Ian Youngs Culture reporter Disney Lilo and Stitch stars eight-year-old Maia Kealoha and a computer-generated cuddly runaway alien Disney’s live-action Lilo and Stitch remake and Tom Cruise’s supposedly final Mission: Impossible outing have opened as two of the biggest films of the year in a record-breaking weekend at the box office. Lilo and Stitch, which...
Peter Mwai, Matt Murphy, Jake Horton & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC Donald Trump confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa during a tense exchange in the White House on Wednesday, with a series of contested claims about the killings of white farmers in South Africa. The meeting – at first warm and light-hearted – quickly changed tone...
Reuters Joe Biden’s announcement that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer has revived questions about what health issues the former US president was dealing with while he was in the White House. In a statement on Sunday, Biden’s office said the 82 year old had received the diagnosis on Friday after seeing a doctor...
Former US president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, a statement from his office said on Sunday. Biden, 82, was diagnosed on Friday after he saw a doctor last week for urinary symptoms. The cancer is characterised by a Gleason score of 9 with metastasis to the bone, his office said, meaning it...
Accommodation for asylum seekers will cost the taxpayer triple the amount the Home Office first claimed, according to new figures. Contracts signed by the Conservative government in 2019 were expected to see £4.5bn of public cash paid to three companies over a 10-year period. But a report by spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO)...
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Marvel and Disney’s newest release Thunderbolts* has proved a hit at the box office, after taking an estimated $162m (£122m) internationally. The film, which both production houses hope will kickstart a new franchise, is based around lesser-known superheroes who have to take on human and superhuman threats whilst fighting their own personal battles. It stars...
A van has collided with a post office in Modbury. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to the scene at 07:45 GMT, where damage was caused to the windows and structure of the Broad Street premises. The van was unoccupied at the time, having rolled backwards into the property. No-one was injured and...
Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney 9News Peter Dutton has in recent days caused controversy for his comments about ceremonial Aboriginal rites A teenager has been charged after Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton’s office was vandalised for the third time during the election campaign. The Liberal Party leader’s office in Arana Hills, Brisbane was splattered in...
Nalini Sivathasan and Tom Beal BBC News Investigations BBC/The Postal Museum/Getty Images The Post Office has paid more than £600m of public money to continue using the faulty Horizon IT system despite deciding to ditch it more than a decade ago, the BBC can reveal. The terms of the original 1999 deal with computer giant...
Civil servants in Devon and Cornwall have taken to picket lines as they strike over the planned closure of offices. Staff from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) are taking part in a strike opposing new attendance policies, recruitment strategies and the closure of six offices across the UK, including those in...
Initially, I intended to include Rainn Wilson’s zinger in my earlier post regarding the debate on CNN. However, this really does warrant a separate look at yet another defense of the mainstream media, and accusations that outsiders are responsible for its credibility collapse. This time, the excuses come from MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, who claims...
Heavy rain forecast across Devon and Cornwall has led to a 19-hour weather warning being issued. The Met Office said the warning would be in place from 14:00 BST on Friday until 09:00 on Saturday as a “prolonged spell of rain” moved across the two counties. It said up to 75mm (2.95 inches) of rain...
EY is being investigated over its audits of the Post Office in relation to the Horizon scandal from March 2015 to March 2018. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK’s accounting regulator, said it will check whether EY met its standards “with particular reference to matters related to the Horizon IT system”. The software developed...
The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal has had her offer of compensation increased but she said “it’s still not good enough”. Betty Brown, 92, was originally offered less than a third of what she had claimed for, but she has now received a new offer of 60%. However the former sub-postmistress...