BBC News The former chief executive of Southern Water has been charged with conspiracy to defraud authorities over allegations he was involved in a plan to manipulate water quality tests to avoid millions of pounds in penalties. Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of conspiring to defraud the Environment Agency (EA) and water regulator […]
BBC News South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported. Ants are not among the 10 insect species approved for human consumption under the country’s laws. The approved list includes grasshoppers, locusts and two-spotted crickets, among others. […]
BBC News Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden has signed a new four-year contract which will keep him at the club until 2030. The 26-year-old’s previous deal was due to expire next summer but he has opted to extend his stay under new head coach Enzo Maresca. Foden was given his first-team debut as a 17-year-old […]
BBC News Ann Priest, the chair of the school’s board of governors, told BBC Scotland News: “What we are doing is what is affordable to us. “The school cannot possibly, on its own, rebuild this whole building. It would take us away from financial sustainability. “We are still hoping to go towards a full, faithful […]
BBC News Liverpool have issued over 400 lifetime bans after more than £1.2m of assets relating to the illegal selling of tickets was seized by police. The club worked with Merseyside Police to seize the assets from organised ticket touts. The police operation focused on the laundering of criminal proceeds from illicit ticket sales and […]
BBC News Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he will review the early prisoner release policy. Speaking to reporters in Bath, he said: “I can’t say that I can change the policy completely, but I will look at it in detail before we go further forward.” He acknowledged that there was “pressure on prisons places” […]
BBC News Donaldson has built a massive following over the years by creating viral videos and staging stunts for his YouTube channel. These have snowballed into huge high-stakes challenges where he gives away large sums of money to strangers. He also helped create the Prime Video reality competition series, Beast Games, which was inspired by […]
BBC News Friday’s contest will not be broadcast live and will instead feature as part of the third series of the Netflix documentary ‘At Home with the Furys’. The proposed Fury-Joshua fight has been more than a decade in the making, with contracts already signed for a contest expected later this year, although a venue […]
BBC News Kingscote said Webb, from Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, would not have undergone the procedure had she known about the previous enforcement action. “If Alice had known about these prohibition orders she wouldn’t have had it done,” he said. “Her kids were everything to her. She adored her kids. She wouldn’t have done something that […]
BBC News OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test. The ChatGPT-maker said its agents – AI bots which can operate alone after some human instruction – were being tested in a controlled environment, but found vulnerabilities […]
