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BBC The RMT and Aslef unions are staging strikes this month which will impact Tube services London Underground services are set to face disruption in November as Tube drivers, instructors,…
Met Police told about Al Fayed abuse decade earlier than it admits
Handout Samantha Ramsay said police in 1995 told her she was “not the first” to report an assault by Al Fayed The Met Police was told of allegations of sexual…
Finding the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees
supplied In a group of Gazan men, detained by Israeli forces, a little girl can be seen (circled). The BBC has chosen to obscure the faces of those most identifiable.…
Peterborough Conservatives talk trauma trust and leadership
Ben Schofield/BBC The city’s Conservatives regularly meet for a curry Over the past 12 months, Peterborough’s Conservatives lost the leadership of the city’s council and saw a new Labour MP…
Happy birthday M1 as UK’s first intercity motorway turns 65
PA Media A worker sweeping part of the M1 near Dunstable in October 1959 The UK’s first cross-country motorway is set to mark a major milestone on Saturday with 65…
Ruling BDP party loses power after nearly six decades
Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) –…