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  • St Giles’ Cathedral introduces fee for visitors outside Scotland

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1032/live/c1f404f0-c0be-11f1-885f-4f9e8c6dce17.jpg”] BBC St Giles’ Cathedral now charges a £12 admission fee for some visitors Visitors from outside Scotland now need to pay to enter one of Edinburgh’s most popular attractions for the first time in its 900-year history. General admission to St Giles’ Cathedral is set at £12, while free entry is still…

  • Dawood Safi detained for killing Wayne Broadhurst in Uxbridge

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/fbb7/live/660c9990-c0c8-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Met Police Dawood Safi was given an indefinite hospital order An Afghan refugee who killed a dog walker and attacked two other people in a “frenzy of violence” has been given an indefinite hospital order and recommended for deportation. Dawood Safi, 28, stabbed Wayne Broadhurst, 49, in the street during a series…

  • Rachel Jupp announced as BBC’s new director of news after Deborah Turness exit

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f7f2/live/a01a8c60-c0a4-11f1-b72b-c3e328aa18ed.jpg”] BBC Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two’s Newsnight and has also served as Panorama’s editor Rachel Jupp has been appointed the new director of BBC News, nearly a year after the previous CEO resigned. Deborah Turness announced last November that she would step down from the role following the…

  • Nigeria NYSC abductions: Bombs preventing rescue of kidnapped youths, Imo police say

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5bb8/live/0331bdb0-c0ae-11f1-b026-53d1506ee826.jpg”] BBC Omotosho Adewale, the father of one of those abducted, says he has had no peace and has not eaten for three days Nigerian police say they have located a camp where 19 national youth service recruits are being held by gunmen but cannot move in as they believe the place is…

  • Teenager’s hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and riot police

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ca95/live/91853390-c0b7-11f1-9475-67b7bb314be1.jpg”] Getty Images French school protests have led to clashes between police and students in recent days. File photo of police at a protest last week A 15-year-old boy’s hand was blown off during a confrontation between police and demonstrators near a school in France, an official has said, as student protests continue…

  • Georgia officials hunt for suspect in shooting that killed two and injured 35

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1c2d/live/ee570880-c0b9-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] APTN Investigators in the US state of Georgia are on the hunt for a suspect in a mass shooting that erupted in the early hours of Sunday, killing two people and injuring 35 more. A crowd of roughly 1,000 people had gathered for a block party in the southern rural community of…

  • No 10 says RAF Fairford is ‘safe’ after US withdraws bombers

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6efe/live/e16fb630-c0be-11f1-885f-4f9e8c6dce17.jpg”] Getty Images The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford Downing Street has insisted RAF Fairford is safe, after the US withdrew all of its bombers from the military base. The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers – thought to be about a dozen B-1s –…

  • Bahrain GP in Malaysia: Carlos Sainz says F1 needs to look at itself after software glitches

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/fb5c/live/48f2c490-c0b1-11f1-b026-53d1506ee826.jpg”] F1 needs to have hard look at itself – Sainz Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton were among the drivers who lost power before the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia By Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent Published 1 hour ago Formula 1 “needs…

  • Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash plane into airport, reports suggest

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/bfd0/live/b4ef58e0-c0be-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Reuters A second flydubai plane flew the stranded passengers from Saudi Arabia to Israel The co-pilot accused of trying to hijack a flydubai plane planned to crash the aircraft into Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport or a tower block in the Israeli city, US and Israeli reports suggest. The Omani national was…

  • Anuv Jain: Rising Indian singer on new music and future hopes

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0820/live/19d2f4b0-be76-11f1-8a45-cd59664d243b.jpg”] Meghan Katti The singer-songwriter has opened up about building a career on India’s music scene as an acoustic indie pop performer Can you find success as an Indian artist, outside of the Bollywood machine, while making music that feels like you? Well according to Anuv Jain it’s possible – and you can…