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Four injured in Pamplona bull run - BBC News | 2024-06-10 | null | Thousands of tourists attend the annual event, but animal rights activists have long-criticised the Spanish festival. | null | Four people have been injured during an annual bull run through the streets of Pamplona in Spain.
Every year thousands of tourists come to watch locals run 875m (0.54 miles) through the streets, chased by bulls, but animal rights activists have long-criticised the festival.
Three people were trampled during the event and one person was injured by a bull's horns, emergency services said. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66146268 |
Newscast - Electioncast: The Lib Dem Manifesto - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-10 | null | Lib Dems pledge £8bn package for health and care services in England | null | And why is Grant Shapps worried about one? | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j3dqt0 |
Any Questions? - James Cartlidge, Paul Johnson, Alison McGovern, John Nicolson, Richard Tice - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-10 | null | Alex Forsyth presents political discussion from Victoria Hall in Oakham in Rutland. | null | Alex Forsyth presents political discussion from Victoria Hall in Oakham in Rutland. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zw62 |
Bull spotted galloping down New Jersey train tracks - BBC News | 2024-06-10 | null | Morning commuters were met with delays after the long-horned animal made an appearance on the tracks. | null | New Jersey Transit train commuters were met with delays after a bull appeared on the tracks on Thursday morning.
It is still unclear how the bull may have ended up on the tracks, though a local CBS news station reported it likely escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse. Multiple law enforcement agencies eventually wrangled the bull, sedated it and transported it to an animal sanctuary. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67723281 |
General election 2024 poll tracker: How do the parties compare? - BBC News | 2024-06-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends. | UK Politics | Polls conducted over the last fortnight suggest support for Labour has dipped a bit but there's not any good news for the Conservatives, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes.
Labour are still on average around 20 points ahead of the Conservatives, but both parties have edged down since the election was called..
There's been a lot of attention paid to a YouGov poll, published on Thursday evening, which put Reform UK on 19%, one point ahead of the Conservatives. That's just one poll and, on average, Reform are still back in third place but they've certainly gained a considerable amount of support since Nigel Farage announced he was taking over as party leader and standing as a candidate.
Support for the Liberal Democrats has also edged up a little in the most recent polls but we still need to wait to see if that turns into a more sustained trend. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726 |
Harder to have own home under Tories, Sunak tells BBC - BBC News | 2024-06-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | In an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson, the prime minister was also asked about D-Day and Tory tax plans. | UK Politics | Tax rate on the average worker is indeed relatively low
The prime minister just told Nick Robinson: "Right now an average worker is facing the lowest tax rate on their earnings in half a century." This is correct. The Resolution Foundation think tank pointed out after the the 4p cut in National Insurance, the typical employee from April 2024 will be "facing a lower effective tax rate than at any time since at least 1975". However, those rates are predicted to rise in the coming years as a result of frozen tax thresholds. Paul Johnson from the IFS think tank wrote a piece explaining how the average worker is paying such a low rate of direct tax (that's income tax and National Insurance) when the overall amount of tax raised by the government is approaching record levels. He said part of that is down to money raised through indirect tax (such as the sales tax VAT), which has been boosted by recent high inflation. But he also said that high earners had seen big increases in their taxes. The top 1% of earners pay 29% of all income tax now, compared with 25% in 2010. And lower earners are being hit by the freezing of the point at which they start paying tax. You can read more about it here. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69103457 |
Paris mayor 'stunned' by snap French election weeks before Olympics - BBC News | 2024-06-10 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | President Macron called the election after the far-right National Rally won more than double the vote of his own centrist alliance. | Europe | 'They say the far right scare people,' says French voter, 'but nothing else is working'
In a small coffee shop in the town of Coulommiers, 40 miles outside of Paris, we meet Noémie Del Mastro, a worker at an elderly care home. What the 31-year-old mother of three tells us is the sort of thing that may well keep President Macron up at night for the next month of the election campaign. "They say the far right scare people," she says. "But maybe we should try that because nothing else is working and France is getting worse." "I’m scared to leave the house, use public transport," she continues. She says immigration and housing are crucial issues where President Macron has failed and where the far right offers solutions. "Too many immigrants are coming into the country without contributing anything," she says. Noémie says reports on TV and online have contributed to her concerns. "My vote is linked to my children and their future because I’m scared for their future." | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-69102843 |
Americast - Americanswers! Project 2025 and Biden’s mental capacity - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-10 | null | We answer your questions on the biggest issues in the run-up to the election | null | We answer your questions on the biggest issues in the run-up to the election | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j3dtv4 |
US announces special counsel for Hunter Biden - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | null | David Weiss will continue his investigation of the president's son, now with additional powers. | null | US attorney general Merrick Garland appoints David Weiss as special counsel to continue his investigation of Hunter Biden. He will now have additional powers to investigate the president's son. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66480626 |
Hunter Biden: The struggles and scandals of the US president's son - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The public and private struggles of President Biden's second child have spilled over into politics. | US & Canada | Hunter Biden (left) with his father, current US President Joe Biden
Hunter Biden has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and lying about his drug use when it was bought. The verdict leaves the US president's son facing a prison term. He is the first child of a sitting US leader to be convicted of a federal crime, but he will be back in court in September to face tax charges in a separate trial. It had looked far different last summer, when the 54-year-old looked set to resolve the trials and avoid prison time in a plea agreement with prosecutors. But the deal unravelled in court, and the prosecutor leading the federal inquiry later went ahead with the gun charges. In December, a second indictment alleged Hunter had failed to pay at least $1.4m (£1.1m) in federal taxes that he owed for tax years 2016-19. Congressional Republicans have conducted impeachment hearings into President Biden to investigate alleged influence-peddling by his son. The months-long inquiry has not appeared to uncover any wrongdoing, however. Meanwhile, Hunter's personal struggles - from alcohol and drug abuse, to relationship strife - have spilled into full public view.
