A doctor found by a tribunal to have raped a young woman at his home avoided being struck off over what the panel described as a “one-off” attack. Dr Aloaye Foy-Yamah, then a consultant at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, instead had his medical licence suspended for 12 months for attacking the woman. Police investigated but did...
BBC Burmese Service A collapsed multi-storey building in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city A huge earthquake has hit central Myanmar. The magnitude-7.7 tremor was felt elsewhere, including in Thailand and south-west China. More than 1,000 have died and more than 2,000 have been injured, although it is difficult to obtain accurate information. Here is what we...
Taylor will defend her light-welterweight undisputed titles in a trilogy bout against Amanda Serrano on 11 July at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The 38-year-old narrowly won both her previous encounters with Serrano, most recently a points decision in November in Texas. “If me and Amanda fought 100 times it would be a fight of...
Stuart Maisner BBC News, South East Hercule Van Wolfwinke The drawings have raised funds for two animal welfare charities A pet-portrait artist has raised more than £400,000 for charity with his self-confessed “rubbish” pictures. Phil Heckels, from Worthing, West Sussex, began working under the alias Hercule Van Wolfwinkle in 2020. Mr Heckels, who is about...
Rugby union should consider banning head coaches from matches if their players are repeatedly involved in head-on-head tackles, says former England women’s boss Simon Middleton. In the Women’s Six Nations opening round, France centre Gabrielle Vernier was sent off for a head-on-head hit in their win over Ireland, followed by Wales’ Georgia Evans receiving a...
Sue Mitchell & Ben Milne BBC News BBC John Wilcox with his granddaughter Amy David remembers the moment he found his elderly stepfather, John, unkempt and suffering from dementia, living alone in an unclean hotel room. “I didn’t think you’d leave an animal in the state that room was in,” he says. ” There was...
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has told the BBC he failed to follow up abuse allegations within the Church of England because the scale of the problem was “absolutely overwhelming”. In November he became the first Archbishop in more than 1,000 years to quit, after a damning independent review found he did not...
Four people have been killed and another 19 injured in a mass Russian drone attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional head has said. Serhiy Lysak said a restaurant complex and several residential buildings were ablaze after the attack late on Friday. He said that “the enemy sent more than 20 drones”...
Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from his home by Nazis during World War Two. Painter Henry Gibbs’ 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”,...
Gemma Handy Reporter, St John’s, Antigua Courtesy of Patricia Joseph Hyacinth Gage, 74, disappeared six years ago The worst part is the mental torture, Patricia Joseph says. The “gut-wrenching” flashes of wondering what her mother’s last moments were. The infinite state of limbo. Six years after her mother’s mysterious disappearance, Patricia still catches herself looking...
Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat RLCS Fans at last year’s RLCS competition in London Conventional wisdom tells us professional athletes perform best in front of a home crowd. Great Britain’s Olympic team won a record medal haul at London 2012 and England’s Lionesses won the Euros at Wembley in 2022, 56 years after the men’s national...
Lewis Adams & Stuart Woodward BBC News, Essex Stuart Woodward/BBC Jackie Thacker says her heart has been broken by plans for the Lower Thames Crossing The Lower Thames Crossing will become the largest road tunnel in the UK and is described by National Highways as “the most significant road project in a generation”. But what...
Andrew Tate, the controversial social media figure, is facing a new lawsuit by his ex-girlfriend, accusing him of sexual assault, battery and gender violence. The lawsuit filed by Brianna Stern in Los Angeles details their relationship and how Tate initially seemed like a “dream come true” but then she claims he became emotionally and physically...
Chloe Aslett BBC News, Yorkshire James Balston Ms Clark lived in the converted toilets for a while, but has had tenants since she moved to Scotland. Of all the bizarre items up for sale on Facebook marketplace, a “townhouse” with a price of £70,000 stands out as a particularly unusual listing – not least because...
The holiday park company Center Parcs has removed links to its old X account from its website after a man who took over the account was contacted by genuine customers. Center Parcs deleted its X account in January, which meant the @CenterParcsUK handle became available. Carl Lennon, an IT consultant, registered an X account with...