Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter Wheatcroft Collection Kevin Wheatcroft wants to create a new home for historic maritime vessels in Appledore A multi-millionaire with one of the biggest collections in the world of World War Two memorabilia wants to build a new home in Devon for historic vessels. Kevin Wheatcroft said he wanted to...
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor AFP File pic of France’s Emmanuel Macron with Algeria’s president Abdelmajid Tabboune from 2022 France has recalled its ambassador to Algeria and ordered 12 Algerian diplomats to leave Paris as a diplomatic row escalated. Algeria earlier this week expelled 12 French officials after one of its consular staff was arrested...
Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Getty Images The tussle between Starlink boss Elon Musk and South Africa over the company’s failure to launch in the country stems from the nation’s black empowerment laws, and could be one factor behind the diplomatic row between the US and Africa’s most industrialised nation. To his more than 219...
Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon Technology reporters Getty Images A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret. The Home Office wants the right to be...
Watch: “Countries should be able to control their borders” – Badenoch on MPs denied entry to Israel Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has been criticised by senior politicians across the political spectrum after she backed Israel’s decision to deny two UK Labour MPs entry to the country. Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang say were on a...
Caroline Lowbridge BBC News Hannah Robinson Hannah Robinson was asked to pay £11,390 despite her paying for parking A car park operator that demanded £11,390 in parking charges from a driver has lost a court case and been ordered to pay thousands in costs. Excel Parking, which has been criticised for charging drivers £100 if...
Fenerbahce have accused Galatasaray boss Okan Buruk of acting “as if he had been shot” after a confrontation with their manager Jose Mourinho on Wednesday night. In a strongly-worded statement, Fenerbahce accused Buruk of having the “audacity to make disrespectful hand gestures” to provoke Mourinho, who then “briefly touched his nose” in response. The Turkish...
The Charity Commission is to examine the bitter dispute that led to the Duke of Sussex and several others resigning from the charity he co-founded. The watchdog announced it had begun a “regulatory compliance case” involving Sentebale, following concerns raised by its head Sophie Chandauka. Ms Chandauka told the BBC she welcomed the move by...
BBC Lisa Cabot’s levels of one forever chemical are 16 times higher than normal Residents who were exposed to “forever chemicals” in Jersey should be offered treatments such as bloodletting to reduce levels of contamination in their bodies, doctors and scientists have advised the island’s government. Private borehole water supplies on the island were contaminated...
Several of Monday’s front pages cover the fallout from the resignation of the Duke of Sussex from Sentebale, the charity he co-founded in honour of his late mother. The organisation’s chair, Dr Sophie Chandauka, said Harry had “wrecked” a fundraising event by announcing he would bring a Netflix TV crew with him, the Mirror reports....
The government will introduce legislation to Parliament this week to override independent guidance on how offenders from ethnic minorities should be sentenced. It comes after the Sentencing Council refused a request from Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to reconsider its new instructions for judges. The guidelines, which come into effect on Tuesday, say judges should commission...
The government has threatened to override the body advising judges in England and Wales in a row over how ethnic minority offenders should be sentenced, days before new rules are set to take effect. It comes after the Sentencing Council refused a request from Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood for it to rethink new instructions for...
NatWest and Nigel Farage have settled the dispute over the closure of one of his bank accounts. The agreed settlement comes almost two years after the Reform UK leader had his account with Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy which is owned by NatWest Group, closed. The closure led to a public row...
Branwen Jeffreys Education Editor Getty Images The University of Sussex has been fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), for failing to uphold freedom of speech. It follows the case of Prof Kathleen Stock, who left the university in 2021 after being accused of transphobia for her views on sex...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under further scrutiny regarding its handling of Universal Credit overpayments after a coalition of over 30 organisations, spearheaded by the Public Law Project, sent a letter warning of a “scandal in the making.” The alarming communication has emerged in light of significant overpayment issues that have...