6 minutes ago About sharing Lord Field served as MP for Birkenhead for 40 years By James Gregory BBC News Former Labour minister and crossbench peer Frank Field has died aged 81, his family has announced. “He will be mourned by admirers across politics but above all he will be greatly missed by those lucky…
37 minutes ago About sharing Catarina Oliveira de Silva accuses UK-based mining company Brazil Iron of burying a lake in her community By Ione Wells South America Correspondent, Bahia In a small community deep in the remote, lush mountains of Bahia, Brazil, Catarina Oliveira de Silva points down at what used to be a lake….
1 hour ago About sharing Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks By Samantha Noble & PA Media BBC News The mother of Nottingham attacks victim Barnaby Webber has urged a police staff member who she said wrote a graphic post about the killings to “show the respect…
12 minutes ago About sharing It took some six months for Congress to pass additional aid to Ukraine By Anthony Zurcher BBC News, Washington The US Senate has approved a $95bn (£76bn) foreign aid package that includes military support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the legislation into law…
2 hours ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News In the cool, spring sunshine of a Polish military base, a noisy and smoky tank performs a 90-degree turn, the metal of its caterpillar tracks scraping along the concrete. Creatures of war had become backdrops for the politics of defence. A dangerous world…
4 hours ago About sharing Watch: Our reporter at court explains the big moments from a difficult day for Trump’s team Madeline Halpert & Kayla Epstein Reporting from court in New York The underbelly of New York City’s tabloid media industry was laid bare in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday. A famous publisher outlined a…
1 hour ago About sharing By Harry Farley Political correspondent The housing secretary cannot guarantee “no-fault” evictions will be banned in England by the next general election. The Conservatives first promised to end landlords’ ability to evict tenants without needing a reason in 2019. In February, Michael Gove told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg…
The National Audit Office says a £35m pilot to test the expansion of free childcare in a few areas was cancelled.
5 hours ago About sharing Palestinian workers are exhuming bodies at Nasser hospital with shovels because they have no heavy machinery By David Gritten BBC News The UN’s human rights chief has said he is “horrified” by the destruction of Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of “mass graves” being found at the…
Big names and rising stars win at a new ceremony celebrating music from the north of England.