BBC Theo Tuikubulau died at Derriford Hospital from sepsis on 8 July, 2022 A child critically ill with sepsis would have arrived earlier at hospital had a 111 operator graded his call as life-threatening, an inquest has heard. Kayleigh Kenneford called 111 on the evening of 7 July, 2022 because her three-year-old son Theo Tuikubulau...
Scores of Norwegians thought they had become millionaires after receiving a notification from the state-owned gambling company saying they had won eye-watering sums – until it turned out it was a mistake. “Several thousand” people who won prizes in the Eurojackpot were notified of incorrect amounts on Friday, Norsk Tipping said. The company declined to...
Jonny Humphries & James Mountford BBC News Lancashire Police Lenny Scott had been threatened by a prisoner four years before his death, a jury heard A former prison officer was shot dead in an “act of retaliation” four years after seizing a mobile phone from a prisoner’s cell, a jury heard. Lenny Scott, 33, was...
The High Court has heard claims that the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission, “acted irrationally” when it registered England’s first private clinic offering gender treatment to under-18s. The case, brought by a former nurse and a mother who wishes to remain anonymous, claims the watchdog did not consider all relevant information and should also...
Jim Connolly BBC News Investigations BBC Avril has avoided taking her Cavachon Dougie to the vet due to the cost and now regrets it Pet owners are increasingly having their sick animals put down or they are delaying taking them for treatment to avoid spiralling vet bills, vets and animal charities have warned. Some animal...
PA Media People are being offered the chance to surrender ninja swords at local police stations People who own ninja swords are being told to hand them in before the end of July. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was part of the national ninja sword surrender and compensation scheme, which will run from 1...
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images Students are being urged not to suffer in silence when targeted by scams on dating apps, as investigators see blackmail cases rise. Fraud teams at Nationwide, the UK’s biggest building society, said trusted friends could help potential victims avoid sending private or intimate images during new online...
Getty Images Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses. Arif Ahmed, from the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, told the BBC that exposure to views which students might find offensive was “part of the process of education”....
A lollipop man said he had been told he could no longer high-five children while they are crossing the road because it slows down traffic. Neil Cotton, 57, has been working as a school crossing patrol officer in Howden, East Yorkshire for about two years. In a social media post, he said he could not...
US President Donald Trump rejected a plan by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three US officials have told BBC’s US partner CBS News. Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that assassinating Khamenei was not a good idea, according to one official. The president has not commented publicly on the...
The government has written to Sainsbury’s and Morrisons asking them to stop “advertising and promoting” heated tobacco products, which it says is against the law. The BBC reported in February the supermarkets were displaying posters and video screens showing devices which create a nicotine-containing vapour by heating tobacco with an electric current. At the time,...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A black schoolgirl who was strip-searched by Metropolitan Police officers was told she “might be arrested” if she refused to comply, a misconduct panel has heard. The girl, known as Child Q, was strip-searched at her...
PA Media More than 300 Foreign Office staff who raised concerns about potential UK “complicity” in Israel’s conduct in Gaza were told if they profoundly disagreed with government policy they could consider resigning. The staff letter, seen by the BBC, was sent to Foreign Secretary David Lammy last month. In it, officials questioned the UK’s...
Getty Images The boy was on holiday with his mother when the accident happened last summer A 12-year-old boy fell to his death at Ireland’s Cliffs of Moher after slipping in a puddle close to the edge, an inquest has heard. Zhihan Zhao and his mother, both Chinese nationals, were with her friends at the...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A school staff member who called the police over a black pupil she wrongly suspected of possessing cannabis did not expect an intimate search to be performed, a gross misconduct panel has been told. The deputy...