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EU's Juncker calls empty European Parliament 'ridiculous' - BBC News | 2017-07-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The head of the European Commission launches a bitter attack on MEPs for failing to show up. | Europe | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Juncker: I will never again attend a meeting of this kind
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has launched a bitter attack on members of the European Parliament for failing to show up.
Standing up in almost em... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40492396 | news_world-europe-40492396 | |
Michael Gove: UK won't accept US chlorinated chickens - BBC News | 2017-07-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The UK would not agree a US trade deal which included chlorine-washed chicken, Michael Gove says. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Environment Secretary Michael Gove tells Today a US trade deal will not allow chlorinated chicken
The UK should not accept imports of chlorinated chickens as part of any future trade deal with the US, Michael Gove has said.
... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40726208 | news_uk-politics-40726208 | |
Theresa May sacking ministers 'would get MPs' support' - BBC News | 2017-07-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A senior backbencher backs the PM as she tries to restore discipline to her cabinet after leaks. | UK Politics | The cabinet has been posing for an official photo
Theresa May would have the backing of Tory MPs if she sacked disloyal ministers for plotting and briefing, a senior backbencher says.
Charles Walker, vice-chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, told ministers to "stop chattering away".
Earlier the prime minister t... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40639715 | news_uk-politics-40639715 | |
Parliament takes pride in role in gay rights struggles - BBC News | 2017-07-08 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | How politicians and Parliament have been at the centre of battles over gay rights over the past 60 years. | Parliaments | Flying the flag for LGBT rights - Parliament shows it solidarity
Westminster's "palace of enchantments" will be given an LGBTI gleam this weekend - lit up in the colours of the rainbow flag to mark both Pride Week and also the 50th anniversary of the Act of Parliament which legalised gay sex.
The decision was taken b... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-parliaments-40530264 | news_uk-politics-parliaments-40530264 | |
Cameron says fiscal discipline not 'selfish' amid austerity debate - BBC News | 2017-07-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The former PM says opponents of austerity are wrongly portraying the government as "uncaring". | UK Politics | The former PM says leaving debts to future generations is wrong
David Cameron has said opponents of fiscal discipline are "selfish" not "compassionate", as the debate within the Tories over austerity continues.
The ex-prime minister, who introduced the public sector pay cap, said those who believed in "sound finances... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40496775 | news_uk-politics-40496775 | |
Is there institutional racism in mental health care? - BBC News | 2017-07-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Statistics suggest black people are four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. | Health | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eche explains how he was Tasered when sectioned under the Mental Health Act
Black people are being failed by the UK's mental health services because of "institutional racism", it has been warned. How does this affect those w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40495539 | news_health-40495539 | |
Student debt rising to more than £50,000, says IFS - BBC News | 2017-07-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Rising tuition fees and interest rates mean higher costs for graduates, says the IFS. | Education & Family | Students will have accrued £5,800 in interest charges before they graduate, says the IFS
Students in England are going to graduate with average debts of £50,800, after interest rates are raised on student loans to 6.1%, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Those from the poorest backgrounds, with more loans... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40493658 | news_education-40493658 | |
Five times food fights have had an impact on trade talks - BBC News | 2017-07-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Chlorine chicken isn't the only food that has got politicians in a flap | Business | Trade talks, tense affairs at the best of times, often get particularly sticky when it comes to food.
When the UK starts to negotiate new trade deals as it leaves the EU in 2019, food will be one of many areas that will need to be addressed.
The ongoing spat over chlorine chicken highlights how tastes and safety prac... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40732185 | news_business-40732185 | |
Newspaper headlines: Conservative MP's 'N-word shame' - BBC News | 2017-07-11 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Racist language used by a Conservative MP and the decision to cap teachers' pay feature on the front pages. | The Papers | The parents of Charlie Gard appear in many of the newspapers
Several papers report the warning from a pay review body that schools in England are struggling to recruit teachers, after the government decided to cap their pay rises at 1%.
The story makes the lead in the Daily Telegraph, which says the prime minister is... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40564307 | news_blogs-the-papers-40564307 | |
Spanish airline Iberia to drop pregnancy test demand - BBC News | 2017-07-11 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Iberia insists the tests were for the women's own safety but is ridiculed for the claim. | Europe | Iberia insists it did not refuse to hire anyone for being pregnant - and says requiring tests is commonplace in Spain
The Spanish airline Iberia has said it will stop requiring female job candidates to take a pregnancy test after it was fined for the practice.
Labour inspectors in the Balearic Islands discovered the ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40567647 | news_world-europe-40567647 | |
Thousands march on Parliament in anti-government protest - BBC News | 2017-07-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds calling for an end to Theresa May's austerity programme. | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters listened to speeches from politicians and activists in Parliament Square
Thousands of people gathered in central London to demonstrate against the UK government's economic policies.
The protest was organised by a... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40468881 | news_uk-40468881 | |
How flammable cladding gets approved - BBC News | 2017-07-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | BBC Newsnight Chris Cook explains how engineering reports have been used to justify using more flammable materials on more high-rises in England | UK | Newsnight has obtained confidential reports that help explain how flammable material has become more common on tall buildings.
Combustible cladding has been permitted based on reports arguing fires involving combustible aluminium panels would behave similarly to ones with non-combustible ceramic tiles.
Developers use... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40465399 | news_uk-40465399 | |
Newspaper headlines: PM faces 'chorus of Tory demands' - BBC News | 2017-07-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The prime minister is facing demands from senior Conservatives to overhaul state funding, according to several papers. | The Papers | The papers report on a growing battle within the cabinet over austerity and public spending
The Sunday Telegraph says a new front has opened up in the cabinet battle over austerity.
