However, as sunny skies develop more widely, the combination of strong sunshine and light winds will help temperatures to peak on either Wednesday or Thursday, and be the highest of the year so far in each of the four nations. 23C is the expected high in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, 25C in Wales...
Louise Parry BBC News, Hertfordshire Aylett Nurseries Roger and Hazel started running a nursery before founding a garden centre for the public in St Albans One of the UK’s early garden centres is celebrating 70 years as a family business, which saw the owner fall in love with and marry his first employee. “Roger used...
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...
Brazil Supreme Court A woman in Brazil has been jailed for 14 years after writing an offensive message in lipstick on a statue during riots in Brasilia. Debora Rodrigues took part in the unrest in January 2023, along with hundreds of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The riot saw thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters attack...
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool National Crime Agency Gangland boss Philip Waugh will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on 27 June When Lee Deakin came out of his house to fetch a phone charger from the boot of his car, a stranger armed with a bottle of acid was lying in wait for him....
Remember this guy? In a crowded field of professional liars, he is perhaps the biggest liar elected to congress, at least recently. Today former Rep. George Santos was handed a 78 month sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft last year. He tearfully begged the judge for mercy but didn’t get it. ...
Pope Francis refused to heed advice to slow down in his final few years, preferring to “die with his boots on”, according to a close aide. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister since 2014, said the Pope was driven to carry on because he knew he had...
The funeral of Pope Francis will be watched by millions of people across the world, whether they are pilgrims descending on the Vatican City in person or people tuning in at home. The BBC has taken a look back at archive footage of previous Popes’ funerals, as far back as Pope Pius XII in 1958...
Thousands of people, including Holocaust survivors, have taken part in the annual “March of the Living” through former Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The march follows a 3km (1.86 miles) route to the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died in the Holocaust and call for an end to...
Twelve years have now passed since the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in history. On April 24, 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza building in Savar collapsed, claiming the lives of 1,134 people and injuring over 2,500 others. The collapse was a product of denied labor rights for heavily exploited...
James W Kelly & Matt Graveling BBC News BBC HCS Furniture’s van had not left the carpark stack since December 2022 A family business has regained its van after it was trapped in a central London car park for nearly two and a half years. Steve Davies and Mark Lucas collected the vehicle from Rathbone...
Kaya Black BBC News, Manchester Getty Images About 80 million packets of chocolate digestives are made each year at McVitie’s factories across Stockport and London The boss of the biscuits factory where McVitie’s chocolate digestives have been made for the last 100 years reckons people have always eaten them incorrectly. Anthony Coulson, general manager at...
Zimbabwe won their first Test match in four years with a three-wicket victory over Bangladesh in Sylhet. Chasing 174, the tourists slipped from 95-0 to 161-7, enduring a nervous finish before Wesley Madhevere closed the match with a four. Zimbabwe set up their victory in the morning session of the final day, reducing Bangladesh from...
This May, Exeter will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day with special events that look back at the devastation of war and the joy of its end. Events will serve as a reminder of how the city was scarred, shaped, and ultimately strengthened by the Second World War. Two standout events...
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...