Getty Images Questions have been raised about welfare standards on farms that are members of the RSPCA Assured scheme Animal welfare inspectors have been sent into more than 200 farms amid claims one of the UK’s largest food certification schemes is failing to enforce legal standards, the BBC has learned. RSPCA Assured covers almost 4,000 […]
New York City mayor Eric Adams speaks to members of the press at a news conference in New York, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges, according to two people […]
BBC In January, Philip Marks says his prognosis was so bad that his oncologist did not think he would live to see February When his health deteriorated last winter, Phillip Marks doubted he would ever play another round of golf, let alone see his 62nd birthday. “They all thought I was going to kick the […]
Hurricane Helene continues to strengthen as it barrels toward the US Gulf Coast. The Category 1 storm is on track to quickly intensify into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane by the time it makes landfall in Florida on Thursday evening, with forecasters warning it could bring “life-threatening” storm surge, damaging winds and flooding to a […]
BBC The residents of Northstowe in Cambridgeshire have been given a lot of assurances. The plan is for more than 10,000 new homes for 26,000 people as part of the UK’s first new town since Milton Keynes was built six decades ago. Six years after people first moved into the 1,480 homes built so far, […]
Keir Starmer is set to announce the creation of a £10bn AI datacentre, bringing 4,000 jobs to north-east England, which will be funded by a private equity firm run by a big Donald Trump supporter. The prime minister is due to host chief executives in New York on Thursday, where he is trying to drum […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United Nations that Russia is planning deeper attacks on his country’s nuclear power plants, warning of possible “nuclear disaster”. He said he had received intelligence showing Moscow was using satellites provided by other countries to gather information about Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure. “Radiation does not respect state borders and […]
Football shirts were once an item of clothing for a) players to wear at work, and b) fans to sport on the terraces in solidarity with the lads out on the pitch. Now, what must seem abruptly to the uninitiated, they have become the uniform for British music festivals and a source of inspiration for […]
Wes Streeting says he will not back down in his criticism of the NHS, after the BBC revealed there was growing unease in the service about the “broken” NHS messaging from government. England’s health secretary told the Labour Party conference that not acknowledging the problems in the NHS would result in “killing it with kindness”. […]
Kensington Palace “It means change,” Prince William said, in a video message at the United Nations The Prince of Wales has issued an urgent call to end environmental destruction and to “make peace with nature”. “We are living at odds with the natural world – and it is buckling under the pressure of our actions,” […]