynard (right) at the Conservative Party Spring Conference in Blackpool with Rishi Sunak in 2022 By Damian Grammaticas Political correspondent Claims that Pensions Minister Paul Maynard broke parliamentary rules by using taxpayer money to fund Conservative Party work and campaigning are to be assessed by a watchdog. The Independent…
9 minutes ago About sharing Watch: ‘Trip from hell’: On board flight during mid-air blow out By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Thousands of passengers face flight cancellations as major airlines saw dozens of Boeing jets grounded after a mid-flight blowout over Oregon. The US aviation regulator said 171 Boeing 737 Max 9s must be grounded…
2 hours ago About sharing Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie are nominated for acting prizes, following the huge success of Barbie By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Hollywood stars are gearing up for the Golden Globe Awards, after a huge year for cinema which saw Barbie and Oppenheimer dominate the box office. Killers of the Flower…
56 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Vianet Djenguet’s scary encounter with gorilla Mpangwe By Lucy Wallis BBC News When a wildlife cameraman was invited to film the gradual exposure of a gorilla family to humans, deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he got a little too close for comfort to the…
27 minutes ago About sharing By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent For Prince Andrew, it’s been a terrible 2024 so far. Awful headlines, being reported to the police, demands for him to lose his Windsor home. That’s just this week. At Christmas he was basking in the glow of the Royal Family, appearing before the public…