32 minutes ago About sharing Claire Dignam says she was approached by a British officer after her husband’s murder By Peter Taylor BBC NI Spotlight The widow of a man murdered by the IRA as an informer, has told the BBC that the British Army tried to recruit her as an informant. Claire Dignam said…
28 minutes ago About sharing By Christy Cooney BBC News Birmingham City Council is set to vote on a wave of cuts to local services and a 21% rise in its rate of council tax. The council, the largest local authority in Europe, declared itself effectively bankrupt last year and is now trying to make…
50 minutes ago About sharing Wetherby Young Offender Institution holds some of the most complex and vulnerable young prisoners, inspectors say. By Callum May BBC News A vulnerable girl in a young offenders institution twice had her clothes removed under restraint, by an all-male team of prison officers, a report says. The inmate had been…
3 hours ago About sharing A woman and child stand among makeshift tents at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza By George Wright BBC News Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency’s visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal…
Officers say a 33-year-old woman has been arrested after the child was found dead by police.
30 minutes ago About sharing People gathered in Paris to watch abortion being constitutionalised By George Wright BBC News France has become the first country in the world to put the right to abortion in its constitution. Parliamentarians voted to revise the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort. It becomes the…
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: Trump calls Supreme Court ruling a ‘unifying factor’ By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause. The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also…
Jack Teixeira was accused of one of the highest-profile national security breaches in years.
1 hour ago About sharing A banned neonicotinoid that threatens bees can now be used again By Malcolm Prior BBC News rural affairs producer Sugar beet farmers have the green light to use a banned pesticide deadly to bees following a forecast that a virus could sweep through their crops. Emergency authorisation to use neonicotinoids…
6 minutes ago About sharing George Galloway, who won the Rochdale by-election, takes his seat in the House of Commons. By Jennifer McKiernan BBC political reporter George Galloway has said he wants to oust Labour’s deputy leader from Parliament, as he began work as an MP. The Workers Party of Britain leader said his party…