1 hour ago About sharing Cdr Julian Bennett has been suspended on full pay since July 2020 A senior Met Police officer who drew up the force’s anti-drugs strategy has been sacked for refusing to provide a urine sample for cannabis testing. The actions of Cdr Julian Bennett, who joined the Met in 1976, were…
14 minutes ago About sharing A roof was ripped off a house and cars were damaged as a tornado hit Littlehampton on Saturday night By Tim Dodd BBC England Weather warnings have been upgraded, roads closed and people told not to stockpile goods as England and the Channel Islands prepare for Storm Ciarán. The Met…
6 hours ago About sharing People pick through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike in Khan Younis on the 19 October By Merlyn Thomas, Shereen Sherif and Ahmed Nour BBC Verify and BBC Arabic Since the Israeli military issued the first of several instructions for civilians to evacuate north Gaza, hundreds of thousands…
28 minutes ago About sharing Aid workers greeted families who have been ordered to leave their homes near the front lines By Jenny Hill BBC News, central Ukraine It is still dark when an early train pulls into the station in central Ukraine and aid workers crowd expectantly around one of the carriages. The doors…
1 hour ago About sharing Bereaved families protest outside the Covid inquiry in London By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News “We cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that c***.” So wrote Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s most senior adviser in Downing Street, about the second most…
1 hour ago About sharing Tom Parfett bought poison from a seller whose details were widely shared on the forum – he was 22 when he died By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News A leading UK broadband provider has blocked access for its 5.7 million users to a website promoting suicide. Sky Broadband…
23 minutes ago About sharing Tina, diagnosed with a sarcoma in June 2022, now has scans every three months By Fergus Walsh Medical editor Artificial intelligence is nearly twice as good at grading the aggressiveness of a rare form of cancer from scans as the current method, a study suggests. By recognising details invisible to…
26 minutes ago About sharing The grip artificial intelligence has gained over humanity in 2023 – or at least the increase in conversations about whether it will be a force for revolutionary good or apocalyptic destruction – has led AI to be given the title of “word of the year” by the makers of Collins…
3 hours ago About sharing School support staff members of Unison during a rally outside the Scottish parliament in September 2023 Strike action will close schools in four council areas on Wednesday as staff walk out in a dispute over pay. The one-day strike by some council workers in Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde…
1 hour ago About sharing Demis Hassabis sold his AI firm Deepmind to Google in 2014, but has remained in the UK. By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google Deepmind, one of the UK’s biggest AI firms, says the booming industry should not follow the same path adopted by the older…