So what more do we know about Hunter Biden?
Hunter (second from right) at his father's 30th birthday party
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1970 to Joe Biden and his first wife Neilia, Hunter was given his mother's maiden name as his first name. He was only two years old in December 1972 when - less than six weeks after his father's election to the US Senate - a truck rammed into the family car. The accident took the lives of his mother and his baby sister Naomi, while leaving him with a fractured skull and his older brother Beau with a broken leg. Joe Biden - who was not in the car - took his oath of office by their bedside in hospital.
Hunter (extreme left) looks on with his family after Joe Biden announces his first run for the presidency in 1988
Hunter later attended Georgetown University and Yale Law School, graduating in 1996. Between the two degrees, he joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a Catholic group that serves marginalised communities. There, he met his first wife, Kathleen Buhle, a lawyer, and they wed in 1993. They have three children - Naomi, Finnegan and Maisy - but the pair split in 2017.
His father is teetotal, but Hunter started drinking as a teenager and has acknowledged abusing cocaine as a college student. He has been in and out of rehab. In 2013, he signed up for the US Navy Reserve and was sworn in before his father - then the vice-president - in a White House ceremony. But on his very first day at the naval base, he tested positive for cocaine use and was discharged.
Hunter walks with his then-wife Kathleen, father Joe and step-mother Jill in 2009
According to the New Yorker, he drank excessively after the death of his older brother, Beau, from brain cancer in 2015, sometimes only leaving the house to buy vodka. "He and Beau were one," his daughter, Naomi, once wrote on Twitter. "One heart, one soul, one mind." During their acrimonious divorce, Ms Buhle accused Hunter of "spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations) while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills". Breaking her silence last year on how the 24-year marriage unravelled, she told Good Morning America: "He was struggling under a massive drug addiction, and that's heart-breaking and painful and that wasn't who I was married to." In his 2021 memoir Beautiful Things, Hunter concedes that his infidelity was the final straw in their marriage. A DNA test in 2019 found he was "the biological and legal father" of a child born to Lunden Alexis Roberts, an exotic dancer from Arkansas. Hunter claimed to have "no recollection" of their encounter in his memoir, but he has settled a paternity suit with Ms Roberts and pays her child support. None of the Bidens appear to have ever met Navy Roberts, now four years old. But amid a media pressure campaign, President Biden was last summer forced to acknowledge his seventh grandchild.
Before he finalised his split from Ms Buhle, Hunter entered into a relationship with his brother's widow, Hallie Biden. During a two-year relationship, the pair bonded over their shared and "very specific grief" as a result of Beau Biden's death, he told the New Yorker.
Hunter, with father Joe and brother Beau, waves at supporters during Barack Obama's inauguration as president
Taking the stand at his Delaware trial, Hallie Biden testified that the president's son had introduced her to crack cocaine and bought drugs in her presence. She also said his frequent use left him "agitated" and "high-strung". Two months after a stint in rehab in 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a handgun - what his defence team maintains was an impulse buy, under pressure from a pushy gun store owner. Prosecutors said he lied on the firearm application form by claiming that he was not using drugs at the time. Hunter Biden's attorneys argued he did not consider himself an addict and had been clean at that time. Hallie Biden, who told the court she had confronted Hunter Biden over his drug use, found the weapon and ammunition as she again cleared "remnants of crack cocaine and [drug] paraphernalia" from his vehicle. She described how, in a moment of panic, she stuffed the gun in a shopping bag and tossed it in a garbage bin, 11 days after the firearm was purchased. "I didn't want him to hurt himself or the kids to find it and hurt themselves" she said of her actions. According to the New York Times, Hunter had ominously told a family friend at the time: "I know you all think the wrong brother died." Retrieving the discarded gun would ultimately involve local police, the FBI and an elderly man who had been fishing in the trash for aluminium and plastic. Reports of an "amicable" split between Hallie and Hunter surfaced in 2019, less than a week after his father launched his third bid for president. Mere weeks later, Hunter wed South African filmmaker Melissa Cohen after a whirlwind six-day romance. They have one son.
