A court in Leipzig has lifted a ban imposed by the German government on the influential far-right magazine Compact. The ruling is seen by some as a blow to Germany’s fight against right-wing extremism, although for others it could be proof of the country’s high standards of free speech. In July 2024 the German interior...
Jonathan Morris BBC News South West BBC Becci Hey is in a tug-of-war battle with the council over sanitary bins in public toilets Public toilets at a seaside town in south Devon are at the centre of a row over what campaigners call people’s dignity and hygiene. Becci Hey has been installing sanitary bins in...
Last week, two members of the group Palestine Action broke into the UK’s largest air force base and vandalized a couple of RAF jets with red paint. The pair were able to escape the base without notice but the group posted video of the attack online. BREAKING: Palestine Action break into RAF Brize Norton and...
Joe Pike Political and investigations correspondent Watch: Palestine Action member speaks to BBC News A Palestine Action member has told the BBC it is “absurd” the government plans to proscribe the group, which would effectively brand it as a terrorist organisation. Saeed Taji Farouky said it “rips apart the very basic concepts of British democracy...
Jonathan Morris BBC News South West BBC The decision means the flats at Brewery Quay in Island Street are for sale only to people who live in Salcombe People living in a seaside town have welcomed the rejection of a developer’s bid to allow four new luxury flats being sold as second homes. A planning...
President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok’s sale in the US for a further 90 days. The video-sharing app has faced questions over its future after the US passed a law last year requiring the app to be banned unless sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Lawmakers said it posed a risk...
Nick Thorpe BBC Budapest correspondent Getty Images The government has had Budapest’s Pride march in its sights for some time Police have banned Hungary’s annual Budapest Pride march later this month, prompting a defiant response from liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony. “Budapest city hall will organise the Budapest Pride march as a local event on 28...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Tennessee law that bans physicians from providing gender-affirming care to transgender children, a decision that will likely reverberate across the more than two dozen states that have...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images Pornography depicting strangulation and suffocation could be criminalised under changes to be introduced by the government. Speaking in the House of Commons, Dame Diana Johnson told MPs: “We know that the increasing prevalence of this kind of content… is fuelling violent sexual encounters.” She said the government would aim...
In December the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on Gender Affirming Care for minors. The media consensus at the time was that the liberals were in lockstep but the conservatives seemed unlikely to overrule the state’s ban. Today, the Supreme Court released a 6-3 decision in the case written...
Rules that effectively banned all sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma are being lifted in Australia. The rules, originally introduced to decrease the risk of blood donations from groups with a higher chance of HIV exposure, will begin being revoked from next month, following similar moves in the UK and...
TikTok will live on for at least another three months in the United States, as President Donald Trump is poised to extend a sale or ban deadline for the third time since taking office this year. “President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House Press...
Mayor of London The mayor’s plan involves the diversion of 16 bus routes that use Oxford Street Plans to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street will move forward “as quickly as possible”, the mayor of London has said. City Hall claims two thirds of people support the principle of banning traffic on one of the world’s...
A water firm has advised its customers to have shorter showers and let their lawns go brown after England experienced the driest spring since 1893. Southern Water serves about 2.6 million customers across the south of England, including in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. It said a prolonged dry spell has impacted the local...
George King BBC News, Suffolk Shannon Eustace/BBC Residents have complained that some motorhomes and campervans park on the road for months at a time Motorhome owners have called for tolerance after a council ruled they would no longer be permitted to park on a seafront promenade. They had been allowed unlimited free parking on Undercliff...