Protesters have disrupted an event to preview a new museum in Nigeria that has turned into a bitter row over the restoration of artefacts by British colonial forces. In a video circulating on social media, demonstrators are seen loudly chanting “Oba Ghato Kpere ISE” as the West African visitors to Benin City. Reporters said there […]
A climate activist campaigning against his doom after serving one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for peaceful protest has slammed his “crazy protest”. Marcus Decker was jailed for two years and seven months for a protest where he climbed the Queen Elizabeth Bridge and unfurled a single-digit Banner in October 2022. […]
A railroad worker credited with saving many lives during a mass struck by a train wakes up in the hospital and talks to his wife for the first time. Samir Zitouni, 48, is a member of Catering Crew in Doncaster at King’s Cross Service On 1 November when an attacker was struck passing through Cambridgeshire. […]
BBC Chairman Samir Shah has apologized for the Panorama documentary that edited out a speech by US President Trump, calling it an “error of judgement”. “We accept that editing the speech gives the impression of a direct call for violent action,” Shah said in a written statement to the culture, media and sports committee. Both […]
The dark horse of Lloyds banks is a familiar sight on UK streets, but the lender has also quietly become one of the country’s biggest landlords, nurturing £2bn of housing. The company reached the landmmmmmmmmmark change in its property holdings after a drive to buy more than 7,000 properties, according to the financial period. The […]
Former BBC DJ Tim Westwood appeared in a Central London Court after being charged with rape and sexual assault. During a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, the 68-year-old said he should return to Southwark Crown Court in December to face the seven women. The charges include four counts of rape, two counts […]
A Lake District theater is to be named for comedian and playwright Victoria Wood and will stage a new musical using her songs to mark the 10th anniversary of her death. the Old washing theater run by tree friends, couple Charlotte Scott and Roger Glossop. Wood, who died of cancer aged 62 in 2016, was […]
The administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Mehmet Oz, recently claimed that an audit revealed “more than $1bn of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants”, but experts say the audits were unrelated to immigration, and that rhetoric like this could make immigrant families – regardless […]
There was a briefing on the Cop30 agenda, with Simon Evans, a journalist from Carbon Berto, Posting on Bluesky Yesterday afternoon the agenda was already on the fourth repair. “Clashes on the agenda have been common in recent years,” Evans reports, citing similar disagreements at Cop29 in Azerbaijan. Negotiations don’t really start until the parties […]
Southern waters have taken responsibility for the catastrophic growth of plastic biobeads littering the Sussex Coast. Local staff reported a massive waste of millions of biobeads over the weekend, washing up on beaches including Camber sands. Andy Dinsdale, the founder of Plains pollution campaign of Polas Group Stranslinerssaid it was the worst pollution event he […]
