Getty Images Labour plans to invest in wind and solar power to end the use of fossil fuels for electricity by 2030 Keir Starmer’s proposals for a publicly-owned company called Great British Energy to invest in clean and renewable energy are a central plank of Labour’s plans to entirely remove fossil fuels from UK electricity...
Just now Chris Mason,Political editor, @ChrisMasonBBC PA Mr Swinney finds himself in the midst of a general election campaign less than a month after winning the party leadership Scotland’s first minister has admitted the SNP faces a “tough challenge” in the upcoming general election. John Swinney said he wants the SNP – which won 48...
A man has been charged with the murder of a mother and her son. Maria Nugara, 54, and her son Giuseppe Morreale, 29, were found dead in Cambridge Road, Ugley, near Bishop’s Stortford, on Tuesday. Essex Police said Calogero Ricotta, 63, of Cambridge Road in Ugley, has been charged with two counts of murder and...
The RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) will not take part in D-Day anniversary events following the death of a pilot in a crash, the BBC understands. Sqn Ldr Mark Long was killed when the Spitfire he was flying crashed in a field in Lincolnshire shortly before 13:20 BST on Saturday. The remaining aircraft...
PA The restaurant where the shooting took place in Dalston A drive-by shooting in Hackney which left a nine-year-old girl critically injured has been described as “reckless” by the Met Police. Shots were fired from someone on a stolen motorcycle towards a restaurant on Kingsland High Street, Dalston, on Wednesday evening. The girl, an innocent...
19 minutes ago Danny Fullbrook & South Beds News Agency,BBC News, Hertfordshire South Beds News Agency Courtney Richman denied swearing or shouting at the pensioner A bank customer who fatally pushed an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease to the ground in a queue row has been given a suspended jail sentence. Courtney Richman, 26, pushed...
A grandfather and granddaughter were blown two miles out to sea in East Sussex while using a kayak and paddleboard. An alarm was raised at about 13:00 BST on Friday when the pair were 30 metres off the shore near Pevensey Bay The RNLI’s inshore lifeboat was launched from Eastbourne within 11 minutes and they...
A blind couple from Staffordshire are preparing for the performance of a lifetime on Friday after making it through to the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent. Opera singer Denise Leigh and her husband Stefan, from Audley, say the support for them has been “overwhelming”. Denise has overcome breast cancer and says the side effects...
Police have been granted more time to interview a 20-year-old man arrested on suspicion of stabbing two women on a beach. Amie Gray, a 34-year-old personal trainer, died at the scene, while a 38-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious stab wounds. She has since been discharged. The pair, from Poole, Dorset, were attacked...
Athena A court heard Katherine Hill withdrew the money from an account for which she was a trustee A mother who stole £50,000 of inheritance from her two daughters out of “greed and spite” has been jailed. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, and her 93-year-old father Gerald Hill from Fairwood...