Alison Holt,social affairs editor and James Melley,senior producer Family handout Alice Figueiredo’s family hoped lessons would be learned following their 22-year-old daughter’s death Warning: This article contains upsetting details and references to serious self-harm and death Just four months after a young woman died in a London mental health unit, another patient tried to harm […]
Kate Dyson Kate Dyson started the campaign group Surge Menopause after her experiences with surgical menopause A woman from East Sussex who was plunged into sudden menopause after surgery to remove both ovaries is spearheading efforts to change NHS policy in this area. Kate Dyson, 44, from Hastings, underwent the surgery six months ago after […]
Graham FraserBBC Scotland University of Dundee Prof Iris Grunwald demonstrates the technology which she says now shows that a specialist doesn’t need to be “in the same hospital, or even in the same country, to help you” Doctors from Scotland and the US have completed what is thought to be a world-first stroke procedure using […]
Katharine Da CostaSouth of England More than 120 British-born red kite chicks have been released in south-west Spain A British red kite emerges from an aviary in the remote hills of western Spain and takes flight. At six months old, this is its first taste of freedom. Without a sound, it soars high in the […]
Donald Trump has exempted Hungary from sanctions over its continued purchases of Russian oil and gas for one year, a White House official confirmed to BBC News. Earlier, the US president said he would consider an opt-out for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a close Trump ally who has maintained good relations with Russia throughout […]
A former Israeli hostage who was released last month has told Israeli TV that he was sexually assaulted during his two years in captivity in Gaza. In an interview with Channel 13’s Hazinor programme, Rom Braslavski, 21, described being stripped naked and tied up by members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). “It was sexual violence, […]
Rebecca Curran,BBC Scotland and Ken Banks,North east Scotland reporter BBC Offshore worker Phil Perry says the fear of losing his job is an added motivation in keeping his weight under control Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore – or face losing […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. Tesla (NYSE: TSLA) held its 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting yesterday, whose key takeaway was overwhelming shareholder approval of a colossal new performance-based compensation package for CEO Elon Musk, a plan that could potentially […]
Portuguese Judiciary Police The sub was located 1,000 nautical miles off the coast of Lisbon Four people have been detained after Portuguese authorities intercepted a narco-sub carrying more than 1.7 tonnes of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The semi-submersible vessel was bound for the Iberian peninsula and was seized in recent days, according to officials. Footage […]
Eleanor Layhe, Jemma Woodman and Ella Rule,South West Trudy Polkinghorn Lugh Baker died in 2021 and his mother, Trudy Polkinghorn, said she “was so angry” with the regulator, the CQC Care homes that are graded as inadequate or requiring improvement are often not being reinspected for a year or more, a BBC investigation has found. […]