Steffan Messenger Environment correspondent, BBC Wales News Gareth Bryer BBC Wales News Beacon Park Boats / As You See It Media The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is set to mark its 225th anniversary this year The Welsh government has been urged to intervene over fears one of the country’s most popular canals could start to...
Jeffrey Goldberg has told the BBC that top Trump officials who accidentally added him to a group chat discussing bombings in Yemen, should accept their mistake. Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, has released the full exchange from the Signal group chat. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday “someone made a big mistake” inviting...
Canadian investigators have formally identified a missing indigenous woman who was murdered by a serial killer in 2022. Ashlee Shingoose, 30, was the first of four people killed by Jeremy Skibicki in Manitoba. She had been known only as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) until her identity was discovered by investigators and revealed on Wednesday. Police...
Two men have been arrested after a woman died when she was hit by a driver who had been travelling away from Metropolitan Police in north-west London. The men, aged 18 and 19, were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop. They remain in custody, the force...
Donald Trump has announced new trade taxes of 25% on cars being imported to the US. The US President said the latest tariffs would come into effect on 2 April, with collections starting the next day. Trump claimed the measure would lead to “tremendous growth” for the car industry, promising it would spur jobs and...
US President Donald Trump’s national security team faces scandal after a reporter was mistakenly added to a messaging group in which senior officials discussed attack plans on the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen. Trump and his team have continued to insist that “classified” information was not shared in the Signal group chat that included the...
The Lithuanian army says it is searching for four US soldiers missing for two days during drills in the Baltic state amid reports they had died. The four soldiers and their tracked vehicle had gone missing on Tuesday afternoon near the border with Belarus, the military said earlier. The US Army said the vehicle had...
Jeremy Bowen International Editor in Paris Watch: BBC asks Zelensky about Russian conditions for a ceasefire deal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes the US will “stay strong” in the face of Russian demands to lift sanctions as a condition for a ceasefire in the Black Sea. Moscow said a maritime truce announced...
By his own recognition, Gérard Depardieu acts in a world that is no longer his own. On day three of his sexual assault trial in Paris, the French cinema star admitted that he was given to “rude” and “vulgar” language no longer regarded as acceptable. It got to the point a few years ago, he...
Iain Watson Political correspondent EPA There has been some unease in Labour’s ranks over the planned savings in the welfare budget. The government’s newly published assessment of the impact of the changes has increased that anxiety. The contents – with its estimates of increased poverty levels – show that talk of difficult decisions is not...
Coming from a country with little tennis pedigree, Eala is already accustomed to being a trailblazer for the Philippines – even though she is still a teenager. In 2021, she became the first Filipino to win a WTA Tour match and first to win a junior Grand Slam crown with the 2022 US Open title....
Universities could face multi-million-pound fines for breaches of freedom of speech rules, the Office for Students (OfS) said. The University of Sussex was fined £585,000 after the OfS said its equality policy – which includes rules to “positively represent trans people” – could prevent staff and students voicing opposing views. Sussex was investigated after Prof...
The story of this Spring Statement is that welfare has been cut back to make up for a notable rise in the cost of servicing the national debt. There is also a trim to the money being given to government departments. There is relatively little else actually happening in policy terms. There were no tax...
NatWest and Nigel Farage have settled the dispute over the closure of one of his bank accounts. The agreed settlement comes almost two years after the Reform UK leader had his account with Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy which is owned by NatWest Group, closed. The closure led to a public row...
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Hertfordshire Family handout Maia Walsh had at least four TikTok accounts, a pre-inquest review heard TikTok will be the focus of an inquest into the death of a girl who used the app before her death, a coroner said. Maia Walsh, 13, posted “I don’t think I’ll live past 14” on...