Norfolk Constabulary Police searching for missing Norwich woman Gaynor Lord have recovered a body from the River Wensum. Norfolk Constabulary confirmed it was recovered from the water this morning by underwater search teams. While the body has not been formally identified, Ms Lord’s family has been informed, the force added. The 55-year-old mother-of-three was reported
Month: December 2023
Greater Manchester Police By Hugh Schofield in Paris & Jacqueline Howard in London BBC News A 17-year-old British boy from Oldham who went missing in Spain in 2017 has been found in France, authorities say. Alex Batty was found in the town of Revel, east of Toulouse, early on Wednesday morning. The prosecutor’s office in
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By George Wright & Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC News Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Russians that peace with Ukraine will only take place “when we achieve our objectives”. He is holding his first major news conference since
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have released CCTV footage showing the last known movements of a missing woman. Gaynor Lord, 55, was reported missing in Norwich after failing to return home from work on Friday afternoon. The footage shows her hurrying
Getty Images The UK economy shrank by more than expected in October, as higher interest rates squeezed consumers and bad weather swept the country. The economy fell by 0.3% on the month, after growth of 0.2% in September. Household spending has been dented by rate rises as the Bank of England tries to tackle inflation.
Getty Images By Becky Morton Political reporter Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has seen off a Tory rebellion over his flagship Rwanda bill but still faces a battle to get it through Parliament. The legislation comfortably passed its first Commons hurdle with a majority of 44, but there will be further votes in the new year.
Getty Images By Georgina Rannard Climate reporter at COP28, Dubai The UN climate talks in Dubai could be in jeopardy after some nations reacted furiously to a draft deal on fossil fuels they call “weak”. The draft removed language included in a previous draft suggesting that fossil fuels could be “phased out”. All 198 countries
Getty Images By Becky Morton & Henry Zeffman BBC Politics Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a battle to persuade Tory MPs to back his flagship Rwanda bill, ahead of a key vote on Tuesday. The legislation seeks to revive the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to the east African country. MPs on
AFGHANISTAN MOI By Joe Inwood BBC Newsnight About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, face imminent deportation to their Taliban-controlled homeland, the BBC has learned. The figures – gathered by a network of Afghan veterans – reveal the scale of what one former UK general calls a “betrayal” and
Reuters Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is “narrowing the window” for a new truce, the Qatari prime minister has said. Speaking at the Doha Forum, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Qatar would continue its efforts to pressure both sides into a ceasefire. The gulf state played a key role negotiating the week-long pause in violence
BBC/Tony Jolliffe By Jonathan Amos and Alison Francis BBC News, Science The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago. The 2m-long fossil is one of the most complete
Reuters By Fiona Nimoni BBC News A senior UN aid official has warned that half of Gaza’s population is starving, as fighting there continues. Carl Skau, deputy director of the UN World Food Programme, said only a fraction of supplies needed have been able to enter the Strip – and nine out of 10 people
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock By Jeremy Bowen BBC International editor, Jerusalem UN secretary general António Guterres spoke this afternoon about the “serious risk to the maintenance of international peace and security”, citing the spillover of hostilities in “the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen”. He triggered Article 99, prompting Friday’s UN Security Council vote, because he
Feras Al-Shaer By Merlyn Thomas and Ethar Shalaby BBC Verify and BBC Arabic As Israel presses its military offensive across Gaza, the army has been repeatedly advising some two million civilians to move to a “humanitarian zone” smaller than London’s Heathrow Airport. Al-Mawasi is a narrow strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea. It has
PA Media By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News The UK has given Rwanda a further £100m this year as part of its deal to relocate asylum seekers there. The payment was made in April, the Home Office’s top civil servant said in a letter to MPs, after £140m had already been sent to the African nation.
By Branwen Jeffreys and Sallie George BBC News At 2:15am on Christmas morning last year, Ruth Perry woke and wrote down her thoughts while her two teenage daughters and husband slept. “I.N.A.D.E.Q.U.A.T.E keeps flashing behind my eyes.” She had been head teacher at Caversham Primary School, in Reading, for 13 years – the school had