A mother has admitted killing her five-month-old daughter who was found injured in a park in Leeds. Hayley Macfarlane, 39, was initially charged with murdering baby Evelyn but pleaded guilty to infanticide at Leeds Crown Court on Monday. Police found the child with serious injuries in Woodhouse Moor park on 20 December 2023, but she...
16 minutes ago Scarlett Hutton & Riyah Collins,BBC Newsbeat BBC/Twofour Lailah Muscat says she struggled having to date multiple women for the reality show Warning: This article contains spoilers. For hot, young singles looking for love, chances are there’s a reality dating show to help them in their search for the one. ITV’s Love Island...
6 minutes ago Joe Pike,Political Investigations Correspondent PA Media A Labour candidate said he asked police not to respond if they were contacted by a resident he was planning to confront at their home. Council leader Darren Rodwell claimed he used official systems to find the address of the person who had threatened him online....
25 minutes ago Bernd Debusmann Jr,BBC News, Washington Getty Images Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the federal charges in Delaware With the strike of a judge’s gavel in Delaware, Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, will become the first child of a sitting president to be a...
A mother has pleaded not guilty to killing her four sons who died in a house fire in south London. Deveca Rose, 29, appeared at the Old Bailey charged with the manslaughter of Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and Kyson and Bryson Hoath, four. The brothers, who were two sets of twins, died after...
PA Media Green MSP Ross Greer says the debate is an outrageous snub to his party The Scottish Greens have labelled the decision to exclude them from the first televised leadership debate of the general election as “outrageous”. STV will screen a 90 minute programme later, featuring the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats....
Singer Colin Gibb, the longest-standing member of pop band Black Lace, has died at the age of 70. The group were best known for their 1984 novelty hit Agadoo, which reached number two in the UK. Black Lace also represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979, finishing in seventh place with the...
MrBeast has overtaken T-Series as the biggest YouTube channel in a long-running battle for the most subscribers. Indian music label T-Series, which uploads trailers and music videos, held the record for the largest YouTube channel for five years, before it was toppled on Sunday. MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, was already the individual with the...
As an indefinite general strike begins in Nigeria, one worker tells the BBC that it’s impossible to survive on what the government is proposing as a minimum wage as it is not enough to buy a bag of rice. Security guard Mallam Magaji Garba says he needs 50kg of rice, which costs 75,000 naira ($56;...
Just now Mark Savage,Music correspondent Getty Images Sting will play with his newly-formed trio Sting 3.0 The Pet Shop Boys and Sting have been announced as the headliners of BBC Radio 2 in the Park in Preston this September. The festival will also see performances from the Manic Street Preachers, Sugababes, Craig David, Snow Patrol,...