6 hours ago About sharing By Faarea Masud Business reporter, BBC News The UK’s financial regulator has warned of an increasing number of scammers pretending to be the watchdog. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said its impersonators aim to get people to hand over money or sensitive information, such as bank account PINs and passwords….
Soldiers go on TV to say they are annulling the results of the election won by President Bongo.
6 hours ago About sharing By Vishala Sri-Pathma Business reporter The number of houses sold in the UK this year is on track to be the lowest since 2012, according to property website, Zoopla. Around one million sales are set to be completed this year, with transactions almost a fifth lower than in 2022. The…
3 hours ago About sharing By Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News The man who was chief executive of the NHS trust where Lucy Letby murdered seven babies said he was asked to take a top job in London after the serial killer had been arrested. Tony Chambers went on to get three senior…
The fast food giant is accused of making the burger appear larger on menus than it actually is.
40 minutes ago About sharing Martin Rolfe has apologised to those affected by flight disruption By Katy Austin & Sam Hancock BBC News The flight chaos caused by a data processing glitch should not happen again, the head of National Air Traffic Services has said. Martin Rolfe told the BBC that measures were in place…
21 minutes ago About sharing Antonina Semenivna, who lives near Kupiansk, is one of the many civilians vulnerable to these attacks In Ukraine’s north-east, Russia has recently deployed an estimated 100,000 troops in renewed attacks. But Quentin Sommerville, who spent the past month with Ukrainian brigades in the area, discovers it is the increasingly sophisticated…
4 minutes ago About sharing Former nurse Nancy Crow took out payday loans to survive after her benefits were reduced By Adam Eley BBC News Campaigners fear thousands more people face benefit deductions because of tax credit debts they didn’t know about. In excess of 800,000 households on universal credit received less money last year…
11 minutes ago About sharing By Becky Morton Political reporter Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is visiting Beijing amid criticism from some MPs over the government’s approach to China. Mr Cleverly, the first senior UK minister to travel to China since 2018, said the country’s global significance meant it could not be ignored. But MPs on…
1 hour ago About sharing ‘We’re turning our pain into power’ – Rape survivors call for justice system reforms By Catriona Renton & Debbie Jackson BBC Scotland Three women who were raped by the same man say their experience of the justice system was so damaging they would think twice about reporting an attack again….