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Donald Tusk calls Jeremy Hunt's Soviet jibe unwise and insulting - BBC News | 2018-10-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The EU Council president criticises the foreign secretary for likening the EU to the Soviet Union. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's jibe likening the EU to the Soviet Union was "as unwise as it is insulting", the president of the European Council says.
Donald Tusk called for "respect", saying as someone who spent half his... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45750023 | news_uk-politics-45750023 | |
Universal credit has to go, says John McDonnell - BBC News | 2018-10-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The government's flagship welfare programme looks likely to be scrapped if Labour win power. | UK Politics | The government's flagship welfare policy faces being scrapped by Labour because it is "just not sustainable", the shadow chancellor has said.
John McDonnell said universal credit, which merges six working-age benefits into one payment, "will have to go".
Labour announced at its party conference last month that it wou... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45777815 | news_uk-politics-45777815 | |
London university calls for £100m slavery reparation - BBC News | 2018-10-25 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | UK universities which gained from slave trade are asked to pay into fund for ethnic minority students. | Family & Education | Universities in the UK which benefited in previous centuries from the slave trade should contribute to a £100m fund to support ethnic minority students, says a university leader.
Geoff Thompson, chair of governors of the University of East London, says it would be "ethical and right" for universities to contribute.
H... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45979234 | news_education-45979234 | |
Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley Radio 2 Drivetime show to end - BBC News | 2018-10-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Simon Mayo is leaving Radio 2 altogether after a huge listener backlash to the new Drivetime show. | Entertainment & Arts | The Radio 2 Drivetime show with Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley is to end after just a few months on air.
Mayo is leaving BBC Radio 2 altogether but will continue to present his 5 Live film show with Mark Kermode.
Whiley will remain on the station but move to the 7-9pm slot, which means Drive will get a brand new presenter.... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45938829 | news_entertainment-arts-45938829 | |
Ryanair flight: 'Racial abuse passenger' referred to police - BBC News | 2018-10-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A man was filmed shouting abuse at a black woman in an incident that has been referred to police. | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident was captured by passenger David Lawrence, who spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live about what happened
Ryanair has been criticised for apparently failing to remove a passenger from a flight after racial abuse of a woman in... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45932027 | news_uk-45932027 | |
Samantha Eastwood: Man admits murdering midwife after affair - BBC News | 2018-10-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Samantha Eastwood was found in a shallow grave after being killed by the brother-in-law of her ex-fiancé. | Stoke & Staffordshire | Samantha Eastwood was missing for over a week before her body was found in a shallow grave
The body of Samantha Eastwood, 28, was found in a shallow grave in Caverswall, Staffordshire, in August, eight days after she went missing.
Michael Stirling, 32, the brother-in-law of her ex-fiance John Peake, pleaded guilty to... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-45937829 | news_uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-45937829 | |
UK government 'must act on Northern Ireland abortion' - BBC News | 2018-10-10 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Three Tory MPs say their party must step in, as current laws violate women's human rights. | Northern Ireland | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Denise had to give birth to her dead baby, because she was not able to have an abortion
The UK government must "wake up" and decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland, Tory MPs have told the BBC.
Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45719000 | news_uk-northern-ireland-45719000 | |
Donald Tusk calls Jeremy Hunt's Soviet jibe unwise and insulting - BBC News | 2018-10-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The EU Council president criticises the foreign secretary for likening the EU to the Soviet Union. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's jibe likening the EU to the Soviet Union was "as unwise as it is insulting", the president of the European Council says.
Donald Tusk called for "respect", saying as someone who spent half his... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45750023 | news_uk-politics-45750023 | |
Teacher Eleanor Wilson 'sickened' by plane sex claims - BBC News | 2018-10-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Eleanor Wilson tells a jury a pupil's claim the pair had sex in a toilet "came from his imagination". | Bristol | Eleanor Wilson faces four counts of sexual activity with a child under 18 while in a position of trust
A schoolteacher told police that claims she had sex with a teenage pupil in an aeroplane toilet made her "feel sick".
Eleanor Wilson is accused of having sex with the boy on the way back from a school trip in 2015.
... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45746393 | news_uk-england-bristol-45746393 | |
May's end of austerity claim 'not credible', says Labour - BBC News | 2018-10-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Labour says an end to government cuts is about as likely as the PM winning Strictly Come Dancing. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Theresa May's claim that austerity is coming to an end is as likely as her winning Strictly Come Dancing, Labour has said.
The prime minister told the Conservative Party conference that, after a decade of economic sacrifice... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45740427 | news_uk-politics-45740427 | |
Theresa May: Tories must be a party for everyone - BBC News | 2018-10-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Theresa May pledges to boost council house-building and says austerity is ending, in her big speech. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
Theresa May has told the Conservatives they must be the "party for everyone" and said austerity was ending in her party conference speech in Birmingham.
The prime minister said that a decade on from the financial crash, "th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45725615 | news_uk-politics-45725615 | |
London university calls for £100m slavery reparation - BBC News | 2018-10-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | UK universities which gained from slave trade are asked to pay into fund for ethnic minority students. | Family & Education | Universities in the UK which benefited in previous centuries from the slave trade should contribute to a £100m fund to support ethnic minority students, says a university leader.
Geoff Thompson, chair of governors of the University of East London, says it would be "ethical and right" for universities to contribute.
H... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45979234 | news_education-45979234 | |
Who are the justices on the US Supreme Court? - BBC News | 2018-10-08 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | One of the Supreme Court's conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, faces a backlash for luxury trips. | US & Canada | The Justices of the US Supreme Court in October 2022
The US Supreme Court is in the spotlight again this week after one of its conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, came under fire for accepting luxury vacations from a billionaire Republican donor.
