4 minutes ago About sharing Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris died after their car crashed in north Wales By Chris Dearden & Paul Pigott BBC Wales News An inquest into the deaths of four teenagers killed in a car crash has heard that all four of them drowned. Wilf Fitchett, Jevon…
19 minutes ago About sharing BBC Weather Watcher Cycling Richard captured snow-covered fields in Glaisdale, North Yorkshire By Marie Jackson & Helen Willetts BBC News and BBC Weather People across parts of the UK are facing freezing temperatures, with another day of snow and ice warnings ahead of them. Overnight, temperatures dipped to -8C (18F)…
Some food brands ‘pushed up’ prices more that their costs, competition watchdog says.
51 minutes ago About sharing All 41 men were pulled out of the tunnel on Tuesday evening By Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai The 41 Indian workers rescued from a tunnel in Uttarakhand state after being trapped inside for 17 days are safe and recuperating in hospital. In a video released to the media, they…
8 hours ago About sharing Watch: Released Eitan Yahalomi, 12, hugs his mum By Paul Adams & Graeme Baker BBC News, Jerusalem and London Bare benches for beds in “suffocating”, airless rooms. Little to no food. A child captive forced by Hamas to watch the carnage of 7 October on video. Stories emerging from those…
17 minutes ago About sharing By Jack Fenwick & Adam Smith BBC Politics Sir Elton John is heading to Parliament to urge ministers to do more to hit a 2030 target of eliminating new HIV cases in England, the BBC has learned. The rock legend will address MPs at a meeting on Wednesday evening. It…
1 hour ago About sharing The government has announced an increase in the hourly rates for funded childcare places from April 2024 By Nathan Standley BBC News The government is to invest £400m in its plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England from April. The Department for Education (DfE) has also announced…
3 hours ago About sharing There has been a longstanding disagreement between Greece and the UK about whether the marbles should be returned to Athens By Nick Beake Europe correspondent, in Athens More than 200 years after they were torn from their country’s most sacred landmark and shipped unceremoniously to the UK, the Elgin Marbles…
34 minutes ago About sharing Molly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 By Angus Crawford BBC News Social media companies are still pushing “harmful content to literally millions of young people”, Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, has said. He said he is horrified by the scale of the issue and that…
Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton honour another former US first lady.