“There are two essential tests of trust: money and national security.” I am chatting to a senior Labour figure about why they think shifting perceptions of the party’s attitude to defence is so important. “If we don’t get those things right – economy and defence – why would people bother listening to us on anything...
2 hours ago Jamie Russell,BBC Scotland News Regan Caie Regan Caie wrote her fourth-year dissertation about Swift’s re-recorded albums and copyright law While Taylor Swift was on her record-breaking Eras Tour, one Swiftie was using the star’s music in a bid to pass her law degree. Regan Caie, a law student at the University of...
More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country. Around 33 people died in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat. In Odisha (Orissa) state, about 20 people died due to heat stroke,...
10 minutes ago Kevin Keane,Environment correspondent, BBC Scotland Garth Mortimer/CCP Restoring peatlands involves re-profiling the land with diggers to ensure it remains wet enough to store carbon One of Scotland’s most powerful weapons in tackling climate change is not being properly recognised, experts have claimed. Restoring poor quality peatlands could cut Scotland’s emissions by almost...
BBC Writer Daf James says his bilingual drama about a same-sex couple adopting feels like a “massive triumph” When Daf James and his husband adopted two young children, he found the experience so profound he “couldn’t not write about it”. “It felt very dramatic, it felt insane, it felt beautiful, extraordinary, remarkable… it was such...
1 hour ago BBC Eye Investigations, Panorama team and The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast,BBC World Service and BBC News Shutterstock Ruja Ignatova has not been seen since she took a flight from Sofia to Athens in October 2017 Now we have gone on her trail to try to discover her fate. BBC Eye Investigations and Panorama...
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7 minutes ago Steve Rosenberg,Russia Editor, in Ivanovo BBC Russian propaganda tells people the country is marching on to economic and military success If the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places. “Record harvest!” “More than 2000km of roads repaired in Ivanovo Region!” “Change for the Better!” In this town, a...
12 minutes ago Lewis Adams,BBC News, Suffolk Suffolk Police Victoria Hall was last seen just yards from her house when she disappeared aged 17 Steve Wright is due to appear in court, charged with the murder and kidnap of a 17-year-old girl in 1999. Victoria Hall’s body was found in a ditch about 25 miles...
China has accused UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of recruiting Chinese state employees as spies. In a post on its official WeChat channel, China’s Ministry of State Security said MI6 operatives turned a Chinese man identified only by his surname Wang and his wife surnamed Zhou against Beijing. Both worked in “core confidential” departments in...