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• Israel renews ground operation in Gaza - Financial Times

  19-03-2025 17:51 via news.google.com
  Israel renews ground operation in Gaza  Financial TimesIsrael launches ‘limited ground operation’ to retake Netzarim corridor in Gaza  The GuardianIsrael extends ground operations in Gaza after deadly air strikes  BBC.comIsrael launches new 'limited ground invasion' of Gaza amid deadly bombardment  Sky NewsHow Trump took credit for the Gaza ceasefire – and then let it unravel  Al Jazeera English
  
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• The Papers: 'Putin's brutal peace' and 'growing pains for Chancellor'

  25-03-2025 01:09 via bbc.com
  
  Civilian casualties from Russian air strikes in Ukraine and the UK's economic difficulties lead the papers.
  
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• 'Unsustainable financial pressure' on NI homelessness services

  25-03-2025 01:07 via bbc.com
  
  Dealing with temporary accommodation demand cost almost £39m in 2023-24, according to a report from the NI Audit Office.
  
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• Glowing spiral in UK sky believed to be caused by SpaceX launch

  24-03-2025 23:55 via bbc.com
  
  The shape is thought to be the result of leftover fuel released into space as the Falcon 9 rocket returned to Earth.
  
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• AI job application rise 'risks hiring incapable staff'

  24-03-2025 23:51 via bbc.com
  
  AI could allow job hunters to get work they are not "capable" of doing, a business owner says.
  
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• Teaching was too stressful so I left to become a lorry driver

  24-03-2025 23:47 via bbc.com
  
  Stuart Youens changed careers two years ago and says he's a lot happier in his new job.
  
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• Meghan launches online shop for fans to buy her fashion favourites

  24-03-2025 22:20 via bbc.com
  
  The ShopMy platform is marketed at "elite creators" for them to earn money from links they have shared.
  
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• 'We warned of power issues before Heathrow outage'

  24-03-2025 21:51 via bbc.com
  
  Business groups and a council say there were energy capacity problems before a fire near Heathrow.
  
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• Radio host Chris Stark diagnosed with testicular cancer

  24-03-2025 19:25 via bbc.com
  
  The Capital Breakfast host said he was 'effectively cured' after the disease was caught early.
  
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• Two women who spied for Russia tracked down and named by BBC

  24-03-2025 19:22 via bbc.com
  
  Bulgarian nationals Cvetelina Gencheva and Tsvetanka Doncheva worked with six spies convicted in London.
  
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• Major search for missing 80-year-old walker

  24-03-2025 19:06 via bbc.com
  
  Drones and dogs are used to search for Brian Fletcher, last seen in a Lancashire village on Saturday.
  
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• Family settle damages claim against police after custody death

  24-03-2025 18:25 via bbc.com
  
  Shkeku Bayoh died after being restrained by police officers in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 2015.
  
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• Remains found in grave not those of Disappeared victim

  24-03-2025 18:00 via bbc.com
  
  Jon Hill, lead investigator of the ICLVR, said it was "cruel" for the Lynskey family to hear this.
  
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• Star of Sidemen's reality show reveals 'evil' racist abuse

  24-03-2025 17:51 via bbc.com
  
  Ex-Love Islander Whitney Adebayo says she was abused online after appearing on the Netflix show.
  
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• Faisal Islam: No tax rises and no return to austerity but will it last?

  24-03-2025 17:51 via bbc.com
  
  The Spring Statement is "not a Budget", but the chancellor is facing major tax and spending challenges.
  
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• Scots tourist in hospital after Rome holiday explosion

  24-03-2025 17:46 via bbc.com
  
  Grant Paterson from East Kilbride was rescued from the rubble having suffered severe burns.
  
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• Park attack victim 'made slapping motion at girl'

  24-03-2025 17:22 via bbc.com
  
  Two children are on trial over the death of Bhim Kohli who was attacked in a park in Leicestershire.
  
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• Heathrow closure deeply concerning, says PM

  24-03-2025 16:58 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Keir Starmer says he is 'deeply concerned' about the closure of Heathrow Airport as a result of a power cut caused by a fire on Friday.
  
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• Morrisons to close 52 cafes and 17 convenience stores

  24-03-2025 16:25 via bbc.com
  
  The closures are expected to take place over the next few months, leaving hundreds of jobs at risk.
  
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• Government can be more efficient, says Keir Starmer

  24-03-2025 16:03 via bbc.com
  
  The prime minister says he wants to see government departments become more efficient by using AI and technology.
  
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• Three charged with £5m fraud at elite Cardiff college

  24-03-2025 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  Yasmin and Nadeem Sarwar are accused of multiple theft and fraud offences between 2012 and 2016.
  
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• First case of bird flu in sheep found on UK farm

  24-03-2025 15:57 via bbc.com
  
  The UK's chief veterinary officer confirms the case was discovered on a farm in Yorkshire.
  
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• Museum burglars guilty of cage fighter murder plot

  24-03-2025 15:24 via bbc.com
  
  Paul Allen was shot twice while standing in his kitchen in east London in an "assassination attempt".
  
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• Starmer 'worried' about toxic masculinity after Adolescence drama

  24-03-2025 14:53 via bbc.com
  
  The PM says problems with the attitudes of some young men cannot be ignored - but a "minister for men" isn't the answer.
  
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• Pothole fixing progress by councils to be ranked

  24-03-2025 13:57 via bbc.com
  
  A red, amber and green rating system is being produced for English councils on pothole maintenance.
  
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• What will be in the chancellor's Spring Statement?

  24-03-2025 13:43 via bbc.com
  
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves will give more detail about the government's plans for the economy.
  
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• ‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers

  24-03-2025 13:07 via theguardian.com
  
  St Catherine’s hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life careAt the end of 2023, St Catherine’s hospice near Crawley, West Sussex, moved to a new purpose-built, state-of-the art building. Twenty-four private rooms with en suite bathrooms and French doors leading to individual terraces were designed to make the final days of a patient’s life as peaceful as possible. Medical equipment was concealed, beloved pets were wel
  
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• UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures

  24-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: RSPB and National Trust among groups saying rhetoric from Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer at odds with public sentimentNature charities with a combined membership of about 8 million people are pressing the prime minister and chancellor to stop demonising wildlife and to urgently strengthen environmental protections in new planning laws.Organisations which are household names, such as the RSPB, the National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts, are calling on MPs to back amendments to the plan
  
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• Thirty-seven patients die needlessly each day in the NHS. Change is good, but patient safety must come first | Jeremy Hunt

  24-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  The biggest area of risk – in terms of lives lost and cost – involves NHS maternity units. Organisation upheaval must not distract us from what matters mostI was the health secretary when NHS England was set up. Although there are advantages to depoliticising operational decisions, it has led to massive and counterproductive overcentralisation. The NHS has become the most micromanaged healthcare system in the world. Hospital chief executives are frequently working to more than 100 op
  
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• A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her

  24-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voicesUmaymah Mohammad has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she remembers. She traces her ambition to the story of her mother, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel to Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and who contracted polio as a toddler. Despite living with the debilitating disease, Mohammad&
  
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