Rob Sissons Health correspondent, BBC East Midlands BBC Jayne Bond and Sandra Brewster answer the phones during the rush for a same-day GP appointment Anyone who has ever tried to get a GP appointment in England will be familiar with the “8am scramble“, as you phone your local surgery desperately hoping to get through. Many...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Shakira Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour has taken more than $150m in ticket sales Deep in the bowels of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, a note is taped to the door of Shakira’s production office. “Please come back later… unless you’re actually on fire.” The handwritten pink scrawl suggests a...
Aleem Maqbool Religion editor BBC The Vatican’s Santa Marta guesthouse has 128 rooms. From 7 May, it will be filled with cardinals participating in the conclave to elect the next Pope. But one room in the guesthouse is still sealed with a red ribbon, as it has been since its occupant died there on Easter...
Yesterday Harvard sued the Trump administration and accepted applause from the left for leading the resistance to the administration’s demands of universities around the country. But it turns out that both sides of this argument have, at various times, been hoping for a compromise which would avoid an all-out confrontation. Initially it was Harvard that...