1 hour ago About sharing Dan Snow says a bet in Merthyr Tydfil began the revolution of railway travel By Peter Shuttleworth BBC News It wasn’t in bustling London, busy Berlin or even crowded Tokyo – the birth of your morning commute wasn’t even in a major city. It started high in a Welsh valley…
That will give Chelsea some confidence because until that chance it looked like only a matter of time before Liverpool took the lead. 15:23 Paul Heckingbottom Former Sheffield United manager on BBC Radio 5 Live As we saw there, when Chelsea get it right, they can make dangerous opportunities. 15:23 Alan Shearer Former England and…
12 minutes ago About sharing Ukraine’s president says delays of Western aid have contributed to recent setbacks in the war By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Ukraine’s defence minister says half of Western military aid has been delayed, which is costing lives and territory. “At the moment, commitment does not constitute delivery,” Rustam Umerov said in…
9 minutes ago About sharing Riot police on horseback clash with anti-government demonstrators in Tel Aviv By Lipika Pelham & Paul Adams BBC News Israel’s war cabinet has been briefed on talks over a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after reports of progress made in talks in Paris on Saturday. It comes as police broke up…
10 hours ago About sharing Alexei Navalny died suddenly in a penal colony last week By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent Following the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, another political prisoner is trying to keep the hope of change alive – even from behind bars. “Freedom costs dearly,” the opposition activist Vladimir…
1 hour ago About sharing Lee Anderson would have kept job had he apologised – Dowden The deputy prime minister has declined to say whether it was Islamophobic for Lee Anderson to say London Mayor Sadiq Khan is controlled by “Islamists”. Oliver Dowden also said Mr Anderson, who was suspended as a Tory MP after…
5 hours ago About sharing Cillian Murphy said it was “extremely special” to win an award voted for by fellow actors By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Oppenheimer continued its dominance of awards season as it scored several major prizes at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday. Christopher Nolan’s film won best film cast,…
One of the people we’ll be hearing from on today’s programme is Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. She has told the BBC that leaders risk ignoring lessons from the 1930s and 1940s if they do not bolster support for Ukraine. In a striking warning, Kallas has said that war could expand “very fast in Europe,…
6 hours ago About sharing By Keiligh Baker BBC News As Serhiy slowly began to regain consciousness in his hospital bed in Kyiv, he realised he couldn’t see, speak, or feel his legs – but he could hear his wife Valeria’s voice. Comforted, he lost consciousness again. It was a pattern that lasted weeks. The…
9 minutes ago About sharing Rishi Sunak has warned of the dangers of polarisation and hatred in politics, following a fractious week in Westminster. He was speaking after Tory MP Lee Anderson was suspended from his party for refusing to apologise for comments about Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. The prime minister did not directly…