This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The row over Scotland’s gender reforms will “inevitably” end up in court, the country’s first minister has said. Nicola Sturgeon was speaking as the UK government formally moved to block the legislation that was passed by the
Month: January 2023
Getty Images Wages have grown at the fastest rate in more than 20 years, but are still failing to keep up with rising prices. Average pay, including and excluding bonuses, rose by 6.4% between September and November compared with the same time last year, official figures show. It is the fastest growth since 2001, excluding
Social media The Met Police is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers, the commissioner has said. It comes after PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes. Sir Mark Rowley announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.
PA Media By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a drive-by shooting outside a London church left a girl, seven, seriously injured. A 12-year-old girl and four women were also injured at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were fired from a moving vehicle on
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Rajini Vaidyanathan in Kathmandu & Alexandra Fouché in London BBC News Nepalis are observing a day of mourning for victims of the country’s worst air disaster for some three decades. At least 68 people died when
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Aoife Walsh BBC News A plane with 72 people on board has crashed near an airport in central Nepal and at least 40 bodies have been recovered, officials say. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to
Getty Images By Jonathan Beale, Defence Correspondent, and Jasmine Andersson BBC News The UK is to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country’s war effort, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said. He spoke to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call on Saturday, during which he confirmed he would send the equipment
EPA By Emily McGarvey and Aoife Walsh BBC News British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, who was sentenced to death in Iran, has been executed. Mr Akbari’s family had been asked to go to his prison for a “final visit” on Wednesday and his wife said he had been moved to solitary confinement. The ex-deputy Iranian
Reuters Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against four young women. The jury failed to reach verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape and a retrial will take place. Louis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis, has died aged 54, her mother has said. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter
Hollie Adams/Getty Images By Jayne McCubbin and Nick Triggle BBC News Patients with emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes in England had to wait more than 90 minutes on average for an ambulance at the end of 2022. It came after a sharp deterioration in 999 response times in December – they were nearly
Other By Jayne McCubbin and Nick Triggle BBC News Ambulance bosses have apologised to the family of a man who died after he had a heart attack but no ambulance came. Martin Clark, 68, started suffering with chest pains at his home in East Sussex on 18 November – before any strike action started in
Getty Images By Paul Seddon & Rachel Schraer BBC News Andrew Bridgen has been suspended as a Conservative MP for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccination. It comes after the North West Leicestershire MP posted a tweet that compared vaccines to the Holocaust. Tory chief whip Simon Hart said the comments had “crossed a line” and
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By James Gregory BBC News Prince Harry has said claims he boasted in his new book about killing 25 Taliban fighters while on duty in Afghanistan are a “dangerous lie”. The prince has been criticised for discussing
PA Media By Nick Eardley and Nick Triggle BBC News The impact of Wednesday’s ambulance strike in England and Wales is likely to be worse than that of the one before Christmas, NHS managers are warning. Thousands of paramedics and support staff will walk out for the second time this winter, in the dispute over
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Newquay The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure. A jumbo jet operated by the American Virgin Orbit company carried a rocket out of Newquay, Cornwall,