Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Badenoch announces

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 16:17
The Tory leader says the move would help millions buy a home, in her annual conference speech.

Einstein's violin sells for £860k at auction

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 16:16
Auctioneers think it might be the highest price ever paid for a violin not previously owned by a concert violinist.

Al-Shamie pledged allegiance to 'IS' in 999 call

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 16:13
Police confirm the attacker made the call after he crashed his car into a brick wall.

Al-Shamie pledged allegiance to 'Islamic State' in 999 call during attack

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 16:13
Police confirm the attacker made the call after he crashed his car into a brick wall.

Chris Mason: Badenoch hopes to grab attention with policy blitz

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 16:00
The Tory leader's conference speech included a new pledge to scrap stamp duty on the purchase of main homes.

Man who imprisoned partner in caravan guilty of coercive control

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 15:31
Antonio Villafane, 67, subjected Sally Ann Norman, 64, to seven years of violence.

TikTok creator guilty of killing woman by dangerous driving

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 15:25
Leigh Sutherland was speeding in a car with defective brakes when he smashed into a Peugeot 108 in Cumbernauld.

UK won't relax visa rules for India, Starmer says

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 13:13
The PM says there are no plans to open up more visa routes ahead of a visit to India to tout a trade deal.

Two charged over gold artefacts stolen from museum

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 12:47
Jewellery from the Bronze Age collection held at the St Fagans Museum was taken in a break-in on Monday.

It was a normal Saturday night in my pub - then Justin Bieber waltzed in

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 11:41
The Canadian singer filmed an impromptu music video on a surprise visit to a Dundee pub at the weekend.

It was a normal Saturday night in my pub - then Justin Bieber waltzed in

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 11:41
The Canadian singer filmed an impromptu music video on a surprise visit to a Dundee pub at the weekend.

Scammers using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 05:53
Foreign firms use AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses.

Murder victim jokes in police officer WhatsApp chat

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 05:51
Messages "read like a grotesque carnival of discrimination and abuse", a misconduct hearing is told.

'One of the greatest things' - Nigeria's art innovators on display in London

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 04:48
Nigerian Modernism at the Tate spotlights a compelling period in the West African country's history.

Charlie Mackesy reveals much of his new book was lost when iPad was stolen

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 04:00
The writer of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse says his iPad full of ideas was taken from his car.

Romesh Ranganathan on overexposure and feeling 'intimidated' by Sheridan Smith

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 02:47
The comic says he understands why people feel they see a lot of him, but jokes: "I do say no to stuff."

Children could kill with catapults, farmer warns

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 02:43
Campaigners call for tighter rules on possession of catapults.

Deaths of homeless people in UK reach record high in 2024

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 02:37
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazenes increasingly deadly.

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 02:37
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

How Stacey Solomon decluttered our homes back from the brink

BBC - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 02:31
Three families share the realisations that enabled them to declutter and transform their homes and lives.