Tag: bbc.com

  • Porridge gurus from opposite sides of globe triumph in world championship

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a060/live/e36958a0-bfd4-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.jpg”] Michael Harley Dutch champion Gina Saarberg took the coveted Golden Spurtle, while and Australian porridge maestro Rob Reid triumphed in Speciality Porridge category Two national porridge-making champions from almost opposite sides of the planet have triumphed in the annual world championships held in the Scottish Highlands. Gina Saarberg, 28, took the coveted…

  • How photographer Tim Smith captured Bradford’s daytime dance revolution

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1844/live/b561d350-be59-11f1-8828-9d9deece30a1.jpg”] Tim Smith Rani Kaur, known as DJ Radical Sister, was one of the female pioneers of the daytimers scene For decades, photographer Tim Smith’s images of Bradford’s British Asian “daytimers” dance scene remained largely unseen. Now, some of those shots are taking their place in a major Tate exhibition examining the creativity…

  • Kierron Bowie seizing Scotland shot after World Cup disappointment

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/3e53/live/7ab140f0-bfc7-11f1-ae6d-41d695ddb617.jpg”] Bowie seizing Scotland shot after World Cup disappointment To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Highlights: North Macedonia 0-2 Scotland ByScott Mullen BBC Sport Scotland in North Macedonia Published 28 minutes ago Sometimes, the solution to a problem can…

  • China Open: Aryna Sabalenka stunned by Nikola Bartunkova in Beijing

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/2cfa/live/8e473cf0-bfc2-11f1-be90-73414311d321.jpg”] Sabalenka stunned by Bartunkova at China Open Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Sabalenka has lost six consecutive matches after dropping the first set ByEmily Salley BBC Sport journalist Published 4 hours ago World number two Aryna Sabalenka followed Elena Rybakina out the door at the China Open as she fell to a…

  • Data centre and homes plan compete for Charlton Riverside site

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f561/live/281ef210-bdab-11f1-8373-27235719cf2a.jpg”] Getty Images A Charlton data centre proposal has become the latest flashpoint in the debate about technological infrastructure and housing A growing debate is playing out across London: As demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure grows, what should happen when data centres compete with housing and regeneration ambitions for the…

  • Horniman Museum’s new Nature Gallery to open in February

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/eea4/live/3bb381b0-bbe9-11f1-a430-4d16ee157c41.jpg”] StudioMB The Nature Gallery hopes to explore people’s connection to and reliance on nature The Horniman Museum is set to open its new Nature Gallery in February 2027. The south-east London museum said the fully refurbished space, previously named the Natural History Gallery, had been reimagined to celebrate the variety of life…

  • Painting of Dryburgh bridge found on back of map after 150 years

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/cf10/live/ba637c90-bc25-11f1-bd53-1b67dc8fba34.jpg”] BGS/UKRI Luis Albornoz-Parra was researching the building stones of Dryburgh Abbey when he made the find A striking watercolour of a bridge in the Scottish Borders, which had gone unnoticed in archives for more than 150 years, has been found by accident on the back of a geological map. Luis Albornoz-Parra, of…

  • Chelsea news: Cesar Azpilicueta – clawed my way to the top but need a break

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/14a6/live/d4fed630-bb4e-11f1-bd21-bdf910f2cec6.jpg”] I clawed my way to the top but need a break – Azpilicueta Image source, PFAImage caption, Azpilicueta is sixth in the all-time appearance list after playing 508 times in 11 years for Chelsea. By Nizaar Kinsella Chelsea reporter Published 1 hour ago Cesar Azpilicueta was an all-encompassing leader for Chelsea –…

  • The Feeling say Twelve Stops and Home was recorded in Horsham shed

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6ed5/live/d68fe5f0-be4d-11f1-8828-9d9deece30a1.jpg”] Bonnie Britain/Getty The Feeling frontman Dan Gillespie Sells said celebrating the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album was “extraordinary” The Feeling’s triple-platinum debut album was recorded in a shed in Horsham, according to frontman Dan Gillespie Sells. Speaking to BBC Radio Sussex as the record marks its 20th anniversary, Gillespie Sells said…

  • Oxfordshire and Kenya villages’ twinning anniversary library set to open

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f476/live/d1fde150-bdb6-11f1-b7d8-31573a2bd831.jpg”] Sylvia Vetta Nancy Mudenyo Hunt (R) said the library “shows what can happen when two communities, thousands of miles apart, work together” The first anniversary of the twinning between two villages is set to be marked with the opening of a new library and resource centre. In October 2025, Kennington in Oxfordshire…