33 minutes ago About sharing Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has hinted at tax cuts in the upcoming spring Budget By Faarea Masud Business reporter Promises of tax cuts during general election campaigns may have to be rolled back as the UK economy faces some of its worst problems since the 1950s, a new report suggests. “Tax…
3 hours ago About sharing Figures released in 2023 showed the average wait for hip surgery is 452 days in Wales By Owain Clarke BBC Wales health correspondent Patients waited more than five years for surgeries after health board mistakes saw them lose their places on waiting lists, a new report says. The Public Services…
5 hours ago About sharing How you make the perfect cuppa can be an intensely individual experience By James Gregory BBC News The British claim to know a thing or two when it comes to making a good cup of tea. The beverage is a cultural institution in the UK, where an estimated 100 million…
13 minutes ago About sharing A ceremonial cap worn by courtiers at coronations is among the items that will be loaned back to Ghana By Katie Razzall Culture and media editor The UK is sending some of Ghana’s “crown jewels” back home, 150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king. A…
32 minutes ago About sharing The BBC has verified this video showing the moment a Russian aircraft crashed in the Belgorod region By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent, Kyiv There are shooting wars and there are information wars and countries that are fighting do battle on both fronts. For the rest of us, it can…
42 minutes ago About sharing Kenneth Eugene Smith faces execution over a 1988 murder By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington The US Supreme Court will not block Alabama from executing Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, a method never used before for capital punishment. Smith had asked the court to intervene, saying that the execution…
48 minutes ago About sharing Susan, Lee and James Coates spoke exclusively to the BBC earlier By Navtej Johal & Katie Thompson BBC News, Nottingham The son of Ian Coates, one of three people stabbed to death in Nottingham, said his father’s killer was the “most evil person on this planet”. The school caretaker was…
58 minutes ago About sharing The BBC has verified this video showing the moment a Russian aircraft crashed in the Belgorod region By Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News Ukraine’s military intelligence has accused Russia of deliberately jeopardising the lives of prisoners of war, after Moscow said Kyiv had downed a plane with 65…
The bodies of Jasmin Kuczynska, 12, and Natasha Kuczynska, eight, were found with those of two adults.
34 minutes ago About sharing By Aurelia Foster Health reporter Tens of thousands of children who became overweight or obese during the pandemic could face “lifelong health consequences”, researchers say. Obesity rates rose sharply among 10- and 11-year-olds in England and have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Measures aimed at children under five are now…