Rail operators are urging people not to travel on services between the north west of England and Scotland due to flooding on the railway line. It comes after heavy rainfall on Wednesday, with a 24-hour amber weather warning remaining in place across north-west England until 12:00 BST. TransPennine Express and Avanti West Coast said services...
The Czech Constitutional Court has rejected an Indian man’s petition against his extradition to the US over an alleged plot to assassinate an American citizen in New York. Nikhil Gupta has been charged by the US government with trying to hire a hitman to assassinate US-based Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Mr Gupta is...
The UK’s competition body is to forge ahead with an inquiry into the vets market amid concerns that pet owners are overpaying for treatments. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had heard from people who were struggling to pay vet bills and did not always know the best treatment options for their pets....
Former health secretary Michael Matheson is to be sanctioned by a Holyrood committee after breaching its code of conduct over an £11,000 bill he racked up on a parliamentary iPad. The SNP MSP’s device was used to set up a wifi hotspot during a family holiday to Morocco in December 2022, which he said his...
3 hours ago Kelly Morgan,BBC News, Wiltshire The sisters tell BBC Radio Wiltshire they want the therapy made more widely available Two sisters are hoping more funding will be made available so all deaf children can access Auditory Verbal Therapy. Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers...
2 hours ago Scott Hesketh & Daniel O’Donoghue,BBC North West Investigations Family photograph Ethan was nine when he was attacked by a pupil carrying a knife A nine-year-old boy who made a school poster about the dangers of knife crime after being pinned down by a fellow pupil wielding a six-inch blade went on to...
Northern Ireland’s political parties are gearing up for a summer election after a teatime announcement by the prime minister. Rishi Sunak ended speculation on Wednesday, saying voters will go to the polls on 4 July. Some Northern Ireland party leaders said they were surprised by an election in six weeks time, others said they had...
Mysterious Hebrew writing found by builders on a paving stone while renovating a home is essentially gibberish, a university academic has concluded. John Adams, from Norbury in Shropshire, posted images of the stone online when it was discovered at his house, and asked for help in translating it. He said the building had once been...
BBC Fleming House is one of about 100 hostels in England and Wales which house high-risk criminals An undercover investigation inside the Probation Service by the BBC has found serious failings in the supervision of violent and sex offenders. Two dangerous convicted criminals ran away from a probation hostel in Kent during the six weeks...
At least four people have been killed and 15 more injured after a stage collapsed at an election campaign rally in northern Mexico, the country’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said. The incident occurred as centre-left presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez was delivering a speech in the northern city of San Pedro Garza Garcia....