The paper says Education Secretary Justine Greening has told Prime Minister Theresa May the Tories should abandon plans to cut per-pupil... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40471145 | news_blogs-the-papers-40471145 | |
Purged: The officers who cannot go home to Turkey - BBC News | 2017-07-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | After last year's botched coup in Turkey, thousands were arrested or fired in a far-reaching purge - including some Turkish military officers and their families stationed abroad. | Magazine | Last July, a botched military coup led to fighting on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul. Quickly peace was restored, the perpetrators were arrested - and a purge began of thousands of people, from judges to teachers, accused of links with the plotters. As Maria Psara in Brussels explains, the purge reached as far as B... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40500182 | news_magazine-40500182 | |
EU and Japan reach free trade deal - BBC News | 2017-07-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The European Union and Japan conclude a landmark free trade deal in Brussels, EU officials announce. | Business | The European Union and Japan have formally agreed an outline free-trade deal.
The agreement paves the way for trading in goods without tariff barriers between two of the world's biggest economic areas.
However, few specific details are known and a full, workable agreement may take some time.
Two of the most importan... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40520218 | news_business-40520218 | |
Tony Blair 'not straight' with UK over Iraq, says Chilcot - BBC News | 2017-07-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The former PM was "emotionally truthful" but relied on beliefs rather than facts, Sir John Chilcot says. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Blair 'not straight' with country over Iraq, says Sir John Chilcot
Tony Blair was not "straight with the nation" about his decisions in the run up to the Iraq War, the chairman of the inquiry into the war has told the BBC.
... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40510540 | news_uk-politics-40510540 | |
Newspaper headlines: Corbyn on student debt and Needham 'breakthrough' - BBC News | 2017-07-24 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Labour's leader discussing student debt, and a Ben Needham case development make the front pages. | The Papers | Jeremy Corbyn's claim on Sunday that he had never promised to write off student debt from loans for university tuition fees, during the election campaign, makes front page headlines.
For the Sun, it's a jaw-dropping U-turn.
The Daily Express says it's small wonder that thousands of students queued at the polling stat... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40701131 | news_blogs-the-papers-40701131 | |
Germany's big businesses' Brexit worries - BBC News | 2017-07-24 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | How are Germany's economic giants viewing the UK's negotiations to leave the EU? | Europe | It must be serious. They've deployed the Royals.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been on tour in Germany with a very specific purpose: to reassure the country that Brexit doesn't mean the break-up of a beautiful relationship.
Prince William, after speaking a few words in German, told guests at a British embass... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40683091 | news_world-europe-40683091 | |
Tech firms unite for 'net neutrality' protest - BBC News | 2017-07-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A host of US internet giants will protest against plans to roll back rules protecting 'net neutrality'. | Technology | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Dave Lee explains what the protest is about
A host of internet giants - from social networks to dating apps to porn sites - will join a protest Wednesday against plans to roll back rules protecting "net neutrality"... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40575882 | news_technology-40575882 | |
Newspaper headlines: 'Give us hope Johanna' and Brexit 'threat' - BBC News | 2017-07-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Johanna Konta's upcoming Wimbledon semi-final and Labour's Brexit "threat" make the front pages. | The Papers | Theresa May is interviewed by the Sun to mark her first year as prime minister
The Times leads on a claim that Google has paid millions of dollars in secret funds to UK and US academics in the hope that their research would sway public opinion and influence government policy.
According to a US watchdog group, payment... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40590100 | news_blogs-the-papers-40590100 | |
MPs speak out about 'sinister' election abuse - BBC News | 2017-07-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Tory and Labour MPs talk about intimidation they have faced - as ministers announce inquiry. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
MPs have spoken about the abuse and intimidation they were subjected to during the general election.
Conservative Simon Hart said colleagues were targeted for their sexuality, religious beliefs and social background by peop... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40577325 | news_uk-politics-40577325 | |
How Britain supported the early release of Rudolf Hess - BBC News | 2017-07-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Newly released files reveal that the UK supported the release of the Nazi leader as early as 1956. | UK | Files from the National Archives reveal that the British government supported the release of the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess as early as 1956.
Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's deputy and, for a while, one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany. He is mainly remembered for flying to Britain in 1941 in a bizarre a... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40647291 | news_uk-40647291 | |
University first-class degrees soaring - BBC News | 2017-07-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Universities awarding first-class degrees to over 40% of students. | Education & Family | The proportion of first-class degrees has more than trebled since the 1990s
The proportion of top degree grades being awarded by UK universities has soared - with some universities giving first-class degrees to more than a third of their students.
The University of Surrey awarded a first-class degree to 41% of studen... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40654933 | news_education-40654933 | |
Should there be comprehensive universities? - BBC News | 2017-07-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A report argues that universities should embrace the comprehensive principle and reject selection. | Education & Family | Is a culture of highly selective universities getting in the way of social mobility?
The long-running battle over grammar schools - put back into the deep freeze after the general election result - saw deep-rooted divisions over the impact of dividing pupils by academic ability.
Opponents argued that academic selecti... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40654935 | news_education-40654935 | |
John McCain has brain cancer, his office says - BBC News | 2017-07-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The 80-year-old US senator may undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment, a statement says. | US & Canada | Veteran US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, according to his office.
The options may include chemotherapy and radiation, his doctors said. The 80-year-old politician is in "good spirits" recovering at home.
He thanked those who had wished him well... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40664635 | news_world-us-canada-40664635 | |
Thousands march on Parliament in anti-government protest - BBC News | 2017-07-02 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds calling for an end to Theresa May's austerity programme. | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters listened to speeches from politicians and activists in Parliament Square
Thousands of people gathered in central London to demonstrate against the UK government's economic policies.