Earlier this week, a ProPublica report revealed Mr Thomas failed to... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33103973 | news_magazine-33103973 | |
Scientists condemn professor's 'morally reprehensible' talk - BBC News | 2018-10-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Italian researcher Alessandro Strumia is heavily criticised for claiming physics was "built by men". | Science & Environment | Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider, was quick to condemn the talk
More than 1,600 scientists have so far signed a statement condemning the remarks of the Italian researcher who stated that physics was "built by men".
Prof Alessandro Strumia presented an analysis to an audience of predominantly young female physi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/45766576 | news_45766576 | |
Teacher Eleanor Wilson 'sickened' by plane sex claims - BBC News | 2018-10-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Eleanor Wilson tells a jury a pupil's claim the pair had sex in a toilet "came from his imagination". | Bristol | Eleanor Wilson faces four counts of sexual activity with a child under 18 while in a position of trust
A schoolteacher told police that claims she had sex with a teenage pupil in an aeroplane toilet made her "feel sick".
Eleanor Wilson is accused of having sex with the boy on the way back from a school trip in 2015.
... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45746393 | news_uk-england-bristol-45746393 | |
Brexit, the Irish border and the 'battle for the union' - BBC News | 2018-10-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Do growing Brexit tensions mean a fight for the union? | Northern Ireland | The 310-mile long border separating Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and how it should look after Brexit has become a crucial issue
With fewer than 200 days until the UK is due to leave the EU, the battle over Brexit is reaching dizzying heights of drama.
But perhaps an unintended consequence of the debat... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45864218 | news_uk-northern-ireland-45864218 | |
Samantha Eastwood: Man admits murdering midwife after affair - BBC News | 2018-10-23 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Samantha Eastwood was found in a shallow grave after being killed by the brother-in-law of her ex-fiancé. | Stoke & Staffordshire | Samantha Eastwood was missing for over a week before her body was found in a shallow grave
The body of Samantha Eastwood, 28, was found in a shallow grave in Caverswall, Staffordshire, in August, eight days after she went missing.
Michael Stirling, 32, the brother-in-law of her ex-fiance John Peake, pleaded guilty to... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-45937829 | news_uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-45937829 | |
On business, Philip Hammond is no Boris Johnson - BBC News | 2018-10-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Chancellor thinks the Tories need to be relentlessly pro-business - whatever the former Foreign Secretary says. | Business | The Chancellor of the Exchequer will do something relatively rare on Monday: take to a public platform to argue about the economy and business.
As I have written in the past, Philip Hammond's approach has been simple as the Brexit arguments swirl with ever greater degrees of ill-temper: make like a submarine.
Quietly... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45701803 | news_business-45701803 | |
Why you have (probably) already bought your last car - BBC News | 2018-10-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A growing number of tech analysts are predicting that in less than 20 years we'll all have stopped owning cars. | Business | Driverless taxis - the transport of the future?
I'm guessing you are scoffing in disbelief at the very suggestion of this article, but bear with me.
A growing number of tech analysts are predicting that in less than 20 years we'll all have stopped owning cars, and, what's more, the internal combustion engine will hav... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786690 | news_business-45786690 | |
Scientists condemn professor's 'morally reprehensible' talk - BBC News | 2018-10-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Italian researcher Alessandro Strumia is heavily criticised for claiming physics was "built by men". | Science & Environment | Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider, was quick to condemn the talk
More than 1,600 scientists have so far signed a statement condemning the remarks of the Italian researcher who stated that physics was "built by men".
Prof Alessandro Strumia presented an analysis to an audience of predominantly young female physi... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/45766576 | news_45766576 | |
Heterosexual couple win civil partnership case - BBC News | 2018-10-02 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Laws allowing only same-sex couples the right are discriminatory, the Supreme Court says. | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan said they were elated at the court's ruling
A heterosexual couple have won their legal bid for the right to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.
The Supreme Court unanimously ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44627990 | news_uk-44627990 | |
DFE caught adding tuition fees to school funding claims - BBC News | 2018-10-02 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The government rejected complaints over school budgets. But its response included the cost of tuition fees. | Family & Education | Head teachers were given figures on spending that have turned out to include students' tuition fees
If you're a student paying tuition fees, you might be surprised to find that the cost of going to university is being included as "spending" in the government's defence of its record on school funding.
But when ministe... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45706603 | news_education-45706603 | |
Will they, won't they and then how will they? - BBC News | 2018-11-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Talk of a second vote in Parliament if MPs reject the Brexit agreement is being discussed in Downing Street but "not with any enthusiasm". | UK Politics | One cabinet minister, in particular, has been saying privately to me for two years, and probably to anyone else that would listen, that the deal with the EU will only be done at the eleventh minute, in the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, at the so on and so on and so on and so on - you get the picture.
That's, acc... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46298450 | news_uk-politics-46298450 | |
Facebook appeals against Cambridge Analytica fine - BBC News | 2018-11-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The social network says the UK's data watchdog £500,000 penalty was unjustified. | Technology | Facebook has appealed against a fine imposed on it by the UK's data watchdog after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The social network says that because the regulator found no evidence that UK users' personal data had been shared inappropriately, the £500,000 penalty was unjustified.
Last month, the watchdog said Fac... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46292818 | news_technology-46292818 | |
Badger culling has 'modest' effect in cutting cattle TB - BBC News | 2018-11-13 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | An independent scientific review says badger culling can have a modest effect in reducing cattle TB. | Science & Environment | Culling badgers has a "modest" effect in slowing the spread of TB say experts
An independent scientific review has said that badger culling can have a "modest" effect in reducing cattle TB.
But it adds that the policy would lead to more than 40,000 badgers being culled a year.
The report says that such high levels o... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46187230 | news_science-environment-46187230 | |
Tory rebellion over fixed-odds betting terminals - BBC News | 2018-11-13 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | More than 20 Conservative MPs join opposition parties demanding a crackdown be brought forward. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
The government is facing a rebellion over the timing of its crackdown on fixed-odds gambling machines.
