Reports and videos on social media seen by the BBC appear to show the fire started at a unit in RAF Fairford. The Gloucestershire base, located near the Wiltshire border, is being used by the United S

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24m ago 03.50 EDT Starmer says 'vast majority' of Labour still supports him, even amid Mandelson controversy Good morning and welcome to today’s live coverage of UK politics. Despite several calls f

The first song I fell in love with I remember hearing Strokin’ by Clarence Carter because my dad would play it. I know every lyric, and at eight years old, I probably shouldn’t have. My earliest musi

When you first start running, the marathon – all 26.2 miles of it – seems like an impossible distance. Whether you’ve taken the plunge at your local parkrun or got round your first 10k, the thought of

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"They're descended from Welsh people so they do Welsh step dancing and every now and again I'll get an order from the Patagonia Instrument Project who want me to make so many pairs and I'll put them i

After some incredible weather for the past seven days, the week in the capital is ending on a high note with the 2026 London Marathon. The elite field is stacked, as always. On the men’s side, Kenya’

"I felt I had lost some of my childhood and I would never ever get it back unless I visited those places and tried to get the unhappiness out of my system - it never worked fully, it never will, but a

"I asked him clearly 'Did you have anything to do with this'?" said his brother David Sullivan about a brief conversation they had while he was at the police station.

City and Pep Guardiola had Arsenal on their minds, too. The Gunners moved back to the top. Mikel Arteta had City on his mind, by little coincidence. Saturday’s FA Cup tie was a slowburner but took of

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Melissa and Richard Dunham adopted the lionhead at eight weeks old, but he has now taken the Guinness World Record at the age of 15 years and 246 days as of Wednesday.

"I told everyone I'm here for my expert role, I'm a specialist who can't bat and can't field, so if anybody wants advice on that I'm here to help," he joked.

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Do you have an opinion on the state of contemporary ballet or keeping cats as pets? There are no right or wrong answers here, only differences of opinion. It is hard to imagine being upset by someone

First, it was Barcelona, Venice and Dubrovnik. Now, Florence has joined the most overtouristed destinations in the world: its 365,000 inhabitants shared their city last year with 4.6 million visitors.

If I have to identify the most important moment of this crisis, it was just before a Juventus-Reggina match in February 2004. It was an evening game. We were six points off the top of the table. There

One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower. The government departments responsible for these two

Dozens of MPs are opposing Wes Streeting’s decision to award himself power to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs amid growing concern the move may be illegal. Thirty-one MPs have signed a House of C

"Having not just one otter, but a whole family at Stanwick Lakes is a brilliant sign that the ecosystem is healthy and that our lakes and little stretch of river are in good condition," she added.

She said: "A lot of people said before I did it that it was such a tough thing to do, and I thought, 'You're just running through mud, how hard can it be?'

Tony said he was stung many times during his first three years of beekeeping, but as he was preparing to sit down to watch the England men's football team play Spain in the Euro 2024 final, he felt a

"Rod was such a lovely, lovely man," Carey recalls. "He was quirky. He used to get up in the morning in the hotel, we had a sink in the hotel, and he literally used to run the tap, put his finger on i

"The relationships that were formed with the family, knowing that there's people out there who care, knowing that there's options for them and that we would be there for them whenever they needed us.

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A patient has been shot with a Taser after allegedly attacking several people at a Sydney hospital, including a nurse who was left seriously injured. Police restrained a 51-year-old patient after the

You have just bought a secondhand car. It was older than you wanted, but were reassured because it had recently passed its MOT. Within a few days, you notice a problem with the steering and take it i

In Cannes’ darkened screening rooms, the supposed future of cinema flickered into life this week and it was strange. The first edition of the World AI film festival (WAIFF) showcased visions of men wi

The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. And China may well w

T rex is often depicted as more brawn than brains, but now scientists are hoping to probe just what was going on inside its head, drawing on findings from another kind of dinosaur: birds. Scientists

The war in Iran has put the NHS on high alert amid fears about looming shortages and rising costs for medicines and medical products such as syringes, intravenous bags and gloves. Much of modern heal

US President Donald Trump was rushed to safety from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after gunshots rang out at the venue. The President and First Lady Melania Trump appeared to be part way thr