Month: September 2023

family handout The school coach driver who died after a crash on a motorway has been named. Stephen Shrimpton, 40, and passenger Jessica Baker, 15, died after the vehicle struck a reservation and overturned on the M53 in Wirral on Friday, Merseyside Police said. Four others were taken to hospital for treatment, including a 14-year-old

PA Media By Sean Seddon BBC News Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he wants to stop the “vicious circle of ever-rising taxes” by reforming public services and the benefits system. His comments come as some senior Tories are set to call for tax cuts ahead of the party’s conference this week. MPs including Liz Truss

Met Police A 17-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of 15-year-old Elianne Andam who was stabbed to death in Croydon, south London. The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, is due to appear later at youth court, sitting at Croydon Magistrates’ Court. He has also been charged with the possession

Getty Images By Joshua Nevett BBC Politics The government is on course to oversee the biggest tax-raising parliament since records began, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ analysis. The IFS forecasts taxes will amount to about 37% of national income by the next general election, due in 2024. That would be a level not

Family handout A 15-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed on her way to school in Croydon, south London, has been named as Elianne Andam. The “much-loved” girl, with a “bright future”, died after being attacked with a foot-long knife on Wednesday morning. A 17-year-old boy, known to the victim, was arrested shortly afterwards and police

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Dan Wootton has been suspended from GB News following comments made on his show by Laurence Fox, who asked what “self-respecting man” would “climb into bed” with reporter Ava Evans. The broadcaster

By Liz Jackson BBC News A 15-year-old girl has been killed in a stabbing in Croydon, south London. A number of police vehicles and ambulances can be seen surrounding a red double decker bus in Wellesley Road, near the Whitgift Centre. A teenage boy was arrested after the girl died at the scene at 09:21

Getty Images By Sarah Rainsford in Goris, Armenia & Antoinette Radford in London BBC News Nearly 30,000 ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh – a quarter of the population of the enclave which Azerbaijan seized last week. Hundreds of cars are backed up on the one road leading into Armenia, the destination of those leaving. Azerbaijan

PA Media By Henry Zeffman & Sam Francis BBC Politics Fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for international refugee protection, the home secretary will say. Addressing a US think tank, Suella Braverman will question whether the application of the UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention is “fit for our

PA Media By James Gregory BBC News The Metropolitan Police says it will investigate fresh allegations of “non-recent” sexual offences following media reports about comedian Russell Brand. The force has received a “number of allegations of sexual offences” in London and elsewhere in the country, but says no arrests have been made. It follows a

Getty Images By Aoife Walsh & Joe Inwood BBC News The Ministry of Defence is offering soldiers to support armed police in London after dozens of Met officers stood down from firearms duties. More than 100 officers have turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons, a source told the BBC. Police said the action

NASA By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, Dugway, Utah A seven-year mission to study what has been described as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System is about to reach its dramatic conclusion. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft is bringing home the “soil” samples it grabbed from the surface of asteroid Bennu. These dusty materials will be

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Olga Ivshina & Robert Plummer BBC News, Nagorno-Karabakh & London Azerbaijan’s military has paraded heavy weapons captured in Nagorno-Karabakh, amid warnings thousands of civilians are without shelter after the surrender of Armenian separatists. Tanks, guns and

Getty Images By Ione Wells Political correspondent A taskforce to speed up home insulation and boiler upgrades has been disbanded, the BBC can reveal. The group – which included the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt and other leading experts – was only launched in March. But it appears to be a

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News US President Joe Biden plans to give Ukraine advanced long-range missiles to help Kyiv with its ongoing counter-offensive, US media report. They quote US officials familiar with the issue as saying Ukraine

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Megan Fisher & Vitaly Shevchenko BBC News A Ukrainian missile strike has hit the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea. One soldier is missing after the missile attack, according to Moscow. Footage on social