The protest was organised by a... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40468881 | news_uk-40468881 | |
Newspaper headlines: PM faces 'chorus of Tory demands' - BBC News | 2017-07-02 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The prime minister is facing demands from senior Conservatives to overhaul state funding, according to several papers. | The Papers | The papers report on a growing battle within the cabinet over austerity and public spending
The Sunday Telegraph says a new front has opened up in the cabinet battle over austerity.
The paper says Education Secretary Justine Greening has told Prime Minister Theresa May the Tories should abandon plans to cut per-pupil... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-40471145 | news_blogs-the-papers-40471145 | |
Johnny Mercer: I'd never voted before becoming an MP - BBC News | 2017-08-03 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ex-soldier Johnny Mercer on why he decided to become an MP despite a lack of faith in the political class. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnny Mercer MP talks to Mark D'Arcy about his journey to Westminster
Frustrated by out-of-touch politicians and the poor treatment of veterans, former army commando Johnny Mercer decided the best course of action was to be... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40791838 | news_uk-politics-40791838 | |
Sky Sports football pundit Peter Beagrie sacked over assault conviction - BBC News | 2017-08-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Peter Beagrie says he is innocent and will appeal against his conviction for attacking Zarah Blake. | York & North Yorkshire | Peter Beagrie was said to be angry and drunk when he attacked his partner
Ex-Premier League footballer Peter Beagrie has been sacked as a Sky Sports pundit after being convicted of an assault on his partner.
The 51-year-old ex-Everton, Manchester City and Bradford City winger punched Zarah Blake while angry and drunk... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40953098 | news_uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40953098 | |
How can GCSEs get harder and results stay the same? - BBC News | 2017-08-25 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | This year's GCSEs are made more difficult, so why are there not more people getting lower results? | Education & Family | The more things change... the more things stay the same.
A revolution has been announced for GCSEs in England, with tougher exams, a more stretching syllabus, no hiding behind coursework and standards that are higher than anything since the demise of the O-levels in the 1980s.
But the results - give or take a fractio... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41041595 | news_education-41041595 | |
How your digital self could 'live' on after you die - BBC News | 2017-08-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Start-ups are beginning to swoop in on the death and funerals sector to shake up a staid industry. | Business | What if you could "talk" digitally to your descendants, not just appear in photo albums?
The death and funerals industry is due for a shake-up, a growing number of tech start-ups believe.
After you die, how do you fancy springing back to life in the form of a digital avatar?
Your digital ghost could jump onto Facebo... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40935790 | news_business-40935790 | |
World Championships 2017: Why athletics is still worth fighting for - BBC Sport | 2017-08-14 | [] | Disappointments but great excitement and record-breaking crowds, the London World Championships were a success, says Tom Fordyce. | null | So this was a disappointing World Championships. Justin Gatlin beat Usain Bolt. Seven days later, cramp beat Bolt again. Wayde van Niekerk couldn't win his 200m/400m double. Isaac Makwala couldn't even start both.
Mo Farah, after 10 global golds on the bounce, finished with silver. Britain went fourth rather than conq... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40920004 | rt_athletics_40920004 | |
Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down? - BBC News | 2017-08-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Trump's argument that the removal of Confederate statues is a slippery slope to changing history has recharged the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy. | US & Canada | This article contains language that some readers may find offensive.
President Donald Trump's argument that the removal of Confederate statues is a slippery slope to changing history has recharged the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy.
"So this week it's Robert E Lee," he said on Tuesday of the... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40978515 | news_world-us-canada-40978515 | |
‘We were guinea pigs’: Jailed inmates agreed to birth control - BBC News | 2017-08-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Tennessee county started offering time off inmate sentences in exchange for birth control | US & Canada | In a small county in rural Tennessee, inmates were offered 30 days off their sentences in exchange for a vasectomy or a long-acting birth control implant. County officials say it was a tool in the fight against opiate abuse - opponents call it eugenics.
This spring, Deonna Tollison found herself in Judge Sam Benningfi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40955288 | news_world-us-canada-40955288 | |
'The devil's rope': How barbed wire changed America - BBC News | 2017-08-08 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | How the spread of barbed wire helped redraw the map of the USA. | Business | Late in 1876, so the story goes, a young man named John Warne Gates built a wire-fence pen in the middle of San Antonio, Texas.
He rounded up some of the toughest and wildest longhorns in all of Texas. That's how he described them.
Others say the cattle were a docile bunch. And there are those who wonder whether this... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40448594 | news_business-40448594 | |
Extreme weather 'could kill up to 152,000 a year' in Europe by 2100 - BBC News | 2017-08-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Weather-related deaths could surge by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say. | Europe | Heat waves will cause most weather-related deaths if measures are not taken, the study says
Extreme weather could kill up to 152,000 people yearly in Europe by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists say.
The number is 50 times more deaths than reported now, the study in The Lancet P... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40835663 | news_world-europe-40835663 | |
World Championships 2017: Why athletics is still worth fighting for - BBC Sport | 2017-08-15 | [] | Disappointments but great excitement and record-breaking crowds, the London World Championships were a success, says Tom Fordyce. | null | So this was a disappointing World Championships. Justin Gatlin beat Usain Bolt. Seven days later, cramp beat Bolt again. Wayde van Niekerk couldn't win his 200m/400m double. Isaac Makwala couldn't even start both.
Mo Farah, after 10 global golds on the bounce, finished with silver. Britain went fourth rather than conq... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40920004 | rt_athletics_40920004 | |
Parliament defends silencing Big Ben to protect workers - BBC News | 2017-08-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Brexit Secretary David Davis and national newspapers have criticised the decision to silence the famous bell. | UK Politics | The bells will still sound to mark New Year celebrations
Parliament has defended silencing the chimes of Big Ben for four years to protect workers' hearing during restoration works.
Cabinet minister David Davis described the move as "mad" and newspapers also criticised the decision.
