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…
3 hours ago About sharing By Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Energy prices are expected to fall sharply in April, with the regulator Ofgem announcing its new price cap later on Friday. Consultancy Cornwall Insight has predicted a 14% drop, taking the typical annual bill to £1,656 – the lowest in more than two…
Australian TV personality Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies were last seen on Monday.
23 minutes ago About sharing Artwork: Engineers are still working to establish the status of the lander… but it is on the Moon By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmos An American company has made history by becoming the first commercial outfit to put a spacecraft on the Moon. Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus robot…
This is the kind of nerve-wracking wait that you do not want after a nerve-wracking landing… The spacecraft is supposed to have landed – but we haven’t heard anything back – yet. Now the Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall is going to try and find out. They’re the primary telemetry and tracking station for the…