Sean Dilley BBC News correspondent BBC As a guide dog handler of 26 years, my heart falls every time I hear the fatigued pants of dogs in heatwave weather. Animal welfare charity the RSPCA says that dogs are 10 times more likely to suffer heat-related illnesses from exercising in hot weather than from overheating in...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Matty Healy proved to be an effective frontman, even if his wilder instincts had been tamed The 1975 emerged from hibernation to headline Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Friday, playing their only date of the year, and their first since March 2024. If they were rusty, it didn’t show. The...
While Jaiswal bounded around Headingley in celebrating three figures, India’s second century was met with a roaring release of emotion. Shubman Gill, the player of the tournament at the Under-19 World Cup and an IPL debutant at 18, has been groomed for this role since he was a teen. As he timed Josh Tongue through...
Eleven people have died in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, including a 21-year-old gunman who took his own life. It is is the deadliest gun attack in the country’s recent history. The BBC’s Bethany Bell visited where incident took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city. Read...
James Ingham and Nathan Briant BBC News BBC Amber will eventually be rehomed after her time with Jess Wadsworth’s family ends A dog that went missing for 36 days is thought to have covered about 100 miles (161km) – including swimming to an island before being rescued on her return. Amber was being cared for...
Late-night party goers and night-owls in Exeter will now be able to take advantage of new trial night buses home. The services running out of Exeter are being launched by Stagecoach South West starting on Saturday 31 May. They are part of nine new Nightbus services across Exeter, Torbay, Plymouth and North Devon, thanks to...
Back in April, David told you the truly sad tale of one young British mother who’d become a victim of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ‘Two Tier’ government. Distraught watching the riots unfold in the aftermath of the brutal slaughter in Southport of three young girls by a crazed, knife-wielding second-generation immigrant Rwandan teenager named Axel Rudukabana,...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation How many Palestinian children, in the midst of displacement, have looked up at their fathers and asked, “Are we going somewhere safe?” — believing that safety means being with the people they love. They do not realize that safety may be an illusion. Among...
Theo Leggett International business correspondent BBC Listen to Theo read this article “What you have there is about £250,000 worth of gold,” Emma Siebenborn says as she shows me a faded plastic tub filled with old, shabby jewellery – rings, charm bracelets, necklaces and orphaned earrings. Emma is the strategies director of Hatton Garden Metals,...
RNLI/Nathan Williams The RNLI said its lifeguards will start beach patrols on Saturday Water safety experts across the south west of England and the Channel Islands are advising swimmers and surfers to be safe in the water this May bank holiday weekend. The Surf Life Saving GB (SLSGB) said its volunteers had already had a...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent BBC Yungblud says he struggled with poor body-image and eating disorders before taking up boxing two years ago The Netherlands, March 2025. Yungblud is leaving his hotel in Amsterdam when he’s approached by a fan in floods of tears. “You saved my life,” she sobs. “No, you saved your own life,”...
Miron Muslic says Plymouth Argyle would not be facing relegation if he had been head coach since the start of the season. The Bosnian-born Austrian took over in January after former England captain Wayne Rooney’s spell with the Pilgrims ended. The former Cercle Bruges boss has won eight and drawn five of his 22 games...
The European Union has identified seven countries it considers safe countries of origin, as part of proposals to speed up asylum applications, especially from those countries involved. Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked within three months on the assumption that they were likely to fail....
Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire Livia Tossici-Bolt was found guilty of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023 A woman convicted of breaching an abortion clinic protection zone has said she will continue her “fight for free speech”. Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered...
Janine Jansen BBC News, South West Reporting fromDrewsteignton Julia Gregory BBC News, South West BBC Tony Williams is thankful all the residents escaped the fire A man who escaped his burning cottage said it “feels surreal” and he cannot yet believe what happened. Tony Williams was alerted to the fire at three cottages at Drewsteignton,...