Edward Colston plaque installed with new slave trade wording
Carys Nally BBC News, Bristol BBC The new plaque outlines Edward Colston’s role in the Atlantic slave trade A new plaque has been installed on the plinth where a slave…
Entertainer Roy Hudd’s grave gets theatre poster-style headstone
Laura Devlin BBC News, Suffolk Stuart Buckell The poster design reflects Roy Hudd’s career and love of the theatre and music hall The widow of entertainer Roy Hudd has praised…
Discord’s face scanning age checks ‘start of a bigger shift’
Imran Rahman-Jones & Chris Vallance Technology reporters Getty Images Discord is testing face scanning to verify some users’ ages in the UK and Australia. The social platform, which says it…
NHS Wales hospital waiting times fall for third consecutive month
Owain Clarke Health correspondent, BBC Wales News Getty Images Ambulance response times fell in March, with 50.3% of the most urgent red calls receiving an emergency response within eight minutes…
BBC joins retirees aboard China’s ‘silver trains’ that aim to boost economy
China is encouraging it’s retirees to spend their savings on fun initiatives to help boost its economy – including “silver trains”. They take older travellers to underdeveloped areas they might…
Fyre Festival 2 location and dates uncertain, US media reports
The scheduled dates and location of Fyre Festival 2 have been thrown into doubt, according to US media reports. The reboot of the 2017 Fyre Festival, which made international headlines,…
Ex-Radio 2 newsreader and presenter dies at 79
Former BBC Radio 2 newsreader and presenter Colin Berry has died at the age of 79. Berry was a fixture on Radio 2 from the early 1970s to the early…
‘Romeo and Juliet’ exclusion added to new crime law
A so-called “Romeo and Juliet” clause has been added to new plans for mandatory reporting of concerns around child sexual abuse. The Crime and Policing Bill puts a new duty…
Charli XCX Apple dance creator sues Roblox over emote
Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat Kelley Heyer Kelley Heyer choreographed the Apple dance which inspired millions of posts on social media The TikToker behind the viral Apple dance has taken legal…
Kemi Badenoch laughes off Robert Jenrick’s WhatsApp mix-up
Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Media Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has laughed off being added to a WhatsApp group mistakenly set up by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick to promote…