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...
BBC Fiona (left) took her case to the police 20 years ago and they were also told of Fee’s case Four women have told a BBC investigation they were sexually assaulted or raped by the same man in the 1980s and 90s. The alleged attacks took place in Dumfries over an 11-year period when the...
Getty Smoke rises from an Israeli attack on Shahran oil depot in Tehran on June 15 Iran and Israel continued to attack each other on Wednesday night, as US President Donald Trump said “I may do it, I may not do it” when asked whether the US would join the conflict. BBC experts and correspondents...
Rahil Sheikh and Jenny Parks BBC Panorama Jade Harrison speaks about her accident at Hull Fair, in 2019 “I could feel myself slip. I just woke up and I was laid on the floor on my back and I remember thinking, what am I doing here? I started panicking.” Jade Harrison is describing the moment...
The track characteristics have the opposite effect on championship leaders McLaren, whose car is the best in the field at managing tyre temperatures. As a consequence, McLaren have been struggling to make it operate at its best in Montreal. Championship leader Oscar Piastri is third on the grid behind Russell and Verstappen but his team-mate...
Clarke had warned last month the lack of available goalkeepers was “probably an oversight” by the Scottish FA, but little did he know that his words would become so immediately prophetic. Already unable to call up Craig Gordon, Zander Clark and Liam Kelly, he was shorn of Robby McCrorie when the Kilmarnock man pulled a...
Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) and the Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) are financial regulations intended to make clubs sustainable. FFP is designed to prevent clubs that compete in European competitions from not spending more than they earn, while PSR demands clubs operate within their financial means and avoid excessive losses. Premier League...
For much of the past week, Davide Ancelotti, son of the great Carlo, was seen to be ahead in the race to be the new manager of Rangers. The bookmakers shortened him to odds-on. Word from Spain was that Ancelotti was first choice. On Thursday night, a source closer to the scene in Glasgow supported...
James Waterhouse BBC Ukraine correspondent Europa Press via Getty Images Andriy Portnov’s murder in a Madrid suburb has shocked Ukrainians, but it has not exactly triggered an outpouring of grief. The controversial former official had just dropped his children off at the American School when he was shot several times in the car park. The...
Since the start of the 2020-21 Premier League season, assistant referees have been advised to keep their flag down if they feel there is an immediate scoring opportunity. Once a goal is scored, or the threat of a goalscoring opportunity is over, the official will signal if they believe there was an offside in the...
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...
When a 23-year-old Mexican influencer was shot dead while live streaming on TikTok, rumours began to swirl. Was it a cartel hit? Or another tragic example of violence against women? On Tuesday, Valeria Marquez was shot dead at Blossom The Beauty Lounge, a beauty salon owned by the victim in Zapopan, a town in the...
‘Goal of the Season’ is a long-established Match of the Day feature stretching back more than 50 years to the 1970-71 season. The award has evolved through various TV rights cycles, but is embedded in the history and tradition of MOTD. ‘Goal of the Month’ provides the contenders for the ‘Goal of the Season’ vote,...
At a hearing Wednesday on the status of nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants whom the Trump administration hastily expelled to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, a federal judge told lawyers representing the detainees that there were “a lot of facts in their favor” regarding whether the White House has the authority to return the men...
“You put that club into any sentence or any issue and invariably they all come out and try to diminish it as much as they can. “It’s Spurs mate, they love it. “It’s competition rules. Why wasn’t it an issue before and is it an issue now? What’s the difference? Last year fifth [in the...