A fire at a nearby electrical substation that caused a power outage at Heathrow Airport was “most likely” caused by moisture entering an electrical component, a review has found. The National Energy System Operator (NESO) was ordered by the energy secretary to look in to the cause of the fire, which started late on 20...
Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC What exactly happened to Flight AI171 between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick on Thursday afternoon will only be revealed by a detailed investigation, but the moments after take-off can be the most challenging in aviation. Indian investigators will be joined by experts from the US and UK in...
Getty Images The UK is one of few countries in Europe where vehicles drive on the left The number of crashes caused by visitors to Scotland driving on the wrong side of the road has increased by 46% in a year. Figures released by Transport Scotland showed there were 35 collisions caused by “inexperience of...
Northern Ireland manager Tanya Oxtoby admits her side “caused problems for ourselves” in Friday’s 4-0 defeat by Poland in the Nations League. Barcelona striker Ewa Pajor scored twice in the opening 10 minutes as Poland secured an immediate return to League A. Pajor then provided assists for Paulina Tomasiak and Adriana Achcinska, which means Northern...
Bea Swallow BBC News, Bristol Getty Images The 46-year-old actor was found unresponsive at his home in Bristol Actor and reality TV star Paul Danan’s death was by misadventure, after he took a cocktail of drugs including cocaine and heroin, a coroner has ruled. The 46-year-old was pronounced dead at 17:20 GMT on 15 January...
Ewan Gawne & Laura O’Neill BBC News, Manchester GMP Rawal Rehman’s van struck the girl after he crashed into a tram A van driver who took at least 20 lines of cocaine before crashing into a tram, then hitting and killing a three-year-old girl with his vehicle, has been jailed. Louisa Palmisano, from Burnley –...
During the COVID pandemic, public health officials were obsessed with presenting a united front and a grossly oversimplified message regarding anything pandemic-related. Is masking up a good or bad idea? There was little to no data that it was a good idea, but once the idea was pushed out there, everybody fell in line. That...
At least 62 soldiers were injured amid the pier operation, with one later dying to his injuries. President Joe Biden’s military pier installed for a short time off the coast of Gaza last year lacked basic planning and was far more dangerous to U.S. soldiers than previously known, a new report finds. The Department of...
Reuters Data revealed the 60,415-strong crowd generated seismic activity after each goal Liverpool fans celebrating the club’s historic title-clinching win over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield caused a series of tremors, university scientists have revealed. Arne Slot’s side secured the club’s 20th top-flight championship defeating Tottenham 5-1 in front of a packed Anfield stadium on 27...
Study authors seek to attribute climate damages to individual corporate polluters in order to hold them accountable. The world’s top corporations have caused $28 trillion in damages related to the climate crisis, a new study seeking to help attribute climate costs to individual polluters finds. In a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature last week, Dartmouth...
An “unsecured” penguin was the cause of a helicopter crash in South Africa, a report into the incident has found. The crash, on 19 January on Bird Island off the Eastern Cape, happened after the bird, which had been placed in a cardboard box and on the lap of a passenger, slid off and knocked...
BBC Sport’s Stephen Warnock analyses how Arsenal’s midfield overloaded Real Madrid and helped them win 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final READ MORE: Unstoppable? Wall to blame? Keeper at fault? Rice’s free-kicks analysed. WATCH UEFA Champions League on BBC iPlayer. Available to UK users only. Read full article at source...
A sinkhole, thought to be caused by a collapsed mineshaft, has appeared close to a coastal footpath near Thurlestone in South Devon. South West Water (SWW) engineers and Highways experts were at the site of the sinkhole by Leasfoot Beach on Tuesday. The water company said the 12ft (3.6m) wide and 30ft (9m) deep hole...
South Sudan has criticised the revoking of US visas for all its nationals, saying it was based on an incident involving a citizen of a different African country. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the visa ban on Saturday, citing South Sudan’s refusal to accept the return of its citizens being removed from the...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices similar to those that led...