Police enforcement of the ban on owning XL bully dogs is placing a “huge burden” on forces, police chiefs have said. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said they are facing a “number of challenges in kennel capacity, resourcing and ever-mounting costs”. The NPCC lead for dangerous dogs, Chief Constable Mark Hobrough, said kennelling costs…

Ben Chu, Mark Poynting & Gerry Georgieva BBC Verify Getty Images The government is set to give its backing to the construction of a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce the decision in a major speech on achieving economic growth. The expansion of Heathrow has long…

McIlroy will make his first PGA Tour start of 2025 at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am this week and warned against making too many changes to emulate what is on offer elsewhere. “I don’t think we should try to dumb down golf to appeal to more people,” he said. “Golf is golf at the end of…

The Doomsday Clock symbolising how near humanity is to destruction has been moved one second forward to 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) – which sets the clock annually – said nuclear threats, potential misuses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence, as…

David Deans Political reporter, BBC Wales News Getty Images The Welsh government has introduced regulations restricting the prescription of puberty blockers by Welsh NHS GPs The Welsh government broke its own law in how it banned puberty blockers for under-18s questioning their gender identity, a Plaid Cymru politician has claimed. After a review found a…

Fourteen members of an Australian religious group have been convicted of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old diabetic girl who was denied insulin for almost a week. Elizabeth Struhs died at home in 2022, having suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes fatally high blood sugar. The court heard that Elizabeth’s treatment was withheld because the group,…

The mysterious drones that lit up skies across the US late last year were authorised by federal regulators and “not the enemy,” the White House has announced. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had approved the drones for research and many also belonged to people in the area, President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said…

Watch: Pause on federal funding targeted at DEI and ‘wokeness’, says White House A US judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans, minutes before it was set to come into effect on Tuesday. Judge Loren AliKhan’s order to pause the plan until next…

Kate McGough Education producer BBC As the bell rings at St Nicholas Church of England Primary Academy in Boston, Lincolnshire, head teacher Mrs Booth spots a little boy coming through the gates with his hood pulled up, crying. “Are you OK?” she asks in a soft voice, taking him to one side. He tells her…