Allan LittleSenior correspondent BBC George Bell and Thomas McGill were cousins. Their families came from the small village of Glenluce in South-West Scotland where I grew up. Every day, on my way to school, I’d walk past their names, which were inscribed on the village war memorial. George was a labourer and enlisted early, in […]
As a familiar haze settled over Delhi, the crowd began to gather in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists are united by a basic but desperate need: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital. “Delhi is no longer a livable city, it is a death trap,” said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an […]
“I couldn’t have asked for a better horse – Guchen gave me a great feeling and I will remember this day. “I just want to go around safely and repay the trust that Kim and Mat and Mat have. “I am proud to be the first black woman jokish jocey jocey. When I was growing […]
Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of native bee with tiny horns – and given it a fitting devil. The researchers found Megacile Lucifer while observing a rare wildflower that only grows in the Breemer region of Western Australia’s Regifiels Regions, 470km (292MI) east of Perth. The “very distinctive, prominent horns” are only […]
Mark the fierceThe letter of music Getty Images Sam Fender won the Mercury Prize in his hometown of Newcastle last month Sam Fender has donated the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust (MVT), which works to preserve music venues in the UK. The star was presented with the check […]
A huge sex appeal hearing Alan Jones has been locked up over claims the radio host was kept in the dark about the police investigation against him. The 84-year-old faces 25 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual assault against nine alleged victims. There are 139 prosecution witnesses in the case, Crown prosecutor Emma […]
It was only a week ago that the Telegraphing ran its first story about the BBC’s Anti-Trump Bias and to many readers it may not have been any readers who could have been any more than the usual criticisms of the National Broadcaster. But the complaints about the editing of a program on Donald Trump […]
Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil case that he Carroll Carroll’s sex abuser In a department of the Department of Manhattan in the mid-1990s and later he was relieved. Trump’s lawyers have argued in a lengthy high court filing that the allegations that […]
Turning Point USA, the influential college meeting group founded by Charlie Kirk, brought Kirk’s message to a campus with a long history of left-leaning activism in the two months following his death. An event at the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday night was the last stop to go to the American Comeback, where Kirk […]
Stephanie poorBBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire reviews BBC For mum-of-four Abi, the debts she built up using buy now, pay later (BNPL) services left her in a “vicious circle”. Abi, from Sheffield, was one of several people who spoke to the BBC about the money they owed after using BNPL to buy basic items, including groceries […]
