More than 600 households in a village in Surrey have been warned not to drink tap water, following concerns over a past fuel leak from a petrol station. Thames Water said it was issuing the advice for Bramley homes as a precautionary measure. The warning follows test results which “indicate a possible deterioration in quality...
Alvin Bragg thanked the jury and prosecutors for their work “following the facts and the law”. He said his team at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had treated this case like they would any other, despite the defendant – a former president – being like no other in American history. Donald Trump was convicted on...
3 hours ago Rajan Datar,Presenter, The Tourist Trap, @rajandatar Getty Images The message was scrawled on a makeshift wooden placard with black marker pen and was in block capitals. It read: “Everywhere you look everyone is foreign.” Police said there were 10,000 marchers on the streets of Palma in Majorca on the last weekend of...
10 minutes ago Annabel Rackham,Culture reporter Rich Cain/Netflix Emily Carey as Harriet Manners with her love interest Nick Park, played by Liam Woodrum Many of us would love to play our favourite book character in a film or on TV – but Emily Carey has managed to live the dream. The 21-year-old is the star...
Matthew Sherman Mr Cooper’s discovery reassembled in New York The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer is set to fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by chance, thousands of miles away out west during one man’s birthday stroll, writes Stephen Smith. It’s every child’s dream to...
6 minutes ago Fergus Walsh,Medical editor BBC Elliot Pfebve is taking part in the trial Thousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease. Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad. It...
The founder of a dating app designed for people with ADHD and autism says he launched it after feeling like he had become “addicted” to dating. Jamie Johnston, 34, founded Mattr, which is currently only a service for Londoners, after he was diagnosed with ADHD at the start of 2021. He said he felt addicted...
A BBC reporter who was in the courtroom describes the former president’s body language as the guilty verdict was read. Source link
Nigel McFarland Emergency services are currently at the scene A town centre street in Limavady will remain closed into Friday after asbestos was found at the site of a large fire. The blaze broke out at a derelict former nightclub on Catherine Street just after 17:40 BST on Thursday. More than 50 firefighters were at...
A selection of the best photos from across the African continent this week. Source link