Getty Images When I call Tony Hardy, it’s a sunny day. As he often does during the summer months, he’s wearing a pair of shorts in the office. “We wear shorts all the time,” he says. Tony runs a branding agency in Northumberland, with nine employees. His company, Canny Creative, doesn’t have a dress code....
The BBC’s Phil Mackie reports from Lagos near Praia da Luz, Portugal where Portuguese and German police are continuing in their search for Madeleine McCann. As Mackie reports “the clock is ticking” for investigators who only have until Friday to search across a 21 sq km (8.1 sq miles) site between where the toddler went...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC David Redman, who has raised concerns about the development in Torquay, claims to have been assaulted A man claims to have been assaulted in a row over building work at a historic site. Torbay Council has told developers to stop work at Singleton Gardens – a rare Victorian...
Mark Poynting and Erwan Rivault BBC Climate & Data teams Planet Labs A prolonged dry spell created perfect conditions for wildfires The area of the UK burnt by wildfires so far this year is already higher than the total for any year in more than a decade, satellite data suggests. More than 29,200 hectares (292...
Getty Images Witnesses told the BBC that flames spread rapidly between tents, causing dozens of deaths, including those of children At least 37 people have been killed in a series of Israeli strikes, most in areas where displaced civilians have set up tents, Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Witnesses in al-Mawasi told the BBC...
One soldier said they’re directed to make the buffer zone look like the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Israeli military is now occupying over half of the land area of Gaza after having massively expanded the “buffer zone” spanning the entirety of Gaza’s border and systematically destroyed everything in it, as Israeli...
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....
Views are being sought on proposed updates for three conservation areas in part of south Devon. Torbay Council said online and paper surveys had been set up for the new conservation area appraisals for Torquay Harbour, Paignton Old Town and Brixham Town. In October, the council said it had decided to update the appraisals –...