At his trial, Hunter Biden did not take the stand in his own defence but he and several family members sat through emotional testimony from three ex-partners, including Ms Buhle. His daughter, Naomi, also testified. Speaking out in 2019 on his struggle with addiction, he said: "You don't get rid of it. You figure out how to deal with it." In Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden credits his survival to his family's love, recounting an intervention that ended with his father tightly embracing him and saying: "I don't know what else to do. I'm so scared. Tell me what to do." The president's son has turned in recent years to painting as a form of therapy, telling the New York Times that it "keeps me away from people and places where I shouldn't be". But sales of his artwork - for up to $500,000 a piece - have created an ethics dilemma for the Biden White House. President Biden has defended his son on multiple occasions, including in a feisty presidential debate with Mr Trump in 2020. Ahead of the trial, he released a statement: "I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today." But he has said that, if a jury convicts Hunter Biden in this trial or the next, he should not expect to be pardoned.
Hunter laughs with Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2010
After graduating from Yale, Hunter worked at MBNA America, a bank holding company headquartered in Delaware and later acquired by Bank of America. Joe Biden's close ties to the bank - one of the largest employers in Delaware and a top contributor to his political campaigns - earned him the unfavourable moniker of "the senator from MBNA". As Hunter was promoted to the rank of executive vice-president, Joe pushed bankruptcy reform legislation favourable to MBNA through the Senate. In the early 2000s, while still receiving consulting fees from the bank, Hunter opened a Washington lobbying practice. It saw him land "clients with interests that overlapped with [his father's] committee assignments and legislative priorities", according to Politico Magazine. The father-son relationship at the time, he told the New Yorker, was that neither would speak to the other about lobbying work. President Biden has maintained this to be true in the case of more recent allegations of wrongdoing as well.
Hunter and sister Ashley wave as they arrive at their father's presidential inauguration
In 2006, with then-Senator Biden set to re-assume chairmanship of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Hunter and another relative made an ill-fated purchase of a hedge fund group. Their tenure at Paradigm Global Advisors extended through Joe Biden's 2008 run for president and selection as vice-president to President Barack Obama. During this time, the fund was connected with several alleged fraudsters, including a Texas financier convicted of running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in US history. The Bidens denied any wrongdoing and faced no charges. In 2010, they liquidated the fund and returned money to investors.
Much has been made in recent years about Hunter's foreign business interests while his father was vice-president. In 2013, he took a founding board seat at BHR, a Chinese private equity firm - first as an unpaid member and later owning a 10% equity stake in the fund. The company was registered in Shanghai less than a fortnight after Hunter flew with his father on an official vice-presidential trip to China and met BHR's chief executive, but only for "a cup of coffee", the first son later said. After his father left office in 2017, Hunter partnered with Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming on a natural gas project in Louisiana. The deal collapsed after Ye was detained by Chinese authorities on corruption charges and subsequently went missing.
Hunter accompanied his father on his official trip to China in 2013
Hunter's dealings in Ukraine have stoked even more controversy, given that his father was the Obama administration's point man for US-Ukraine relations. In 2014, he joined the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, where he was paid as much as $1.2m (£943,000) per year. As part of an anti-corruption drive, Vice-President Biden was at the time rallying for the ouster of the country's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Mr Shokin was removed by parliament in 2016, but critics argue the prosecutor only lost his job because he was investigating Burisma. Republicans alleged both Joe and Hunter Biden had received $5m payouts from Burisma executives in exchange for Mr Shokin's firing. But those claims fizzled when an ex-FBI informant was charged with fabricating the whole bribery scheme. A former business partner to Hunter also testified Joe had been on speakerphone several times during Hunter's calls with various contacts. Allegations of corruption formed the centrepiece of both President Trump's first impeachment in 2019, and are stoking the nascent impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
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A laptop abandoned by Hunter at a Delaware repair shop, and the seedy contents of its hard drive, also featured prominently in the 2020 presidential campaign. The Biden team argued at the time it was a "smear campaign" engineered by Russian disinformation, but the hard drive has been authenticated by US media and the FBI has it. Analysis of its contents has provided proof of Hunter's extensive earnings from his work in China and Ukraine, as well as evidence of his alcohol- and drug-fuelled escapades. As the president revs up his re-election campaign, the extensive fallout from his son's legal drama, business interests and tabloid-friendly life is proving to be an unwelcome distraction. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55805698 |
Bull spotted galloping down New Jersey train tracks - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | null | Morning commuters were met with delays after the long-horned animal made an appearance on the tracks. | null | New Jersey Transit train commuters were met with delays after a bull appeared on the tracks on Thursday morning.
