A free-to-view satellite television and radio service from the BBC and ITV is being launched across the UK. Freesat is available to 98% of homes with a satellite dish, including those who are currently unable to receive Freeview television. It broadcasts 80 digital TV and radio channels including the main ones, and will rise to [...]
Farmers in Wales have been reporting an increase in the number of raven attacks on their livestock and say European farming regulations may be to blame. The new rules state that dead animals need to be removed from the land meaning the carcases, or carrion, the ravens feed on are no longer available. The birds, [...]
A teenager is recovering in hospital after a 200,000-volt electric shock which threw him 25ft (7.6m) onto a live railway line in Wigan. Sam Cunningham, 16, was wearing steel toecaps when he tried to retrieve a rugby ball from a bridge and a charge leapt from overhead power lines. He fell onto the track below [...]
By Rob Liddle BBC News Family skeletons have been toppling out of closets since the searchable details of more than 200 years of Old Bailey trails went online last month. So how does it feel to idly type a name into a search box and be presented with more than you bargained for Tracy Lowe [...]
A school turned around by a “superhead” is being investigated over attendancefigure “irregularities”, police said. Dame Maureen Brennan was credited with taking Hillcrest School, in Netherton, Dudley, out of special measures. However, allegations are now being investigated into whether registers were altered to show pupils were in lessons when they were not. Dame Maureen’s husband [...]
A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay has launched a legal attempt to make the UK government release evidence for his defence. Lawyers acting for Binyam Mohamed, who was detained in Pakistan in 2002, say the government has proof that his testimony was obtained under torture. They are also seeking evidence he [...]
By Mark Urban BBC News, Afganistan When we arranged to meet a suicide bomber, we did not expect one wearing his bomb vest, all set to blow himself up outside the building in Kabul where we were filming. But that is what happened. He was not the one we had arranged to meet. He was [...]
Interpol has publicly released images from the internet of a man it suspects of sexually abusing young boys. The international police agency is launching the worldwide appeal because two years of investigations have failed to identify the man. Pictures showing the man sexually abusing at least three boys were found on the internet, police say. [...]
AC Milan have completed the signing of Mathieu Flamini from Arsenal on a four-year deal. The French international, whose deal at the Emirates ran out this summer, has passed a medical and agreed terms to stay at the San Siro until 2012. The departure will come as a blow to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao is set to begin a five-day state visit to Japan, the first such trip in a decade. He is expected to discuss trade,security and a dispute over undersea gas fields with Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda – and play him at ping-pong. Mr Hu said before he left Beijing on Monday he [...]
