BBC News The Labour Party chair has said Sir Jim Ratcliffe loses “the moral high ground” by making statements about the UK while living in tax exile. Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Bridget Phillipson said she would take the billionaire businessman’s comments that the UK was “on the slide” with a “pinch of salt”. […]

BBC News Fleming’s first series in charge is against South Africa in December. After two Tests in Bangladesh and a one-off anniversary Test in Melbourne in the winter, attention will then turn to next summer’s Ashes. Fleming rejected the idea English cricket is too obsessed by beating Australia. “No, because I have an obsession with […]

BBC News The council’s chief executive, Susan Priest, said: “The extent of support of organisations, including Three Hills, Morrisons and the Salvation Army, has been amazing and helped to ensure that visitors and residents were looked after, supported and had food and hot drinks. “This was an extremely difficult day, firstly for the hotel guests […]

BBC News Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to immediately cut fuel duty by 10p a litre until Christmas as part of a package of policies aimed at cutting the cost of living. The Liberal Democrat leader is also urging the government to scrap a permanent increase in fuel duty which is set […]

BBC News Claims by current and former researchers that the tech will endanger humanity – with one suggesting there is a greater than 10% chance of it “killing all humans” – have raised alarm bells in recent weeks. Major AI companies have been racing to develop better systems, including creating what they call super intelligence […]

BBC News Unbeknown to Hanna, her father had been dismissed as a minister, though he still went out early to get some exercise each day. It was not until a few days after 9/11 – when the world was distracted by the al-Qaeda attacks on the US – that the country was to discover the […]

BBC News World champion Luke Littler has threatened to stop playing in the Netherlands after being booed and whistled at during the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam. The referee stopped the match during his narrow win against Nathan Aspinall in the last eight on Saturday to warn the hostile crowd about its behaviour, […]

BBC News Former England winger Andros Townsend joked that playing Stoke away “wasn’t so bad after all” following a bizarre incident in Thailand in which he was run over by a pitch roller. The 35-year-old former Tottenham, Luton and Crystal Palace forward plays for PT Prachuap in Thai League 1. Townsend was warming up before […]

BBC News Local elections are taking place in two German states on Sunday which could increase the political pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Opinion polls in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommerm suggest Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is at risk of damaging defeats, which would raise further questions about the chancellor’s future. These latest elections come after […]