3 h. ago Home Office expert says if you hear these 3 phrases you're being scammed

Criminologist and forensic linguist Dr Elizabeth Carter appeared on BBC Morning Live to explain how there are key ways people speak in scams

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5 h. ago Sister of teacher murdered in 1995 asks people to ‘speak up’ in unsolved case

The body of devout Christian Joy Hewer was found in her bedroom.

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25 h. ago While the eyes of the world are on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank still behave with impunity | Ofer Cassif

As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring hollowLast Monday, when the US president, Donald Trump, addressed the Knesset alongside the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, my compatriot lawmaker Ayman Odeh and I raised a banner calling them to “Recognise Palestine”. We were brutally expelled by force from the parliament’s plenum, revealing the fragile state of the supposed “only democracy in the Middle East”. How can Trump and Netanyahu speak of peace in the Middle East without recognition of the people deprived for decades of their basic liberties and rights under vicious occupation?Nowhere is the deceit more clear than in the occupied West Bank. There, the words of peace are but a weak and distant voice, but the horrifying sounds of settler violence and terror still echo loudly. More than 30 occurrences of settler violence against Palestinians have been documented since the...

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7 d. ago Lanarkshire’s three acute hospitals to light up in pink and blue in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week

Running until October 15, Baby Loss Awareness Week helps to unite people, to come together and speak out to increase understanding of the impact of baby loss and remember all babies.

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2 w. ago The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imaginationAmid a boom in Irish culture across music, literature, film and fashion, the Irish language – Gaeilge – is also experiencing a revival. Once the majority’s native tongue, it was assailed and diminished as a daily, working, spoken language under British colonialism and became largely confined to rural west coast districts for much of the 20th century, kept alive by generations of families. But over recent decades the number of schools teaching the national curriculum exclusively through Irish has risen significantly, from fewer than 20 in the 1970s, to more than 200 today. The 2022 census showed a 6% increase in the number of people able to speak Irish compared with 2016. Irish is a core subject on the curriculum and compulsory in all schools.Yet in the academic year of 2024-25, a record number of pupils – 14% of the post-primary school population – w...

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2 w. ago Woman who tortured victim and kept skull to be first female executed in her US state in 200 years

Christa Pike was convicted in 1995 for torturing and murdering Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow Knoxville Job Corps student, along with Tadaryl Shipp, Pike's boyfriend at the time, and one other person

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2 w. ago Tennessee schedules execution for female killer who carved a pentagram into her victim's chest

Christa Pike received the death sentence when she was 18 for torturing and murdering Colleen Slemmer, also aged 18, in 1995.

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2 w. ago ‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’Pope Leo XIV has taken aim at people who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” as he embraced Pope Francis’s environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments on the subject to date.Leo presided over the 10th-anniversary celebration of Francis’s landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be), at a global gathering south of Rome. The encyclical cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern and launched a global grassroots movement to advocate for caring for God’s creation and the peoples most harmed by its exploitation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago High standard of English to be required for leave to remain, Mahmood to pledge

Home secretary to set out proposed tougher conditions including not taking benefits and ‘spotless’ criminal recordCriminals and people who cannot speak English to “a high standard” will be denied permission to settle in the UK, Shabana Mahmood will announce on Monday, in proposals intended to contain the growing electoral threat from Reform UK.In a speech framing herself as a “tough home secretary”, Mahmood will say people seeking indefinite leave to remain (ILR) will have to demonstrate they have integrated and “contributed” to society through national insurance payments and voluntary work, and not relied on benefits. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Tell us: have your views shifted to the right as you have aged?

We would like to hear from people whose views have shifted right as they’ve aged, or if they’ve noticed it among older relativesWe would like to speak to people whose views have shifted to the right as they’ve aged, or if you’ve noticed it among older relatives.Do you find that your views differ from other generations in your family? How has it affected relationships between grown-up children and parents, or even grandchildren and grandparents? What are the reasons for people’s change in views? What have you done to try and bridge the distance, and has it worked? Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Police seek 18 more people linked to disorder at Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally

Police want to speak to a further 18 people ‘in connection with a range of public order offences and assaults on emergency workers’

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3 w. ago RFK Jr’s vaccine panel votes against recommending prescription for Covid vaccine, emphasizing personal choice

After heated meeting, healthcare professionals and experts left deeply confused about committee’s recommendationsA powerful committee that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Friday against recommending that people obtain a prescription for a Covid-19 vaccine. However, the panel also voted to recommend that people speak with a clinician before obtaining the shot and that coronavirus vaccinations should be based on “individual-based decision making”.The votes on the recommendations came after hours of impassioned debate that, at times, devolved into confusion and apparent animosity over the committee’s procedures and the safety of vaccines. Healthcare professionals and experts following the committee’s meeting were also left deeply confused about the significance of the committee’s votes and recommendations, and whether they would make it more difficult for people to obtain Covid vaccines. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lib Dems to call for police desks in libraries and shopping centres

The Lib Dems have suggested the initiative would ‘rebuild proper face-to-face policing that people can see, trust and speak to’.

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3 w. ago RFK Jr’s vaccine advisers remove prescription need for Covid vaccine, emphasizing personal choice

After heated meeting, healthcare professionals and experts left deeply confused about committee’s recommendationsA powerful committee that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Friday against recommending that people obtain a prescription for a Covid-19 vaccine. However, the panel also voted to recommend that people speak with a clinician before obtaining the shot and that coronavirus vaccinations should be based on “individual-based decision making”.The votes on the recommendations came after hours of impassioned debate that, at times, devolved into confusion and apparent animosity over the committee’s procedures and the safety of vaccines. Healthcare professionals and experts following the committee’s meeting were also left deeply confused about the significance of the committee’s votes and recommendations, and whether they would make it more difficult for people to obtain Covid vaccines. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel is the honorary mayor of a small Canadian town with a racy name. Even they’re worried

‘I can speak for all the people of the community of Dildo that we would certainly roll out the red carpet for him and he'd be welcome,’ one resident says

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4 w. ago ‘I don’t like it’: Even Fox News is pushing back on Trump’s bombing of Venezuelan boats

‘Because all it takes is one fishing boat with a broken radio or people who don't speak English and you're killing innocent civilians, and I do not like that,’ Kennedy said on The Five.

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last month Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno

I hope tonight’s gig will have the same galvanising effect as the 1988 Nelson Mandela concert – and give people courage to speak out about GazaIn the summer of 1988 the music festival producer Tony Hollingsworth organised a concert at Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela. He offered the BBC the rights to broadcast it live, but the corporation was nervous. Mandela had been in jail since 1962 and, to the extent that he was a well-known figure, he had been branded a “terrorist”. Hollingsworth met BBC executive Alan Yentob, who was wavering. “Alan,” Tony said, “you’ve got to bite the bullet.” Eventually Yentob agreed, replying: “I’ll give you five hours. If the bill improves, I’ll increase the time.”Conservative MPs were soon organising a parliamentary motion, deploring the BBC’s editorial decision. Opponents of Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) were right to be worried about the concert. The event was broadcast to a global audience of 600 m...

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