1 hour ago About sharing Existing recipients of the benefit payment would eventually be brought into the new system By Michael Buchanan and Judith Burns BBC News Ministers have drawn up large benefit changes for people who are unable to work due to health conditions, the BBC has learned. The changes, affecting hundreds of thousands…
The stage invader says he “came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view”.
34 minutes ago About sharing Retail giants are urging police forces across the UK to offer more protection to workers as concerns about their safety grow. Bosses at Sainsbury’s, Boots, M&S and Aldi are among dozens of firms to have signed a letter calling for assaults on staff to be better recorded. It comes as…
28 minutes ago About sharing Nearly two-thirds of new doctors in the UK in 2022 qualified abroad By Aurelia Foster BBC News Attracting skilled overseas-trained doctors to the UK will remain “crucial”, despite plans to train more healthcare staff here, the doctors’ regulator has said. The General Medical Council (GMC) found that nearly two-thirds (63%)…
14 minutes ago About sharing By Thomas Mackintosh & Emily Atkinson BBC News Seven men have been charged over disorder on Armistice Day for offences including inciting racial hatred. The Met Police said 145 people were arrested – the “vast majority” of whom were counter-protesters – and nine officers were injured on Saturday. It condemned…
53 minutes ago About sharing Israeli president challenged on airstrikes and says Mein Kampf found on Hamas fighter Israeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking Gaza’s largest hospital. Reports from staff at Al-Shifa suggest the facility, sheltering thousands of Palestinians, has run out of electricity. But Mr Herzog said “everything is operating”…
Video shows the big cat, which escaped from a circus, wandering along a residential street.
16 minutes ago About sharing By Lauren Turner BBC News Big Brother producers are investigating how offensive and controversial social posts by housemate Trish Balusa were not flagged before she joined the show. Most of the tweets in question – which fans have criticised for using racist and homophobic language – were posted more than…
13 minutes ago About sharing Writing in the Times, Suella Braverman accused the Met Police of applying a “double standard” to its policing of protests By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Grant Shapps is the latest cabinet minister to distance himself from the home secretary’s choice of words, after she criticised police ahead of Saturday’s pro-Palestinian…
1 hour ago About sharing Storm Debi arrives following the destruction of Storm Ciarán By Emily Atkinson BBC News Parts of the UK are bracing for gale force winds and heavy rain ahead of the arrival of Storm Debi on Monday. The storm will reach northern England and parts of north Wales in the morning,…