Federica Bedendo BBC News, North East and Cumbria Lisa O’Neil The O’Neil family went on a Santa themed holiday to Lapland, but most of the activities were cancelled A family have won a six-month fight for a refund on their £3,500 dream holiday to Lapland which was hit by a series of weather-related cancellations. Lisa...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Over 100 days have passed since the Trump administration’s unprecedented removal of more than 230 immigrants to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT. They were removed without any due process in the United States. Democracy...
At a Nato press conference in the Netherlands, President Trump took a question from Myroslava Petsa from the BBC Ukrainian Service. She asked whether the US would be supplying Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine. Trump then asked where she was from and took an interest in her personal situation, asking whether her husband was...
Rachel Grant BBC Scotland News Sothebys International Realty The castle was commissioned by a New Zealand-born adventurer in 1911 Eighty years after a mother walked into a London estate agency and bought a Hebridean island she had never seen in a bid to leave the city, her family is selling their historic home. The Island...
Reuters Liverpool commemorates the deaths of 97 fans due to a crush at Sheffield Wednesday’s ground in 1989 each year A Liverpool MP has said introducing a weakened Hillsborough Law without the requirement for public officials to tell the truth at major inquiries would be a “mistake” and “fall far short of what was promised”....
The family of a woman found fatally stabbed after a gas explosion at her home have described her as a “beautiful daughter, sister, friend and mother”. Annabel Rook, 46, was found fatally injured at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north London, just before 05:00 BST on Tuesday. In a statement issued through the...
I know a lot of you saw this story I had in the headlines last Friday because WOOF. Weren’t the comments enfuego?! For those of you who didn’t, here’s a quick recap, and I guarantee, it’ll frost your shorts. City Gov to Seize 175-Year-Old Farm by Eminent Domain, Replace with Affordable Housing Family fights township...
US President Donald Trump has cut short his trip to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, citing the Middle East conflict. The summit, being hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, includes leaders from France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and the European Union. Trump is not expected...
The family of three Britons who died in the Air India plane crash are calling on the UK government to provide more support in India. Akeel Nanabawa, Hannaa Vorajee and Sara Nanabawa, aged four, were returning home to Gloucester when their plane ploughed into a residential area in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Akeel’s brother, Hamzah, said...
After days of uncertainty and negotiations, the funeral arrangements for Zambia’s former president have been finalised. Edgar Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died 11 days ago in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. According to his family, he had left instructions that his political rival and current...
Yasmin Rufo & Alex Taylor Culture reporter Getty Images Sir David Beckham and wife Lady Victoria with son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz The anointment of Sir David Beckham is a moment of establishment recognition three decades in the making. But as the former footballer was conferred his knighthood on Friday, reports of family...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Masato Hattori An artist’s impression of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly discovered tyrannosaur ancestor Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur – in the collection of a Mongolian museum – that they say “rewrites” the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs. Researchers concluded that two 86 million-year-old skeletons they studied belonged...
A project offering support for foster families has been described as being like an “extended family”. Foster for Plymouth, a service run by the city council, said its mockingbird programme provided families with peer support, social activities and respite care in the form of sleepovers. Foster parent and project leader Lydia Oliver said she had...
Amber Edwards BBC News, South West BBC Marian Wade and Sgt James Gallienne with a compassionate box The family of a Devon man who died in a single-vehicle crash has launched a new initiative for police to compassionately return a loved one’s belongings. Chris Wade, from Sidmouth, died in June 2023 after he suffered a...
Sly Stone, a funk-rock star who lead the group Sly and the Family Stone, has died aged 82, his family said. In a statement on Monday, they said that he died following a “prolonged battle” with COPD and other underlying health issues. “Sly was a monumental figure, a groundbreaking innovator, and a true pioneer who...