Matthew Hill Health Correspondent Reporting fromBBC News, West of England BBC Care and Support West CEO David Smallacombe warns that some operators may go out of business A leading care association in the west is warning some residential homes may go under due to rising costs such as National Insurance (NI) and the national living […]
BBC The annual dig and planting is part of the RSPB Giving Corncrake a Home Project Multiple tonne bags of nettles from across Northern Ireland have been shipped to Rathlin Island in an effort to support the endangered corncrake bird. The nettle rhizomes have proven to be a success with the secretive bird as they […]
Josh Parry LGBT & identity reporter Getty Images James’s career went from Drag Race star and into the mainstream, appearing in the West End and on various TV programmes. The sister of James Lee Williams, better known as The Vivienne, says her family only learned of the drag performer’s battle with ketamine addiction after watching […]
LONDON — Five teams, each with five games to play, and three Champions League spots up for grabs. Nottingham Forest weren’t supposed to be in that conversation, but they now lead the five-way race after their 2-1 win at Tottenham on Monday. With the result, Forest are turning the screws on Newcastle United, Manchester City, […]
Apr 21, 2025, 04:58 PM ET Leicester City have endured a torrid Premier League campaign. Mike Egerton/PA Images via Getty Images Jamie Vardy criticised himself and his fellow Leicester City players following their relegation from the Premier League, saying his own performance in the campaign had been an “embarrassment.” A 1-0 home defeat by runaway Premier […]
Rep. Nancy Pelosi shakes hands with Pope Francis on Capitol Hill in September 2015. Nikki Kahn/Pool/ AP hide caption toggle caption Nikki Kahn/Pool/ AP Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday at age 88. Among them is Speaker of the House Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who told […]
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Apr 20, 2025, 06:27 PM ET Carlo Ancelotti praised Federico Valverde as “the key” after the midfielder’s 93rd-minute goal gave Real Madrid a dramatic 1-0 win over Athletic Club on Sunday to react to their Champions League exit in midweek. After an underwhelming first half, Madrid improved in the second period […]
America’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station […]
Reuters Pete Hegseth shared the messages in a private Signal group chat on 15 March, US news outlets say US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information about US air strikes on Yemen in a second private group on the Signal app, the BBC’s US partner CBS has confirmed with sources familiar with the messages. The […]
Pope Francis on a visit to Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, in September 2015. Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo/Getty Images Before becoming pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio had traveled very little. As Pope Francis, he became a global player, preferring to visit what he called the “periphery” of the world, in […]