Ministers have promised to cut the machines' maximum stake from £100 to £2 in October 2019 - but some MPs are calling fo... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46184298 | news_uk-politics-46184298 | |
Murder victim's family leave UK and say London 'too dangerous' - BBC News | 2018-11-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The sister of a man murdered in the capital says "terrible things can happen in the blink of an eye". | London | Beniamin Pieknyi died from blood loss after being stabbed in the chest
The family of a Romanian man stabbed to death weeks after moving to England have said they see London as a dangerous place where "terrible things can happen in the blink of an eye".
Beniamin Pieknyi, 21, was walking through a shopping centre when ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46083736 | news_uk-england-london-46083736 | |
Theresa May's Brexit message: 'This is all there is' - BBC News | 2018-11-25 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Selling the prime minister's deal as a grown-up compromise will be harder than talks with the EU. | UK Politics | The talking in Brussels is done. After nearly two years of negotiations, arguments - and the inevitable moments where it felt like the process would explode - there is, now, a deal.
It's a compromise. It was always going to be. It's not a happy compromise either. People on both sides of the Brexit argument are already... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46337053 | news_uk-politics-46337053 | |
Analysis: Macron's blunt Brexit warning to UK over fishing - BBC News | 2018-11-25 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The French president gives the UK a reminder of the difficulties ahead in Brexit negotiations. | UK | EU leaders who gathered in Brussels put on a united front to back Theresa May's argument that the withdrawal agreement they endorsed was the "best and only" Brexit deal available.
But there was no sense of celebration, and there were plenty of signs of how tough negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship are likely... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46336962 | news_uk-46336962 | |
Will they, won't they and then how will they? - BBC News | 2018-11-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Talk of a second vote in Parliament if MPs reject the Brexit agreement is being discussed in Downing Street but "not with any enthusiasm". | UK Politics | One cabinet minister, in particular, has been saying privately to me for two years, and probably to anyone else that would listen, that the deal with the EU will only be done at the eleventh minute, in the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, at the so on and so on and so on and so on - you get the picture.
That's, acc... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46298450 | news_uk-politics-46298450 | |
Pro-betting MPs 'more persuasive' than me - Tracey Crouch - BBC News | 2018-11-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ms Crouch resigned as sports minister over "delays" to a crackdown on fixed-odds betting machines. | UK Politics | Ex-sports minister Tracey Crouch has said MPs interested in the betting industry are behind "delays" to new laws on fixed-odds betting machines.
Ms Crouch resigned from her post after Chancellor Philip Hammond said the cut in stakes from £100 to £2 would come into force in October 2019.
Ms Crouch said it was a "fact"... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46089086 | news_uk-politics-46089086 | |
Azaan Kaleem death: Mother cannot forgive killers for laughing at trial - BBC News | 2018-11-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Roseann Taylor says the defendants had "no remorse" over stabbing Azaan Kaleem. | Beds, Herts & Bucks | Roseann Taylor said she wanted to donate her son's organs, but could not because his body was "evidence"
The mother of a teenager who was stabbed to death said she cannot forgive his killers after they "laughed and joked" at their trial.
Azaan Kaleem, 18, was with his girlfriend in Luton in March when a group of stra... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46085077 | news_uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46085077 | |
Rebel Wilson responds to backlash over 'plus-sized' claims - BBC News | 2018-11-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Australian actress had claimed to be the "first-ever plus-sized girl" to be a romcom lead. | Newsbeat | Rebel Wilson says she "never wants to disrespect anyone" after there was backlash over comments she made about plus-sized women in film.
The Australian actress told chat show host Ellen Degeneres: "I'm proud to be the first ever plus-sized girl to be the star of a romantic comedy."
Viewers pointed out that Queen Lati... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46089764 | news_newsbeat-46089764 | |
Theresa May's Brexit message: 'This is all there is' - BBC News | 2018-11-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Selling the prime minister's deal as a grown-up compromise will be harder than talks with the EU. | UK Politics | The talking in Brussels is done. After nearly two years of negotiations, arguments - and the inevitable moments where it felt like the process would explode - there is, now, a deal.
It's a compromise. It was always going to be. It's not a happy compromise either. People on both sides of the Brexit argument are already... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46337053 | news_uk-politics-46337053 | |
Analysis: Macron's blunt Brexit warning to UK over fishing - BBC News | 2018-11-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The French president gives the UK a reminder of the difficulties ahead in Brexit negotiations. | UK | EU leaders who gathered in Brussels put on a united front to back Theresa May's argument that the withdrawal agreement they endorsed was the "best and only" Brexit deal available.
But there was no sense of celebration, and there were plenty of signs of how tough negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship are likely... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46336962 | news_uk-46336962 | |
Safety concerns raised over breast implants - BBC News | 2018-11-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Some makers of textured implants did not carry out adequate tests, an investigation finds. | Health | Implants can be "textured" or "smooth"
An investigation has raised safety concerns about the most commonly used type of silicone breast implant in the UK.
Women in France are now being advised not to use "textured" silicone implants while authorities investigate links with a rare form of cancer.
British women are st... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46329824 | news_health-46329824 | |
Rebel Wilson responds to backlash over 'plus-sized' claims - BBC News | 2018-11-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Australian actress had claimed to be the "first-ever plus-sized girl" to be a romcom lead. | Newsbeat | Rebel Wilson says she "never wants to disrespect anyone" after there was backlash over comments she made about plus-sized women in film.
The Australian actress told chat show host Ellen Degeneres: "I'm proud to be the first ever plus-sized girl to be the star of a romantic comedy."