But a UK Parliament spokesman sai... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40937841 | news_uk-politics-40937841 | |
Brexit: What is the government's customs union plan? - BBC News | 2017-08-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Reality Check examines the key parts of the government's paper on its future relationship with the customs union. | UK Politics | The Department for Exiting the European Union has released what it calls a future partnership paper, laying out the government's plans for the UK's relationship with the EU after it leaves.
The Reality Check team looks at some of the key parts of the document.
"The government believes that there are two broad approac... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40938826 | news_uk-politics-40938826 | |
Manchester firearms police: A unit in turmoil? - BBC News | 2017-08-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The force is being investigated over three fatal incidents. One ex-officer criticised its "aggressive" tactics. | UK | Anthony Grainger, PC Ian Terry and Jordan Begley were all killed in separate incidents
Greater Manchester Police is facing new investigations by the police watchdog over three separate fatal firearms incidents, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned.
It raises questions about the conduct of one of the UK's big... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40727842 | news_uk-40727842 | |
World leaders asked how UK would 'get round' Brexit, says Hague - BBC News | 2017-08-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | "Business leaders and politicians asked how we would get round the result," says former foreign secretary. | UK Politics | Business leaders and politicians asked former Foreign Secretary William Hague how the UK would "get round" the EU referendum result, he has revealed.
In the Daily Telegraph, Lord Hague said he was asked the question "for months... everywhere I went abroad" if "we would lose heart" about leaving.
He said he explained ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40785322 | news_uk-politics-40785322 | |
'The devil's rope': How barbed wire changed America - BBC News | 2017-08-09 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | How the spread of barbed wire helped redraw the map of the USA. | Business | Late in 1876, so the story goes, a young man named John Warne Gates built a wire-fence pen in the middle of San Antonio, Texas.
He rounded up some of the toughest and wildest longhorns in all of Texas. That's how he described them.
Others say the cattle were a docile bunch. And there are those who wonder whether this... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40448594 | news_business-40448594 | |
Cars for cheese - why a free trade deal may not be free - BBC News | 2017-08-09 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A free trade agreement does not normally mean the removal of all taxes, quotas and barriers. | Business | The proposed free trade deal between the EU and Japan has been described as a "cars for cheese" deal
Ahead of its exit from the European Union, the UK is currently negotiating to secure free trade agreements with several countries, but what does this kind of deal actually mean?
When two countries agree to a free trad... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40792654 | news_business-40792654 | |
Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down? - BBC News | 2017-08-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Trump's argument that the removal of Confederate statues is a slippery slope to changing history has recharged the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy. | US & Canada | This article contains language that some readers may find offensive.
President Donald Trump's argument that the removal of Confederate statues is a slippery slope to changing history has recharged the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy.
"So this week it's Robert E Lee," he said on Tuesday of the... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40978515 | news_world-us-canada-40978515 | |
How can GCSEs get harder and results stay the same? - BBC News | 2017-08-24 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | This year's GCSEs are made more difficult, so why are there not more people getting lower results? | Education & Family | The more things change... the more things stay the same.
A revolution has been announced for GCSEs in England, with tougher exams, a more stretching syllabus, no hiding behind coursework and standards that are higher than anything since the demise of the O-levels in the 1980s.
But the results - give or take a fractio... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41041595 | news_education-41041595 | |
Brexit: What is the government's customs union plan? - BBC News | 2017-08-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Reality Check examines the key parts of the government's paper on its future relationship with the customs union. | UK Politics | The Department for Exiting the European Union has released what it calls a future partnership paper, laying out the government's plans for the UK's relationship with the EU after it leaves.
The Reality Check team looks at some of the key parts of the document.
"The government believes that there are two broad approac... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40938826 | news_uk-politics-40938826 | |
'Frankenstein dinosaur' mystery solved - BBC News | 2017-08-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A dinosaur that seemed to be an evolutionary mishmash turns out to have a key place in history. | Science & Environment | About the size of a large dog: Chilesaurus was unearthed in South America
Scientists have solved the puzzle of the so-called "Frankenstein dinosaur", which seems to consist of body parts from unrelated species.
A new study suggests that it is in fact the missing link between plant-eating dinosaurs, such as Stegosauru... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40890714 | news_science-environment-40890714 | |
Sky Sports football pundit Peter Beagrie sacked over assault conviction - BBC News | 2017-08-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Peter Beagrie says he is innocent and will appeal against his conviction for attacking Zarah Blake. | York & North Yorkshire | Peter Beagrie was said to be angry and drunk when he attacked his partner
Ex-Premier League footballer Peter Beagrie has been sacked as a Sky Sports pundit after being convicted of an assault on his partner.
The 51-year-old ex-Everton, Manchester City and Bradford City winger punched Zarah Blake while angry and drunk... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40953098 | news_uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40953098 | |
Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down? - BBC News | 2017-08-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Trump's argument that the removal of Confederate statues is a slippery slope to changing history has recharged the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy. | US & Canada | This article contains language that some readers may find offensive.
President Donald Trump's argument that the removal of Confederate statues is a slippery slope to changing history has recharged the perennial debate about America's tormented racial legacy.
"So this week it's Robert E Lee," he said on Tuesday of the... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40978515 | news_world-us-canada-40978515 | |
Neymar: Was this the moment PSG target decided to leave Barcelona? - BBC Sport | 2017-08-02 | [] | With Barcelona on the brink of crisis, why did Neymar decide to leave for PSG, who could replace him and what are the ramifications? | null | In March, Barcelona achieved one of the most remarkable comebacks in Champions League history as three goals in the final seven minutes secured a sensational 6-5 aggregate victory over Paris St-Germain.
