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 […]
BBC News A powerful earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu island 28 July, forcing more than 150,000 people to evacuate. The quake caused power outages, damaged roads, brought down part of a castle wall, and destroyed a footbridge. More than 40,000 households are without power and several people are missing after a chimney collapsed at a paper […]
BBC News European football’s governing body Uefa has reacted furiously to proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup. Fifa – the sport’s global governing body – said it intends to expand football development funding to more than $10bn (£7.5bn), which it claims is to grow the game – […]
BBC News Hogh’s career has been a slow burner since he came through the youth ranks with local club Randers then was sold to second-tier Hobro after an injury-hit spell, including a loan to Valur in Iceland. A switch to Danish Superliga club AaB followed in January 2022, but he was on the move again […]
BBC News Two years ago, I stood at the back of a conference room in Manchester Hall, sipping a coffee and watching Andy Burnham unveil his vision for transforming technical education in Greater Manchester. He’d announced plans for the Manchester Baccalaureate, or MBacc, the year before, and, armed with PowerPoint slides and guest speakers, was […]
BBC News Documents from the case case show Hammond was first caught speeding by a police officer with a handheld speed camera at just before 13:00 BST on 2 December and again at about 11:45 BST on 22 December. West Mercia Police sent speeding tickets to a Grade II listed Herefordshire castle bought by Hammond […]
BBC News Roberto Mancini has been appointed Italy manager for a second time. Gennaro Gattuso left in April after Italy failed to qualify for a third successive World Cup. Andrea Pirlo was set to take over but on Monday pulled out following controversy over his ties to a Russian betting company. “I believed that the […]
BBC News Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Marlon James and Rebecca Perry are among the authors who have been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. The 13 chosen books include novels set in Mexico City, a remote Scottish island, an assissted suicide clinic in Zurich, 1980s Jamaica, and Massachussetts before the 2024 US election. Chair of […]
