Jenny Rees Health Correspondent, BBC Wales News BBC Sian and Rob Channon have long been calling for changes at Swansea Bay’s maternity department, after their own son’s care left him disabled A mother who played a key part in pushing for change in a health board’s maternity care said she felt vindicated following the publication […]
Manila, Philippines – When former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March, Sheerah Escuerdo spoke to a local television station, welcoming the politician’s detention on charges of murder linked to his war on drugs. Escuerdo, who lost her 18-year-old brother, Ephraim, to Duterte’s war, clutched a portrait of […]
BBC James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk. Sometimes he sat in the branches too. Canton, a lecturer at the University of Essex, recalls how it helped him feel a “sense of connection”. “We’re […]
Bourigault et al. 2024 Thousands of scans of each participant are recorded and stored as part of the imaging project. Here showing images of the abdomen and major organs Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. […]
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 […]
Muhammadu Buhari, who was the country’s democratic leader between 2015 and 2023, died aged 82 in London on Sunday. Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari will be buried in his hometown of Daura in the northern state of Katsina, once his body is repatriated from the United Kingdom, the state governor has said. The remains of […]
Getty Images Resident doctors in England are planning a walkout for five consecutive days from 25 July, over a pay dispute with the government. They say they haven’t had a “credible pay deal” for 2025-2026, but Health Secretary Wes Streeting argues the strike is “unreasonable” after substantial pay rises in recent years. What are resident […]
Sanchia Berg News correspondent Getty Images Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl. The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was pregnant. That was […]
PA Media Many parts of the UK are in the throes of their third heatwave The UK is breaking heat and rainfall records increasingly frequently as its climate continues to warm, the Met Office has warned. The country’s changing weather patterns mean the UK now experiences a “notably different” climate to what it was just […]
Geoff Maskell BBC News NI weather presenter BBC Armagh Observatory holds weather records dating back to 1795 Armagh Observatory is marking a very special meteorological milestone as the institute celebrates 230 years of continuous weather observation. The unbroken tradition of handwritten data makes it the longest sequence of continuous weather information gathered anywhere in the […]