Caroline Robinson BBC News, Devon BBC Becci Hey has been installing sanitary bins in the toilets for two years Sanitary bins are to be installed at toilets in a seaside town following a row over a lack of waste disposal facilities. Photographer and artist Becci Hey, 58, has been installing sanitary bins in Hope Cove’s...
Rayhan Demytrie BBC South Caucasus correspondent Getty Images Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces pivotal elections next year A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia’s leader to reveal his private parts to prove he...
Jonathan Morris BBC News South West BBC Becci Hey is in a tug-of-war battle with the council over sanitary bins in public toilets Public toilets at a seaside town in south Devon are at the centre of a row over what campaigners call people’s dignity and hygiene. Becci Hey has been installing sanitary bins in...
The UK is on track to break its record for the hottest day of the year for two days running with temperatures forecast to soar up to 33C on Friday. Hot and dry conditions are expected to continue with the weather on track to reach the low 30s in many areas, but it could surpass...
Armenia’s liberal government has never been an ally of the deeply conservative Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), but when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made extraordinary allegations against an unnamed senior clergyman, it blew open a deep divide. “Your Grace, go fool around with your uncle’s wife. What do you want from me?” said Pashinyan. He also...
After days of uncertainty and negotiations, the funeral arrangements for Zambia’s former president have been finalised. Edgar Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died 11 days ago in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. According to his family, he had left instructions that his political rival and current...
Getty Images WhatsApp has told the BBC it is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy. The messaging app’s boss, Will Cathcart, said the case “could set a dangerous precedent” by “emboldening other nations” to seek to break encryption, which is how tech firms keep...
Jacob Bethell hits Gudakesh Motie for three sixes in a row to help England set West Indies 249 to win the third T20 in Southampton. Read full article at source...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC Colleen Natola uses the Northbrook swimming pool four or five times a week The closure of a Devon swimming pool will be discussed on Tuesday after campaigners handed in a petition opposing the plans with more than 2,000 signatures. People fighting to keep Northbrook swimming pool in Exeter...
Kate Whannel Political reporter PA Media Former Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has called a row over a social media post – in which he said it was “dumb” for one of his MPs to call for a burka ban – a “storm in a teacup”. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Yusuf said...
Rwanda has said it is pulling out of a central African regional bloc after a diplomatic row over its involvement in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country was supposed to take up the chairman role of the Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas), which rotates between its...
Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent NASA/Johns Hopkins The heart-shape on Pluto was captured by a spacecraft that will be turned off mid-mission if Nasa cuts are approved The row between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over a major spending bill has exacerbated uncertainty over the future of Nasa’s budget, which is facing deep cuts. The space...
Mallory Moench & Imran Rahman-Jones BBC News Getty Images Determined to avoid baggage fees for his holiday to Pisa, Benjamin Till trawled several different shops armed with a tape measure in search of the right suitcase. Eventually, he found a case within the dimensions EasyJet allows for a free underseat bag – or so he...
Watch as Aaliyah Alleyne hits five fours in a row off the bowling of Lauren Filer as West Indies set England 106 to win the third One Day International at Taunton. Read full article at source...
Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has called former US swimmer and activist Riley Gaines “sick” over online comments about a transgender woman softball player. Gaines, who has regularly spoken out about transgender women athletes competing in women’s sport, mocked Minnesota State High School League for removing comments on their post about the Chaplin Park girls’...