BBC News B&M Retail Ltd has been fined £2m over serious food hygiene offences at three stores in Birmingham including foodstuffs gnawed by mice. The company was prosecuted by Birmingham City Council after complaints led to inspections being carried out by its environmental health service between November 2024 and October 2025. Locations included St Andrew’s […]
BBC News After 10 days of exchanging strikes with the US over control of the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway, Iran’s leaders may appear to have three choices. None offer a clear route to victory. The first is to accept much of what Washington wants: guarantee free and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz […]
BBC News Anthony Taylor has announced his retirement from refereeing with immediate effect after a 20-year career and 831 matches. The 47-year-old’s final game was Spain’s 1-0 win over Portugal in the World Cup last 16 on 6 July. Taylor, who was a prison officer before becoming a professional referee, was first added to the […]
BBC News Physical season tickets are a thing of the past in the Premier League. Clubs now use digital systems where fans download tickets to their phones. The change has been accompanied at many clubs by stricter rules on how, and how often, ticket holders can transfer their tickets to other people. At Manchester United, […]
BBC News If the government has to set aside more cash for paying debts and interest, it may have less to spend on public services. Some economists fear the government is borrowing too much, at too great a cost. Others argue extra borrowing helps the economy grow faster – generating more tax in the long […]
BBC News The actions of the Argentina players on the pitch were heavily criticised by former England internationals. Ex-England captain Alan Shearer said: “Paredes threw two or three haymakers into someone’s face. He went for them. There is no place or space for that. “We know how much it means to them and we know […]
BBC News Bodycam and dashcam footage shows a police officer rescue a man seconds before his car was engulfed in flames near Dallas, Texas. Corporal Joshua Swisher was conducting a traffic stop on a motorway when he was alerted to a nearby vehicle emitting smoke. Shortly after directing the vehicle to the emergency lane, flames […]
BBC News An incident on a Ryanair flight which saw a passenger partially sucked out of a plane window may have been caused by “foreign object damage” to an engine, said the airline’s boss. Michael O’Leary said an initial investigation into the incident on 10 July between Greece and Germany suggests “it looks like a […]
BBC News The maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, Novo Nordisk, has launched legal action accusing its arch rival Eli Lilly of false advertising in suggesting its weight-loss drugs perform better. The Danish company filed a lawsuit in the US on Tuesday claiming Eli Lilly, which makes Mounjaro and Zepbound, deployed ad campaigns to “create the […]
BBC News Burnham has not shied away from clashing with the Premier League and football’s authorities. In 2023, he wrote to Premier League insisting that Everton’s 10-point penalty for breaching profit and sustainability rules should be declared “null and void”. There should be no concerns about the future of the independent football regulator, set up […]
