The families of the victims of Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane had been campaigning for the change.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:35:38 (Source: BBC News)Small firms cite labour costs as a key factor in scaling back hiring, the Office for National Statistics says.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:24:39 (Source: BBC News)Penalties are seen as too harsh on motorists who are penalised for parking on private land.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:04:02 (Source: BBC News)BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions before the United States Grand Prix.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:59:17 (Source: BBC News)Influential Labour figures had been pushing for equalising CGT and income tax, but critics have said this could drive wealthy people out of Britain.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:50:52 (Source: BBC News)Alberta has voted to remain part of Canada in the province's first-ever referendum on separation.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:41:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Sébastien Lecornu said new curfews for Tuesday night would be decided where necessary.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:35:57 (Source: BBC News)You’d think being given five million quid by a billionaire mate would be a good thing, but in the case of Nigel Farage, it’s looking more and more likely to be the tugged thread that finally unravels the ‘Call me Prime Minister’ jumper he’s been knitting for the past decade. In April, the Guardian revealed […]
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Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:22:52 (Source: The Poke)Brian McDermott keeps faith with the England team beaten by Tonga as they bid to revive their Rugby League World Cup campaign against France in Perth this Saturday.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:18:34 (Source: BBC News)BBC's Katy Watson is in Wangaratta visiting the scene of the incident and the church where the community has held a vigil for the independent MP.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:02:05 (Source: BBC News)Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have returned to public life with their first joint appearance since returning to the UK taking place in Nottingham
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)British long-distance runner Jake Smith was enduring a relentless pattern of race, illness, injury, repeat - he had no idea he had REDs and was under-fuelling.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:45:34 (Source: BBC News)An Australian MP has had a leg amputated after a man allegedly drove into her and reversed to hit her a second time.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:36:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Charges relate to the deaths of a two-year-old and a three-year-old at Broomfield Hospital in Essex.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:28:13 (Source: BBC News)A note written by Dame Esther Rantzen is released by her family following a private funeral.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:01:51 (Source: BBC News)Ahead of the midterms Trump has boasted about the performance of the US economy. BBC Verify looks at inflation, jobs and economic growth in the country.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:00:45 (Source: BBC News)Teenagers say they want more work experience at school and opportunities to improve their communication skills.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:00:14 (Source: BBC News)Violent unrest in France continues and Defence drops funding for frontline military vehicles lead Tuesday's papers.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:47:29 (Source: BBC News)Like a dog peeing on all the walls in its neighbourhood, Donald Trump continues to try and put his pungent stamp on anything and everything. Sometimes that stamp is a coat of gold paint, sometimes it’s an unnecessary, expensive and incompetent construction job, and sometimes it’s a rebrand. He’s changed the Gulf of Mexico to […]
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Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:47:18 (Source: The Poke)With major networks like EE, Vodafone and Sky Mobile expected to increase their prices yet again next year, one lesser-known brand has announced a price freeze
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:33:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The UK's unemployment rate has fallen to 4.7%, in a set of official figures that will support the case for a Bank of England interest rate hike next month.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:31:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to a record low - indicating that next month's midterm elections could be punishing for the Republicans.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:01:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)The family of Dame Esther Rantzen have revealed details of a farewell message written before she died, in which the 86-year-old said she felt "deprived of any choice over my own death".
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:50:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Almost 300 people have been injured, more than half of them police, as violent anti-government demonstrations show no sign of easing.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:45:05 (Source: BBC News)Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are more powerful and in plentiful supply, and they have transformed the drugs landscape.