Viewers pointed out that Queen Lati... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46089764 | news_newsbeat-46089764 | |
Azaan Kaleem death: Mother cannot forgive killers for laughing at trial - BBC News | 2018-11-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Roseann Taylor says the defendants had "no remorse" over stabbing Azaan Kaleem. | Beds, Herts & Bucks | Roseann Taylor said she wanted to donate her son's organs, but could not because his body was "evidence"
The mother of a teenager who was stabbed to death said she cannot forgive his killers after they "laughed and joked" at their trial.
Azaan Kaleem, 18, was with his girlfriend in Luton in March when a group of stra... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46085077 | news_uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46085077 | |
Safety concerns raised over breast implants - BBC News | 2018-11-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Some makers of textured implants did not carry out adequate tests, an investigation finds. | Health | Implants can be "textured" or "smooth"
An investigation has raised safety concerns about the most commonly used type of silicone breast implant in the UK.
Women in France are now being advised not to use "textured" silicone implants while authorities investigate links with a rare form of cancer.
British women are st... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46329824 | news_health-46329824 | |
Reality Check: Is Trump right about the Brexit deal? - BBC News | 2018-11-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Donald Trump says the Brexit deal may affect the UK's trade with the US. | UK Politics | "Sounds like a great deal for the EU," is a pretty broad statement.
But President Trump was talking in particular about the prospects for future trade agreements.
"Right now, if you look at the (Brexit) deal," he said, "they (the UK) may not be able to trade with us, and that wouldn't be a good thing."
Of course, th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46360310 | news_uk-politics-46360310 | |
Analysis: Macron's blunt Brexit warning to UK over fishing - BBC News | 2018-11-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The French president gives the UK a reminder of the difficulties ahead in Brexit negotiations. | UK | EU leaders who gathered in Brussels put on a united front to back Theresa May's argument that the withdrawal agreement they endorsed was the "best and only" Brexit deal available.
But there was no sense of celebration, and there were plenty of signs of how tough negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship are likely... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46336962 | news_uk-46336962 | |
Man City 3-1 Man Utd: Hosts claim deserved derby victory & go back top - BBC Sport | 2018-11-11 | [] | Jose Mourinho says Manchester City's preparations for their derby victory were helped by playing in two "friendly" matches during the past week. | null | Last updated on .From the section Premier League
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said Manchester City's preparations for their derby victory were helped by playing in two "friendly" matches during the past week.
City returned to the top of the Premier League as goals from David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Ilkay ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46087586 | rt_football_46087586 | |
'Why I never want babies' - BBC News | 2018-11-09 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Jang Yun-hwa is one of a rising number of South Korean women choosing not to marry, have children, or even have relationships with men. | Stories | An increasing number of South Korean women are choosing not to marry, not to have children, and not even to have relationships with men. With the lowest fertility rate in the world, the country's population will start shrinking unless something changes.
"I have no plans to have children, ever," says 24-year-old Jang Y... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45201725 | news_stories-45201725 | |
Airbnb removes Israeli West Bank settlement listings - BBC News | 2018-11-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The US firm says it will take home rentals in Israeli settlements on occupied land off its website. | Business | Airbnb says it will remove from its listings all homes in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The US firm said it had made the decision because settlements were at the "core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians".
The move has been welcomed by Palestinians but Israel has called it "shameful" and... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46269704 | news_business-46269704 | |
Tory rebellion over fixed-odds betting terminals - BBC News | 2018-11-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | More than 20 Conservative MPs join opposition parties demanding a crackdown be brought forward. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
The government is facing a rebellion over the timing of its crackdown on fixed-odds gambling machines.
Ministers have promised to cut the machines' maximum stake from £100 to £2 in October 2019 - but some MPs are calling fo... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46184298 | news_uk-politics-46184298 | |
Brexit: Cabinet ministers 'voiced doubts over PM's plan at start' - BBC News | 2018-11-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Cabinet sources say multiple members of Theresa May's ministerial team spoke out against her plan. | UK Politics | Cabinet ministers in discussion at Chequers in July, when the Brexit plan was agreed
Multiple cabinet ministers expressed significant doubts about the prime minister's preferred Brexit plan from the start, the BBC has learned.
Parts of Theresa May's plan were described as "worrying", "disappointing" and "concerning" ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46175150 | news_uk-46175150 | |
Why May's Brexit deal may be impossible - BBC News | 2018-11-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg weighs up the opposition within the cabinet to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan. | UK | Opponents of the prime minister's Brexit deal are found outside and inside her cabinet
It is no secret that Theresa May is struggling to get her cabinet on board.
Seven days ago it felt that the ingredients for concluding this vital stage of the Brexit deal were there, waiting perhaps for the political moment to feel... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46175403 | news_uk-46175403 | |
Man City 3-1 Man Utd: Hosts claim deserved derby victory & go back top - BBC Sport | 2018-11-12 | [] | Jose Mourinho says Manchester City's preparations for their derby victory were helped by playing in two "friendly" matches during the past week. | null | Last updated on .From the section Premier League
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said Manchester City's preparations for their derby victory were helped by playing in two "friendly" matches during the past week.
City returned to the top of the Premier League as goals from David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Ilkay ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46087586 | rt_football_46087586 | |
Airbnb removes Israeli West Bank settlement listings - BBC News | 2018-11-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The US firm says it will take home rentals in Israeli settlements on occupied land off its website. | Business | Airbnb says it will remove from its listings all homes in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The US firm said it had made the decision because settlements were at the "core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians".
The move has been welcomed by Palestinians but Israel has called it "shameful" and... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46269704 | news_business-46269704 | |
Brexit blind dates: Prof Lord Winston and Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace - BBC News | 2018-11-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | She nicknamed the fertility expert "Lord Embryo" but did they get on talking Brexit over dinner? | UK | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the best bits of Prof Winston and Aisleyne's date
What happens when two strong-minded individuals from opposite sides of the Brexit debate sit down for dinner? To find out, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has o... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46222586 | news_uk-46222586 | |
Samantha Eastwood: Life sentence for midwife murderer - BBC News | 2018-12-03 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Michael Stirling killed Samantha Eastwood and left her in a shallow grave with tape around her head. | Stoke & Staffordshire | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
The "callous" killer who murdered midwife Samantha Eastwood comforted her sister just hours after burying her body in a shallow grave.
