23 minutes ago About sharing The chancellor is considering cutting inheritance and business taxes at next week’s Autumn Statement, the BBC has been told. Jeremy Hunt could make such moves, as first reported by the Financial Times, depending on the latest predictions from the UK’s main economic forecaster. A Treasury source said no final decisions…
There will be restricted visitor access to the pandas from 30 November before they return to China in December.
The rapper’s hits include Who Am I? (What’s My Name) and Drop It Like It’s Hot Mark Savage BBC music correspondent 1 hour ago Snoop Dogg, who has built a public persona around his copious marijuana intake, says he is giving up smoking. The hip-hop star, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, made the surprise…
8 hours ago About sharing By Helen Briggs Environment correspondent The sight of wild swans flying in for the winter is becoming less common in the face of climate change. Scientists say Bewick’s swans are changing their behaviour in a warming world, with fewer making it back to the UK and those that do arriving…
1 hour ago About sharing There is a long waiting list at Jasmine Johnson’s nearest nursery, so her child will miss out on funded childcare hours By Daniel Wainwright, data journalist, BBC Verify, and Vanessa Clarke, education reporter BBC News Jasmine Johnson thought she was planning ahead when she rang her local nursery at 20…
Shoppers bought less in October amid higher prices, rising living costs and poor weather.
54 minutes ago About sharing The Leonids can be seen at the same time each year in mid-November By Maddie Molloy BBC News Climate & Science The Leonids – one of the most prolific annual meteor showers – will be streaking across UK skies in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday. Characterised by fast,…
1 hour ago About sharing By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor Women should be offered talking therapy instead of, or as well as, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for problematic menopause symptoms, new draft guidance for the NHS says. The advice – the first update in almost a decade – says cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) can…
2 hours ago About sharing Erik, a 26-year-old musician, says he swam a river to escape into Moldova By Oana Marocico and Kelvin Brown BBC Eye Investigations Nearly 20,000 men have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the war to avoid being drafted, the BBC has discovered. Some have swum dangerous rivers to leave the…
1 hour ago About sharing Ms Ventura says she met the rapper in 2005 By Max Matza BBC News Rap artist Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of rape and sex trafficking by a female singer. In a lawsuit seen by the BBC, ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura said she was trapped for a decade in a…