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Saving terrified migrants’ lives at sea
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
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Air strikes and barrel bombs have hit rebel-held neighbourhoods in eastern Aleppo, as Russia announced the start of a major operation in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Homs.
A former police officer involved in the Orgreave clashes during the miners’ strike says he was ordered to carry out instructions he believed were wrong, but he refused to go along with them.
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
French riot police are preparing for further protests as demolition work at the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais continues.
Scottish Labour have called on Nicola Sturgeon to “break her silence” after an investigation was launched into an SNP MP’s alleged breach of the parliamentary code of conduct.
Despite facing new torrents of flood water through their main street last night, residents of Glenridding say everyone is helping each other and others are worse off than them.
A woman from Appleby-in-Westmorland is enjoying a night out in a local hotel in circumstances she would never have wanted: her home is flooded. The violation? The filthy, stinking floodwaters that have inundated so many homes across Cumbria: the Desmond Deluge.
There has already been one fatality in London as the effects of Storm Desmond tore through Britain, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Scotland and northern England.
An outbreak of scabies sweeping the Calais camp known as the Jungle is fuelling the determination of migrants to escape the squalor for a new life in Britain, by any means possible.
Thousands of Britons remain stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh after rescue flights were forced to turn back in mid-air.
The Transport Secretary says most British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh will be home by this evening; but EasyJet says its planned rescue flights “have been suspended by the Egyptian authorities”.
Whilst Rangers FC were busy winning titles and silverware the entire basis upon which they paid many players and executives should have attracted income tax and did not do so.
The new creative-themed design features five men and only two women, with UK Passport Office director general Mark Thomson blaming “very finite space.”
Nicola Sturgeon used her leader’s speech to make a very personal plea to Scotland’s voters to trust her with running the Scottish government.
“A remarkable woman who got remarkable stories” – the BBC’s director general Tony Hall joins many others in paying tribute to the life and work of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, who has died of cancer.