58 minutes ago About sharing By Kate Whannel Political reporter, BBC News Labour is pledging to fund policies on the NHS and school breakfast clubs by boosting efforts to tackle tax dodgers. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says her plans to give officials up to £555m to improve tax collection would help raise £5.1bn a year….
3 hours ago About sharing By Philippa Roxby Health reporter People with long Covid have evidence of continuing inflammation in their blood, which could help understanding of the condition and how it may be treated, a UK study suggests. It found the presence of certain proteins increased the risk of specific symptoms, such as fatigue,…
See moment the Moon completely obscures the Sun, turning day to night and revealing dazzling corona.
2 hours ago About sharing Watch: Palestinians return to Khan Younis to find homes in ruin By Sebastian Usher BBC News, Jerusalem The devastated landscape of their city feels unreal to the thousands of Palestinians who have been returning to Khan Younis in Gaza. Through the rubble of the streets, they have been filing back…
The Moon’s shadow makes landfall just south of Mexico’s Mazatlán on the Pacific coast.
1 hour ago About sharing Russia had received warnings that an attack – like the one on the Moscow concert hall – was imminent By Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor It began with hints. Intimation. Now, it’s no holds barred accusations. The Russian authorities are aggressively pushing the line that Ukraine and the West were behind…
33 minutes ago About sharing Cody Fisher was stabbed with a zombie knife on the dance floor of Crane in December 2022 By Eleanor Lawson BBC News, West Midlands Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of a footballer who was stabbed on a nightclub dance floor. Cody Fisher, 23, was attacked…
Kulsama Akter, from Oldham, was stabbed to death while pushing her baby in a pram, police say.
1 hour ago About sharing By Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent In political journalism you deal with lots of different kinds of stories – stories about policies, stories about ministerial rivalries, stories about geopolitics, stories about local politics. Then some stories are just plain weird, like the one that broke last week about the honeytrap…
1 hour ago About sharing The Post Office minister has admitted sub-postmasters and postmistresses wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting are not being compensated quickly enough. Kevin Hollinrake told a BBC Breakfast audience of sub-postmasters that the process of financial redress needed to be simplified. More than 700 people were prosecuted by the Post…