It is still unclear how the bull may have ended up on the tracks, though a local CBS news station reported it likely escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse. Multiple law enforcement agencies eventually wrangled the bull, sedated it and transported it to an animal sanctuary. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67723281 |
Scottish leaders debate: Party bosses clash on cost of living, the NHS and independence - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The five Scottish party leaders go head-to-head in a BBC Scotland Debate Night special programme. | Scotland | Read my lips - no new taxes, said George HW Bush Image caption: Read my lips - no new taxes, said George HW Bush
"Read my lips," said Anas Sarwar. The Scottish Labour leader was using a slogan from the US presidential campaign of George HW Bush in 1988.
His promise then was "no new taxes" - which he later, infamously, broke. It's not a good presidential precedent.
Labour's promise is "no return to austerity", while also locking itself into several promises on not raising taxes, and only specifying a limited range of taxes that will go up. Similar reassurances have come from Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
SNP leader John Swinney said a Labour government would return to austerity, meaning a squeeze on public services and welfare.
Among the independent think tanks he cited, the Institute for Government has said: "The main parties are promising to address the chronic problems evident in many public services. But this is hard to square with current government spending plans for the next parliament which imply large real terms cuts to funding for many public services... Labour has broadly signed up to the government’s headline spending plans.
"The promises on tax (coupled with promises to limit borrowing and debt) imply tight limits on public spending...
"The tax pledges seriously undermine the credibility of their public service aspirations: the parties are presumably hoping the electorate will not notice."
Paul Johnston, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said of the main parties: "Neither is addressing the big problems they'll face if they win the election. The numbers imply big spending cuts over the next five years unless there are big tax rises or the parties break their promises on getting the debt down. But they don't want to talk about that."
The next government could get out of this tight corner if it can stimulate more growth in the economy.
Meanwhile, John Swinney will be aware that such think tanks can also turn their attention to SNP plans, for government and for independence. More of that in 2026. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-69104430 |
Teenagers in stolen vehicle lead police in Florida car chase - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | null | Video posted on social media shows the two suspects leading the police in a high-speed chase on a highway. | null | Two teenagers have been arrested after leading the police on a car chase in a stolen vehicle in Hillsborough County.
Video posted on social media by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office shows the suspects leading the police in a high-speed chase on a Florida highway.
A police vehicle then used the precision immobilisation technique (PIT) to bring the stolen car to a stop.
The 14-year-old and 15-year-old suspects have been charged with grand theft. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66924904 |
Newscast - Electioncast: The Lib Dem Manifesto - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-11 | null | Lib Dems pledge £8bn package for health and care services in England | null | And why is Grant Shapps worried about one? | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j3dqt0 |
Sunak promises tax cuts in manifesto, but Labour call it 'desperate' - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The PM says the Conservatives will cut 2p from employees' NI and scrap the main rate for the self-employed. | UK Politics | 'It is not nice or pleasant to be subjected to violence' - Farage
Some more now from Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who is now addressing supporters hours after an object was thrown at him earlier today on the campaign trail. "Politics, it would appear, is worse, five years on than when I left it," he says in remarks livestreamed on X. “I genuinely believe that our democratic process is directly under threat. What happened to me in Clacton last week when a young woman threw milkshake in my face and then the mob violence that you saw in Barnsley today is an attempt to stop me speaking.” Farage adds it was noticeable that some of the people gathered in Barnsley were "fresh out of university. Their minds are being poisoned in school and and in university, and it's plain wrong". In his concluding remarks, he says: "It is not nice or pleasant to be subjected to violence, I’ve not paid for that, but I will not surrender, I will not give in to the mob." Last week, police in Clacton arrested a 25-year-old woman in relation to the milkshake incident, while the South Yorkshire Police today said it had arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of public order offences. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69108457 |
Motorcyclist fined after fireball Cambridge car crash - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | null | Video captures the moment a motorcycle burst into flames after a collision with a car. | null | A motorcyclist has been fined £120 and had nine points added to his licence after a crash with a car that saw his bike explode into a fireball.
Dashcam footage showed Stavius Gordon being thrown from his bike after the crash with a car travelling in the opposite direction in Ditton Lane, Cambridge, just before 18:00 BST on 9 September 2022.
The 31-year-old, formerly of Barnwell Road, Cambridge, lost a toe in the collision. He pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and driving without insurance at Cambridge Magistrates' Court.
