Francesca Gillett BBC News Getty Images Police seen coming out of the school as investigations continue into the evening Police say around 10 people have died in a shooting at an education campus in the city of Orebro. It is the worst school shooting ever to happen in Sweden, where school violence is rare. The…
Biochar is a form of charcoal made by burning without oxygen – credit Canadian Light Source, via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0. Researchers from the University of Waterloo have discovered that a special form of charcoal is highly effective at absorbing chromium and transforming it from a toxic industrial waste form into the form seen in…
Daniel Davies Political correspondent, BBC Wales News David Deans Political reporter, BBC Wales News Getty Images Darren Millar has been leader of the Senedd’s Conservatives for two months The leader of the Senedd’s Conservatives and one of his colleagues has missed a vote on the Welsh government’s draft budget after they went to the US…
Laura Scott Reporting fromKingston Crown Court EPA Chelsea and Australia star Samantha Kerr is considered to be one of the world’s best strikers Chelsea striker Samantha Kerr “felt ignored” by Met Police officers after telling them a taxi driver had left her fearing for her life, a jury has heard. The Australia international is charged…
Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK are being undermined by post-Brexit border checks, a senior health official has said. The boss of the Dover Port Health Authority said illegal meat, which has not been through proper health checks, was now available on “most High Streets” in the UK. European outbreaks of…
The “utterly heartbroken” family of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed at a Sheffield school on Monday have described him as a “best friend to all”. Harvey Willgoose died after he was attacked at All Saints Catholic High School on Granville Road on Monday. In a statement issued through South Yorkshire Police, Harvey’s family…
Chris Brightmore (right) with son-in-law and helpful diver in Dubai From England comes a story via Dubai of extraordinary human kindness shown to a man who had lost his wedding ring. Chris Brightmore was visiting family in the UAE in the week before Christmas when a ring that had not left his finger in 51…
Orla Guerin Senior International Correspondent Goktay Koraltan/ BBC The BBC joined Anton Yaremchuk as he evacuated people from the town of Pokrovsk As he prepares to set off on another rescue mission on Ukraine’s eastern front, 35-year-old Anton Yaremchuk is grateful for the fog. It will shield him and his colleague Pylyp from Russian drones…
Thousands of residents are fleeing Santorini after hundreds of earthquakes were recorded near the Greek island in the last 48 hours. About 9,000 people have left the island since Sunday, with additional emergency flights scheduled to leave on Tuesday. More than 300 earthquakes have been recorded in the past two days near the island, and…
BBC / Meleri Williams Teachers Fiona Elias, left, and Liz Hopkin were stabbed along with a pupil at the school The onus to do a daily check for knives in the bag of a 14-year-old girl convicted of attempted murder should not have been put on her father, Plaid Cymru’s education spokesperson has said. The…
