Alex Pope BBC News, Bedfordshire Lloyd McDonagh The Lost Lionesses is being performed in Bedford after a successful run in London A theatrical production about the rebellious, unofficial England side that competed in the 1971 Women’s World Cup was “coming home”, its playwright said. Nicole Lockwood-West was inspired to write The Lost Lionesses by her...
Getty Images Shapiro, a contender for vice-president during Kamala Harris’s 2024 White House run, held a news conference in front of the damaged home A 38-year-old man has been arrested and is due to be charged following an alleged arson attack on the official residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, authorities have said. Cody Balmer...
A new statue of crime writer Agatha Christie has been unveiled in her home town of Torquay. The statue, by local artist Elisabeth Hadley, will be the focal point of the Devon seaside town’s new £4m harbourside plaza. It depicts the author, who was born in Torquay in 1890, and her favourite dog, Peter. The...
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Crews have been battling wildfires across Wales, with one councillor saying firefighters are “on their knees”. A couple who watched in fear as a wildfire raced down a mountainside towards their home have said they worry the threat could get worse with climate change. Fire crews prevented the flames from reaching Alison and Ian Jones’...
A police detective who pretended to work from home and spent hours browsing online shopping sites while on duty has been fired. Det Con Philippa Baskwill weighed down her keyboard so her computer would not go into standby mode, giving the impression she was working when she was not. The Avon and Somerset Police officer...
Raphinha slides in from a yard out to tap Barcelona in to a 1-0 lead over Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Estadi OlÃmpic LluÃs Companys. MATCH REPORT: Barcelona x-x Borussia Dortmund Available to UK users only. Read full article at source...
Twenty people have been killed in a fire at a nursing home in north-east China, state media report. The blaze in Chengde city, Hebei province, broke out on Tuesday night local time and was extinguished in about two hours. Nineteen people survived the fire and were taken to hospital for observation, reports say. Authorities are...
BBC Martha, pictured with two of her three children, says her life has been transformed after she changed her job to work from home Martha was struggling to sleep, losing her hair, having palpitations, suffering tinnitus and was eventually hospitalised for deep vein thrombosis. She would come home from her job, as her daughter Amelie...
PA Media Manston short-term centre for cross-Channel migrants Two former prime ministers and three former home secretaries may have to give evidence to an inquiry into serious allegations of chaos and unlawful activity at a centre used to hold cross-Channel migrants. An internal Home Office document reveals that allegations of failures at the Manston holding...
Australia’s opposition leader has ditched an election promise to end work from home options for public servants after a backlash. Peter Dutton on Monday said his Liberal-National Coalition had “made a mistake” and apologised. Australians will vote in an election on 3 May and the coalition had pitched the policy as part of a package...
Broadway Boy is to return home after suffering a heavy fall in the Grand National. The horse, trained in Gloucestershire by Nigel Twiston-Davies, was leading the Aintree showpiece when he came down heavily at Valentine’s Brook on the second circuit. “Thank you for all the lovely messages, more importantly thanks to all the vets at...
Carys Harding says her “reset” social media content inspires others to take on tasks around their homes Like many parents, Carys Harding spends a lot of time cleaning up after her kids. But unlike most, the 27-year-old mum-of-three is watched by thousands online as she scrubs, dusts and declutters her home, as part of a...
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Shutterstock A photo of the Gangetic river dolphin India’s longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands of dolphins. But their survival is under threat. But these aren’t like the ones found in oceans. They don’t leap out of the water in spectacular arcs; surface for long...
The Israeli caller was on the phone talking to the Civil Defense workers. Identifying himself as from the Israeli army, he informed the workers that Israel would bomb the Dar al-Arqam school in Gaza City’s eastern Tuffah neighborhood a second time. The first time had already taken place an hour before the call. The bombing...