A presenter in hospital. A corporation battered. The lid lifted on life inside the BBC. It’s been a bruising week for bosses at the corporation. Stressful for staff. Upsetting for those who’ve such affection for the telly star who on the nightly news – for 20 years – has held viewers hands through the best
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American actors are poised to go on strike after negotiations between parties broke down. Actors’ trade union SAG-AFTRA – who represent 160,000 performers – say they have voted unanimously to recommend a strike after talks with Hollywood studios failed to reach an agreement. The vote will take place later today. Writers in America have now
Footballer Dele Alli has revealed he was sexually abused when he was six years old. The footballer, 27, told Gary Neville’s YouTube channel The Overlap: “At six I was molested.” Alli, who returned to Everton in April, opened up about his difficult childhood. “And then I was sent to Africa to learn discipline and then
Millions of UK public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get pay rises of about 6% after Rishi Sunak decided to accept the recommendations of independent pay review bodies. The bodies had suggested pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for 2023-24, at a potential cost of £5bn. Mr Sunak met Jeremy Hunt, the
The economy contracted in May as the additional public holiday for the King’s coronation weighed on output, according to official figures. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed negative growth of 0.1% during the month, better than economists had predicted but continuing the yo-yo pattern seen throughout the last year that has left
NASA on Wednesday released an image obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, as the U.S. space agency marked one year since it unveiled the telescope’s first scientific results. The Webb telescope, which was launched in 2021 and began collecting data last year,
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A powerful group of northern Tory MPs are being scrutinised by the parliamentary expenses watchdog after a Sky News investigation into the way they use public money. The investigation found nearly two dozen MPs received political donations from a private donor to help them with campaigning – weeks after they joined the Northern Research Group
French police are doing a “final sweep” search for a missing two-year-old boy in the French Alps. Today’s search will continue until 4pm local time (3pm UK time) and involves 50 officers who will search a 1.8km (1.1 miles) stretch of road near where the boy’s grandparents live. The boy, named only as Emile, was
Thousands of children with special educational needs or disabilities are missing out on the education they are entitled to because of huge delays in the system designed to support them. A record half a million pupils now have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) – a legal document setting out a child or young
In this article GOOGL TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, June 16, 2023. Chesnot | Getty Images Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of
A US dentist accused of the fatal poisoning of his wife searched the internet for “how to make murder look like a heart attack” weeks before she died, a court has heard. James Craig, 45, also sought answers to the question “is arsenic detectable in an autopsy?” at around the same time, it is alleged.
Associated Press Jul 12, 2023, 02:25 PM ET Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson and his former crew chief of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Chad Knaus headline a list of 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame class of 2024. There are 10 nominees on the modern era ballot and five on
Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar exploration mission, will make India the fourth country to land its spacecraft on the surface of the moon and demonstrate the country’s abilities for safe and soft landing on lunar surface. The countdown for the launch of mission will begin on Thursday ahead of take off on Friday from the Satish
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 12, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Like many golf fans around the world Tuesday, Scottie Scheffler watched the Senate hearing regarding the PGA Tour’s planned alliance with the DP World Tour and Saudi
Friends and colleagues of Huw Edwards have reacted with shock to the statement released by his wife. Vicky Flind named her husband as the BBC presenter facing a series of claims, including that he paid a teenager for explicit images. Ms Flind said the presenter was “suffering from serious mental health issues” and is now
Bolivia only has one electric car manufacturer and it’s hard to compare it to the bigger competition. But that’s likely by design, because La Paz-based Quantum Motors is building tiny electric cars built for just three passengers. It might seem like a strange move, especially from a country with rich lithium deposits, but Quantum Motors
Workers photographed at a lithium mine in Chile on August 24, 2022. Lithium is integral to the batteries that power electric vehicles. John Moore | Getty Images News | Getty Images Demand for the critical minerals key to a future centered around low and zero-emission technologies is surging, according to the International Energy Agency, with
Billions of pounds allocated to tackle Britain’s housing crisis has been returned to the Treasury because the housing department was unable to find projects to fund. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) was unable to find projects for the £1.9bn of funding budgeted
The UK is not an “Amazon” delivery service for weapons to Ukraine, Britain’s defence secretary has said. Ben Wallace added that Kyiv might be wise to let its supporters “see gratitude”. In a blunt intervention, the minister said his “counsel” to the Ukrainians was to keep in mind that they need to persuade some doubting