The chief inspiration on that historic night, without any doubt, was Neymar, who capped a brilliant performance by s... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40804584 | rt_football_40804584 | |
Theresa May to make 'open and generous' offer to EU - BBC News | 2017-09-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Some expect Theresa May to attempt to break the Brexit talks log jam on Friday with a cash offer. | UK Politics | Number 10 has been as tight-lipped as ever as the days tick down to the PM's Italian adventure.
The whole Cabinet is yet to see her entire Florence speech, there may well be a few edges that get smoothed off this morning. Political speeches do tend to be drafted, drafted, redrafted, and then redrafted again, often rig... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41346057 | news_uk-politics-41346057 | |
Court ruling not needed to withdraw care, judge says - BBC News | 2017-09-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Court consent will not be needed to remove nutrition from patients in a permanent vegetative state. | UK | Legal permission will no longer be required to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state, a judge has ruled.
Until now a judge must also consent, even if medics and relatives agree to withdraw nutrition from a patient.
But in what been described as a landmark decision, those cases will no longer have to c... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41341482 | news_uk-41341482 | |
Bespoke or off-the-peg: How might the Brexit transition look? - BBC News | 2017-09-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | There's more and more talk about a Brexit transition period - but no agreement what it might look like. | UK Politics | The idea of a transition period after Brexit is being talked about more and more often. But there's very little consensus on what it might look like.
Bespoke or off-the-peg? In the frustratingly fuzzy terminology of Brexit, this tailoring choice, between something made to measure and ready-to-wear, is often used to de... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41338227 | news_uk-politics-41338227 | |
The adventure that didn't quite go to plan - BBC News | 2017-09-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Mary Russell, a black woman with dwarfism, set off on a 900-mile journey through Vietnam with five other disabled people but quickly learned they were far from like-minded. | Disability | Mary Russell, a black woman with dwarfism, set off on a 21-day, 900-mile trip down the Ho Chi Minh trail with five other disabled people. She imagined it would be a unifying experience, but in fact she felt isolated among people she thought would be more like her.
"What made it for me was the beautiful scenic views," ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-41273439 | news_disability-41273439 | |
Newspaper headlines: 'Secret' Brexit bill, and Tory rebels warned - BBC News | 2017-09-03 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Sunday Times says Theresa May has "secretly agreed" a £50bn sum to settle the UK's Brexit bill. | The Papers | According to The Sunday Times, the outcome of the general election may have cost the country about £20bn. A source, described as a close ally of of Theresa May's, explains that meeting the UK's obligations to the EU had been estimated at up to £30bn. But, it says, the weakening of our negotiating position because the C... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-41138635 | news_blogs-the-papers-41138635 | |
Rebel Wilson awarded A$4.5m in magazine defamation case - BBC News | 2017-09-13 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The "unprecedented" payout follows the actress's claim her career was stifled by untrue articles. | Australia | Rebel Wilson celebrating in June after a jury found in her favour
Actress Rebel Wilson has been awarded A$4.5m (£2.7m; $3.6m) in Australia's largest payout for a defamation case.
Wilson successfully argued that a series of magazine articles had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar.
In June a jury unanimously sided... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41249861 | news_world-australia-41249861 | |
Public pay: What will unions do next? - BBC News | 2017-09-13 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A behind-the-scenes look at the TUC conference where talk of illegal strike action loomed large. | UK Politics | As this year's TUC conference draws to a close, counter-intuitively the government has forged a high degree of unity within the union movement.
Expectations on the lifting of the pay cap were raised, then dashed, when the awards to police officers were above the pay cap but palpably below inflation. The unions feel th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41252658 | news_uk-politics-41252658 | |
Why are wages so weak? - BBC News | 2017-09-13 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Despite record levels of employment, pay is lagging, and economists can't decide why, writes Simon Jack. | Business | Unions have threatened strikes if the public sector pay cap remains in place
In August 2013, the Bank of England Governor said he would consider raising interest rates when the unemployment rate came down to 7%.
At the time, it was 7.8% - today it is at a 42 year low of 4.3% and rather than raising rates, the only ad... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41259803 | news_business-41259803 | |
The refugee doctors learning to speak Glaswegian - BBC News | 2017-09-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | For doctors who fled to the UK, training to work in the NHS means having to learn the local dialect. | Health | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Doctors who have travelled to Scotland as refugees are being given the chance to start working for the NHS through a training scheme. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been to meet those involved.
"When people say... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41160013 | news_health-41160013 | |
Crime calculator: Find your personal risk of being a victim - BBC News | 2017-09-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Try the BBC's crime calculator tool to find out more about your personal risk of being a victim. | UK | Are you scared of being a victim of crime?
Today, for the first time, BBC News, working with the Office for National Statistics, is providing you with a way of understanding your risk of being a victim of crime in England and Wales. If you are interested in Scotland, you can find out more about the Scottish Crime Surv... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41178903 | news_uk-41178903 | |
US expands travel ban to include N Korea - BBC News | 2017-09-25 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | People from Venezuela and Chad will also now face restrictions on travel to the United States. | US & Canada | Passengers arrive at Washington's international airport in July after the Supreme Court
US President Donald Trump has expanded his controversial travel ban to include people from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, citing security concerns.
The new, open-ended restrictions follow a review of information sharing by other... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41382585 | news_world-us-canada-41382585 | |
The Maze Escape: the biggest jailbreak in UK history - BBC News | 2017-09-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A key organiser of the Maze Escape, now a born-again Christian, speaks out for the first time. | Northern Ireland | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Thirty-four years ago, a team of IRA inmates escaped from what was supposed to be the most secure prison in Europe. It was, and remains, the biggest jailbreak in UK history.
Despite being on the wrong side of 60, Brendan Me... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41271598 | news_uk-northern-ireland-41271598 | |
What's life like on the border with North Korea? - BBC News | 2017-09-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | What do people living near South Korea's Demilitarised Zone feel about the stand-off with the North? | Asia | It's one in the morning and, under the neon lights of Seoul's shining skyscrapers, people are laughing and chatting, heading to eat barbecue or drink tiny glasses of soju, the country's national alcoholic drink.