Police said Gordon, now of HMP Peterborough, was jailed in August , externalfor one year and 11 months, having been found guilty of affray. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66929271 |
Americast - Americanswers! Project 2025 and Biden’s mental capacity - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-11 | null | We answer your questions on the biggest issues in the run-up to the election | null | We answer your questions on the biggest issues in the run-up to the election | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j3dtv4 |
Jury finds Hunter Biden guilty of all charges in gun trial - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | The US president's son is found guilty of lying about his drug use when buying a handgun in 2018. | US & Canada | We are now finishing our live coverage of the guilty verdict in Hunter Biden's gun case, the first time the child of a sitting US president has gone on trial over criminal charges.
Thanks for following along with us. You can read more about this case and follow any further developments here.
You can also catch up on everything you might have missed below:
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This page was edited by Brandon Livesay and Caitlin Wilson. Our writers have been Bernd Debusmann Jr, Rachel Looker, Emily McGarvey, Brandon Drenon, and Christal Hayes. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-69091802 |
Watch: Cars crash off Luton roundabout into front garden - BBC News | 2024-06-11 | null | Footage captures a red vehicle driving over the junction and a second blue car hitting it. | null | The moment two cars crashed on a roundabout into a front garden has been caught on camera.
Footage shared on Facebook showed a red vehicle driving over the junction in St Margaret's Avenue, Luton, and a second blue car hitting it.
Bedfordshire Police said it was called at 20:20 BST on Wednesday to an incident involving two vehicles.
"One person suffered slight injuries and went to hospital to be checked over, and one person was reported for having no insurance and driving without due care and attention", a spokeswoman said. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66329600 |
US announces special counsel for Hunter Biden - BBC News | 2024-06-12 | null | David Weiss will continue his investigation of the president's son, now with additional powers. | null | US attorney general Merrick Garland appoints David Weiss as special counsel to continue his investigation of Hunter Biden. He will now have additional powers to investigate the president's son. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66480626 |
Parties quizzed in debate after Labour launches 'wealth manifesto' - BBC News | 2024-06-12 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Senior figures from the main parties take part in an ITV debate, after Labour launches its election manifesto. | UK Politics | What I found striking in the ebb and flow of this debate was how it felt like Labour were actually the incumbents being forced to defend their record, not the party that has been in opposition for 14 years.
Time and again many of the other parties attacked Labour’s policies. When each participant had a chance to ask one question of one other debater, most chose to ask Angela Rayner.
The other parties gave the impression - sometimes even explicitly stated - they expect Labour will win, and so were keen to try to take them down.
There is also another dynamic at play: Nigel Farage's entrance into the race and the fact one opinion poll tonight show his Reform party beating the Conservatives.
That has emboldened Farage, and undermined the Conservatives further.
Penny Mordaunt was laughed at by the audience when she spoke of Rishi Sunak’s record.
Despite the threat from Reform, Mordaunt did not seek to land punches on Farage for the most part, choosing to join the criticism of Labour.
In her most notable attempt to attack Farage, Mordaunt called him a “Labour enabler" - to which he immediately retorted “we are now ahead of you in the national polls, a vote for you is actually now a vote for Labour".
Labour felt like the party in the limelight, and the Conservatives the ones under threat and struggling to speak with authority. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69111362 |
Bull spotted galloping down New Jersey train tracks - BBC News | 2024-06-12 | null | Morning commuters were met with delays after the long-horned animal made an appearance on the tracks. | null | New Jersey Transit train commuters were met with delays after a bull appeared on the tracks on Thursday morning.
It is still unclear how the bull may have ended up on the tracks, though a local CBS news station reported it likely escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse. Multiple law enforcement agencies eventually wrangled the bull, sedated it and transported it to an animal sanctuary. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67723281 |
Parties quizzed in debate after Labour launches 'wealth manifesto' - BBC News | 2024-06-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Senior figures from the main parties take part in an ITV debate, after Labour launches its election manifesto. | UK Politics | What I found striking in the ebb and flow of this debate was how it felt like Labour were actually the incumbents being forced to defend their record, not the party that has been in opposition for 14 years.
Time and again many of the other parties attacked Labour’s policies. When each participant had a chance to ask one question of one other debater, most chose to ask Angela Rayner.
The other parties gave the impression - sometimes even explicitly stated - they expect Labour will win, and so were keen to try to take them down.
There is also another dynamic at play: Nigel Farage's entrance into the race and the fact one opinion poll tonight show his Reform party beating the Conservatives.
That has emboldened Farage, and undermined the Conservatives further.
Penny Mordaunt was laughed at by the audience when she spoke of Rishi Sunak’s record.
Despite the threat from Reform, Mordaunt did not seek to land punches on Farage for the most part, choosing to join the criticism of Labour.
In her most notable attempt to attack Farage, Mordaunt called him a “Labour enabler" - to which he immediately retorted “we are now ahead of you in the national polls, a vote for you is actually now a vote for Labour".