Michael Stirling, 32, admitted killing Ms Eastwood, from Stoke-on-Trent, with whom he ha... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46424611 | news_uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46424611 | |
Brexit: Still time to persuade MPs to back deal, says Matt Hancock - BBC News | 2018-12-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Ministers tour UK to sell PM's deal ahead of vote as Brexiteers say compromise bid is "meaningless". | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit: Can Theresa May win over MPs?
Ministers are trying to rally support for the PM's Brexit deal across the UK but a bid to find a compromise has been dismissed by the DUP and Brexiteers.
With Theresa May widely expecte... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46477036 | news_uk-politics-46477036 | |
Obituary: Paddy Ashdown - BBC News | 2018-12-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Former Royal Marine who led the Liberal Democrats and spearheaded a peace initiative in the former Yugoslavia. | UK Politics | Paddy Ashdown was the action man of British politics.
A former Royal Marine officer, he was the first elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, a party then badly in need of some military-style discipline.
He led his party to its best election result for half a century but his combative style of leadership did not alw... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33440958 | news_uk-politics-33440958 | |
Samantha Eastwood: Life sentence for midwife murderer - BBC News | 2018-12-04 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Michael Stirling killed Samantha Eastwood and left her in a shallow grave with tape around her head. | Stoke & Staffordshire | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.
The "callous" killer who murdered midwife Samantha Eastwood comforted her sister just hours after burying her body in a shallow grave.
Michael Stirling, 32, admitted killing Ms Eastwood, from Stoke-on-Trent, with whom he ha... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46424611 | news_uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46424611 | |
After Mattis, Trump's foreign policy worries allies - BBC News | 2018-12-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | There seems to be little evidence of any foreign policy strategy being followed in the White House. | US & Canada | Is this, at last, the true face of the Trump administration's foreign policy?
US ground troops withdrawn from Syria at short notice; the long-heralded departure of James Mattis - a much respected defence secretary - who can clearly no longer tolerate the president's mercurial approach to security and defence.
Now the... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46645718 | news_world-us-canada-46645718 | |
Japan and the whale - BBC News | 2018-12-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | It is probably the one issue that brings more international condemnation on Japan than any other. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield- Hayes asks why Japan keeps on whaling? | Asia | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is Japan losing the taste for whale meat?
Hunting whales is irrelevant to feeding Japan's population, draws global condemnation and is certainly not economic. So why does Japan still do it?
The answer from the Japanese gove... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35397749 | news_world-asia-35397749 | |
Japan says it's time to allow sustainable whaling - BBC News | 2018-12-26 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Japan is trying to convince the world the time has come to make commercial whaling legal again. | Asia | Whales are known to be intelligent and sociable animals
Few conservation issues generate as emotional a response as whaling. Are we now about to see countries killing whales for profit again?
Commercial whaling has been effectively banned for more than 30 years, after some whales were driven almost to extinction.
Bu... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45364696 | news_world-asia-45364696 | |
Brexit: May is making new enemies, not finding fans - BBC News | 2018-12-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The PM's attempts to convince backbenchers to support her deal is proving fairly fruitless. | UK Politics | Theresa May is holding meetings with MPs to try to win their backing over her deal
This is not - I repeat NOT - a re-run of the referendum.
Theresa May will never convince purists on either side of the Brexit debate that they are wrong to believe it's right to leave, or heresy to argue to stay.
What she needs to do ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46461634 | news_uk-politics-46461634 | |
Christmas cheer at Lady Lumley's School after ban lifted - BBC News | 2018-12-05 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Pupils were previously told Christmas was cancelled unless they could argue a case for it. | York & North Yorkshire | The school's RE teacher said the true meaning of Christmas had been buried under "an avalanche of commercialisation"
A school that threatened to ban Christmas has been persuaded to reinstate it by "thoughtful" pupils.
Lady Lumley's School in Pickering, North Yorkshire, previously told pupils it would ban all festive ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-46444498 | news_uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-46444498 | |
After Mattis, Trump's foreign policy worries allies - BBC News | 2018-12-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | There seems to be little evidence of any foreign policy strategy being followed in the White House. | US & Canada | Is this, at last, the true face of the Trump administration's foreign policy?
US ground troops withdrawn from Syria at short notice; the long-heralded departure of James Mattis - a much respected defence secretary - who can clearly no longer tolerate the president's mercurial approach to security and defence.
Now the... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46645718 | news_world-us-canada-46645718 | |
Paisley faces luxury Maldives holiday questions - BBC News | 2018-12-11 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The DUP MP did not declare a holiday to the Maldives in 2016, BBC Spotlight reports. | Northern Ireland | Mr Paisley was recently suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days for "serious misconduct"
DUP MP Ian Paisley was given a complimentary holiday at a luxury Maldives resort months after advocating on behalf of its government.
BBC Spotlight obtained new evidence which suggested the visit was requested by the Mald... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46530569 | news_uk-northern-ireland-46530569 | |
Obituary: Paddy Ashdown - BBC News | 2018-12-23 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Former Royal Marine who led the Liberal Democrats and spearheaded a peace initiative in the former Yugoslavia. | UK Politics | Paddy Ashdown was the action man of British politics.
A former Royal Marine officer, he was the first elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, a party then badly in need of some military-style discipline.
