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  • We bought a one-way ticket to travel the world with our children

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ecbe/live/3a56a9f0-c472-11f1-9fee-49b2288eef07.png”] Wooldridge family Tom, Morgan, George, Dani and Olivia Wooldridge in Indonesia on the first stage of a round-the-world travelling experience with no fixed end date Dani and Tom Wooldridge worked hard to transform a 1970s house into a beloved family home after they bought it about seven years ago. Dani, 39, a…

  • Latest Guernsey cruise passenger figures ‘encouraging’ for sector

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/bd3e/live/1dc945d0-c400-11f1-838e-6d1d6d701264.jpg”] BBC Mark Renouf said it was the first year passenger numbers had stabilised since the pandemic Guernsey Ports officials say the number of cruise passengers visiting the island this year has provided “encouraging signs” that the sector is expanding again. Mark Renouf, cruise operations and business development manager, said 2026 was the…

  • Three men found guilty of murdering Australian brothers and US friend in Mexico

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9ab9/live/138578c0-c453-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] How a harrowing trial of two murdered Australian surfers ended in a guilty verdict Three men have been found guilty of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, and their US friend Carter Rhoad during a surfing trip in Mexico in 2024. The men’s full names could not be given for legal…

  • Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a ‘gift to Putin’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f2e6/live/71115e00-c499-11f1-b094-cb5c335b015a.jpg”] Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska last year Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky has condemned Donald Trump’s announcement of a deal to import Russian diesel into the US. Zelensky called it a gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin that amounts to “an investment in a war that must…

  • US immigration officials defend ICE agents who shot man while his child was in the car

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b97c/live/39d6e150-c41f-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Watch: BBC breaks down body cam video of ICE shooting in New York US immigration officials have defended officers who shot and wounded a man in his car in New York on Thursday while his five-year-old son was in the back seat. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief Markwayne Mullin said officers…

  • ‘Now feels right to show Bank’s Brewery’s vital Wolverhampton history’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5c6e/live/d05f9e80-c3f4-11f1-97a9-2d4b5e26e282.png”] Tegen Kimbley Banks’s Brewery in Wolverhampton shut in 2025 after 150 years in the city A photographer has paid homage to a city’s brewing history with an exhibition of behind the scenes images. Tegen Kimbley was in awe of the Bank’s Brewery “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-esque” design when she started worked…

  • Peterborough cadet leader posed as girl on Snapchat, court hears

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b54d/live/423292e0-c31b-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Peterborough Conservatives Rylan Ray is on trial at Ipswich Crown Court Army cadets who thought they were sharing nude photos with a teenage girl on the messaging app Snapchat were in fact communicating with their instructor, a court has heard. Rylan Ray, who was a detachment commander for the youth organisation in…

  • Traitors’ Celia Imrie and Wiltshire’s Fidelis Morgan travel world

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/bf44/live/9adb5ce0-c3f4-11f1-97a9-2d4b5e26e282.png”] Getty Images/Dave Benett Fidelis Morgan (L) and Celia Imrie have been working on a book on their travels A Wiltshire writer and actress has said travelling the world with Celebrity Traitors star Celia Imrie is “easy” because they are very well-matched companions. Fidelis Morgan is not only friends with Imrie but is…

  • Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b04d/live/ba559970-c3f2-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Watch: The competition’s former winner and runners up. Nikon disqualified the winning video (shown left). The winner of a prestigious scientific photography competition has been disqualified following concerns raised by other scientists that it was fake. Nikon said the use of generative AI in the composition of the video broke the rules…

  • One more ex-banker jailed for rigging rates has conviction overturned

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/875d/live/70d424a0-c3ee-11f1-9a39-31b474234113.jpg”] Handout Christian Bittar, left, and his wife Caroline Another former banker sentenced in one of the biggest scandals of the financial crisis has had his conviction overturned following a long-running legal battle. The Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of Christian Bittar, a former Deutsche Bank trader who went to prison…