Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Doechii is the stage name of Florida-born rapper and musician Jaylah Ji’mya Hickmon In 2023, Doechii announced she was three years into her five-year plan for becoming one of the biggest names in music. “By year five I want to be at my peak,” she told Billboard magazine. “I...
BBC About a quarter of the working age population – those aged 16 to 64 – do not currently have a job. Caring responsibilities and ill health are the most common reasons given by those who would like one. With a four-year mandate and a towering majority, Labour might have been expected to have invested...
Devon & Torbay Combined County Authority has privately produced a Local Growth Plan that is intended to guide regional development for the next decade before holding a brief public consultation on its contents with the minimum-possible publicity. It says the plan has been “shaped by extensive engagement with stakeholders across the region” but when asked...
Merlyn Thomas, Kevin Nguyen & Kayleen Devlin BBC Verify BBC A month after the start of a controversial US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution system in Gaza, BBC Verify analysis of dozens of videos shows repeated incidents of gunfire near people travelling to collect aid, as well as other moments of chaos and panic. In several...
“Operation Midnight Hammer was the culmination of those 15 years of incredible work,” General Dan ‘Razin’ Caine told reporters this morning in a briefing on the strikes in Iran. The Pentagon developed the GBU-57 bunker-buster in part for this mission, modeled its effects ‘extensively,’ and applied it directly on target. Gen. Cain made sure everyone...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC Exeter City Council will consider plans to increase car parking charges across the city Car park charges could go up by about 7% in Exeter with the price of a two-hour ticket in the city centre hitting nearly £5. Exeter City Council is considering putting up the cost...
Lowering energy costs for thousands of businesses by scrapping green levies will form a central part of the government’s new 10-year industrial strategy. The plan, which may slash energy bills by up to 25% for more than 7,000 UK businesses, is set to be unveiled on Monday alongside other measures hoped to boost growth. Prime...
Joe Pike Political and investigations correspondent Watch: Palestine Action member speaks to BBC News A Palestine Action member has told the BBC it is “absurd” the government plans to proscribe the group, which would effectively brand it as a terrorist organisation. Saeed Taji Farouky said it “rips apart the very basic concepts of British democracy...
The National Lottery Jon Waring and his wife Lucy from Paignton won the jackpot A couple who won a £3.97m Lotto jackpot say they are planning to “slow down” and “enjoy life” at a more relaxed pace. Jon Waring, 57, and his wife Lucy, 48, from Paignton, in Devon, said they could not believe they...
Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country, the BBC’s US partner CBS reports. The US president held off on initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS. Trump is reportedly considering a...
Ben Woolvin Home Affairs Correspondent BBC John Martin says volunteer community first responders were now able to provide at least as much if not more cover than fire co-responders The chief executive of South Western Ambulance Service has defended the decision to end the use of medically-trained firefighters to respond to emergency calls. John Martin...
Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images Activists unfurled various anti-Bezos banners around Venice Activists in Venice have launched a series of protests against Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, who is due to marry fiancée Lauren Sánchez next week in a lavish, multi-million dollar ceremony that could shut parts of the famous city down. Jeff Bezos, 61, is the world’s...
Budget chain Poundland has said it will be closing 68 stores as part of a turnaround plan to revive its fortunes. A distribution centre at Darton, South Yorkshire and its national distribution centre at Bilton in the West Midlands have also been earmarked for closure in early 2026. In addition, Poundland is seeking rent reductions...
Plans have been submitted to convert a historic pub in Devon into homes. The Haulfryn Group wants to develop The Blagdon Inn, a 15th Century former pub located within the Devon Hills holiday park in Torquay, into apartments. The planning application stated the pub and restaurant had lost £250,000 in 2023 and the same again...
PA Media Prince William wrote the foreword to the Landscape Vision project The Prince of Wales has said restoring nature and tackling global warming are key to keeping Dartmoor special. Prince William, the Duke of Cornwall, said a 20-year plan for the duchy’s Dartmoor estate aimed to restore peatlands, upland habitats and promote sustainable farming....