He led his party to its best election result for half a century but his combative style of leadership did not alw... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33440958 | news_uk-politics-33440958 | |
Brexit: Will more Remainers voice their fears? - BBC News | 2018-12-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | As another minister resigns, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Theresa May's Brexit deal. | UK Politics | Theresa May is currently in Argentina for the G20 meeting of world leaders
She might be 7,000 miles away, but Theresa May's colleagues at home - including those she promoted - have the capacity to ruin her night.
Just as she was sitting down to at a glittering evening with her fellow world leaders, news broke that Sa... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46408741 | news_uk-politics-46408741 | |
Uber loses latest legal bid over driver rights - BBC News | 2018-12-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The Court of Appeal upholds a ruling that Uber drivers should be classed as workers, not self-employed. | Business | The case centres around former Uber drivers James Farrar (left) and Yaseen Aslam
Uber has lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers rather than self-employed.
In 2016 a tribunal ruled drivers James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were Uber staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest break... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46617584 | news_business-46617584 | |
Brexit referendum 'plausible' if MPs can't decide - Amber Rudd - BBC News | 2018-12-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | There would be a case for another referendum if Parliament is deadlocked, Amber Rudd says. | UK Politics | Another Brexit referendum will become a "plausible" way forward if there is deadlock in Parliament, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
She told ITV's Peston show while she did not personally support another vote, the case for one would grow if MPs could not agree another solution.
She said she hoped MPs... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46626967 | news_uk-politics-46626967 | |
Paisley faces luxury Maldives holiday questions - BBC News | 2018-12-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The DUP MP did not declare a holiday to the Maldives in 2016, BBC Spotlight reports. | Northern Ireland | Mr Paisley was recently suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days for "serious misconduct"
DUP MP Ian Paisley was given a complimentary holiday at a luxury Maldives resort months after advocating on behalf of its government.
BBC Spotlight obtained new evidence which suggested the visit was requested by the Mald... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46530569 | news_uk-northern-ireland-46530569 | |
Dartmouth Fatstock: Sexism row over men-only awards dinner - BBC News | 2018-12-12 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | A farming show is told to "move with the 21st Century" and let women attend its prize-giving dinner. | Devon | Women are awarded prizes at a ceremony in the afternoon but not at the evening dinner
Women in farming have called on a men-only awards dinner "to get with the times" and allow them to attend.
The Dartmouth Fatstock Show in Devon, which sees farmers compete for the best cattle, sheep and poultry, has run for more tha... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-46524148 | news_uk-england-devon-46524148 | |
Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd suggest rival Brexit 'Plan Bs' - BBC News | 2018-12-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd are at odds over what should happen if MPs reject Theresa May's deal. | UK Politics | Cabinet colleagues Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd have set out rival plans if Theresa May can't get her Brexit deal through Parliament.
The two ministers stressed that their top priority was securing Parliamentary backing for the prime minister's deal.
But Ms Rudd said a referendum was a "plausible" way forward if MPs... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46631581 | news_uk-politics-46631581 | |
Brexit referendum 'plausible' if MPs can't decide - Amber Rudd - BBC News | 2018-12-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | There would be a case for another referendum if Parliament is deadlocked, Amber Rudd says. | UK Politics | Another Brexit referendum will become a "plausible" way forward if there is deadlock in Parliament, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
She told ITV's Peston show while she did not personally support another vote, the case for one would grow if MPs could not agree another solution.
She said she hoped MPs... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46626967 | news_uk-politics-46626967 | |
Brexit: Should Theresa May stick with her plan? - BBC News | 2019-01-21 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | If Theresa May wasn't going to budge, what was the point of implying that she might? | UK Politics | On the face of it, there is nothing remotely surprising about Theresa May telling her Cabinet colleagues last night that she wants to have another go at trying to sort out the backstop.
The political implication of that is that she still thinks it is better at this stage for her to pursue a strategy that might just ab... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46944059 | news_uk-politics-46944059 | |
'My mum killed my dad with a hammer but I want her freed' - BBC News | 2019-01-03 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Sally Challen was jailed for murder in 2011 but a new law means an appeal next month could succeed. | Family & Education | Sally Challen and Richard Challen during their 31-year marriage
Sally Challen was jailed for the murder of her husband in 2011 but her solicitors believe a new law, recognising psychological manipulation as a form of domestic abuse, could be a defence in an appeal hearing next month. Her son David explains why he's ba... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46111655 | news_education-46111655 | |
Brexit deal: Meetings aren't a Plan B - BBC News | 2019-01-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The PM has promised meetings and conversations - but can Theresa May bring her critics on board? | UK Politics | Meetings, on their own, are not a Plan B. Conversations, are not by themselves, compromises.
To get any deal done where there are such clashing views all around, it requires give and take. It feels like a political lifetime since there has been a fundamental dispute in the cabinet, in the Tory party and across Parliam... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46900738 | news_uk-politics-46900738 | |
Saturn's spectacular rings are 'very young' - BBC News | 2019-01-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million years old. | Science & Environment | The end phases of the mission should yield new information about Saturn's interior
We're looking at Saturn at a very special time in the history of the Solar System, according to scientists.
They've confirmed the planet's iconic rings are very young - no more than 100 million years old, when dinosaurs still walked th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46911945 | news_science-environment-46911945 | |
Why is the government cooling on nuclear? - BBC News | 2019-01-17 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The collapse of plans for a new nuclear plant in Anglesey is just the latest blow to the industry. | Business | The previous power station at Wylfa was closed in 2015
There was a time - not so long ago - that government ministers talked enthusiastically about a new nuclear age. A fleet of brand new reactors producing reliable, low carbon electricity for decades to come. Not only that, but the government wouldn't be taking any o... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46906245 | news_business-46906245 | |
Brexit: What's happening with the PM's conundrum? - BBC News | 2019-01-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Is there anything that will convince scores of MPs to change their minds about Theresa May's Brexit deal? | UK Politics | On the face of it, it seems like very, very little has changed about the prime minister's conundrum.
