Kirby is a generational talent who has played a major role in the growth of women’s football in England, as well as the success of the national team. She became the first player from the WSL 2 to be called up to England’s senior squad in 2014 and impressed at the World Cup a year...
Simon Browning, Nick Marsh, and Faarea Masud BBC News Sam Williamson Train passengers are suffering unfair penalties for minor and often genuine mistakes in buying tickets, an inquiry has found. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said Britain’s fare system was “complex” and that rail firms must stop taking “disproportionate action” against travellers. Sam...
A 27-year-old motorcyclist has been arrested for failing to stop for police after breaching a road closure and alleged weapon and drugs offences. Devon and Cornwall Police said the man from Cornwall drove along a road near Vue Cinema that had been closed during the English Riviera Airshow at Paignton on Saturday. The force said:...
Meghan Owen Work & Money Correspondent, BBC London BBC Shanice Aird, 29, will soon be homeless after rejecting a flat an hour away from her children’s school “I spent all of half-term looking for somewhere to live,” says mother-of-three Shanice Aird. The 29-year-old from west London rejected her council’s most recent temporary accommodation offer “an...
Jamie Russell BBC Scotland News BBC Gayanne Potter claims recordings of her voice were used unknowingly to train an artificial Scottish speaker called Iona A woman who believes her voice has been used to create ScotRail’s new AI-generated announcement system is calling for it to be removed from trains. ScotRail recently introduced a synthetic Scottish...
“The season really hinges on what happens next week in the Scottish Cup final,” said Sportscene pundit and former Scotland player Michael Stewart when reviewing Aberdeen’s final league game of the season at Dundee United and their campaign in general. A few days prior, former Pittodrie and Celtic Park defender Charlie Mulgrew, commenting after Aberdeen’s...
Man, these guys passed ‘goofy’ and ‘outrageous’ a long time ago, and went straight into demented, desperate lunatic ravings. I guess when you’re a colorless, inner-fireless, charisma-free party apparatchik like Chuck Schumer, having to fight for your very existence for the first time in your political life against an on-coming swarm of out-of-control, flamboyant, drop-mic-moment...
What it means for everyone else is a scary prospect – this is just the start of Chelsea under Bompastor. It’s a new era, there are new ambitions and there is new investment at Chelsea. Having smashed the world record transfer fee to sign USA defender Naomi Girma in January, she is likely to become...
During Uefa competitions this season, the signal used to indicate the use of ‘only the captain’ guidelines is one arm extended, showing the flat of the hand. “This signal may be adopted by other competitions, but currently there is no mandatory signal at the highest levels of the game, as different countries may have varying...
Nikhil Inamdar, BBC News, London & Archana Shukla, BBC News, Mumbai BBC Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $1bn (£756m) bailout to Pakistan – a move that drew sharp disapproval from India as military hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbours flared, before a...
Developers have been ordered to stop work at a site in Devon where 1,200 homes are set to be built. Teignbridge District Council issued a temporary stop notice to Vistry Homes relating to the development at Wolborough, on the edge of Newton Abbot. Residents said they were concerned that groundworks being carried out at the...
May Day 2025 in the United States came amid the most aggressive assault on U.S. workers in a century. The federal agencies that provide some minimal protection against corporate power — the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and many more — are being systematically destroyed. On May 1, hundreds of...
The government will make it a crime to climb on Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, it will be announced today. Offenders could face up to three months in prison and a £1,000 fine for desecrating the monument to Britain’s wartime leader. The Churchill statue is not officially classified as one of the UK’s war...
Rachel Stonehouse BBC West Investigations Emma Hallett BBC West Investigations Megan, not her real name and with her back to the camera, has been working with the police to help identify children at risk and prosecute criminals WARNING: This article contains details of a sexual nature and child sex abuse. If you have been affected...
Better late than never? When Tennessee state police pulled over Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a car owned by a convicted human trafficker, carrying eight people without identification, the FBI and ICE couldn’t be bothered to even ask the troopers to detain the group. The police knew Abrego Garcia was trafficking the group from Missouri to...