Emily Anderson & Tom Oakley BBC News, Nottingham BBC Sharon and Wayne were on their way to work when Valdo Calocane carried out the attacks For Wayne Birkett and Sharon Miller, the morning of 13 June 2023 started like any other. They both, separately, got ready for work and caught buses into Nottingham city centre,...
A letter written by a Titanic passenger days before the ship sank has sold for a record-breaking £300,000 ($400,000) at auction in the UK. Colonel Archibald Gracie’s letter was purchased by an anonymous buyer at Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Wiltshire on Sunday, at a price five times higher than the £60,000 it...
Duncan Kennedy BBC News at Bergen Belsen AFP Tens of thousands of people, most of them Jews, died at Belsen in northern Germany There had been rumours. There had been aerial photographs. There had been the written testimony of a few escapees. But it took liberation for the revelation of the shocking reality of the...
Carol Malia Presenter, BBC Look North (North East & Cumbria) Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Derrick Bird left a trail of devastated families and survivors in his wake Fifteen years ago, taxi driver Derrick Bird killed 12 people in a murderous shooting spree across Cumbria. Many locals still refuse to speak...
Yogita Limaye Mandalay, Myanmar BBC Five men are still stuck under this building, including Nan’s 21-year-old son Warning: This article contains details and images that some readers may find distressing Driving into Mandalay, the massive scale of the destruction from last Friday’s earthquake revealed itself bit by bit. In nearly every street we turned into,...
The BBC’s Burmese Service has been speaking to families and rescuers in Myanmar’s city of Mandalay, close to where a deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday. The death toll from the quake and a series of aftershocks has climbed past 2,700, with 4,521 injured and hundreds still missing, according to Myanmar’s military chief. “We...
Myanmar earthquake: Moment rescuers pull woman alive from rubble The number of people known to have died following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar has risen to more than 1,600, with people in some areas telling the BBC they had been left to dig through rubble for their loved ones with their bare hands. An acute...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though...