BBC News Some parents on benefits will be given up to £4,500 a year to encourage their children to start apprenticeships, the government has said. Under plans to encourage young people into work, families will be offered a bursary to replace Universal Credit payments lost by starting jobs. The payment is aimed at ending a […]
BBC News The week clearly began on a lighter note for the Kettering pro, but she is deadly serious about the challenge ahead. Were Hull to go one better than her five major runners-up finishes, she would continue a remarkable storyline of British success in this event when staged here at Royal Lytham and St […]
BBC News The Hundred women’s competition, Headingley Sunrisers Leeds 142-4 (100 balls): Sutherland 35 (24); Villiers 1-6 Manchester Super Giants 147-6 (96 balls): Mandhana 88* (50); Baker 1-9 Manchester Super Giants won by four wickets Scorecard. Table Smriti Mandhana made a masterful unbeaten 88 off 50 balls as she guided Manchester Super Giants to a […]
BBC News In September, the France national team will have a new face on the touchline for the first time in 14 years. By the time the appointment was announced on Tuesday morning, it had long been an open secret that Zinedine Zidane would succeed Didier Deschamps this summer. Talks between the former Real Madrid […]
BBC News Available for over a year Donald Trump joked at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that he would run for a “fourth term” as president before taking out a red hat with the words ‘TRUMP 2028’ on it. The event had been rescheduled after being cancelled by a shooting three months ago. The president […]
BBC News Kadie Laws, whose father Darren Laws’ ashes were recovered from Legacy, sobbed while reading her statement. She recalled shouting “it better not be my dad in there” when she first heard about the police investigation. Laws, who suffers from PTSD, depression and anxiety following the loss of her father, said she felt “extreme […]
BBC News Pickford is the man in possession after helping England reach the World Cup semi-finals for only the fourth time this summer. Thomas Tuchel spoke of his admiration for both Trafford and Henderson after he was appointed England manager in 2024. Trafford made his England debut in the 1-1 draw with Uruguay in March […]
BBC News Available for over a year Today, secondary school pupils in England will be offered more technical subjects as part of education reforms led by the new Prime Minister. The courses, which will be available from year 10 onwards will be linked to local industries in the hope of giving children a clearer pathway […]
BBC News Gymnast Ruby Evans has won Wales’ first Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow with victory in the floor final. The 19-year-old performed well in the final routine of the women’s programme, with silver for England’s Abigail Martin, whose team-mate Shantae-Eve Amankwaah took bronze. Evans left the arena in tears on Sunday after her disappointing […]
BBC News Dame Penelope Keith’s funeral has been hailed as “wonderful, beautiful and absolutely amazing” by her friends. The actress, who starred in The Good Life and To The Manor Born, “died peacefully whilst living with cancer at her home” on 29 June at the age of 86. Crowds lined the streets to say their […]
