12 minutes ago About sharing By Chris Mason, political editor BBC News In the blizzard of guesswork about politics in the coming year, there’s a fact as solid as a lump of coal at the bottom of your Christmas stocking. The election campaign has to begin in 2024, and it looks likely it will end,…
Many passengers are still stranded in London and Paris after flooding cancelled all Eurostar trains.
45 minutes ago About sharing Many displaced Gazans are living “in the open, in the parks,” Juliette Touma of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has told the BBC. According to the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA), at least 100,000 people have fled to Rafah – which borders Egypt in Gaza’s south – in…
12 minutes ago About sharing British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for films like The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has died suddenly aged 75. Wilkinson won a Bafta for 1997’s The Full Monty, and reprised the role of Gerald when a Disney+ streaming series revisited the characters 26 years…
13 minutes ago About sharing Ms Abdul (bottom right) claims that Mr Lythgoe (top left) first assaulted her during an early season of American Idol By Jacqueline Howard BBC News American singer and dancer Paula Abdul is suing television executive heavyweight Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault, according to US media. Ms Abdul’s lawsuit claims…
43 minutes ago About sharing “Polar Preet” experienced temperatures of -30C during her solo expedition By Samantha Noble BBC News A British Army officer who already holds two world records for Antarctic trekking now also claims to have become the world’s fastest woman to complete a solo South Pole ski expedition. Preet Chandi believes she…
Videos posted on social media show what appears to be a meteor flying over England.
9 hours ago About sharing Jenny and Emilia Clarke set up brain injury charity SameYou in 2019 By Ian Youngs Entertainment & arts reporter Actress Emilia Clarke has said the MBEs awarded to both her and her mother in the New Year Honours are “amazing” for raising awareness about brain injuries. The Game of Thrones…
The blaze broke out at a home in Sanderstead Road, south Croydon just before 23:00 on Friday.
Tony Hudgell lost both his legs because of injuries inflicted by his birth parents, who were jailed.