One source joked to me that I could just re-open my notebook from the last day before the Christmas break and carry on as if the past fortnight hadn't happened.
The prime minister is still pushing for extra promises f... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46788350 | news_uk-politics-46788350 | |
Is Theresa May any closer to unblocking her Brexit deal? - BBC News | 2019-01-07 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Is the prime minister any closer to getting MPs' backing for the UK's deal for exiting the EU? | UK Politics | There is a growing feeling it may take more than one go to get the deal through Parliament
When Theresa May pulled the "meaningful vote" on Brexit last month, the day before MPs were about to pass their verdict on her deal, Downing Street hoped two things would happen.
First, that the EU would offer some form of lega... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46761290 | news_uk-politics-46761290 | |
Brexit: Should Theresa May stick with her plan? - BBC News | 2019-01-22 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | If Theresa May wasn't going to budge, what was the point of implying that she might? | UK Politics | On the face of it, there is nothing remotely surprising about Theresa May telling her Cabinet colleagues last night that she wants to have another go at trying to sort out the backstop.
The political implication of that is that she still thinks it is better at this stage for her to pursue a strategy that might just ab... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46944059 | news_uk-politics-46944059 | |
Brexit letters: Has anything changed? - BBC News | 2019-01-14 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | EU leaders send reassurances to the prime minister about Northern Ireland. | UK Politics | "You say we haven't achieved anything," the prime minister said in answer to a reporter's question in Stoke. "We have achieved this exchange of letters..."
She said the letters gave further assurances about the UK and the EU not wanting to use the Irish backstop.
For her critics, it was an underwhelming moment. But w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46865654 | news_uk-politics-46865654 | |
Paddy Ashdown's funeral held in Somerset - BBC News | 2019-01-10 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Hundreds of people watched the service on TV screens at a hall near the church in his home village. | Somerset | Paddy Ashdown was knighted in 2000, and entered the House of Lords a year later as Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has been remembered at a private funeral in Somerset.
Lord Ashdown died aged 77 in December after a short illness. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer in ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-46822389 | news_uk-england-somerset-46822389 | |
Nottinghamshire Police chief's husband in racism probe - BBC News | 2019-01-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The man is questioned over claims he racially abused a waitress at a force's Christmas party. | England | The racial slur was allegedly used during a Christmas party held at the Cutler's Hall in Sheffield
The husband of a senior police officer responsible for tackling hate crimes has been questioned over allegations he racially abused a woman.
Ex-police officer Ian Barber allegedly used a racial slur to a waitress at a p... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46909915 | news_uk-england-46909915 | |
Saturn's spectacular rings are 'very young' - BBC News | 2019-01-18 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million years old. | Science & Environment | The end phases of the mission should yield new information about Saturn's interior
We're looking at Saturn at a very special time in the history of the Solar System, according to scientists.
They've confirmed the planet's iconic rings are very young - no more than 100 million years old, when dinosaurs still walked th... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46911945 | news_science-environment-46911945 | |
Brexit: No change to backstop, Ireland insists - BBC News | 2019-01-27 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The comments come ahead of a crunch week for Theresa May as MPs vote on her deal again. | UK Politics | Protests against the potential return of a hard border have been taking place on the island of Ireland
The backstop element of the Brexit plan is "not going to change", Ireland's deputy prime minister has said.
The proposal - aimed at preventing a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland - played a major part... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47019977 | news_uk-politics-47019977 | |
Can you ever be best friends with an ex? - BBC Three | 2019-01-27 | [] | null | I always thought break-ups were simple affairs. There’s no point getting sentimental about someone once it’s over. Much better to take a practical approach: delete their number, block their social media accounts and purge their leftover belongings from your home.
Unlike my other exes, I didn’t meet B on an app or anon... | https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/9df1c10a-ef2d-4629-a825-117d040b4f97 | ree_article_9df1c10a-ef2d-4629-a825-117d040b4f97 | ||
Brexit letters: Has anything changed? - BBC News | 2019-01-15 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | EU leaders send reassurances to the prime minister about Northern Ireland. | UK Politics | "You say we haven't achieved anything," the prime minister said in answer to a reporter's question in Stoke. "We have achieved this exchange of letters..."
She said the letters gave further assurances about the UK and the EU not wanting to use the Irish backstop.
For her critics, it was an underwhelming moment. But w... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46865654 | news_uk-politics-46865654 | |
Justine Greening wanted to scrap tuition fees - BBC News | 2019-01-23 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The former education secretary wanted a graduate contribution scheme to fund England's universities. | Family & Education | Justine Greening's radical plan for fees ended when she was "reshuffled" out of her job
Justine Greening says she had plans to scrap tuition fees, before she lost the job of education secretary a year ago.
She says she wanted a graduate contribution scheme to fund England's universities where "you wouldn't have a loa... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46959296 | news_education-46959296 | |
Hammersmith stabbing: 39 attempted murder arrests - BBC News | 2019-01-01 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | They were arrested at a party in west London after a man suffered life-threatening wounds. | London | Eyewitnesses reported seeing about 50 police officers at the scene in Hammersmith
Thirty-nine people at a house party were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was stabbed in west London.
The man, thought to be in his mid-30s, was found with life-threatening wounds when police were called to Fulham P... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46719897 | news_uk-england-london-46719897 | |
Asylum seekers, migrants or refugees: Which word is correct? - BBC News | 2019-01-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | How we talk about people moving from country to country and why it matters. | Newsbeat | The way we all talk about people moving to a different country can be confusing.
You'll have heard the different terms: migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.
There has been a small spike in the number of people crossing the English Channel to get to the UK in the last few months, causing the debate to re... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46747502 | news_newsbeat-46747502 | |
Was this woman wrongly convicted of murder? - BBC News | 2019-01-19 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Why did Emma-Jayne Magson stab the man she loved - and should she have been convicted of murder? | Leicester | Emma-Jayne Magson stabbed her partner with a steak knife then left him to bleed to death. Yet her family believes her murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice. Why?
