Compost factory smell ‘affecting our children’s lives’
BBC Conor Holland said the smell was so bad one day, they thought there was a dead animal in the house “It can smell like rotten vegetables, a fusty odour, it’s very overpowering and sometimes we’ve no choice but to bring the children inside.” Louise Quinn, principal of Cabragh Primary School in County Tyrone, has […]
More prisoners freed early to ease overcrowding
PA Media The government is releasing 1,100 more prisoners early, as part of its emergency plan to ease overcrowding in jails in England and Wales. Offenders serving more than five years are being released on licence after spending 40% of their time behind bars, a scheme that excludes those convicted of serious violence, sex crimes […]
‘Who do you trust?’ Election struggles to offer hope for food bank Britain
BBC Pam is used to poverty and desperation, but she’s never known it this bad. She runs the Rock Foundation Food Bank in Grimsby. “We are feeding 800 people a week, it was 300 five years ago,” she says. The food bank is in a derelict public toilet, and the food is passed out through […]
Southampton City Council: Staff facing redundancy
Dozens of posts at Southampton City Council are being cut as the council goes through a transformation plan. The Labour-controlled authority had a predicted £39m budget shortfall for 2024-25 and was granted exceptional financial support from the government. It meant it could borrow to cover revenue costs but had to take part in a review […]
Cromer Crab industries hit by bad weather and cost-of-living
Getty Images Bad weather is one of the factors being blamed for a drop in demand for Cromer crabs The fishing industry in a seaside town known around the world for its crustaceans has put a drop in demand for crabs down to the poor summer. Crabs from Cromer, in Norfolk, have long featured on […]
Southern Water has 50-year plan to maintain supply
BBC The plans include upgraded water treatment works to remove nitrates from aquifers A water company said its customers could run out of water by 2034 without a series of planned interventions. Southern Water, which covers Sussex and Kent, has put its draft water resources management plan out for public consultation. The company said the […]
Gaza’s only concert grand piano becomes image of hope
Khamis Abu Shaban The piano was photographed – a few months into the Israel-Gaza war – in a Gazan music school There is one image that keeps a Gaza musician going like no other – that of the territory’s only concert grand piano. Khamis Abu Shaban had finally risked returning to the music school at […]
Israel launches air strikes on Iran
Israel has the ‘right and duty to respond’, IDF sayspublished at 00:38 British Summer Time 26 October 00:38 BST 26 October Israel’s military says that, “like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and the duty to respond”, due to “the regime in Iran and its proxies in […]
Cheshire town voters tell of election wish list
BBC Joshua Lightfood works at a craft beer bar and would like to see beer duty cut Warrington South is often viewed as something of a bellwether seat – usually but not always mirroring the wider national picture in general elections. But with the nature of the seat now changed because of a boundary review, […]
The destructive power of Hurricane Milton in 3 images
Nasa Hurricane Milton was the fifth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record by central pressure (Credit: Nasa) These images show where Hurricane Milton’s power came from, and some of the risks faced by those in its path. Milton arrives less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the Gulf Coast and killed at least 225 […]