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BBC On Thursday 1 May elections will be held for 23 councils and six mayors in England. Around a third of electors in England are eligible to vote, and more than 1,600 councillors will be elected. In some parts of England, local elections have been postponed because the government is planning to reorganise local councils....

Working class people do not want “handouts” but support to find jobs, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has said. Last week the government set out changes to the benefits system aimed at saving £5bn, including making it harder for people to claim disability payments. Asked whether the cuts were “a hard sell” to Labour MPs...

An unusual spiral appeared in the sky above the UK on Monday night, leading some people to wonder what was going on. It is thought the cloud-like display was caused by SpaceX, which was conducting a classified rocket launch. BBC Weather’s Simon King has this analysis. More on this story. View original article...

Four people, including the grandparents of Emile Soleil, have been arrested over the two-year-old’s disappearance and death in the French Alps in July 2023. The two other people arrested on suspicion of voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse are adult children of Emile’s grandparents, prosecutors said in a statement. The grandparents’ lawyer, Isabelle Colombani,...

Watch: Key reactions to reports of a leaked group chat involving Trump officials Washington DC is still digesting a serious security breach at the heart of the Trump administration. It’s the story of how a journalist – the Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg – was added to a Signal platform messaging group which apparently included Vice-President...

Two RAF engineers have admitted they broke a newly-installed Paddington Bear statue in half and stole it from a bench. Daniel Heath, 22, of Oakhall Park, Thornton, West Yorkshire, and William Lawrence, 22, of John Street, Enderby, Leicestershire, both admitted an offence of criminal damage at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. The statue on Northbrook...

Sebastian Usher Middle East correspondent Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the Oscars A Palestinian Oscar winner has been attacked by Israeli settlers, activists who witnessed the event say, before being detained by the Israeli military. Hamdan...

Lucy Hooker BBC Business reporter Dylan Caulkin Dylan Caulkin would like the government to provide more help for young people like him On Wednesday the chancellor will give an update on her plans for the economy. The government has promised to boost growth, which should mean higher pay and more jobs, but so far the...