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- We spent thousands on a Tui river cruise but ended up on coach trips
[2 hours old]: Passengers have described their anger after their itineraries changed to involve hours spent on coach trips instead.

. Aviation faces hotter, stormier skies – and passengers might have to accept more disruption
[778 hours old]: Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?

. Fears coastal town road closure could leave Watchet 'desolate'
[25 hours old]: Businesses in Watchet are concerned by the closure of the main road into Watchet.

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* Royal Navy service member charged with spying for a foreign power
[1 hours old]: The 24-year-old man is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday after being arrested at his home in Bedfordshire.

* Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remain
[1 hours old]: Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

- 'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells UK
[5 hours old]: Roland Lescure tells the BBC that being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world.

* Christa Pike now walking after failed US execution, lawyer tells BBC
[1 hours old]: A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.

- Premier League football shirts made by workers on £1 an hour
[3 hours old]: A BBC Sport investigation traces official football shirt production to factories in Cambodia where workers are paid less than £1 an hour.

* BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
[1 hours old]: The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

- US and Lebanon protecting wanted Syrian general, BBC finds
[4 hours old]: Bassam al-Hassan, linked to reporter Austin Tice's abduction, is being sheltered in return for information.





* Burnham to meet German chancellor in Berlin to discuss security and EU ties
[1 hours old]: Downing Street said deeper co-operation in the face of rising hybrid threats from Russia would be high on the agenda during the PM's first official visit to Germany.

- 'Every day there is killing': Gazans face Israeli strikes despite ceasefire as peace deal stalls
[4 hours old]: Many Palestinians are still living in cramped tent cities, with the US plan to end the war largely stalled.

- Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90
[4 hours old]: Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

- Bluefin tuna return to British waters in huge numbers
[4 hours old]: The tuna is one of several wildlife recoveries highlighted in a major new report from WWF.

- 'I was blamed for my baby's death, now NHS needs to change'
[3 hours old]: Neil and Katie Russell are working with the hospital where their daughter died on the scheme.

- What could happen next in Christa Pike's case?
[10 hours old]: Christa Pike is conscious after surviving a botched lethal injection, leading many to wonder if the state of Tennessee will try again to execute her.

- 'Stop throwing shade' - the woman trying to stop firms leaving the UK
[10 hours old]: British people need more incentives to invest in big firms listed in the UK, Dame Julia Hoggett, boss of the London Stock Exchange, says.

- France's school protests: What lies behind the anger
[5 hours old]: Students' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.

- Watch: The extreme motorsport where women keep winning
[4 hours old]: Swedish driver Susanne Callin has won the European Top Fuel championship for the second year in a row. Is drag racing the first gender-equal sport?


- Why hotter summers are making British potatoes smaller
[3 hours old]: Farmers say yields are down because they have had to harvest smaller potatoes earlier than normal.

- She made India fall in love with women's cricket - now her era as captain is over
[10 hours old]: The skipper who led India to the historic 2025 World Cup win has stepped down from her role in all three formats.

- Outspoken Indian actor Nana Patekar suddenly dies at 75
[5 hours old]: Known for his intense performances, Patekar carved out a distinctive place in Indian cinema.

- Cornell rape case accuser has received ‘threats’, attorney tells BBC Newsnight
[8 hours old]: Thomas Giuffra is representing a woman, known in legal documents as Jane Doe, who alleges she was raped at a frat house on campus in 2024.

- AI chip boom pushes Samsung profits to record bn
[7 hours old]: The tech giant is also expected to get a boost from its latest folding devices that were launched in August.

- Fuel prices added to Google Maps as petrol and diesel costs soar
[9 hours old]: A search for forecourts will now display their pricing, using the government's Fuel Finder scheme.

- Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies
[2 hours old]: Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.

- The wildlife winners set to appear on your banknotes revealed
[10 hours old]: The decision comes after nearly half a million people voted on a shortlist of 18 creatures.

- Holborn and St Pancras by-election gets under way
[3 hours old]: Voters in north London are going to the polls to choose a new MP after Sir Keir Starmer resigned.

- Inside the £1-an-hour official football shirt factories
[3 hours old]: A BBC Sport investigation traces official football shirt production to factories in Cambodia where workers are paid less than £1 an hour.

- Faster than F1: The extreme motorsport where women keep winning
[3 hours old]: Top Fuel drag racing is the only elite motorsport class where women frequently beat men to major titles.

- Engine size limits and working with Iraola - the Liverpool academy approach
[2 hours old]: Liverpool academy director Alex Inglethorpe talks to BBC Sport about the value and future of Liverpool's academy.

