BBC News RSPB Scotland said its Loch Garten reserve was home to 5,000 species, and insects, reptiles along with trees, lichens and mosses had been killed. The charity’s James Reynolds said the wildfire had left a 6,177-acre (2,500ha) burn scar and the sight of it was “ugly and upsetting”. He said: “This is still very […]
BBC News Spanish authorities have allowed thousands of people evacuated because of wildfires to return to their homes after restrictions were lifted in the areas of Toledo, Madrid, Ávila, and Castellón. In the Madrid region alone, 24,000 people have been told they can return and lockdowns on another 20,000 have been lifted. Spain and France […]
BBC News A teenager who travelled from Norway to the UK on an emergency passport to carry out a “hit” for a Swedish organised crime group has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. An Old Bailey jury heard how Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield with two working guns […]
BBC News Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said that before assisted dying is considered in England and Wales, the funding of palliative and social care should be “fixed”. It is the first time Burnham has set out his position on the issue since becoming prime minister, as MPs prepare to debate it again when Parliament […]
BBC News Seven areas of England are officially in drought after a hot and dry summer, the Environment Agency has said. July saw 7% of the expected levels of rainfall, with just 1% across southern England. The seven areas are: East Anglia; Hertfordshire and the whole of London; Thames Valley; Hampshire & the Isle of […]
BBC News Oscar-winning Irish musician Glen Hansard has died in a motorbike crash in Dublin. Hansard, 56, was the frontman for rock group The Frames and also featured in The Commitments. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Falling Slowly in 2007 which he wrote for the low-budget film Once. Hansard was […]
BBC News Screenwriter Russell T Davies has described the death of his husband to an aggressive brain tumour as his “greatest loss”. Speaking on the On the Marie Curie Couch podcast, the Doctor Who writer opened up about Andrew Smith, who died in September 2018, following eight years of treatment for glioblastoma multiforme, external. The […]
BBC News Japan’s south-western Kyushu region has had more than 100 aftershocks since it was struck on Tuesday by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake which left at least 13 people dead. Many others are in “cardiopulmonary arrest” – a term often used in preliminary reports in Japan before a death is officially confirmed. Amid searing heat, […]
BBC News This year’s new engines, with a nominal 50-50 split between internal combustion and electrical power, have been criticised by drivers for reducing their ability to drive on the limit. This is caused by the need to constantly recharge the batteries, which is reducing the challenge of fast corners by turning them into what […]
