Interim head coach Michael McArdle ought to be admired for using his time at the helm as a chance to change things up a bit. Only five players who started in Helsinki in December did so at Tannadice, while three who featured at all didn’t even make this squad. It’s been quite the shake-up, and...
Exeter have signed hooker Sofia Bekir Fuente for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 24-year-old was born in Spain and also qualifies to play for England and Australia. Having been a rower and water polo player, Bekir Fuente took up rugby four years ago and made her way into the Western Force squad from...
The worth of the Women’s Super League champions is understood to have been benchmarked against the world’s most valuable women’s team, Angel City, a club in the US-based National Women’s Soccer League which was sold for £190m in September. Chelsea’s valuation was made when seeking external investment and sponsorship in June 2024, when they announced...
Women in England and Wales are likely to continue having babies later in life, and having smaller families, than previous generations, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) projections. The ONS says girls turning 18 in 2025 are likely to have an average of one child per woman by the age of 35 – unlike...
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Wanqing Zhang, Larissa Kennelly and Kirstie Brewer BBC Global China Unit and BBC News BBC Twenty-three more women have come forward to the police with allegations against serial rapist Zhenhao Zou – a Chinese PhD student found guilty in London last month of drugging and raping 10 women across two continents. Police said at the...
Amber Sandhu & Rebecca Swash BBC Asian Network News BBC Studios/Disney/Bad Wolf/James Pardon Varada Sethu plays Doctor Who’s new companion When new Doctor Who companion Varada Sethu first told her family she wanted to be an actress, there wasn’t immediate support. “They had difficulty coming to terms with it initially,” she tells BBC Asian Network...
Charlotte Andrews & Briony Leyland BBC News Reporting fromWinchester Crown Court Dorset Police Nasen Saadi had a “deeply-suppressed rage towards society and women”, the judge said A criminology student who had a “grievance against women” has been jailed for attacking two friends in a frenzied stabbing on a beach in Bournemouth. Nasen Saadi, 21, must...
Dan Martin BBC News, Leicester BBC Madeleine McCann went missing during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 Two women have appeared in court after being charged as part of an investigation into the alleged stalking of Madeleine McCann’s family. A lawyer acting for Julia Wandel, 23, from Lubin in south-west Poland, made an unsuccessful...
Alex Forsyth Political correspondent Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Media Men are prepared to sacrifice family lives for successful careers in a way many women aren’t, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said. Speaking at an event in Parliament, Farage argued people should judged on merit in the workplace, not on certain characteristics. When asked...
Laurence Cawley BBC Investigations, London Stephen Menon BBC Investigations, London Laurence Cawley/BBC The Ask for Angela scheme is named after Angela Crompton, who was killed by her husband in 2012. Her daughter Hollie, pictured, says she wants more to be done to protect women The daughter of the woman who was the inspiration for the...
Afghanistan-born footballer Nadia Nadim says she wants to represent women “who don’t have access and a voice” when she takes part in this year’s Soccer Aid. Nadim fled Afghanistan for Europe with her mother and four sisters when she was 11 after her father was executed by the Taliban. She took up football at a...
HMRC has recently swung into action, sending letters to a substantial number of women across the UK, particularly those in the age bracket of 60 to 79, alerting them to potential deficiencies in their National Insurance records. This significant outreach is crucial for stay-at-home mothers who claimed what is now the Department for Work and...
The two had a heated exchange over an executive order banning trans women and girls from playing in women’s sports. U.S. President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social on Saturday to demand an apology from Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democratic, after the two had a heated exchange at the White House in...
Sonja Jessup Home affairs correspondent, BBC London Reuters The Met’s V100 programme uses data to identify and target men who pose the highest risk to women A data-driven approach to tackling violence against women and girls has led to more than 100 of the “most dangerous offenders” in London being convicted, according to the Metropolitan...