Labour felt like the party in the limelight, and the Conservatives the ones under threat and struggling to speak with authority. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69111362 |
General election 2024 poll tracker: How do the parties compare? - BBC News | 2024-06-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends. | UK Politics | Polls conducted over the last fortnight suggest support for Labour has dipped a bit but there's not any good news for the Conservatives, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes.
Labour are still on average around 20 points ahead of the Conservatives, but both parties have edged down since the election was called..
There's been a lot of attention paid to a YouGov poll, published on Thursday evening, which put Reform UK on 19%, one point ahead of the Conservatives. That's just one poll and, on average, Reform are still back in third place but they've certainly gained a considerable amount of support since Nigel Farage announced he was taking over as party leader and standing as a candidate.
Support for the Liberal Democrats has also edged up a little in the most recent polls but we still need to wait to see if that turns into a more sustained trend. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726 |
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Quiz of the week: Who did Glastonbury say was its dream headliner? - BBC News | 2024-06-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Test how closely you have been paying attention to what has been going on over the past seven days. | World | It's the weekly news quiz - how closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?
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Newscast - Electioncast: The Labour Manifesto - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-13 | null | And Plaid Cymru’s manifesto & more Undercover Voters! | null | And why is Grant Shapps worried about one? | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j43vr8 |
UK inflation rate calculator: How much are prices rising for you? - BBC News | 2024-06-13 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Use our calculator to find out how much the cost of living is going up in your household. | Business | Every month there's a new figure for inflation - it estimates how much prices are rising across all the goods and services in the economy.
In the 12 months to April 2024, the figure was 2.3%. That means things costing £1 in April 2023 cost just over £1.02 the same time the following year.
Our personal inflation calculator, built by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in collaboration with the BBC, shows you what the inflation rate is for your household, and identifies the items in your household budget that have gone up the most in price over the past year.
Note: in the calculator, the ONS compares your personal inflation rate with CPIH, a measure of inflation that includes housing costs for those who own their home, rather than the more widely-reported measure called CPI. In April 2024 this was 3.0%. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62558817 |
As it happened: Keir Starmer rules out capital gains tax rise as Tory minister admits migration 'frustration' - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | As it happened: Party leaders hit the road again with less than three weeks to go before the election. | UK Politics | Let's return to the Labour campaign for a moment and hear from the shadow health secretary who's been speaking to the BBC about Labour's plan for the NHS.
During a visit to a hospital in Nottinghamshire earlier, Wes Streeting says that if the NHS continued to function as it has under Rishi Sunak, waiting lists "could do as high as 10 m".
For context: Waiting lists in England have fallen from their peak last September, but are still higher than when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to cut them, in January 2023.
After falling from a peak of 7.8m in September, the number rose slightly again this week.
Streeting says the last Labour government delivered the lowest waiting times and highest patient satisfaction. "We did it before, and with the country's permission, we can do it again," he adds.
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue points out that the last Labour government increased spending on the NHS by 7% each year, and asks whether a new Labour government would do the same.
Streeting says that the public finances are in "a real state" after 14 years of Tory governments, and says that the Labour manifesto is "a fully costed and fully funded plan". | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69117992 |
Newscast - Electioncast: Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Q+A! - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-14 | null | Laura, Chris and Paddy answer your election questions. | null | Electioncast: Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Q+A! Electioncast: Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Q+A! | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j4brv1 |
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley - There’s Only One Michael Mosley - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-14 | null | Michael’s last interview, How to Live a Good Life, with Prof Paul Bloom at Hay Festival. | null | Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
Michael’s last interview, How to Live a Good Life, with Prof Paul Bloom at Hay Festival. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020l75 |
Teenagers in stolen vehicle lead police in Florida car chase - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | null | Video posted on social media shows the two suspects leading the police in a high-speed chase on a highway. | null | Two teenagers have been arrested after leading the police on a car chase in a stolen vehicle in Hillsborough County.
Video posted on social media by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office shows the suspects leading the police in a high-speed chase on a Florida highway.
A police vehicle then used the precision immobilisation technique (PIT) to bring the stolen car to a stop.
The 14-year-old and 15-year-old suspects have been charged with grand theft. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66924904 |
Broken down car collision near Norwich prompts police warning - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | null | Police release dashcam footage to remind drivers to get out of their vehicle if it breaks down. | null | Police have released dashcam footage of a car crash to remind drivers to get out of their vehicle if it breaks down.
The video shows a car colliding with another that had come to a stop on a dual carriageway near Norwich.
The driver was seriously injured but the occupants of the broken down car avoided harm because they had quickly left the vehicle and moved to the grass verge.