* England to host 2031 Netball World Cup
[0 hours old]: England will host the Netball World Cup for the fourth time in 2031, when the sport's pinnacle event is held at Manchester's Co-op Live arena.

- Rahm to leave LIV Golf over 'unacceptable' terms
[12 hours old]: Jon Rahm will leave LIV Golf after deeming the terms for LIV 2.0 "unacceptable", his lawyer has told a bankruptcy court hearing.

- F1 heat hazard declared for fourth time this season
[2 hours old]: The Singapore Grand Prix is declared a heat-hazard race, the second weekend in a row that the designation has been used in Formula 1.

- What independence could mean for oil-rich Alberta's economy
[10 hours old]: Albertans vote this month on staying in Canada or moving ahead to a binding independence referendum.

- New electric car 'make or break for Jaguar'
[4 hours old]: Prof David Bailey says there is a lot riding on the Type 01 in terms of jobs and investment.

- OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'
[12 hours old]: The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.

- Asahi and Kirin among Japan beer giants raided over alleged price-fixing cartel
[8 hours old]: Japan's Fair Trade Commission conducted searches of the country's largest beer-makers.

- Hygiene poverty at tipping point, charity warns
[4 hours old]: The BBC hears people "you would not expect" can no longer afford items to be clean and healthy.

- Funding to help more people access healthy food
[4 hours old]: Local authorities in Hull and Lincolnshire have each been given £220,000.

- New vape tax made me swap e-cigs for dartboards
[4 hours old]: The Vaping Product Duty will be imposed at a rate of £2.20 per 10ml of e-liquid from April 2027.

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. Brad Pitt stars as a tank commander on a dangerous mission in WWII
[369 hours old]: Film following a battle-hardened US tank crew taking on the enemy’s brutal rearguard action

. Do England already have their Kane replacement - or is he yet to emerge?
[17 hours old]: Harry Kane's record-breaking England career can't go on for ever. But do the Three Lions already have a ready-made replacement?

. Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family
[16 hours old]: The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.

. Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
[19 hours old]: Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.

. Half the harvest, twice the bills: how drought hit farms
[28 hours old]: Farmers gathered much less wheat in 2026 and dairy farmers' costs rose.

. Ex-bankers jailed for rigging rates have convictions quashed
[19 hours old]: Jay Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon, Colin Bermingham had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.


. Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 jobs
[21 hours old]: The postal service firm wants to cut head office and other non-frontline jobs by the end of 2027.

. Jaguar unveils new electric car after 'woke' ridicule
[25 hours old]: Two years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV.

. Froyo's made a comeback. But at £12 a tub will it last?
[34 hours old]: Frozen yoghurt, which was a huge craze in the 2000s and 2010s, has made its return with multiple chains popping up across the wider UK.

. Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds
[26 hours old]: Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

. The AI telling farmers when to harvest
[178 hours old]: Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

. The start-ups hoping to return battery making to the US
[202 hours old]: Batteries based on sodium-ion technology could be made in the US with locally sourced materials.

. X-planes: Are they needed in the new era of drones?
[322 hours old]: Where do America's X-plane projects fit in an era of cheap drones?

. How the oil capital of the US welcomed a solar power boom
[346 hours old]: Texas is now the country's biggest producer of solar-farmed electricity.

. Spain battles climate change on several fronts
[384 hours old]: A summer of wildfires and heatwaves underlines the threats to the country's economy.

. The virtual worlds where robots are trained
[490 hours old]: Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.

. Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
[514 hours old]: Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are all now selling their own limited edition fashion lines.

. No child should have to learn in a cold classroom - children's commissioner
[16 hours old]: The EA suggests cost-saving measures as it warns school gas and electricity bills are set to rise.

. My hometown shows that high streets have to change or die
[250 hours old]: Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

. Europe's car makers are in crisis. Will the threat of war rescue them?
[313 hours old]: Auto executives across Europe hope rearmament can help them flex their industrial muscles once more.

. Why the UK is dithering over what to do about e-scooters
[1857 hours old]: Why is it taking so long for the government to regulate them, and what are the consequences of delay?

. Why Gen Z are planning for life without a state pension
[2386 hours old]: Many younger people do not believe the state pension will exist when they are older

. How much is your salary?
[75 hours old]: And would you reveal it in a job interview?

. Watch: Why has UK diesel price hit an all time high?
[136 hours old]: Diesel has now hit an average of £2 a litre in the UK, the RAC motoring group says, with petrol prices also rising.