US senator fears nuclear espionage
A Montana senator has requested a full security briefing from the Pentagon over a suspected Chinese spying operation above his state
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Ukraine war: On the front line with engineers working to fix stricken power grid
The BBC watches engineers and technicians as they race to repair damage across the country.
Sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church reached ‘epic proportions’
A report soon to be released found sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church was of ‘epic proportions’ in some places
Councils say they lack funds to enforce stricter limits on wood burners
Local authorities say policing government’s new standards on smoke pollution is beyond their meansLocal authorities lack the resources for the crackdown on highly polluting wood burners promised by the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, they say.Wo…
Griff Rhys Jones rails against plans to ‘smother’ Liverpool Street station
Comedian leads coalition against ‘exploitative’ proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed stationGriff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (3…
Tory bankbenchers plan to put pressure on Hunt to cut childcare costs
Exclusive: Group led by Siobhan Baillie want chancellor to use budget to relax rules and eliminate business rates for nurseries A handful of influential Tory backbenchers have created an informal pressure group to push the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to c…
Alf Dubs decries Suella Braverman’s likening of refugees to invaders
Labour peer who fled to UK to escape Nazis says home secretary’s words ‘deeply and personally upsetting’ Alf Dubs, the veteran Labour peer who arrived in the UK as a child fleeing the Nazis, has described Suella Braveman’s likening of refugees to invad…
More than 500,000 people in UK ‘will be diagnosed with cancer each year by 2040’
Cancer Research UK report says NHS risks being overwhelmed by cancer diagnosesMore than 500,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer every year by 2040, according to analysis by Cancer Research UK.In its report published on Friday, researcher…
UK butterflies vanish from nearly half of the places they once flew – study
Butterfly Conservation report reveals 42% decline in distribution of 58 native species since 1976Butterfly species have vanished from nearly half of the places where they once flew in the UK since 1976, according to a study.The distribution of 58 nativ…
Antetokounmpo scores 54 points, Bucks beat Clippers 106-105
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 20 of his 54 points in the fourth quarter and the Milwaukee Bucks overcame a 21-point deficit to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 106-105 on Thursday night for their sixth consecutive victory.