Published on: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:02:32 (Source: BBC News)Women share their experience of lichen sclerosus.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:11:13 (Source: BBC News)As the strongest El Niño on record continues to intensify, what impacts on weather patterns are already being felt across the globe? Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at the evidence.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:08:25 (Source: BBC News)The BBC hears from people who think dating events are better value for money than dating apps.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:00:21 (Source: BBC News)On his first start since May 2025, James Maddison provided the moment of magic Tottenham were waiting for in their 3-1 victory against Coventry, writes Phil McNulty.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:35:55 (Source: BBC News)Tottenham Hotspur record their first Premier League win of the season and move off the bottom of the table with a home victory over Coventry City.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:33:07 (Source: BBC News)The two top tennis pros married in 2021 and have one child together.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:02:33 (Source: BBC News)Serhii Beskrestnov says there has not been enough time to warn people about incoming missile attacks. The White House said there had been no changes to intelligence sharing.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:49:00 (Source: BBC News)Japan launched a spacecraft towards Mars in a ground-breaking mission to bring back samples from the largest of the planet's two moons.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:04:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)The serviceman was surrounded by landmines and enemy drones so a ground rescue was not possible, Ukraine's military says.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:00:43 (Source: BBC News)A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:45:46 (Source: BBC News)A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device at its offices was "mere days" away from fleeing to Saudi Arabia before his arrest, prosecutors allege.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:36:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of 191 murder charges - all but one of them children.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:18:04 (Source: BBC News)Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been photographed receiving books and letters from the King Charles, officials said.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:53:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)European football chiefs have sent a list of 42 questions to FIFA, demanding answers about Gianni Infantino's alleged "conflicts of interest" over business dealings with the Trump family and the World Cup sell-off attempt.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:05:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)JD Vance hosted a rather disastrous Town Hall in Michigan over the weekend. The Vice President was looking to connect face-to-face with voters in the key swing state but it’s hard to imagine his appearance did anything to help the Maga cause. Vance’s lack of charisma had nowhere to hide as he was confronted by […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:01:44 (Source: The Poke)The war between the United States and Iran has stumbled into its eighth month now with no clear ending in sight. The Donald Trump White House continues to sidestep questions about the war they don’t want to call a war and it’s starting to get extremely awkward. Especially when they are forced to confront the […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:36:43 (Source: The Poke)Here’s a rather lovely little thing from back in the day that all began when @sassymood asked this over on Twitter. ‘What’s the nastiest read you’ve ever seen someone give?’ And because everyone loves a good put-down it prompted no end of responses like all of these … nobody’s ever dunked on babies this hard […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:13:59 (Source: The Poke)WARNING, EXPLICIT CONTENT: Robert May, 73, was blasted by a judge for his "blatantly nonsensical account" after he was caught pleasuring himself at a window and fondled bras of his elderly neighbour
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:08:55 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Back in 2023, Yorkshire pudding fans had serious beef with the chef behind this ‘popover’ recipe, because they’re clearly Yorkshires. TikTok chef and author Alexandra Stafford incurred the wrath of the UK and Ireland when she cooked the Sunday roast favourites – and very tempting they looked, too – but gave them their American name, […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:04:34 (Source: The Poke)The illustrious Merriam-Webster Dictionary is the US equivalent of our very own Oxford English Dictionary. It’s the definitive, comprehensive standard for American English and as such its authority really should be respected on all matters etymological. So when they shared this interesting nugget of information on their Twitter account, you would be wise to accept […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:55:25 (Source: The Poke)In theory, having people over to your house, perhaps for dinner or for the weekend, is a pleasant and sociable thing to do. But, sometimes, the reality is horrifyingly different. Over on the AskReddit page, user Old-Enthusiasm-4943 posed this question… ‘What is the worst thing a guest has ever done in your home?’ And the […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:44:47 (Source: The Poke)A lot of thought goes into naming books, but sometimes there’s a bit of luck involved. The classic Joseph Heller novel Catch-22 was originally going to be Catch-18, but Leon Uris bagged that number with Mila 18 not long before Heller’s book was due to be published, and we now can’t imagine it being anything […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:30:29 (Source: The Poke)You’ll have seen the footage of Elon Musk’s ‘flying car’ – well, sort of – after the internet got hugely excited by the footage of this Tesla doing all sorts of aerobatics. Turns out the future does have flying cars https://t.co/6fexPp6SXI — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 16, 2026 We mention it because it prompted this […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:27:42 (Source: The Poke)Brit tourist Lee Jowitt tragically died after a horror fall inside at Spanish hostel as his sister paid tribute to a "truly special" brother following friends launching an appeal to help bring Lee’s body home to the UK
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:24:16 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A few days to go until the next episode of Celebrity Traitors so fill just a few moments of that time with this fabulous moment that’s just gone viral on Twitter. It’s the moment James Acaster perfectly predicted how they Traitors would be required to murder someone in plain sight and how they’d have to […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:54:16 (Source: The Poke)Anyone who recalls the apparatus coming out for an afternoon PE class in the multi-use hall amidst the smell of the school dinner they just ate will know that the primary school flashbacks never leave us. They’ve been discussing these hardwired sense memories on the AskUK page after user Deepfriedcyanid3 posed this question… What specific […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:24:46 (Source: The Poke)When we think about things we’d like to change about Britain, we tend to focus on the big stuff, like ‘finish HS2’ or ‘tackle the worrying rise in right wing extremists marching about in balaclavas’. However, sometimes it’s the small course corrections that make the difference and add up to big changes. Financial expert and […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:21:38 (Source: The Poke)FIAT has launched a new colour-matching service designed to help drivers choose a car paint colour that suits their personal style and preferences
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:11:56 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)To the studios of LBC now, where Reform UK-er Matt Goodwin – best known for not winning a by-election – was on to talk about that ITV investigation revealing the extreme and racist views within Reform UK. Goodwin’s entirely predictable defence was that it was a ‘few bad apples’ who have since been shown the […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:45:21 (Source: The Poke)To the studios of Fox News now, where Jesse Watters has been doing his Jesse Watters thing, this time complaining how he was heckled by a passer-by who dared to call him a fascist. And we mention it because it prompted an out of this world comeback from his fellow panelist Jessica Tarlov – not […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:22:58 (Source: The Poke)While Donald Trump lies awake at night seething with envy over Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, there’s one area in which he’d beat his predecessor hands down, and it – surprisingly – isn’t golf. In the field of self-delusion, there’s nobody to match the so-called stable genius, who says he knows more about everything than […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:40:43 (Source: The Poke)Police in Northern Ireland are currently investigating a threat made towards several schools this morning with around 160 being evacuated as a precaution with parents told to come collect their child "immediately"
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:34:38 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The fallout from that brilliant and absolutely horrifying ITV investigation into evidence of racism, Islamophobia and extremism within Reform UK shows no sign of ending, and thank goodness for that. Over on the BBC’s Politics Live programme, Reform UK councillor George Finch did his best to shake it off, suggesting the people identified in the […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:34:29 (Source: The Poke)Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie, his wife Rhoda Maweu, and 29 other co-accused have been found guilty of the murder of 190 children and one adult.