"I've done what my Dad did to you."
Joanne Smith felt her heart sink as she read the text message from her daughter Emma-Jayne Magson.
Two decades... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-45733551 | news_uk-england-leicestershire-45733551 | |
Is Theresa May any closer to unblocking her Brexit deal? - BBC News | 2019-01-06 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | Is the prime minister any closer to getting MPs' backing for the UK's deal for exiting the EU? | UK Politics | There is a growing feeling it may take more than one go to get the deal through Parliament
When Theresa May pulled the "meaningful vote" on Brexit last month, the day before MPs were about to pass their verdict on her deal, Downing Street hoped two things would happen.
First, that the EU would offer some form of lega... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46761290 | news_uk-politics-46761290 | |
Brexit deal: Meetings aren't a Plan B - BBC News | 2019-01-16 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | The PM has promised meetings and conversations - but can Theresa May bring her critics on board? | UK Politics | Meetings, on their own, are not a Plan B. Conversations, are not by themselves, compromises.
To get any deal done where there are such clashing views all around, it requires give and take. It feels like a political lifetime since there has been a fundamental dispute in the cabinet, in the Tory party and across Parliam... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46900738 | news_uk-politics-46900738 | |
Asylum seekers, migrants or refugees: Which word is correct? - BBC News | 2019-01-20 | ['https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews'] | How we talk about people moving from country to country and why it matters. | Newsbeat | The way we all talk about people moving to a different country can be confusing.
You'll have heard the different terms: migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.
There has been a small spike in the number of people crossing the English Channel to get to the UK in the last few months, causing the debate to re... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46747502 | news_newsbeat-46747502 | |
Hoda Muthana: Trump says IS woman barred from US return - BBC News | 2019-02-21 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Hoda Muthana, who was born in the US, regrets her actions and wants to return, her lawyer says. | US & Canada | US President Donald Trump says a woman who left the US to become a propagandist for the Islamic State (IS) group will not be allowed to return.
On Twitter, he said he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the country".
Mr Pompeo had earlier stated that the 24-year-old was ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47313657 | news_world-us-canada-47313657 | |
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's trial: From shocking to bizarre - BBC News | 2019-02-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Gold-plated rifles and a fatal handshake snub - what we've been told about Joaquín Guzmán so far. | US & Canada | The trial of accused druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is nearing its end after eight weeks of evidence from the prosecution
The trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has provided shocking revelations about the Mexican drug lord's life.
Below are some of the most disturbing testimonies by witnesses in the high-profile ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46282173 | news_world-us-canada-46282173 | |
Brexit: Donald Tusk's planned outburst - BBC News | 2019-02-07 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The European Council president completely condemns a chunk of the British cabinet with his speech in Brussels. | UK Politics | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Tusk: "Special place in hell" for those without Brexit plan
The softly-spoken politician who holds the authority of all EU countries has just completely condemned a chunk of the British cabinet, wondering aloud: "What... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47147258 | news_uk-politics-47147258 | |
Katie Price banned from driving for three months - BBC News | 2019-02-25 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The TV star says she drank three or four "pornstar martinis" before getting in her pink Range Rover. | London | Katie Price was found guilty of being in charge of a vehicle while over the limit
TV star Katie Price has been convicted of being nearly twice the legal limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover.
The 40-year-old argued she was not in control of the 4X4 when she was arrested in a drunken state in the back seat in ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47358022 | news_uk-england-london-47358022 | |
Brexit: Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke issue delay warning - BBC News | 2019-02-22 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke say extending Article 50 is better than "crashing out" of the EU. | UK Politics | Brexit should be delayed if Parliament does not approve a deal in the coming days, three cabinet ministers have warned publicly for the first time.
Ahead of crucial votes in the Commons, Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke told the Daily Mail they would be prepared to defy Theresa May and vote for a delay.
Downing... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47336501 | news_uk-politics-47336501 | |
Amber Peat inquest: Mother gave 'little consideration' for welfare - BBC News | 2019-02-22 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Amber Peat, 13, was found dead three days after she walked out of her home following an argument. | Nottingham | Amber Peat was found hanged after going missing from her home in Mansfield
The mother and stepfather of a 13-year-old girl who hanged herself gave "very little, if any, consideration" to her welfare, a coroner has said.
Amber Peat's mum and stepdad also demonstrated little "emotional warmth" towards her, Coroner Laur... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-47329736 | news_uk-england-nottinghamshire-47329736 | |
Thousand fewer UK students at Oxbridge - BBC News | 2019-02-26 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | While arguments continue about fair access, the number of UK students at Oxbridge has been falling. | Family & Education | Oxford versus Cambridge: The competition for places for UK students has become even tougher
There are more than a thousand fewer UK undergraduate students at Oxford and Cambridge universities than a decade ago, official figures show.
Student figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency and from the universitie... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-47296931 | news_education-47296931 | |
Katie Price banned from driving for three months - BBC News | 2019-02-26 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The TV star says she drank three or four "pornstar martinis" before getting in her pink Range Rover. | London | Katie Price was found guilty of being in charge of a vehicle while over the limit
TV star Katie Price has been convicted of being nearly twice the legal limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover.
The 40-year-old argued she was not in control of the 4X4 when she was arrested in a drunken state in the back seat in ... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47358022 | news_uk-england-london-47358022 | |
Facebook and Google news should be regulated, Cairncross Review says - BBC News | 2019-02-18 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The landmark review also recommended the BBC should do more to share its technical and digital expertise. | Entertainment & Arts | This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Frances Cairncross explains the findings of her review into the future of the UK news industry
A regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-ba... | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47202553 | news_entertainment-arts-47202553 |
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