Being just 35 miles from one of the world's most dangerous borders isn't playing on the mind of anyone here... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41266764 | news_world-asia-41266764 | |
The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks - BBC News | 2017-09-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Israeli company Colu has launched a digital currency in Liverpool, which is only open to locally-owned and run businesses. | Magazine | An Israeli company called Colu has launched a local digital currency in Liverpool, which aims to revitalise the local economy by cutting out the banks. Will it achieve more than paper local currencies have? To find out, Dougal Shaw followed the money trail.
Large chains like Starbucks, Costa or McDonald's, need not ap... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40728550 | news_magazine-40728550 | |
Murdoch bid for Sky faces plurality and standards probe - BBC News | 2017-09-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | 21st Century Fox-Sky deal will be examined over media plurality and broadcast standards. | Business | James Murdoch urged the government to give the deal the go-ahead
The bid by 21st Century Fox to buy Sky will be referred to competition regulators in the "coming days", Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has confirmed.
The deal is facing a much fuller examination than initially expected.
It will be assessed "on media p... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41266542 | news_business-41266542 | |
'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli jailed over Hillary hair post - BBC News | 2017-09-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ex-pharmaceutical boss Martin Shkreli is ordered jailed as he awaits his sentence for fraud. | US & Canada | Shkreli (R) has frequently clashed with critics on social media
A judge has ordered the jailing of ex-pharmaceutical chief executive Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli while he awaits sentencing for securities fraud.
Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said a Facebook post in which Shkreli offered $5,000 for a strand of Hillary Clinton's ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41262249 | news_world-us-canada-41262249 | |
Why are wages so weak? - BBC News | 2017-09-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Despite record levels of employment, pay is lagging, and economists can't decide why, writes Simon Jack. | Business | Unions have threatened strikes if the public sector pay cap remains in place
In August 2013, the Bank of England Governor said he would consider raising interest rates when the unemployment rate came down to 7%.
At the time, it was 7.8% - today it is at a 42 year low of 4.3% and rather than raising rates, the only ad... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41259803 | news_business-41259803 | |
Barnier: EU's Brexit negotiator seeks to clarify remarks - BBC News | 2017-09-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | EU official says it is not time to "teach lessons" but to "explain" benefits of EU to all its members. | UK Politics | Michel Barnier has clarified remarks he is reported to have made about Brexit.
The EU negotiator was quoted as saying he saw the process as an opportunity to "teach" the British people and others what leaving the single market means.
Mr Barnier said he actually told a meeting it "was an occasion of great explanation ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41151962 | news_uk-politics-41151962 | |
'Husband-proof' shopping list goes viral - BBC News | 2017-09-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Indian woman's illustrated shopping list to her husband inspires laughter on social media. | BBC Trending | An Indian woman left little to chance by creating an illustrated 'dummy-proof' shopping list to aid her husband for their weekly food shop - and it struck a chord with thousands of social media users on LinkedIn and Twitter.
29-year-old IT specialist Era Golwalkar told BBC Trending that the list was created to "solve ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41403964 | news_blogs-trending-41403964 | |
Newspaper headlines: Corbyn 'ready to be PM' and Liz Dawn tributes - BBC News | 2017-09-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Jeremy Corbyn's speech at the Labour Party conference and the death of Liz Dawn make the front pages of Wednesday's papers. | The Papers | Events at the Labour Party conference in Brighton continue to dominate many of Wednesday's newspapers.
The impression gained by the Financial Times was of "big talk" and radical attitudes - "if it moves... nationalise it".
While the Sun says Labour has shown that the party is "mad, bad, and dangerous".
Rafael Behr i... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-41408620 | news_blogs-the-papers-41408620 | |
10 charts showing Wales since the devolution vote - BBC News | 2017-09-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | So how have we changed - or not - since 1997? | Wales | The landscape stays as beautiful as ever but how has Wales changed in 20 years since the devolution referendum?
How has Wales changed since 1997? That's a big subject. But here are 10 charts giving you a snapshot of how things might be a bit different - or in some cases, pretty much the same.
1 How is the economy per... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40818597 | news_uk-wales-40818597 | |
Germans fined over man, 83, left to die in bank branch - BBC News | 2017-09-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Three people get heavy fines in Essen for not helping a critically ill man at a bank branch. | Europe | A judge has imposed heavy fines on three people in the western German city of Essen for ignoring an elderly man who collapsed next to bank cash machines.
The 83-year-old man hit his head on the tiles and died a week later.
A fourth person had also ignored him, but was not ruled fit to stand trial. Medics were only al... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41305575 | news_world-europe-41305575 | |
Germany's AfD: How right-wing is nationalist Alternative for Germany? - BBC News | 2017-09-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | What does Germany's controversial third-biggest party actually stand for? | Europe | An AfD election poster in Berlin says "Stop Islamisation"
The nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has grown rapidly since it was formed in 2013 and is now the biggest opposition party in the Bundestag (national parliament), with 89 seats.
Founded in 2013 as an anti-euro party, it has shifted its focus to immigr... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37274201 | news_world-europe-37274201 | |
Turkey's new school year: Jihad in, evolution out - BBC News | 2017-09-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | New Turkish school textbooks omit evolution but include the idea of "jihad" - provoking a row. | Europe | There is a storm of criticism over textbooks revised for children aged six to 14
Turkey's schools have begun the new academic year with a controversial curriculum that leaves out the theory of evolution and brings in the concept of jihad.
