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• Bottlenose dolphins spotted killing dolphin calf

  18-04-2025 13:43 via bbc.com
  
  Rare attack seen by dolphin spotting tour could become more common as the seas warm, an expert says.
  
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• Starmer joins world leaders in Ukraine to call for ceasefire

  09-05-2025 23:50 via bbc.com
  The prime minister will join world leaders as they vow to "ratchet up pressure on Russia's war machine".
  
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• Revision disrupted as cyber attackers target council

  09-05-2025 23:50 via bbc.com
  Staff in Edinburgh council's education department spotted a suspicious invitation to a meeting and realised it was "spear phishing".
  
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• Exam revision disrupted as cyber attackers target council

  09-05-2025 23:50 via bbc.com
  
  Staff in Edinburgh council's education department spotted a suspicious invitation to a meeting and realised it was "spear phishing".
  
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• Police investigate alleged attack on prison officer by Southport killer

  09-05-2025 23:33 via bbc.com
  
  Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January over the murder of three girls.
  
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• Enforced skort rule in camogie 'screams sexism'

  09-05-2025 22:11 via bbc.com
  The Camogie Association is facing pressure to relax the rule on skorts being mandatory for players.
  
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• Mercenary and coup plotter Simon Mann dies

  09-05-2025 22:06 via bbc.com
  He was arrested in 2004 after being part of a failed coup to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's ruler.
  
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• Calls for Archbishop to resign over safeguarding reports

  09-05-2025 21:00 via bbc.com
  Two critical reports highlight safeguarding concerns and misbehaviour at Bangor Cathedral.
  
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• Fourth Iranian man arrested in London terror probe

  09-05-2025 20:21 via bbc.com
  The investigation is separate to an alleged plot to target the Israeli embassy in London.
  
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• Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia face 'double figure sentences'

  09-05-2025 20:17 via bbc.com
  Six Bulgarians will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in London on Monday for their part in a Russian spy ring.
  
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• Statue of Motörhead singer Lemmy unveiled

  09-05-2025 19:12 via bbc.com
  Hundreds of heavy metal fans watch on as the 2.25m sculpture is revealed in the frontman's hometown.
  
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• Madeleine McCann suspect faces new unrelated charge

  09-05-2025 18:22 via bbc.com
  Christian Brückner is the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance in Portugal in 2007.
  
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• Talks with US over digital services continue, says PM

  09-05-2025 18:14 via bbc.com
  The government continues to push for a wider US trade pact after cutting car and steel tariffs.
  
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• UK prepared to pay to access EU defence programmes

  09-05-2025 18:07 via bbc.com
  Defence secretary John Healey has told the BBC the UK will pay its "fair share" but wants a say in decisions.
  
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• UK to see temperatures rise for the weekend

  09-05-2025 17:17 via bbc.com
  Warming up but with a risk of rain in some areas. Darren Bett looks ahead to the weather this weekend.
  
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• Bargain Hunt expert admits terror offence after sales to 'Hezbollah financier'

  09-05-2025 16:46 via bbc.com
  Oghenochuko Ojiri, who has been an expert on the BBC programme, has admitted eight offences.
  
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• Pair guilty of felling world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in 'mindless act of destruction'

  09-05-2025 16:01 via bbc.com
  Prosecutors say the pair thought it was "a laugh", but the "mindless thuggery" sparked global fury.
  
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• Pair guilty of cutting down Sycamore Gap tree

  09-05-2025 16:01 via bbc.com
  Prosecutors say the pair thought it was "a laugh", but the "mindless thuggery" sparked global fury.
  
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• Rose named after Princess of Wales to celebrate 'power of nature'

  09-05-2025 15:00 via bbc.com
  The RHS said 'Catherine's Rose' will raise awareness of how nature and gardening can help to heal.
  
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• London mayor to 'explore' building on green belt

  09-05-2025 14:31 via bbc.com
  Sir Sadiq Khan says building on brownfield sites alone is not enough to deliver 88,000 homes a year.
  
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• Five-year sentence for man who 'catfished' girls online

  09-05-2025 14:20 via bbc.com
  Max Hollingsbee of Orient Circle, Lurgan, was sentenced for his crimes against 14 girls and young women.
  
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• Trial date set for man accused of bank murder

  09-05-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, of Western Road in Derby, will provisionally stand trial in the New Year.
  
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• Rediscovered Thomas & Friends pilot to be released

  09-05-2025 10:41 via bbc.com
  The test episode of the fictional talking train, voiced by Ringo Starr, arrives on YouTube on Friday.
  
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• Pope Leo XIV to hold his first mass as pontiff as Catholics around the world celebrate – live

  09-05-2025 09:44 via theguardian.com
  Pope will hold private mass in the Sistine Chapel at 0900 GMT, during which he will give his first papal homilyRobert Francis Prevost: the moderate, good humoured first US popePope Leo’s in-tray: pontiff has many urgent issues to addressShare your views on Pope Leo XIVChina has sent congratulations to newly elected Pope Leo XIV and hopes the Vatican under the new pontiff will continue dialogue with China “in a constructive spirit”, Reuters reports a Chinese foreign ministry spo
  
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• Putin hosting Xi Jinping and other world leaders as Russia marks Victory Day – Europe live

  09-05-2025 09:42 via theguardian.com
  Russia staging a lavish, ‘biggest ever’ parade in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world warRussian president Vladimir Putin has just delivered a fairly brief (for his standards) speech at the Victory Day parade in Moscow.He spoke of “joy and sadness, of pride and gratitude … to the generation that crushed the nazism at the cost of millions of lives.” Continue reading...
  
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• UK must rebuild trade relationship with EU, says BoE boss; China-US shipments slump – business live

  09-05-2025 09:39 via theguardian.com
  Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsChina exports beat expectations despite slump in trade with USGermany’s stock market has recovered all its losses following Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff shock five weeks ago.The Dax, which tracks the largest companies listed in Frankfurt, has risen over its previous record high – set in March – this morning.The DAX, which had previously lost as much as 16% amid heightened market volatility due
  
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• Billy Woods: Golliwog review – one of the most engrossing, unnerving records you’ll hear this year

  09-05-2025 09:30 via theguardian.com
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  The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanityGolliwog has the ambience of a horror movie: dissonant strings, like nails on a chalkboard, form the basis of the track Star87; agonised screams are sampled throughout; every so often, an ominous drone will fill a song to the point of overwhelm. On that level alone, New York underground icon Billy Woods’ latest album would be a feat of so
  
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• ‘Tone deaf’: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI

  09-05-2025 09:11 via theguardian.com
  CrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the businessThe cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to “AI efficiency”.In a note to staff earlier this week, released in stock market filings in the US, CrowdStrike’s chief executive, George Kurtz, announced that 500 positions, or 5% of
  
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• There are three ways moderates could yet save the Tories. One is to renounce Brexit | Polly Toynbee

  09-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  As Kemi Badenoch makes a bad situation worse, and an alliance with Reform looms, I’ve been speaking to centrists desperate to stop the rotThe thanksgiving service for the Tory grandee Michael Ancram last week resembled the funeral of his party. Amid an array of traditional Conservatives such as John Major and a multitude of that old ilk, one observer tells me there was no sign of the current shadow cabinet: they belong to a different party altogether. After their lowest vote ever last week
  
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• ‘Rethink it all!’ Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star?

  09-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)Before she was getting DMs from Dua Lipa and minting K-pop hits, and long before yesterday’s surprise release of her sumptuous fourth album, Erika de Casier was a nervous student in her 20s debating what to wear on her first day.It was 2019, her debut album E
  
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