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:21:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)It all started – and here’s a phrase you don’t often read on these pages – this report by media regulator Ofcom on tackling ‘illegal hate and terror content’. X has submitted its first quarterly report on its commitments to tackle illegal hate and terror content. This appears to show improvements in time taken to […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:05:54 (Source: The Poke)Relations between the United States and basically everywhere else in the world – with the possible exception of Russia – have been on a downward curve ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House. But if Europeans find themselves more embarrassed – and terrified – by the American president’s antics with each passing day, […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:48:31 (Source: The Poke)Far-right political activist Montgomery Toms is the founder of Freedom Watch GB which is heavily associated with the delightful Restore Britain movement. He’s basically a kind of cut-price Charlie Kirk tribute act with a posh voice. Here he is in one of his trademark Kirk-style street-debates, being asked a simple, yet rather devastating question by […]
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Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:18:43 (Source: The Poke)Mark Edmonds, 61, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to 15 sexual offence charges, including eight counts of child sexual assault and possession of Category A indecent images of children
Published on: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:40:19 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A beloved woodland in an English city has become the scene of dark activities including a sex attack, a burnt animal and thuggish behaviour.
Published on: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:26:40 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Anaise is in constant pain, can't afford bras and gets a lot of unwanted attention from men
Published on: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:52:03 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A new report lifts the lid on the everyday struggles of the UK’s 5.7million small businesses - with a third of owners having a a full-time or part-time job on the side
Published on: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:27:01 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Ex-England player saiys he'd love to chat to astronauts so he can be convinced that the famous visit to the moon in 1969 actually happened
Published on: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)One in three UK adults suffering some form of hearing loss but it tops the list of common age-related complaints that Brits feel the least comfortable talking about.
Published on: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:22:04 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Max Stanford chomped his way through a huge platter featuring 14 sausages, 14 rashers of bacon, 14 fried eggs, 14 hashbrowns and 10 black pudding slices as well as a host of sides
Published on: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Kevin Lawton has been jailed after sexually assaulting two children - a judge said he posed a serious risk to pre-pubescent girls as he sentenced him with an extended licence period
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:05:38 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The fossil belonged to a group of agile, two-legged carnivores known as megaraptorans and the discovery of the prehistoric beast is the first time a member of this group has been identified in Europe.
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Meet the woman who is taking over the internet by teaching her loyal community of #AfraidToFarters to let go of everything - including that toot you're holding in
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:55:58 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Foreign objects have included everything from Lego and Kinder Eggs to bank cards, Coke cans and remote controls
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:20:25 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Kelly Belsey spent three years working at the discount retailer TK Maxx when she finished school, but never felt it was the right fit but now loves wprking in the porn industry
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Bryan Johnson's £1.6m immortality plan has been picked apart, as top UK scientists reveal a simple, budget-friendly diet trick that actually works
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A man's body was found in a garden in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, on Wednesday evening (October 14), with Nottinghamshire Police treating the death as 'unexplained' and believing it to be an isolated incident
Published on: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:37:53 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Wardy's Wagers - Our top tipster will make you laugh all the way to the bank and as happy as Ross Kemp finding a Traitor with his predictions on the weekend's football, NFL and racing
Published on: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:59:48 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)More than 50,000 people completed a free three-minute online hearing screener before being entered onto 'The Testlist' to win tickets to free gig
Published on: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:50:40 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)New research has discovered that only one in four Gen Zers feel comfortable handling DIY tasks in the home.
Published on: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:28:10 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Nearly half of Brits regularly work towards a personal goal after their day job ends, clocking up 214 extra evening hours a year
Published on: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:13:45 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Dr Eleanor Bryant has shared how doing things which terrify you can help with building confidence - including getting lost, going on rollercoasters and public speaking.
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