For Turkey's Islamist-rooted government, the idea is for a new "education of va... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41296714 | news_world-europe-41296714 | |
Star Wars actor McDiarmid takes on immigration row role - BBC News | 2017-09-08 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ian McDiarmid's latest role tries to uncover the true character of the controversial politician Enoch Powell. | Entertainment & Arts | Ian McDiarmid portrays Enoch Powell at the time of his "rivers of blood" speech and later towards the end of his life
A single controversial speech probably made Enoch Powell the most admired and the most detested British politician of the 1960s. In 1968 his intervention in Britain's policies on migration ended his ca... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41174659 | news_entertainment-arts-41174659 | |
Crime calculator: Find your personal risk of being a victim - BBC News | 2017-09-08 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Try the BBC's crime calculator tool to find out more about your personal risk of being a victim. | UK | Are you scared of being a victim of crime?
Today, for the first time, BBC News, working with the Office for National Statistics, is providing you with a way of understanding your risk of being a victim of crime in England and Wales. If you are interested in Scotland, you can find out more about the Scottish Crime Surv... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41178903 | news_uk-41178903 | |
How much leverage does China have over North Korea? - BBC News | 2017-09-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Beijing enjoys a close relationship to Pyongyang, formalised in a 1961 bilateral treaty. | Asia | The People's Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour.
North Korea is the only country with which China has a legally binding mutual aid and co-operation treaty, signed in July 1961. There are only sev... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41152824 | news_world-asia-41152824 | |
'Husband-proof' shopping list goes viral - BBC News | 2017-09-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Indian woman's illustrated shopping list to her husband inspires laughter on social media. | BBC Trending | An Indian woman left little to chance by creating an illustrated 'dummy-proof' shopping list to aid her husband for their weekly food shop - and it struck a chord with thousands of social media users on LinkedIn and Twitter.
29-year-old IT specialist Era Golwalkar told BBC Trending that the list was created to "solve ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41403964 | news_blogs-trending-41403964 | |
Newspaper headlines: Corbyn 'ready to be PM' and Liz Dawn tributes - BBC News | 2017-09-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Jeremy Corbyn's speech at the Labour Party conference and the death of Liz Dawn make the front pages of Wednesday's papers. | The Papers | Events at the Labour Party conference in Brighton continue to dominate many of Wednesday's newspapers.
The impression gained by the Financial Times was of "big talk" and radical attitudes - "if it moves... nationalise it".
While the Sun says Labour has shown that the party is "mad, bad, and dangerous".
Rafael Behr i... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-41408620 | news_blogs-the-papers-41408620 | |
Rohingya crisis: Seeing through the official story in Myanmar - BBC News | 2017-09-11 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | On a government-sponsored trip, journalists uncovered evidence they were not supposed to see. | Asia | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is burning down Rohingya villages?
The 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung, the last areas of Myanm... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41222210 | news_world-asia-41222210 | |
What's life like on the border with North Korea? - BBC News | 2017-09-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | What do people living near South Korea's Demilitarised Zone feel about the stand-off with the North? | Asia | It's one in the morning and, under the neon lights of Seoul's shining skyscrapers, people are laughing and chatting, heading to eat barbecue or drink tiny glasses of soju, the country's national alcoholic drink.
Being just 35 miles from one of the world's most dangerous borders isn't playing on the mind of anyone here... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41266764 | news_world-asia-41266764 | |
Charlottesville: Trump repeats 'both sides' rhetoric - BBC News | 2017-09-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | He said both sides were behind violence in Charlottesville, but signed a motion condemning racism. | US & Canada | Mr Trump drew bipartisan criticism for his comments on Charlottesville
US President Donald Trump has repeated the controversial argument that "both sides" were at fault in white supremacist violence last month.
"A lot of people are saying... 'Gee, Trump may have a point'," he said.
Mr Trump made the comments hours b... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41262866 | news_world-us-canada-41262866 | |
Six injured in east London 'acid attack' - BBC News | 2017-09-23 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A teenager is arrested after a "noxious substance" is sprayed near the Westfield shopping centre. | London | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of police and other emergency services around Stratford has been shared on social media
Six people have been injured in Stratford, east London, in a reported acid attack.
Police were called to Stratford Centre, oppo... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41376150 | news_uk-england-london-41376150 | |
The Maze Escape: the biggest jailbreak in UK history - BBC News | 2017-09-23 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A key organiser of the Maze Escape, now a born-again Christian, speaks out for the first time. | Northern Ireland | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Thirty-four years ago, a team of IRA inmates escaped from what was supposed to be the most secure prison in Europe. It was, and remains, the biggest jailbreak in UK history.
Despite being on the wrong side of 60, Brendan Me... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41271598 | news_uk-northern-ireland-41271598 | |
What should be the 51st 'thing that made the modern economy'? - BBC News | 2017-09-23 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Tim Harford chose 50 essential inventions that shaped the modern economy, but what should be the 51st? | Business | But what did we miss? What should be the 51st thing that made the modern economy?
We've received hundreds of suggestions, which we've whittled down to a shortlist of six. You can vote for your favourite, and the winner will feature in a special programme and podcast on 28 October 2017.
The first option of our six tra... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41332582 | news_business-41332582 | |
MPs declare sports and bookies as most common donors - BBC News | 2017-09-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ladbrokes Coral companies appear 15 times for hospitality in the register of MPs' donations. | England | MPs have declared about £215,000 worth of gifts, benefits and hospitality
Sports and betting companies top the list of donors treating MPs to gifts and hospitality.
The Ladbrokes Coral group appeared 15 times in the register of members' interests, more than any other donor.
