20 minutes ago About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Some 7.4 million UK adults are still struggling to pay bills due to the high cost of living, a survey suggests. The number has fallen from last year, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), but many households still feel “heavily burdened”. Its…
1 hour ago About sharing By Tom Bateman in Washington DC, & Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has confirmed that UK arms sales to Israel will not be suspended. The announcement follows mounting pressure on the government over its weapons trade with Israel, after an air strike which killed aid workers…
29 minutes ago About sharing By Josh Parry, LGBT & identity producer, and Hugh Pym, health editor BBC News Children have been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions in gender care, a landmark review says. The Cass Review, published on Wednesday by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, calls…
29 minutes ago About sharing By Brandon Drenon BBC News The parents of a Michigan teenager who shot dead four students have each been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. A seven-year sentence was recommended, but prosecutors asked for more. James and Jennifer Crumbley, the first parents of a US school shooter to…
12 minutes ago About sharing The decision may shutter all abortion clinics in Arizona By Holly Honderich in Washington The Arizona Supreme court has ruled that the state can enforce a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban. The 1864 law – which precedes Arizona becoming a state – makes abortion punishable by two to five years in…
32 minutes ago About sharing The Gaza airdrop was organised at an airbase near the Jordanian capital, Amman By James Landale Diplomatic correspondent, over Gaza It is all over in seconds. The aircraft slows, lifts its nose and 12, perfectly wrapped pallets of humanitarian assistance slide off the open ramp at the back. One minute…
2 minutes ago About sharing William Wragg, the MP who admitted sharing MPs’ personal phone numbers with someone on a dating app, has “voluntarily” given up the Conservative whip. He will now sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons. Mr Wragg has also given up his roles on the 1922 backbench committee…
16 minutes ago About sharing By Georgina Rannard BBC science reporter Peter Higgs, a giant of British science who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson particle, has died aged 94. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work showing how the boson helps bind the universe…
20 minutes ago About sharing Waves crash into buildings in Cawsand, Cornwall By Tim Dodd BBC England An exceptionally high tide combined with strong winds has caused flooding and travel disruption in the UK. Some coastal roads were left impassable, seaside businesses were damaged, and rail services were affected. Weather warnings in England and Wales…
1 hour ago About sharing By Tom Espiner Business reporter, BBC News Former sub-postmaster and campaigner Alan Bates has said the Post Office was being run by “little more than thugs in suits” in 2010. In a strongly worded witness statement to the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, he accused the Post Office…