BBC News St Helens head coach Paul Rowley has stepped down from his position with the Super League club with immediate effect less than a year into the role. The 51-year-old joined the club before the 2026 season, having previously taken charge at Salford Red Devils, ending his tenure there after their financially-challenged 2025 campaign. […]
BBC News A friend of the Manchester synagogue attacker has been jailed for life with a minimum of 17 years after the pair planned a separate attack on a military base. Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK’s Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on […]
BBC News The trial heard how Robertson, of Carbeth in Stirlingshire, raped a woman on one occasion between 2018 and 2019 as well as a separate sex assault. The pair came to know each other from working together on River City. The woman said she did not want anything sexual to happen, but believed Robertson […]
BBC News Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker and music producer Brian Eno have written to new prime minister Andy Burnham asking to be taxed more. In an open letter, 120 well-off Britons told Burnham: “We can afford it. We’re not talking about higher taxes on those who get up and go to work for […]
BBC News Two-time major champion Martin Kaymer has said it is “highly unlikely” LIV Golf’s team championship will take place this year and admitted the players do not know if the circuit will exist in 2027. LIV is reeling from the withdrawal of Saudi Arabian financial backing from the end of this season after the […]
BBC News Around 12,000 people have been evacuated from the south-west of France as the country battles ongoing wildfires days after two firefighters died near Bordeaux airport, French media reported. The Gironde region government said more than 2,000 hectares (4,000 acres) of land have been destroyed. The use of internal combustion and electric engines have […]
BBC News England men v Pakistan 15 May: First ODI, Southampton, 11:00 19 May: Second ODI, Old Trafford, 13:00 21 May: Third ODI, Headingley, 11:00 23 May: Fourth ODI, Durham, 11:00 26 May: Fifth ODI, Cardiff, 13:00 England men v Bangladesh 28 May-1 June: One-off Test, Lord’s, 11:00 England men v New Zealand 7 Sept: […]
BBC News MVP says it has earned the nickname “The National Trust for music venues” due to its model of buying venues to secure their futures. With its tenth purchase, it becomes the largest landlord of dedicated music venues in the country. Thomas Evrenos, who has run The Pipeline in Brighton since 2017, said: “For […]