Norfolk Police said: "The incident highlights the safety messages of Norfolk and Suffolk Police and Highways England, which is to leave your vehicle via the passenger side, if possible, and move away from it, ideally behind a safety barrier, if there is one." | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64661180 |
General election 2024 poll tracker: How do the parties compare? - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends. | UK Politics | Polls conducted over the last fortnight suggest support for Labour has dipped a bit but there's not any good news for the Conservatives, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes.
Labour are still on average around 20 points ahead of the Conservatives, but both parties have edged down since the election was called..
There's been a lot of attention paid to a YouGov poll, published on Thursday evening, which put Reform UK on 19%, one point ahead of the Conservatives. That's just one poll and, on average, Reform are still back in third place but they've certainly gained a considerable amount of support since Nigel Farage announced he was taking over as party leader and standing as a candidate.
Support for the Liberal Democrats has also edged up a little in the most recent polls but we still need to wait to see if that turns into a more sustained trend. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726 |
Motorcyclist fined after fireball Cambridge car crash - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | null | Video captures the moment a motorcycle burst into flames after a collision with a car. | null | A motorcyclist has been fined £120 and had nine points added to his licence after a crash with a car that saw his bike explode into a fireball.
Dashcam footage showed Stavius Gordon being thrown from his bike after the crash with a car travelling in the opposite direction in Ditton Lane, Cambridge, just before 18:00 BST on 9 September 2022.
The 31-year-old, formerly of Barnwell Road, Cambridge, lost a toe in the collision. He pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and driving without insurance at Cambridge Magistrates' Court.
Police said Gordon, now of HMP Peterborough, was jailed in August , externalfor one year and 11 months, having been found guilty of affray. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66929271 |
Quiz of the week: Who did Glastonbury say was its dream headliner? - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Test how closely you have been paying attention to what has been going on over the past seven days. | World | It's the weekly news quiz - how closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?
Some mobile users may experience difficulties. If you cannot see the quiz, try this link, external. Try last week's quiz or have a go at something from the archives. What information do we collect from this quiz? Privacy notice.
Sign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-69116499 |
Newscast - Electioncast: The Labour Manifesto - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-14 | null | And Plaid Cymru’s manifesto & more Undercover Voters! | null | And why is Grant Shapps worried about one? | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j43vr8 |
Watch: Cars crash off Luton roundabout into front garden - BBC News | 2024-06-14 | null | Footage captures a red vehicle driving over the junction and a second blue car hitting it. | null | The moment two cars crashed on a roundabout into a front garden has been caught on camera.
Footage shared on Facebook showed a red vehicle driving over the junction in St Margaret's Avenue, Luton, and a second blue car hitting it.
Bedfordshire Police said it was called at 20:20 BST on Wednesday to an incident involving two vehicles.
"One person suffered slight injuries and went to hospital to be checked over, and one person was reported for having no insurance and driving without due care and attention", a spokeswoman said. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66329600 |
Weather for the Week Ahead - BBC Weather | 2024-06-15 | null | Unsettled weather for now, but there might be drier intervals in the mix. Elizabeth Rizzini has the details. | null | Unsettled weather for now, but there might be drier intervals in the mix. Elizabeth Rizzini has the details. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/69122171 |
Newscast - Electioncast: Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Q+A! - BBC Sounds | 2024-06-15 | null | Laura, Chris and Paddy answer your election questions. | null | Electioncast: Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Q+A! Electioncast: Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Q+A! | http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j4brv1 |
As it happened: Keir Starmer rules out capital gains tax rise as Tory minister admits migration 'frustration' - BBC News | 2024-06-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | As it happened: Party leaders hit the road again with less than three weeks to go before the election. | UK Politics | Let's return to the Labour campaign for a moment and hear from the shadow health secretary who's been speaking to the BBC about Labour's plan for the NHS.
During a visit to a hospital in Nottinghamshire earlier, Wes Streeting says that if the NHS continued to function as it has under Rishi Sunak, waiting lists "could do as high as 10 m".
For context: Waiting lists in England have fallen from their peak last September, but are still higher than when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to cut them, in January 2023.
After falling from a peak of 7.8m in September, the number rose slightly again this week.
Streeting says the last Labour government delivered the lowest waiting times and highest patient satisfaction. "We did it before, and with the country's permission, we can do it again," he adds.
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue points out that the last Labour government increased spending on the NHS by 7% each year, and asks whether a new Labour government would do the same.
Streeting says that the public finances are in "a real state" after 14 years of Tory governments, and says that the Labour manifesto is "a fully costed and fully funded plan". | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69117992 |
General election 2024 poll tracker: How do the parties compare? - BBC News | 2024-06-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends. | UK Politics | Polls conducted over the last fortnight suggest support for Labour has dipped a bit but there's not any good news for the Conservatives, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes.
Labour are still on average around 20 points ahead of the Conservatives, but both parties have edged down since the election was called..
