I am near Barton Avenue in the Keyham area of the city where a steady stream of residents inside the new cordon have been coming home to collect items. There are police officers standing on every corner advising residents what to do. People are generally happy the situation is coming to a head – albeit…
27 minutes ago About sharing Ms Begum was 15 when she joined Islamic State group in 2015 By Andre Rhoden-Paul & Dominic Casciani, legal correspondent BBC News Shamima Begum has lost a Court of Appeal decision to regain her UK citizenship. The ruling means the 24-year-old must remain in Syria. The government stripped her citizenship…
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10 hours ago About sharing The BBC’s Paul Carter tries out the Atom Limbs prosthetic tech By Paul Carter BBC Click I was born without lower arms and legs, so I’ve been around prosthetics of all shapes and sizes for as long as I can remember. I’ve actively avoided those designed for upper arms for…
According to experts quoted by local media, highly flammable cladding on the building allowed the fire to spread rapidly. Esther Puchades, who is the vice president of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Valencia, tells Spanish news agency Efe that she had previously inspected the building. The building’s exterior, Puchades explains, featured a polyurethane…
Begum is one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in 2015 to support Islamic State. She was 15 years old when she left. She left with her friends Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. Kadiza is thought to have died when a house was blown up, and the fate of Amira is unknown….
A remarkably complete fossil of a bizarre Triassic reptile in unprecedented detail has been found.
2 hours ago About sharing By Hugh Pym Health editor Employers are “extremely concerned” up to 20,000 health workers in England have not yet received a one-off payment of nearly £1,655 agreed last May. NHS staff in England were awarded the lump sum, alongside a 5% pay rise. Those in front-line NHS settings but employed…
The London institution seeks a Swiftie to advise it about handmade signs and friendship bracelets.
59 minutes ago About sharing The family, not pictured, are trapped in Gaza By Ashitha Nagesh Community affairs correspondent A Palestinian refugee is taking legal action against the Home Office over what he says is in effect a refusal to grant visas to his family in Gaza. The Home Office rejected the man’s request to…