BBC News Runner Sophie Woods has become the fastest person to complete a 2,000km (1242 miles) ultramarathon across the Alps. Woods ran the Via Alpina through storms, heat of up to 37C and dodged floods and wildfires across eight countries. “Through the whole thing, I was only ever thinking about the day, the hour, the […]
BBC News A teenage girl has died at the Kendal Calling festival in the early hours of the morning, police have said. The 17-year-old suffered a medical episode at about 02:15 BST and was pronounced dead at the scene. Cumbria Police said it was looking into the circumstances and wanted to speak to anyone who […]
BBC News Five people have been found dead and 41 are missing after an Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire while at sea, officials say. The captain of the ship reported the fire – off Madura island – as the vessel sailed from the country’s second-largest city, Surabaya in East Java, to Makassar in […]
BBC News England’s netballers were beaten 68-50 by world number one side Australia in their quest to win bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games. The day after Saturday morning’s frustrating semi-final loss to New Zealand, England tried to rally themselves to get on the podium, but came up against a Diamonds team recovering from one […]
BBC News Thameslink: Bedford to Three Bridges via London St Pancras (176% at 08:09) West Midlands: London Euston to Crewe (170% at 17:46) Transport for Wales: Bridgend to Rhymney via Llanishen (161% at 16:45) South Western: Alton to London Waterloo (159% at 08:22) Thameslink: Bedford to Three Bridges via London St Pancras (155% at 08:24) […]
BBC News A woman who grew up as an orphan and promised to “help any child I could” has spent 30 years opening her picturesque garden to visitors to raise money for a children’s charity. Ann Lush, 86, was raised alongside her brother by her grandmother, who was widowed during World War Two, and said […]
BBC News Head of Marine at the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Georgia de Jong Cleyndert, said although the “incredible” blue creatures looked like jellyfish, they were actually colonial hydrozoans. She said: “Each by-the-wind sailor is made up of hundreds of tiny, specialised animals working together as a single floating colony. “Although they are not jellyfish, they […]
BBC News This story contains details some might find distressing. I’ve reported on many criminal cases before, but nothing like that of undertaker Robert Bush. Now the case is over, we can report on what it was like to follow a story that began when whistleblowers raised concerns about Legacy Independent Funeral Directors with Humberside […]
