Jenny Coleman BBC News, Liverpool BBC Minah Shannon will co-host BBC Radio 1’s Friday Early Breakfast with Nat O’Leary in May The Traitors star Minah Shannon is joining BBC Radio 1 as a presenter. The Liverpool-based reality TV personality will co-host Friday Early Breakfast with Nat O’Leary throughout May. Minah said she hoped to “brighten...
BBC Scotland will provide live coverage of Falkirk v Hamilton Academical and Livingston v Partick Thistle on Friday as the Scottish Championship title race goes to the final day of fixtures. Falkirk and Livingston are locked on 70 points in the bid to win automatic promotion to the top flight. However, Falkirk have a healthy...
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Elections are taking place in 23 councils on Thursday, alongside six mayoral races. Voters in the Runcorn and Helsby constituency will also elect their new MP. BBC News is on hand to keep you up-to-date with the latest developments across all platforms. Follow all the latest election developments on the BBC News website and app....
Julian O’Neill & Chris Page BBC News NI PA Media Gerry Adams, pictured on Wednesday, appeared during the second day of his libel case against the BBC Gerry Adams has described a BBC TV programme on the murder of an informer as an “attempted hatchet job” on him. The former Sinn Féin president was giving...
Both Scottish Cup finals will be shown live on BBC One Scotland, with the meeting between Aberdeen and Celtic in the men’s showpiece kicking off at 15:00 BST on Saturday 24 May. Brendan Rodgers’ side will go for a sixth domestic treble in nine seasons against Jimmy Thelin’s Aberdeen, who have not lifted the Scottish...
While expanding the Premiership now seems to be off the SPFL agenda, Dundee youth team manager Scott Robertson believes a larger top division would be beneficial to developing young Scottish players. “I love the debate that was on regarding the structure and the expansion of the league to almost take away the worry of playing...
Julian O’Neill and Chris Page BBC News NI Getty Images Gerry Adams alleges the BBC defamed him by falsely claiming he sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson Gerry Adams’ reputation as a peacemaker suffered “an unjustified attack” by the BBC, which wrongly alleged he sanctioned the murder of informer Denis Donaldson in 2006, the High...
Leading human rights organisations have renewed calls for investigations into the killing of protesters by Kenya’s security forces during demonstrations against a rise in taxes last June. It follows a BBC Africa Eye investigation, exposing members of the security forces who shot dead three protesters at Kenya’s parliament, igniting public outrage and demands for justice....
Ian Youngs Culture reporter BBC The review was commissioned in the wake of allegations against Huw Edwards A small number of BBC stars and managers “behave unacceptably” at work, and bosses often fail to tackle them, a report into the broadcaster has found. The review, commissioned by the BBC in the wake of the Huw...
Bertram Hill & Tamasin Ford BBC Africa Eye BBC The members of Kenya’s security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country’s parliament last June have been identified by the BBC. The BBC’s analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not posing a threat. The East...
Quentin Sommerville BBC News BBC/Lee Durant The husband of Mala, 31, pictured here with her four-year-old son, was killed in a military artillery strike during the ceasefire Days after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar at the end of March, killing at least 3,700 people, the country’s ruling junta agreed to a halt in its devastating...
The culture secretary has said the BBC’s licence fee is “unenforceable” and insisted “no options are off the table” when the government begins a review into the corporation’s current funding model later this year. In an interview with the Telegraph, Lisa Nandy said there were “problems” with the annual charge, with “fewer and fewer people”...
Pope Francis refused to heed advice to slow down in his final few years, preferring to “die with his boots on”, according to a close aide. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister since 2014, said the Pope was driven to carry on because he knew he had...
The BBC has started a search to find a new football expert, with 12 content creators competing in Last Pundit Standing for a role as a BBC Sport contributor. The TV series will run on the BBC iPlayer and BBC Three. Last Pundit Standing will be co-hosted by former Watford captain Troy Deeney and YouTuber...