There's been a lot of attention paid to a YouGov poll, published on Thursday evening, which put Reform UK on 19%, one point ahead of the Conservatives. That's just one poll and, on average, Reform are still back in third place but they've certainly gained a considerable amount of support since Nigel Farage announced he was taking over as party leader and standing as a candidate.
Support for the Liberal Democrats has also edged up a little in the most recent polls but we still need to wait to see if that turns into a more sustained trend. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726 |
Kate joins King for Buckingham Palace flypast on return to public events - BBC News | 2024-06-15 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Catherine, Princess of Wales is making her first public appearance since her cancer diagnosis, at an event marking the sovereign's official birthday. | UK | We hope you enjoyed following our live coverage of Trooping the Colour.
Given that the rain seems to be holding off for a bit longer, we're going to try and nip out and enjoy some UV rays ourselves.
As a reminder, today marked the first time that we've seen the Princess of Wales since her cancer diagnosis and abdominal surgery in January - some more details on her cancer treatment can be found here.
If you missed any of today's "trooping", fear not, as we've got all the updates covered in our wrap of this morning's events here.
This page was written by Cachella Smith, Sean Coughlan and Sarah Campbell and was edited by myself. Thank you for joining us. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-69121498 |
Weather for the Week Ahead - BBC Weather | 2024-06-16 | null | Unsettled weather for now, but there might be drier intervals in the mix. Elizabeth Rizzini has the details. | null | Unsettled weather for now, but there might be drier intervals in the mix. Elizabeth Rizzini has the details. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/69122171 |
General election 2024 poll tracker: How do the parties compare? - BBC News | 2024-06-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends. | UK Politics | Polls conducted over the last fortnight suggest support for Labour has dipped a bit but there's not any good news for the Conservatives, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes.
Labour are still on average around 20 points ahead of the Conservatives, but both parties have edged down since the election was called..
There's been a lot of attention paid to a YouGov poll, published on Thursday evening, which put Reform UK on 19%, one point ahead of the Conservatives. That's just one poll and, on average, Reform are still back in third place but they've certainly gained a considerable amount of support since Nigel Farage announced he was taking over as party leader and standing as a candidate.
Support for the Liberal Democrats has also edged up a little in the most recent polls but we still need to wait to see if that turns into a more sustained trend. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726 |
Watch: How runaway Cavalry horses caused chaos in London - BBC News | 2024-06-16 | null | Video shows Army horses running loose through the city, colliding with vehicles and causing havoc. | null | Four people have been injured after five Household Cavalry horses ran loose through central London, causing chaos and colliding with vehicles.
The horses - one of which was covered in blood - had been spooked by noise from a building site near Buckingham Palace.
The Army said three soldiers had incurred injuries, which were not life-threatening and the horses were undergoing veterinary care.
The fourth person injured in the incident is believed to be a cyclist and member of the public.
Read more here: Four hurt as runaway horses bolt across London | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68888416 |
Wes Streeting wanted 'more ambitious' manifesto on social care - BBC News | 2024-06-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | But he says to get a policy into Labour's manifesto, he had to run a "gauntlet" of whether it was deliverable and affordable. | UK | Wes Streeting says he would have liked to have been more ambitious with Labour’s manifesto pledges on social care in England - and there are many with experience of the overstretched care system who are desperate to see ambitious ideas for this vital service.
As we’ve seen so often, the stumbling block is finding the money for reform to social care, which supports older and disabled people in the community.
Even getting the existing plans in place, is likely to be challenging.
Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg today, the shadow health secretary promised Labour would go ahead with the £86,000 cap on care costs in England due to be introduced in October 2025.
The Conservatives have said they still intend to implement the plan.
But in 2022, the National Insurance rise, which had been introduced to pay for it, was scrapped, the pilot schemes were stopped, and councils say the money was used to prop up the existing system.
So only when a new administration looks under the bonnet of government finances will we really know whether 16 months is enough time to get that change up and running. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-69122757 |
UK inflation rate calculator: How much are prices rising for you? - BBC News | 2024-06-16 | https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews | Use our calculator to find out how much the cost of living is going up in your household. | Business | Every month there's a new figure for inflation - it estimates how much prices are rising across all the goods and services in the economy.
In the 12 months to April 2024, the figure was 2.3%. That means things costing £1 in April 2023 cost just over £1.02 the same time the following year.
Our personal inflation calculator, built by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in collaboration with the BBC, shows you what the inflation rate is for your household, and identifies the items in your household budget that have gone up the most in price over the past year.
Note: in the calculator, the ONS compares your personal inflation rate with CPIH, a measure of inflation that includes housing costs for those who own their home, rather than the more widely-reported measure called CPI. In April 2024 this was 3.0%. | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62558817 |