The National Lottery Jon Waring and his wife Lucy from Paignton won the jackpot A couple who won a £3.97m Lotto jackpot say they are planning to “slow down” and “enjoy life” at a more relaxed pace. Jon Waring, 57, and his wife Lucy, 48, from Paignton, in Devon, said they could not believe they...
Pope Francis refused to heed advice to slow down in his final few years, preferring to “die with his boots on”, according to a close aide. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister since 2014, said the Pope was driven to carry on because he knew he had...
“Ring of steel” is how the Sunday Mirror characterises an emergency law passed on Saturday giving the UK government control of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, and saving it from closure. The move, which appears on several front pages is branded “history-making” by the paper. In other news, Queen Camilla says King Charles III will not...
Philippa Roxby Health reporter Getty Images A new type of drug for one of the most common kinds of advanced breast cancer is now available on the NHS in England. Some 3,000 women a year could benefit from capivasertib after a clinical trial showed it can slow progression of the disease, and shrink tumours in...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Lauren Harris When Rachel Chinouriri played London’s O2 Arena last month, she cried. The new wave indie songwriter was there as the support act for Sabrina Carpenter, just a week after her first Brit Awards, where she was nominated for artist of the year. Seven years after her debut single, those...
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer watched in his flat. Chancellor Rachel Reeves saw it in her study. The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, accompanied by staff and pizza, took in President Donald Trump’s big tariffs reveal on Wednesday from his office in Old Admiralty Arch, from where the...
After three days of talks in Saudi Arabia, at last some progress. Two separate texts outlining agreements between the US and Russia, and the US and Ukraine. There were some differences but much was the same. All sides agreed to “to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial...
And no matter how hard the golf media tried, the commissioner flat-batted every enquiry as to how that might be achieved. Monahan does not play verbal ‘Bazball’; every non-answer dictated by the delicate nature of golf’s future. Where he was more forthcoming, was an acceptance – at long last – that men’s professional golf has...
But the final group of McIlroy, Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka were regularly held up by the group in front, with Tom Kim particularly culpable. The young Korean – regarded as one of the game’s exciting prospects – took so long over so many shots, including his second to the sixth which he sprayed into...