BBC Rachel Muller-Heyndyk BBC News Food businesses must make it easier for customers to buy healthy food, under new government plans announced on Sunday. Supermarkets and food manufacturers in England will partner with the government to tackle obesity rates by encouraging people to make their weekly shop healthier. Ministers say it will be up to...
The start date for a £21m coastal defence scheme has been pushed back to 2027 due to “various delays”, a council has said. East Devon District Council said the project would help protect Sidmouth town and seafront from flooding and erosion for the next 100 years. The project was originally due to begin this year...
Sir Mel Stride is pushed to say sorry for Liz Truss’s mini-budget by the BBC’s Nick Robinson. In a speech last week, Stride disowned Truss’s £45bn package of tax cuts, which spooked financial markets and led to the former Tory PM’s resignation in 2022. Listen to the full episode here. Read full article at source...
A man has admitted killing his wife as she pushed their baby in a pram through Bradford, but denied her murder. Habibur Masum, 26, stabbed 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter as she walked through the Westgate area of the city on 6 April last year. The baby was unharmed. Appearing at Bradford Crown Court, Masum, of Leamington...
Arunoday Mukharji BBC News Pritam Roy/BBC Shona Banu was allegedly picked up by the police last month and sent to Bangladesh; she was sent back to India four days later Shona Banu still shudders when she thinks of the past few days. The 58-year-old, a resident of Barpeta district in India’s north-eastern state of Assam,...
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group, which has been engaged in a two-year war with Sudan’s army, has been entirely pushed out of Khartoum state, says the military. “Khartoum State is completely free of rebels”, the army said in a statement published by Sudan’s News Agency. The announcement comes nearly two months after the...
Musk spent millions to meddle in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court election — which his candidate lost by double digits. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering pushing “shadow president” Elon Musk out of his administration after the billionaire spent $25 million to elect a Republican to the Wisconsin state Supreme Court — and lost badly....