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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/945a/live/453b2d10-8132-11f1-b525-63787292c170.jpg”] Supplied Emma (pictured) and Peter Stav waited 15 years for their plants to suddenly grow fruit Could bananas be common in British gardens soon? Warmer summers and milder winters might mean new fruits appearing, while we say goodbye to some old favourites. Peter and Emma Stav, tropical plant enthusiasts from Rayleigh in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0035/live/0f16a480-833a-11f1-926f-c90d1bcfbc84.jpg”] Verified footage shows Iranian projectile striking Jordan air base The US and Iran have exchanged strikes for an eighth consecutive day after an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan killed two US soldiers and left another missing. Iranian media reported that an under-construction nuclear power plant in the south-western city of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9b2f/live/c665d050-7928-11f1-bb09-19b977572e60.png”] Carla Cressy Doctors removed Carla Cressy’s appendix, but it was endometriosis that was causing the excruciating pain Carla Cressy worked as a model from the age of five until she was 17, but kept collapsing on shoots. “It was really embarrassing and I couldn’t do it anymore,” she says. From the age…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9693/live/d4402e80-81d1-11f1-926f-c90d1bcfbc84.jpg”] BBC People in queue for the Entry Exit System process after landing at Fuimicino Airport in Rome, Italy, in mid-July The EU’s new border system has nearly tripled the time it’s taking for Brits to get through passport control even after improvements have been made, a boss at Rome’s main airport has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f7d3/live/9a3779e0-8308-11f1-926f-c90d1bcfbc84.jpg”] Moment Tate brothers arrested in Miami Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in the US after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair. The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew was being charged with seven further counts of rape, as well as charges relating…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8247/live/6b0bd1f0-8003-11f1-abea-7311bff0fafb.jpg”] Shardul Kadam Over 300,000 idols have been damaged in the devastating rains Standing among the broken remains of hundreds of clay idols in his workshop in India’s Raigad district, sculptor Dilip Mhatre struggles to hold back his emotions. Just weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the country’s biggest religious festivals honouring the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/96d0/live/9d4c1900-836d-11f1-b976-0b9c15b0ccfc.jpg”] PA Media Andy Burnham has lots to think about as his arrival in Downing Street draws closer – the cost of living, the ongoing war in Ukraine, how to fund defence to name just three. At some point though, he’ll have to find time to decide what to wear. The MP for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1b5c/live/1c3f9550-8064-11f1-926f-c90d1bcfbc84.jpg”] BBC It is four in the morning, and the ward is quiet. A resident doctor has been on her feet for nine hours. She is tired, her muscles are sore and her eyes are straining, but when her shift ends at six in the morning and she finally gets home, she struggles…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c416/live/685838d0-81b2-11f1-bc34-d11e2a8fe857.jpg”] Anadolu via Getty Images There have been several surges in cash withdrawals as Russians seek a buffer against uncertainty Russians are returning to cash, as mobile internet shutdowns disrupt card payments, and more businesses seek to dodge tax under mounting financial pressure more than four years into the war with Ukraine. Russia…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9d56/live/76383b00-8205-11f1-9155-3fc9a8287ebe.jpg”] Getty Images The rugged beauty of Montana has attracted the rich and famous Grandmother Sara Folger sits in the kitchen of her single-wide trailer, the Rocky Mountains looming in the distance, and remembers the Bozeman, Montana she fell in love with decades ago. Back then, Folger says, the rural western outpost was…