Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent BBC Richard Stanton and Rhiannon Davies campaigned for a review into maternity services after their baby daughter died in 2009 Campaigners have questioned Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s commitment to maternity safety after his department watered down funding levels. Almost £100m was invested into improving maternity safety annually following the publication...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria CPS Experts say a wedge of wood came from the tree and was pictured in Daniel Graham’s car A man accused of felling the world famous Sycamore Gap tree told police he had been framed as part of a feud. The tree had grown in a dip...
The estranged husband of a woman who served a poisonous mushroom lunch to her family says it was “very rare” for her to hold social gatherings at home. Simon Patterson was invited to the fatal meal prepared by Erin Patterson – but decided not to attend the day before. Mr Patterson is the first witness...
An Australian woman accused of cooking a fatal mushroom meal admits to picking wild funghi, lying to police and disposing of evidence, but will argue the “tragedy” was a “terrible accident”. The Supreme Court trial of Erin Patterson, 50, began in the small Victorian town of Morwell on Wednesday and is expected to last six...
More than two years after Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a brutal beating after a traffic stop, three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers are on trial in state court on second-degree murder charges. Opening statements began Monday with testimony from Nichols’ heartbroken mother Rowvaughn Wells, who said she didn’t learn about her son’s...
Laura Gozzi & Gabriela Pomeroy BBC News, Paris and London Getty Images The trial has begun of 10 people who are accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint at a Paris hotel in 2016. The reality TV star and business woman was tied up and held at gunpoint in a luxury suite where she was...
An Afghan man accused of threatening to kill Nigel Farage while he travelled to the UK has appeared in court. Fayaz Khan, 25, is alleged to have posted a video on TikTok in October, where he made a gun gesture and told the Reform party leader he was going to “pop pop”, Westminster Magistrates’ Court...
A Pakistan-born Chicago businessman wanted in India for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai city has been remanded in custody for 18 days. Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian citizen, landed in Delhi on Thursday. India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) confirmed his extradition had been successful. Indian authorities accuse 64-year-old Rana of aiding the...
Getty Images Lloyds Bank business customers and whistleblowers have accused it of failing small firms as it tried to reduce lending after the financial crash of 2008. Business owners who borrowed from Lloyds around that time have told the BBC their firms collapsed after the bank introduced them to its Business Support Unit (BSU), intended...
Libyan authorities have accused aid groups of plotting to change the country’s ethnic make-up by encouraging African migrants to stay there, and has ordered them to close their offices. Ten groups have been singled out – including Doctors Without Borders, the UN refugee agency, and Norwegian Refugee Council. “This plan to settle migrants of African...
“Where else in the world can he do this? What does he think of Turkey? “I believe that Fenerbahce’s management will impose the necessary sanction before the federation does.” Galatasaray won the Turkish Cup quarter-final tie 2-1 with Victor Osimhen scoring twice for the visitors. BBC Sport has contacted Fenerbahce for a response. Buruk, who...
Dan Martin BBC News, Leicester BBC Madeleine McCann went missing during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 Two women have appeared in court after being charged as part of an investigation into the alleged stalking of Madeleine McCann’s family. A lawyer acting for Julia Wandel, 23, from Lubin in south-west Poland, made an unsuccessful...