Barton House ‘not built according to plans’ says councillor
Hundreds of people were forced to leave after the city council declared the building unsafe.
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Adam Johnson: Man arrested over ice hockey player’s death bailed
The 29-year-old Nottingham Panthers player died in hospital following a game in Sheffield.
Inflation slows to 4.6% as government pledge met
12 minutes ago About sharing By Michael Race & Faisal Islam Business reporter and Economics editor, BBC News UK inflation fell sharply in October to its lowest rate in two years, largely due to lower energy prices. Inflation, which measures the rate at which consumer prices rise, dropped to 4.6% in the year to October,…
Wimbledon fatal school crash parents search for answers
57 minutes ago About sharing By Tom Edwards BBC News The parents of a girl killed when a Land Rover crashed through a fence at her school have spoken about the “absolute horror” of that day. Nuria Sajjad, eight, and her mother Smera Chohan had been taking a photograph together at the preparatory school in…
The online black market cashing in on weight loss jab hype
36 minutes ago About sharing Maddy threw up stomach acid, blood, white foam after taking an unapproved version of the drug By Aoife Walsh and Pria Rai BBC News and BBC Three A woman who was illegally sold a weight loss drug on social media told the BBC she ended up in A&E vomiting blood….
Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by ‘unbearable’ heatwave
26 minutes ago About sharing Brazilian cities including Sao Paulo are among those to be experiencing high temperatures By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. Records have been broken in areas including the city Rio de Janeiro…
Xi Jinping arrives in the US as his Chinese Dream sputters
1 hour ago About sharing Mr Xi faces a host of problems at home as he arrives in San Francisco By Tessa Wong Asia Digital Reporter, BBC News When Xi Jinping stepped off his plane in San Francisco for the Apec summit, it was in circumstances very different to the last time he landed on…
Bird of Century: Pūteketeke wins NZ poll after campaign by John Oliver
1 hour ago About sharing By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney The pūteketeke has been crowned New Zealand’s Bird of the Century after US talk show host John Oliver’s controversial intervention in the poll. Mr Oliver sparked a global frenzy with an “alarmingly aggressive” campaign for the vulnerable crested grebe. Fewer than 3,000 of the…
Barton House in Bristol evacuated over ‘structural fault’
6 hours ago About sharing Dozens of residents were waiting outside the tower block as the evening progressed By Steve Mellen & Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley BBC News Hundreds of people living in a tower block were told to leave their homes immediately after “major structural faults” were discovered. Bristol City Council declared a major incident after…
NHS England promises to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040
32 minutes ago About sharing By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Cervical cancer will be eliminated by 2040, the NHS in England is promising. NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard will say later that with improved rates of vaccination and screening, the point where almost nobody gets the cancer could be achieved within two decades. But she…