A senior Conservative MP has demanded Ofcom intervene and slap down claims from the BBC that reporting Hamas as terrorists would contravene impartiality rules set down by the regulator. Sir Michael Fabricant was furious with Today programme presenter Mishal Husain, who last
A 90-year-old grandfather was reported to the police by his local council, for clearing land behind his home. Keith Ramsell paid contractors £1,300 to chop down the “wall of vegetation” in Bushey, Hertfordshire, after he fell and injured his arm. He had spent
Rishi Sunak has been reported to police in Scotland over a prison joke made about Nicola Sturgeon in his Tory conference speech. The Prime Minister mocked the former Scottish First Minister over her arrest as part of a police probe into the
Israeli airstrikes targeted several locations in the Gaza Strip in response to ongoing Palestinian protests along the Gaza-Israel border. The demonstrations have escalated into violent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces. The protests involve Palestinians engaging in various forms of
Outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering as deadly fighting grinds on between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force, the U.N. health agency said on Tuesday. According to the
Rishi Sunak is reportedly ready to axe Phase 2 of the HS2 rail line – despite opposition from Tory predecessors, business chiefs and the Mayor of London. The potential cost of the high-speed rail scheme – which Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said
Ukrainian forces followed up their attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters in occupied Crimea with a second attack in as many days in the region as Kyiv seeks to frustrate Russia’s forces ahead of the coming winter. Video captured the
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Tuscany early Monday, geologists and firefighters said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake’s epicenter was near Marradi, northeast of Florence, and it struck at 5:10 a.m., after some smaller temblors, according
The bizarre mix-up happened on Wednesday night (September 6) in the Lincolnshire seaside village of Chapel St Leonards, near the popular beach resorts of Skegness and Mabelthorpe. Five police cars were dispatched to the North Sea Observatory after members of the public
UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday that 34 COVID-19 cases linked to the highly mutated variant BA.2.86 had been identified in England. The Omicron offshoot carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant