5 minutes ago John Campbell,BBC News NI economics and business editor BBC Ken Pringle has run a café on Great Victoria Street for 22 years The number of tourist visits from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland has tripled in the past decade, new analysis suggests. Economists at Ulster University and Dublin City University...
Mining giant BHP has urged its UK-based rival Anglo American to extend the looming deadline for a final offer on a proposed £39bn merger. In a statement this morning, the Australian BHP attempted to ease concerns about its plans for Anglo American’s business in South Africa, ahead of elections in the country on Thursday. It...
The Class 507 Preservation Society The 507001 was restored to British Rail blue and grey colour to commemorate its long service A rail enthusiast has bought a 1970s train for £1 in a bid to save it from the scrapheap. Robert Hampton, 41, now hopes to raise £10,000 to move the Merseyrail Class 507 train...
PA Media The buildings on the Victorian Society’s annual list are those it considers most in need of rescuing. An amusement park, a gothic coastal villa, one of the world’s first tennis pavilions and a former board school have been named as some of the country’s most at-risk Victorian buildings. The 10 sites on the...
Real Madrid and England midfielder Jude Bellingham has been voted La Liga’s Player of the Season in his first year in Spain. Bellingham, 20, scored 19 times in the league to help Real win the title by 10 points. The Stourbridge-born player also scored four times in the Champions League as Carlo Ancelotti’s side reached...
Diane Abbott has told the BBC she has been barred from standing for Labour at the general election. The former shadow home secretary was suspended in April 2023 after saying Jewish, Irish and Traveller people do not face racism “all their lives”. On Tuesday it was revealed her suspension had been lifted following an investigation....
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted on charges of insulting the monarchy, the country’s attorney-general has said. The controversial political leader, who returned to Thailand last year after 15 years in exile, is being charged over an interview he gave to a Korean newspaper nine years ago. He is the most high-profile...
BBC The Hong Kong 47 were charged three years ago in what was seen as the biggest crackdown under the National Security Law From a 68-year-old former opposition lawmaker to a 27-year-old student activist, some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy campaigners await a verdict on subversion charges this week. They are among 47 protesters and activists...
But at least there is some wheat growing. The other half of the field has tiny shoots of beans, which will eventually grow into much cheaper cattle feed. Here the winter wheat, sown in autumn 2023, drowned under the long winter rains. “You sort of watch it die,” Mr Wilkins reflects, ruefully. “You put so...
2 hours ago Eleanor Lawson,BBC News, West Midlands Kayleigh Coclough Kayleigh Coclough said coroners would not release Shay Kang’s body without parental permission A 10-year-old girl whose mother has been charged with her murder has still not been buried as coroners need parental permission to release her body, the girl’s godmother has said. Shay Kang...