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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/dfb8/live/6a8e5c10-55a7-11f1-9f36-1dfd3d7f0f3a.jpg”] CBS Stephen Colbert signed off the final episode of The Late Show with special guest Sir Paul McCartney, bringing the programme’s historic 33-year run to an end. On Thursday night’s show, Sir Paul and Colbert reminisced about past appearances at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater by The Beatles, and memories of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/46e2/live/7f7af790-5517-11f1-99cc-f1eed80582f5.jpg”] Getty Images UK public sector borrowing last month hit the highest total for April since the Covid pandemic in 2020, highlighting the challenges facing the government. Borrowing, the difference between spending and income from taxes, was £24.3bn last month, official figures showed, which was up £4.9bn from a year earlier and higher…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1bd4/live/3c9027e0-5524-11f1-87e7-8195a3fea8aa.jpg”] Clive Booth Yasiel Hodelin Bello was one of the dancers to pose for photographs taken in and around Birmingham Birmingham Royal Ballet has released a new set of images celebrating its home city as it looks to strengthen its ties with local audiences. The collection, titled Our City, Your Ballet, was photographed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3cd2/live/cb09b7d0-5537-11f1-a125-a1007a98f90d.jpg”] BBC Nadia and other young people met the UK online safety minister at an event in Belfast Any ban on social media for under-16s agreed at Westminster will also apply in Northern Ireland. That is according to the UK online safety minister Kanishka Narayan. But young people who Narayan met in Belfast…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5882/live/30c777a0-55bb-11f1-b056-a558b41349e8.jpg”] BBC A few of the butterflies managed to escape their holding nets and were already enjoying the palm house Hidden behind the historic Stanmer House sits a Victorian-style palm house which, until recently, had fallen into disrepair, but is now home to thousands of butterflies. BBC Radio Sussex visited the new Sussex…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/66f4/live/e8659750-552c-11f1-9e1e-29cb974f260a.jpg”] Christopher Lane/National Trust/PA Wire Earlier blooming has been driven by a milder, wetter winters and unusually warm spells in spring, the National Trust said Climate change is causing the roses at a number of National Trust (NT) gardens in the south of England to bloom earlier than ever, according to the conservationist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/21cf/live/f7752e20-55a6-11f1-9f36-1dfd3d7f0f3a.jpg”] BBC/Katie Razzall Maggie O’Farrell says she wanted to tell the whole story of Ireland just by one plot of land As I ring the doorbell of Maggie O’Farrell’s Edinburgh home, I wonder with some trepidation whether the acclaimed novelist might have become a bit starry after the whirlwind few months she’s just…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4169/live/017d06a0-5533-11f1-a125-a1007a98f90d.jpg”] Reuters Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor pictured leaving a police station after his arrest in February Detectives investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could investigate allegations of sexual misconduct as part of their inquiry into potential misconduct in public office. Police have repeated their call for anyone with information to come forward. It is understood police are concerned…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/fab2/live/d11c6270-55a1-11f1-9126-4384e74964e6.jpg”] Victoria Police Matthew Paton, 52, died after falling down a ravine while hiking to Machu Picchu An Australian man has died after falling down a ravine while walking on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, local authorities have said. Members of the High Mountain Rescue Unit in the city of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c725/live/e0d0d030-5528-11f1-9e1e-29cb974f260a.jpg”] Emma Baugh/BBC The Key Theatre opened in 1973 A theatre forced to shut following the discovery of dangerous crumbling concrete has reopened after a major redevelopment. The Key Theatre, in Peterborough, was first shut in September 2023 when reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was found in its roof, putting it at risk…