Are children safe on bouncy inflatables?
Jennifer Meierhans BBC News Geoff Robinson Ava-May Littleboy, three, was thrown off the blue bouncy trampoline, pictured in front of the slide They are a mainstay of children’s parties, but following the death of a little girl in Norfolk parents are asking how safe are inflatable trampolines and bouncy castles? Three-year-old Ava-May Littleboy was thrown […]
Paul Merson on gambling addiction: ‘I wouldn’t wish this on anybody’
Merson told us the experiment with Dr Erritzoe made him think about how his brain responds to gambling adverts. “I think the adverts are triggers,” he says. “Now that I know more about how it can affect me, when the adverts come on, I turn them off.” The government is currently reviewing the 2005 Gambling […]
Retailers seek lockdown exit route ‘visibility’
Getty Images Garden centres in England and Wales are set to reopen The Welsh government will let them open from Monday with England to follow later in the week. SRC director David Lonsdale said retailers in Scotland had shown they could operate “safely and responsibly”. The Scottish government has said there could be a “different […]
Andrea Leadsom launches government investigation
PA Media Clapham Junction station in south London was one of the areas where lights went out The government has launched an investigation into Friday’s huge power cut which affected nearly one million people across England and Wales. Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said a committee will look at what happened. Train passengers were stranded, traffic […]
Uber’s move into bikes and food delivery deepens losses
Getty Images Losses at Uber are mounting even as it reported a 51% annual increase in income from its taxi app business. Income from its global taxi businesses, once it had paid its drivers, rose to $2.7bn (£2.1bn) in the last quarter. But the cost of expansion plans into areas like bike sharing and Uber […]
Former Great Grimsby MP dies aged 86
BBC Austin Mitchell served as the Labour MP for Grimsby for 38 years The former MP Austin Mitchell has died at the age of 86, the Labour Party has confirmed. Mr Mitchell worked as a journalist for Yorkshire Television before being elected to the Great Grimsby constituency in 1977. He held the seat until 2015. […]
Rishi Sunak unveils emergency jobs scheme
Rishi Sunak: “We need to face up to the hard choices coronavirus presents” The government and firms will continue to top up wages of workers who have not been able to return to the workplace full time due to the coronavirus. The Job Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme, will see workers get […]
Why are water bills rising more in some areas?
Getty Images Experts say there are big regional variations in the numbers of people receiving support The cost of living crisis has seen fuel and energy bills rise sharply – but water customers in some parts of the country have also noticed an increase in their bills. BBC News asks what lies behind it. Which […]
Five ways to tackle the US drug epidemic
Getty Images The opioid epidemic has been called the worst ever drug crisis to hit the US. Former US Health Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Tommy G Thompson, and Aspen Health Strategy Group director Alan Weil, look at what could be done to help bring it to an end. Every year, tens of thousands of Americans […]
One killed in ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine says
James Waterhouse Ukraine Correspondent Jacqueline Howard BBC News Reuters One person has been killed and four injured in Russia’s latest missile attack on Ukraine’s capital overnight. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said a nine-year-old girl was among the injured in the attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Ukrainian military said it had shot […]