Angie Brown BBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporter Charlie Miller Salons Charlie Miller died on Monday at the age of 80 Top Scottish hairdresser Charlie Miller – who cut the hair of the late Sir Sean Connery, Hollywood actor Leslie Nielsen, and fashion designer Donna Karan – has died at the age of 80. His […]
Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental […]
Defence Minister John Healey says about 4,500 people are in Britain or in transit under the secret programme. The United Kingdom set up a secret plan to resettle thousands of Afghan people in Britain after an official accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the […]
Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt BBC News Climate & Science Getty Images Reservoirs in the Midlands are showing lower levels than usual The East and West Midlands have officially entered drought, joining the North West and Yorkshire, after yet another hot and dry spell of weather. The Environment Agency announcement follows England’s driest start to […]
Meteorologists Ian Leonard and Tom Wachs, join FOX Weather to share the latest updates from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MINNEAPOLIS – Unhealthy air has invaded Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Dakota early this week as a new round of wildfire smoke from Canada has wafted into the region, choking areas as far south as […]
PA Media Tánaiste Simon Harris says the impact of 30% tariffs from the United States would be “extraordinary” Ireland is “now at a moment of major economic challenge”, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Harris has said. It comes after US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 30% tariffs on imports from the European Union […]
Sun shines on the U.S Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP The Senate is moving to vote this week on the Trump administration’s request to claw back federal funding for public media and foreign assistance programs. The House approved the package last […]
Listen to the sounds three different plants might make if they were stressed Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them. In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying their […]
Rescue effort under way after boat carrying 18 people capsizes in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands. Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 11 people who went missing after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province, according to a local search and rescue agency. Dozens of rescuers and […]
Florida, Texas and California top the list for the most damage caused by lightning strikes. Two lightning strike victims injured on June 29 during storms in Ohio and North Carolina later died from their injuries, according to family and friends of the victims. On June 29, Jason Gurganus, 53, was on a boat around the […]