Out of 187 donations from UK sources regis... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41027964 | news_uk-england-41027964 | |
Star Wars actor McDiarmid takes on immigration row role - BBC News | 2017-09-09 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ian McDiarmid's latest role tries to uncover the true character of the controversial politician Enoch Powell. | Entertainment & Arts | Ian McDiarmid portrays Enoch Powell at the time of his "rivers of blood" speech and later towards the end of his life
A single controversial speech probably made Enoch Powell the most admired and the most detested British politician of the 1960s. In 1968 his intervention in Britain's policies on migration ended his ca... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41174659 | news_entertainment-arts-41174659 | |
Boris Johnson denies cabinet Brexit split - BBC News | 2017-09-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The foreign secretary says he will not be quitting and that the government is "working together". | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Boris Johnson says the government is "working together" and that he will not be resigning after criticism of his intervention on Brexit.
The foreign secretary has been accused of undermining Theresa May with a 4,000-word ar... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41316089 | news_uk-politics-41316089 | |
Turkey's new school year: Jihad in, evolution out - BBC News | 2017-09-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | New Turkish school textbooks omit evolution but include the idea of "jihad" - provoking a row. | Europe | There is a storm of criticism over textbooks revised for children aged six to 14
Turkey's schools have begun the new academic year with a controversial curriculum that leaves out the theory of evolution and brings in the concept of jihad.
For Turkey's Islamist-rooted government, the idea is for a new "education of va... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41296714 | news_world-europe-41296714 | |
How much leverage does China have over North Korea? - BBC News | 2017-09-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Beijing enjoys a close relationship to Pyongyang, formalised in a 1961 bilateral treaty. | Asia | The People's Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour.
North Korea is the only country with which China has a legally binding mutual aid and co-operation treaty, signed in July 1961. There are only sev... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41152824 | news_world-asia-41152824 | |
The refugee doctors learning to speak Glaswegian - BBC News | 2017-09-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | For doctors who fled to the UK, training to work in the NHS means having to learn the local dialect. | Health | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Doctors who have travelled to Scotland as refugees are being given the chance to start working for the NHS through a training scheme. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been to meet those involved.
"When people say... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41160013 | news_health-41160013 | |
Trump's Daca dilemma - and dodge - BBC News | 2017-09-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Donald Trump ended Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants. Now it's Congress's challenge. | US & Canada | The Trump administration has confirmed it's ending the Obama-era programme called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca). Now the president - and Congress - must grapple with the political fallout.
It won't be a hard break. Current enrolees will be allowed to maintain their normalised residency status until the... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41153609 | news_world-us-canada-41153609 | |
Six injured in east London 'acid attack' - BBC News | 2017-09-24 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A teenager is arrested after a "noxious substance" is sprayed near the Westfield shopping centre. | London | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of police and other emergency services around Stratford has been shared on social media
Six people have been injured in Stratford, east London, in a reported acid attack.
Police were called to Stratford Centre, oppo... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41376150 | news_uk-england-london-41376150 | |
What should be the 51st 'thing that made the modern economy'? - BBC News | 2017-09-24 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Tim Harford chose 50 essential inventions that shaped the modern economy, but what should be the 51st? | Business | But what did we miss? What should be the 51st thing that made the modern economy?
We've received hundreds of suggestions, which we've whittled down to a shortlist of six. You can vote for your favourite, and the winner will feature in a special programme and podcast on 28 October 2017.
The first option of our six tra... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41332582 | news_business-41332582 | |
Why Sweden is close to becoming a cashless economy - BBC News | 2017-09-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Card and phone payments may be replacing coins and notes, but are Swedes ready to get rid of cash altogether? | Business | Senobar Johnsen says it's "visibly noticeable" that Swedes prefer cards to cash these days
Sweden is the most cashless society on the planet, with barely 1% of the value of all payments made using coins or notes last year. So how did the Nordic nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?
Warm cinnamon buns are stacked... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41095004 | news_business-41095004 | |
Rohingya crisis: Seeing through the official story in Myanmar - BBC News | 2017-09-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | On a government-sponsored trip, journalists uncovered evidence they were not supposed to see. | Asia | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is burning down Rohingya villages?
The 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung, the last areas of Myanm... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41222210 | news_world-asia-41222210 | |
The 'Hillary safe space' that divided the American left - BBC News | 2017-09-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A website endorsed by former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been a divisive topic amongst America's left | BBC Trending | Verrit describes itself as "media for the 65.8 million"
It's a website that describes itself as "media for the 65.8 million" - a reference to the number of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.
That's a sizeable number, and if anywhere near that many had signed up, Verrit would... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41283202 | news_blogs-trending-41283202 | |
Court ruling not needed to withdraw care, judge says - BBC News | 2017-09-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Court consent will not be needed to remove nutrition from patients in a permanent vegetative state. | UK | Legal permission will no longer be required to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state, a judge has ruled.
Until now a judge must also consent, even if medics and relatives agree to withdraw nutrition from a patient.
But in what been described as a landmark decision, those cases will no longer have to c... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41341482 | news_uk-41341482 | |
Birmingham bin strike halted after court ruling - BBC News | 2017-09-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A full trial will take place to determine if council bosses acted unlawfully in issuing redundancy notices. | Birmingham & Black Country | Strike action began on 30 June in a row over job losses
Birmingham's bin strike has been suspended after the High Court granted an interim injunction against the council's bid to make workers redundant.
A trial will take place to determine if the council acted unlawfully in issuing redundancy notices.
Workers have b... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41330879 | news_uk-england-birmingham-41330879 | |
Newspaper headlines: 'Secret' Brexit bill, and Tory rebels warned - BBC News | 2017-09-02 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Sunday Times says Theresa May has "secretly agreed" a £50bn sum to settle the UK's Brexit bill. | The Papers | According to The Sunday Times, the outcome of the general election may have cost the country about £20bn. A source, described as a close ally of of Theresa May's, explains that meeting the UK's obligations to the EU had been estimated at up to £30bn. But, it says, the weakening of our negotiating position because the C... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-41138635 | news_blogs-the-papers-41138635 |
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