Tom Symonds Correspondent, BBC News Carl Court/Getty Images “We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children,” Orla Minihane tells me. “If that makes me far-right then so be it.” Orla has lived near Epping since she was a child and describes herself as a “very boring woman…
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An interview between a US journalist and an AI clone of a teenager who was killed during a school shooting in 2018 has prompted criticism online. Experts say this is one of the first times that an AI avatar of a dead person has been used in this way. BBC Verify’s Jake Horton has been…
An illustration of Demosthenes of Athens and a photograph of King George VI, both of whom had stutters A genetic analysis of a million individuals with stutters has clued Australian researchers into a potential genetic component that would revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of this common disorder. 400 million people worldwide have stutters, and a…
BBC A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a fellow pupil he stabbed at a school in Sheffield during their lunch break. Harvey Willgoose, who was also 15, died when he was stabbed in the heart at All Saints Catholic High School on Monday 3 February. The jury in a month-long trial at…
41 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win Olympic gold when she finished top in the 400-meter hurdle event. A member of the IOC, and Minister of Sport for Morocco, she was a pioneer for Muslim and African athletes…
Elaine Doran & Colletta Smith Cost of living producer & correspondent Getty Images UK holidaymakers are leaving it later to book shorter stays closer to home, travel firms are reporting. The trend is down to people trying to save money while making the most of hot weather, some of the UK’s biggest holiday companies have…
Hero pitbull –Credit: Gary ‘Ellgene‘ Thynes via Facebook A Pittsburgher and a mysterious dog recently teamed up to save two unconscious individuals in a story that has earned the pair thousands of plaudits. Gary Thynes shared both on Facebook and to local news station WTAE that he was playing with his own dog in a…
The first migrants have been detained under the UK’s new “one in, one out” deportation deal with France after crossing the English Channel. Pictures showed the migrants wearing life jackets disembarking from Border Force boats in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force. The Home Office said those detained will…
A male Montagu’s harrier in a wheat field – credit, Sumeetmoghe CC 4.0. BY-SA Adrift amongst a sea of wheat on an English farm, 4 extremely rare birds have successfully fledged, and are almost ready to strike out on their own. The successfully raised chicks are Montagu’s harriers, England’s rarest breeding bird, and the news…
