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PA Media Brian Wheeler Political reporter Sir Tony Blair has called for a major rethink of net zero policies, arguing that limiting energy consumption and fossil fuel production is “doomed to fail”. In a new report, the former Labour prime minister says voters “feel they’re being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle...
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter at the National Theatre BBC Paul Mescal will appear in Death of a Salesman and A Whistle in the Dark Theatre audiences will get a double dose of Paul Mescal in 2027, after the Irish actor signed up for two productions at the National Theatre. The star of Normal People and...
The Scottish FA (SFA) has employed a similar approach, allowing transgender women to compete in their affirmed gender category on a case-by-case basis, with testosterone levels also taken into account. But under new rules, from next season, only those born biologically female will be allowed to take part in competitive matches in the women’s game...
Three people have been taken to hospital after reports of shots being fired in Forest Gate, east London. The London Ambulance Service (LAS) said it was called at about 14:50 BST to Upton Lane. LAS confirmed it took one person to a major trauma centre and the other two patients to hospital. The Met Police...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images DJ Próvaà usually wears a balaclava on stage, a look that dates from the band’s early days, when he was trying to hide his identity from the school where he worked To their fans, west Belfast rave-rap group Kneecap are a rowdy, subversive force of nature. But to many...
The global significance of Mark Carney’s election as Canadian Prime Minister is he now sits at the centre of an alternative pole of global economic thinking. Everything but Trump. There was a half expectation here that Carney would immediately sue for peace with President Trump when the polls closed on the election. It has emphatically...
Faisal Islam Economics editor, BBC News Reporting fromOttawa, Ontario Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Will Canada’s newly-elected PM agree to meet Trump? Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his country deserves respect from the US and will only enter trade and security talks with President Donald Trump “on our terms”. Speaking exclusively to...
Promoters Frank Warren and Alex Krassyuk sat on the top table for around half an hour, patiently waiting for the fighters. An energetic Dubois – wearing an understated tracksuit – eventually jogged on to the stage and saluted Warren. Showman Usyk high-fived his team, bowed to around 50 or so members of the media and...
Natalie Sherman Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images The White House has hit back against a reported plan by Amazon to detail the price impact of Donald Trump’s trade tariffs to its customers, calling it a “hostile” political act. Amazon told the Washington Post it had looked into itemising the costs for customers using Amazon...
Julian O’Neill and Chris Page BBC News NI Getty Images Gerry Adams alleges the BBC defamed him by falsely claiming he sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson Gerry Adams’ reputation as a peacemaker suffered “an unjustified attack” by the BBC, which wrongly alleged he sanctioned the murder of informer Denis Donaldson in 2006, the High...
It’s now been more than a week of chaos for Marks and Spencer (M&S), one of the UK’s biggest brands, following what – it is now obvious – is a significant cyber attack. It has cost it millions of pounds in lost sales and a lower share price. M&S has not said what or who...
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Mike Peters fought cancer three times and was recognised for his advocacy and charity work Mike Peters, front man of Welsh rockers The Alarm and a long-standing cancer campaigner and fundraiser, has died aged 66. His band was formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Denbighshire, out of the punk era and had a...
Phil McCann BBC North West Tonight Eleanor Lawson BBC News, West Midlands Cheshire Police Richard Burrows, 80, had admitted 47 sex abuse charges, before being convicted of 50 more offences A paedophile who spent almost three decades on the run left his victims with PTSD having destroyed their childhoods, a court heard. Richard Burrows is...
The Israeli military has released a Palestinian paramedic detained when Israeli troops killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza last month, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. Assad al-Nassasra was missing for three weeks until the International Committee of the Red Cross received information he was in Israeli detention. He was reportedly one of...
