Louise Parry BBC News, Hertfordshire Justin Dealey BBC News, Hertfordshire Justin Dealey/BBC A falconer arrived to tame the hawk after the resident managed to trap it A Harris’s hawk that has been repeatedly attacking villagers has been captured by a resident with the same name. Steve Harris, 40, told the BBC he had managed to...
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Roy Ikohora Sally Wynter said her situation “could have been so much worse” A woman who was attacked on a Tube train in central London has said she was then left standing on a platform for a “harrowing” 30 minutes because no one answered the emergency calls she made from a help point. Sally Wynter...
A man shot dead by police officers at Milton Keynes railway station has been named. David Joyce, 38, was from the city and was killed on Tuesday after police responded to reports of a man with a gun at the station. It later emerged he was carrying a knife. Thames Valley Police said a single...
The worth of the Women’s Super League champions is understood to have been benchmarked against the world’s most valuable women’s team, Angel City, a club in the US-based National Women’s Soccer League which was sold for £190m in September. Chelsea’s valuation was made when seeking external investment and sponsorship in June 2024, when they announced...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images The star said he’d been able to finish dozens of tracks that were sitting in his vault during the pandemic Bruce Springsteen is throwing open his archives to let fans hear seven completed, but never-before-released, albums. The recordings, which date from 1983 to 2018, will “fill in rich chapters...
Constitution Hill fell for the second time in succession as star mare Lossiemouth landed the Aintree Hurdle, the feature race on day one of the Grand National meeting. The Nicky Henderson-trained favourite suffered a shock departure in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham last month. It looked as though he was travelling well for Nico de...
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Kate Whannel Political reporter Sam Francis Political reporter Getty Images The UK government is drawing up a list of US products it could hit with retaliatory tariffs after President Donald Trump announced a wave of new import taxes. This is a toughening of the government’s stance as ministers seek to finalise a trade deal with...
Prize money at last year’s Wimbledon was £50m, exactly double the amount offered in 2014. In that 10-year period, prize money for first-round losers increased from £27,000 to £60,000. But players have frequently pointed to the vast revenues generated by the Grand Slams, and feel they deserve a significantly larger return. In the year up...
David Cowan Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland News AFP The Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988 remains the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil A Libyan writer and politician who published documents linking his country’s intelligence service to the Lockerbie bombing has been arrested on national security charges. Samir Shegwara was taken into custody two...
Roger Johnson BBC News, Manchester Hett family Figen Murray’s son Martyn Hett was among those killed in the 2017 Manchester bombing The last time Figen Murray came to Downing Street, the famous black door to Number 10 Downing Street stayed firmly shut. Today they threw it wide open and welcomed her with open arms. It...
The government has approved plans to expand London Luton Airport. Luton Rising, the airport’s owners, wanted to increase airport capacity from 18 million annual passengers to 32 million by 2043. This would involve building a new terminal, new taxiways and increasing the capacity in the existing terminal. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander approved the proposals despite...
Tom Gerken Technology reporter BBC After months of speculation, Nintendo has confirmed the successor to its wildly popular Switch console will be released on 5 June, when it will cost £395.99 to buy in the UK. But it’s not so much of the price of the Switch 2 but its games that have been raising...
Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images The list of would-be buyers for TikTok in the US – both rumoured and confirmed – has grown longer as the deadline for deciding its future looms. The social media giant faces being shut down in the US unless it sells to an American company by 5 April. The...