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More money and staff – why isn’t the NHS more productive?

Getty Images The new government has made tackling NHS waiting times a key priority – and this week appointed NHS surgeon and former health minister Lord Ara Darzi to investigate what is going wrong. Is productivity the place to start? The scale of the challenge facing Health Secretary Wes Streeting was made clear as he […]

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Firefighters work overnight to tackle major blaze

NIFRS Significant damage was caused to the inside of the kart racing complex Firefighters have worked overnight to tackle a major blaze close to Newry city centre. At its height, about 50 crew members dealt with the incident at Greenbank industrial estate. It is believed to have started at a kart racing centre just before […]

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2026 World Cup: MetLife will be safe for final – N.J. Governor

The 2026 FIFA World Cup final at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium will heed the lessons of the ugly scenes the Copa América semifinal between Uruguay and Colombia in Charlotte and be “really safe and secure,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told ESPN. CONMEBOL opened a formal investigation after after Uruguay forward Darwin Núñez entered the […]

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Famed explorer’s Endurance ship gets extra protection

4 days ago By Jonathan Amos, @BBCAmos, Science correspondent FMHT/National Geographic Endurance rests on the seafloor at a depth of 3,000m A protection perimeter drawn around Endurance, one of the world’s greatest shipwrecks, is being widened from a radius of 500m to 1,500m. The extended zone will further limit activities close to the vessel, which sank in 1915 […]

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Elon Musk’s X accused of breaching content rules by EU

Elon Musk’s social media site X has been accused by the European Union of breaching its online content rules, with its “verified” blue tick accounts having the potential to “deceive” users. The bloc’s tech regulator said users could be duped into thinking the identity of those with blue tick marks was verified, when in fact […]

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Teenager appears in court after Gurdwara attack

9 hours ago By Daniel Sexton & PA Media, BBC News, South East BBC/Phil Harrison Kent Police said nobody was seriously injured during the incident on Thursday A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with multiple offences after a disturbance at a Gurdwara in Kent. Officers were called to the Sri Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in […]

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