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...
Alex Pope BBC News, Peterborough Megan Dixon Megan Dixon had to adapt her life after she was diagnosed Megan Dixon was 13 years old when she started feeling unwell. By 16, her health had deteriorated to such an extent that she was taken to hospital after losing the ability to speak. Doctors believed she may...
Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, doesn’t do surgeries or deliver babies. The small 24-hour emergency room is overseen by two full-time doctors. CEO Matt Ives wants to hire a third doctor, but he said finding physicians for a rural area...
Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC Monitoring Russia editor Reuters Russia’s ceasefire in Ukraine lasted only 30 hours, and even then it appears to have been very limited in scope, with accusations of violations on both sides. Kyiv said there had been no “air raids alerts” on Sunday during Vladimir Putin’s “Easter truce” and President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested...
The first set in Barcelona was a high-quality encounter between two players born just six days apart and who have been playing one another since their teens. Alcaraz broke first, thumping his forehand with increasing ferocity, but Rune was equally impressive to immediately force the match back on serve. Both aggressive baseliners, Alcaraz and Rune...
Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West RNLI / Darren Blight Mr Gibson attended “hundreds of shouts” during his time with the RNLI A Plymouth-based volunteer is stepping down from the RNLI after 20 years. Richard Gibson joined Plymouth Lifeboat Station in 2004, aged 29, and said it “was one of the best decisions” he ever...
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A man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for terrorism offences relating to right-wing extremism. Tobias Gleed, of Meadows Crescent, Honiton, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday. The 20-year-old was found guilty and convicted of four counts of possession of a document or record for terrorist purposes and four counts of...
Alison Holt Social affairs editor Getty Images After years of argument and dispute about the meaning of gender, the watchword of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling has to be clarity. Equality law has been made clear with the unambiguous statement that the term “woman” refers to a biological woman and does not include biological men who...
A former top Russian general has been jailed for seven years after being accused of taking bribes. Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was arrested last year during a crackdown on corruption in the defence ministry launched by the Kremlin, and was accused of taking “a particularly large bribe” from a telecommunications company. Russia’s Investigative Committee said...
Serena Williams says she would have been banned for 20 years and had some of her Grand Slam titles taken away if she had committed the same anti-doping offence as men’s world number one Jannik Sinner. Italy’s Sinner, 23, is serving a three-month doping ban after reaching a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada)...
Life after loss, and views on Trump. Show more An old friend of the podcast, Viktoria Kovalenko, joins us in the studio. Viktoria has experienced the horrors of war first hand. Her husband and elder daughter were killed in front of her when they tried to escape the city of Chernihiv in 2022. Three years...
