The NHS has started a programme aimed at screening about 45,000 people in south Devon for lung cancer. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust will offer lung cancer screening to people aged between 55 and 74 who have ever smoked and are registered with a participating GP in the area. Himali O’Regan, clinical lead...
‘Like no other’? A few media outlets have made that argument today, but it’s actually much more of a conclave like most of the others. The true anomaly came in 2013 when the conclave took place under the nominal guidance of a living pope, after Benedict XVI unexpectedly took the first papal retirement in 600...
The aim is to find someone who can act in a support role to Petchey, who has significant broadcast commitments throughout the year. “I just need to work on who that person is,” Raducanu added. Petchey will be able to devote more time to Raducanu during the grass-court season, and the work they have been...
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...
Anna Holligan BBC News, Hague correspondent EFE Dozens of countries are expected to give evidence across five days of hearings The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on Israel’s legal duty to allow aid to Palestinians and to co-operate with the UN’s Palestinian aid agency, Unrwa...
Somerset’s inaugural women’s team want to “pave the way” for the next generation ahead of the opening game of their first season, says bowler Laura Jackson. The club are one of eight counties awarded Tier 1 status following a major revamp of the women’s domestic game for this year. Somerset open their campaign on Wednesday...
Harriet Heywood BBC News, Cambridgeshire Supplied John Mansfield was jailed for a minimum of 30 years after admitting to murder in 2007 A serving prisoner has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a convicted killer was found dead at a high-security prison. The body of John Mansfield was found at HMP Whitemoor, near March...
A ferry service is to have one of its three vessels taken out of operation for up to eight weeks for maintenance. Lynher has been moved into a dry dock in Falmouth to enable work to begin on its refit. The spokesperson said: “We will be working closely with A&P Falmouth to manage the refit...
Jake Wallace The building on Cathedral Green which dates back to 1769 was destroyed by fire in October 2016. Developer Nooko, plans to build a combination of residential and commercial units, that honour the building’s “elegance and cultural heritage”, on the site. Company director Max Sayers said the project was about returning “a piece of...
President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18-30, Russia’s highest number of conscripts since 2011, as the country moves to expand the size of its military. The spring call-up for a year’s military service came several months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million...
The government’s policy of adding VAT to private school fees will “interfere with the fundamental right to education”, the High Court has heard. In front of a packed court room, with headteachers and students in school uniforms listening from the public gallery, Lord David Pannick KC, argued the policy is discriminatory. The legal challenge is...