BBC George Psaradakis has returned to London to be part of the Commemoration services George Psaradakis, partway through his bus route in central London on a summer’s morning, was happily thinking about the city’s successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics. He could hear his passengers chatting about it too, contributing to a general air...
South Africa’s Wiann Mulder declared on himself, passing up the opportunity to break Brian Lara’s record for the highest individual score in a Test innings. Mulder, captaining South Africa for the first time, was 367 not out at lunch on the second day of the second Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. He was 33 runs...
Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash says it is “ridiculous” that the chair umpire could not call the ball out when the automated line call system failed due to “human error” during Anastasia Pavlychenkova’s win over Sonay Kartal. WATCH MORE: ‘You took the game from me’ – Line call system fails on game point Available to...
Watch: Australia’s mushroom murder case… in under two minutes Australian woman Erin Patterson is guilty of murdering three relatives with a toxic mushroom lunch, a jury has found. The 50-year-old has also been found guilty of the attempted murder of the sole guest who survived the beef Wellington meal in 2023. Patterson’s much-watched trial in...
Catriona Renton BBC Scotland News SPINDRIFT Stephen Doohan was suspended by the Scottish Ambulance Service after the incident was reported A paramedic who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug, killing their unborn child, has been jailed for 10 years and six months. Stephen Doohan, who was a clinical team leader with the Scottish...
BBC Sport’s Qasa Alom looks at the piece of advice Novak Djokovic gave world number one Jannik Sinner in 2022 and how it’s helped shape his game. WATCH MORE: Is this the secret to Djokovic’s best ever serving performance at Wimbledon? Watch live coverage from every court on BBC iPlayer. Available to UK users only....
BBC Oscar Black, from Lurgan, made swimming history last week A 15 year old has become the youngest swimmer to complete the North Channel swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland solo. Oscar Black, from Lurgan, County Armagh, swam from the Gobbins to Portpatrick last Wednesday in 16 hours and 38 minutes. As the crow flies,...
A British teenager jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl has been released and is back in the UK. Marcus Fakana, 19, from Tottenham, north London, was sentenced in December to a year’s imprisonment after a consensual relationship with the girl, who is also British, while on holiday in the United Arab...
As players continue to ask the Grand Slams for more prize money, the chair of the All England Club has suggested those questions would be better directed to the regular tour events. Representatives of top 10 players met officials at Wimbledon last week to discuss increasing prize money and having a greater say in the...
Former multiple world champion Ricky Hatton has announced his return to boxing. Manchester’s Hatton, who turns 47 in October, will fight the United Arab Emirates’ Eisa Al Dah in a middleweight bout on 2 December in Dubai. Organisers say the contest will be a professional bout but it is unclear if it will be fully...
Maro Itoje returns to captain the British and Irish Lions against the Brumbies in Canberra on Wednesday as Andy Farrell’s Test team appears to take shape. With the possible exception of one or two slots, this very much looks like the starting line-up to the face the Wallabies in the first Test in Brisbane on...
A 14-member team of engineers from the UK has begun assessing a state-of-the-art British fighter jet stuck at an airport in India for more than three weeks now. The F-35B landed on 14 June at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala where it was diverted after it ran into bad weather during a...
EPA Erin Patterson, 50, claimed she accidentally added death cap mushrooms to the lunch she served four guests in 2023 For two years, the mystery of exactly what happened at Erin Patterson’s dining table has gripped the world. Five people sat down to eat lunch at her home in rural Australia on 29 July 2023....
Eric Johnson BBC News, Buckinghamshire Local Democracy Reporting Service Jane McCarthy disagrees with pension funds investing in fossil fuels A 74-year-old woman could lose her home after refusing to pay council tax for more than three years in protest at fossil fuel investments. Jane McCarthy, from Aylesbury, has withheld payments of about £5,000 to Buckinghamshire...
US President Donald Trump says countries that side with the polices of the Brics alliance that go against US interests will be hit with an extra 10% tariff. “Any country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy,” Trump posted...