What do affordable housing, arsonists, tourism, the Welsh language and council tax have in common? The answer… second homes. In some parts of Wales, second homes make up nearly a third of all properties. For local young people trying to buy their first home, that raises a big question –Continue Reading
A man suspected of carrying out a terror rampage at a Berlin Pride event has been shot dead by police. German police say officers fired at Abdul Ballout after he rushed towards them with a knife. They say he died at the scene. Prosecutors say that Ballout drove a vanContinue Reading
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned after weeks of protests over exam paper leaks and testing irregularities. The demonstrations were spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – not a real party, but a satirical campaign turned national movement. What began as a student-led campaign against alleged exam paperContinue Reading
The BBC’s senior investigations correspondent Nawal Al-Maghafi, has just returned from the site of an Iranian school where more than 150 people – most of them children – were killed by a strike on the first day of the US-Israel war with Iran. She tells us that victims’ families areContinue Reading
A police officer who took his own life in May was a violent rapist who carried out a spate of sexual attacks and attempted murders of women over at least 14 years, the BBC can reveal. PC Alan Greer’s first known victim was a woman he raped in her homeContinue Reading
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced the return of the £2 bus fare cap in most of England, but how will it be funded? And, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, one of the first and most senior Labour politicians to publicly call for Keir Starmer to go, is expectedContinue Reading
