2 h. ago BBC settles with 7 October survivors for filming home ‘without permission’

Horenstein family say crew did not seek consent to film inside their home days after it had been wrecked by HamasThe BBC has said it has reached a settlement with a Jewish family who survived Hamas’s 7 October attacks on southern Israel after a news crew filmed inside their destroyed home.The crew, which included senior correspondent Jeremy Bowen, entered the Horenstein family’s home in the days after the attacks in 2023. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago BBC pays out £28k to survivors of October 7 attack after filming inside their destroyed Israel home

"It was another intrusion into our lives"

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4 h. ago BBC radio star Jenny Collins dies: Heartbroken colleague pays tribute to founding Merseyside member

An iconic BBC Radio Merseyside star has died.

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4 h. ago BBC pays £28k to October 7 survivors after filming inside their destroyed home

The BBC team even filmed personal photographs of the family’s children.

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4 h. ago Beloved BBC radio legend dies as heartbroken presenter pays emotional tribute

A BBC Radio Merseyside icon, who helped launch the station in 1967, has died, with tributes pouring in.

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5 h. ago Jenny Collins dead: BBC Radio Merseyside founding member dies as colleague pays tribute

Jenny Collins, who helped launch BBC Radio Merseyside in 1967 and worked as Senior Producer for many years, has died. Colleague Roger Lyon paid tribute to the founding member.

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8 h. ago Ian Balding dies aged 87: BBC star Clare Balding pays emotional tribute to her 'fearless' horse trainer father

Clare Balding has paid an emotional tribute to her 'fearless' horse trainer father Ian Balding, after he died at the age of 87.

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43 h. ago Grief, fear and fury: the Israeli and Palestinian mothers still standing united against bloodshed

Israeli movement Women Wage Peace and Palestinian group Women of the Sun held a mass rally in October 2023. Three days later a Hamas attack triggered war – leaving the women more determined than everOn the shores of the Dead Sea, about 1,500 Israeli and Palestinian women had gathered, holding hands and calling for an end to what they called a “vicious cycle of bloodshed”. It was an October evening in 2023 and they had travelled from villages, settlements and refugee camps around the region for a mass peace rally jointly organised by the Israeli movement Women Wage Peace and the Palestinian group Women of the Sun.Two of the organisers were friends: Yael Admi, 66, an Israeli mother of six, and Reem al-Hajajreh, 43, a Palestinian mother of four. The women had hoped their message would cut through decades of violence and mistrust. But three days later, Hamas launched its deadly attack on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, followed swiftly by what turned into a genocidal war by Israe...

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48 h. ago The last hostage: After over 800 days, elite Israeli police officer who ran towards danger in October 7 attack is the last remaining in Gaza as his mother clings to fragile hope he is still alive

It is in many ways a remarkable testament to the will of the Israeli people that of the 251 taken captive by Hamas on October 7, 2023, only one now remains.

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5 d. ago BBC Breakfast presenter pays tribute to 'legend' as he announces sad news on air

BBC Breakfast was back on Sunday morning with Ben Thompson and Rachel Burden at the helm of the show

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5 d. ago BBC Breakfast host delivers emotional news on air as he pays tribute to 'legend'

BBC Breakfast sports presenter Olly Foster took a moment to pay tribute to two sporting legends

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6 d. ago The day the Palisades were left to burn: Film exposes how firefighters sat idle as thousands of homes were destroyed

As thousands of homes burned, firefighters allegedly stood down and city officials staged photo ops the second day of the Palisades fire exposed shocking failures, according to a new doc.

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6 d. ago BBC Breakfast hosts announce tragic news as family pay heartbreaking tribute

BBC Breakfast hosts Charlie Stayt and Emma Vardy shared tributes to missing swimmer Matthew Upham after police called off the search for two men following a Christmas Day swim

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7 d. ago Outraged Brits reveal why they are now refusing to pay the BBC licence fee

One in eight people now avoid payment despite admitting they use the BBC 's services, with some seeing the £174.50-a-year fee as 'another tax', arguing that the BBC 'should be self-funding'.

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7 d. ago BBC Breakfast presenter pays tribute to star live on air after sad death announcement

BBC Breakfast's Olly Foster shared the "sad news" of former footballer John Robertson's death during the Boxing Day broadcast of the morning show

Society

9 d. ago Big Brother star jailed after helping boyfriend's nightclub petrol bomb attack is released early for Christmas after serving less than a tenth of her sentence

Simone Reed, 37, was pictured holding several large B&M shopping bags this week after being jailed in October following the attack in Redcar, North Yorkshire.

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1 week ago Volunteers on patrol, security cameras and plans to flee the country: Life for Jewish families in Fortress Golders Green

After the horrifying scenes on Bondi Beach last week and the attack outside a Manchester synagogue in October, many now feel Britain is no longer safe for Jews.

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1 week ago How Sinners became the most culturally important film of 2025

Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed horror blockbuster had people talking all year, proving industry naysayers wrong and breaking various recordsIt was the film that was supposed to destroy Hollywood: a vampire horror about life and times in the Jim Crow south peopled by a majority Black cast, and shot on Imax 70mm. Ryan Coogler, the acclaimed director who rose to prominence steering Marvel’s colossal Black Panther franchise, was thought to be out of his depth for trying to midwife a script he himself said he cobbled together in two months. Warner Bros, the studio fronting the film’s near $100m budget, was supposedly out of its mind for not only throwing that much money behind the project, but further agreeing to singularly favorable authorship deal terms that gave him control over the film’ final cut and full rights over the film after 25 years. Hollywood machers were convinced the film would never make money and that Warner Bros’ big gamble “could be the end of the studio system”....

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2 w. ago Foreign Office hacked two MONTHS ago by 'Chinese cyber gang' that previously targeted MPs as ministers deny data from thousands of visas was compromised

Business minister Sir Chris Bryant admitted government servers had been compromised in a cyber attack in October.

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2 w. ago BBC legend dies at home as heartbroken family pay tribute to 'deeply loved' star

Veteran broadcaster Sir Humphrey Burton, who was knighted for his services to classical music, the arts and the media, has died at the age of 94, his family confirmed

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