Jonathan Morris & Scott Bingham BBC News, South West BBC Bottled water was handed out to residents by South West Water People in the south Devon fishing town of Brixham remember 15 May 2024 for all the wrong reasons. That was date the UK Health Security Agency confirmed the parasite cryptosporidium was present in tap...
Arsenal midfielder Mariona Caldentey has been named the inaugural Women’s Professional Game’s WSL player of the year, which was voted for by fans. The Spain international scored nine goals and registered five assists in the Women’s Super League this season. She helped Arsenal reach the Women’s Champions League final, where they take on her former...
1. Mariona Caldentey (Arsenal) Moving into midfield, she has a bit of everything for Arsenal this season. She was without a doubt their most creative player, she was the player that drove them on, especially when Renee Slegers became manager. She showed her experience at times this season in terms of, when it mattered, she...
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah and Arsenal striker Alessia Russo have won the Football Writers’ Association awards for men’s and women’s player of the season. Salah has scored 28 goals and provided 18 assists to help Liverpool win the Premier League title, breaking the record for the most goal involvements in a single 38-game Premier League...
Mel Ramsay & Tom Richardson BBC Newsbeat Sandfall Interactive Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been receiving rave reviews across the board In 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Guillaume Broche was like millions of others around the world. “Bored in their job and wanting to do something different.” Working for French gaming giant...
The number of people choosing an assisted death could top 4,000 a year within a decade of the law coming into force if MPs vote for it, a review of the policy says. The estimate forms part of the official impact assessment, which has been carried out by civil servants to inform MPs as they...
Controversial as Trump’s first 100 days have been, the Democrat are in a bind all their own.  With the party’s approval ratings at the lowest level since Appomattox, some of their leading lights are going back to their roots. In the case of Senators Chris Murphy (NJ) and Adam Schiff (CA), we’re talking Clinton-era roots;...
Amy Canavan is joined by football writer Moira Gordon and former striker Lee Miller Read full article at source...
Hibs equalled a club record of 17 league games unbeaten to leap up the table from December before last weekend’s 1-0 defeat by Aberdeen at Pittodrie, and have defeated every side except St Mirren in the Premiership this season. Meanwhile Falkirk manager McGlynn, having won the award last season for guiding Falkirk to an unbeaten...
We discuss Player of the Year, potential Hearts managers and league reconstruction. Read full article at source...
A small library in North Devon is celebrating after being crowned the South West Library of the Year. Braunton Library was singled out in the British Book Awards 2025 for its creativity and work in the community. The library hosts numerous groups, including a Lego club for children, knit and natter and coffee and crochet...
The number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025 has exceeded 10,000, an increase of about 40% compared with the same period last year. A total of 247 people crossed on Sunday, taking the total to 9,885 migrants the Home Office has recorded arriving in the UK since the...
Celtic trio Callum McGregor, Daizen Maeda and Nicolas Kuhn are in the running for this season’s PFA Scotland player of the year award, along with Dundee striker Simon Murray. Maeda and Murray top the Premiership scoring chart with 16 goals each, while Maeda also leads the way for assists, on nine with team-mate Alistair Johnston....
Temperatures are set to rise as we go through next week, Darren Bett has the details. Read full article at source...
The government borrowed more than expected in the year to March due to increased spending on pay and benefits, according to official figures. Borrowing, the difference between spending and income from taxes, was £151.9bn in the year to March, up £20.7bn from the year before. The amount borrowed was much higher than the £137.3bn predicted...