Month: April 2025

Birmingham band UB40 say the city's striking bin workers and their union should "keep fighting" in their dispute over pay. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused US envoy Steve Witkoff of "spreading Russian narratives" about the Ukraine war - as he said a much-anticipated minerals deal was moving closer. 

At least four people have been killed and another injured in a cable car accident in Italy, officials have said. 

Four people are in hospital as police deal with an active shooter on a university campus in Florida. 

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly couple died in a fire in Hampshire. 

The chief executive of Toby Carvery has apologised for "all the upset that it has caused" after it felled a 400-year-old oak tree outside one of its restaurants. 

A 20-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving after seven police officers were injured in a car chase on Tyneside. 

Trans women in British Transport Police custody will now be strip searched by male officers - not female - following Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling. 

Gold has been reaching record highs of late, with the price of spot gold hitting $3,357.40 (£2,532) per ounce for the first time ever on Wednesday. 

A man has gone on trial accused of leaving a woman "scared and nervous" after allegedly making sexual advances towards her at his Highland home.