SamWilliams Sam Williamson said railcard restrictions were “confusing and opaque” A man who paid £1.90 less than he should have for a train ticket faces being taken to court by a rail firm despite admitting his error and offering to pay a fine or a new fare. Sam Williamson, 22, from Glossop, has been threatened…
BBC The inquiry is investigating the construction of the QEUH campus in Glasgow A senior medical director has told an inquiry there is no direct evidence that unusual infections in child cancer patients were linked to a Glasgow hospital building. Professor Alastair Leanord, the chief of medicine for diagnostics at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde,…
BBC Conor invited Gary Lightbody to sing with him Many people dream of singing a hit song with their favourite band or rock star. For 19-year-old Conor Bruen that dream has come true. The Belfast teenager who is autistic sang Snow Patrol’s hit Chasing Cars alongside the band’s Gary Lightbody. The pair’s duet has gone…
Joe Biden vented his anger at Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of profanity-laden rants, accusing the Israeli prime minister of ‘regularly lying to him’ during the war in Gaza, according to a bombshell new book. The US President labelled Netanyahu a ‘bad f***ing guy’ and ‘son of a bi**h’ in conversations with his associates, journalist Bob Woodward writes…
Wales will be without Rodon’s Leeds team-mates Daniel James and Ethan Ampadu for the upcoming double header – the latter being ruled out until 2025 due to a knee injury. Such has been his influence since making his senior bow in 2017, Ampadu became the youngest player to reach 50 caps for Wales as the…
Hurricane Milton approaches Florida US officials are warning about the potentially life-threatening impacts of Hurricane Milton as it barrels towards the Florida coast. Milton is one of the most powerful storms to form in the North Atlantic in recent years. It comes just two weeks after Hurricane Helene caused substantial damage across the US south-east….
A Turkish Airlines pilot has died after becoming ill on his own flight from Seattle on the north-west coast of the United States to Istanbul in Turkey. Captain Ilcehin Pehlivan, 59, collapsed mid-air and a second pilot and co-pilot took over the controls, an airline spokesman said on X. “When first aid to our captain…
Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned a suspected Israeli air strike on an apartment building in Damascus that, it says, killed seven civilians. The ministry said women and children were among the dead from Tuesday evening’s attack on the Mezzeh neighbourhood, which houses the Iranian embassy and other diplomatic facilities. Israel’s military has not commented. The…
A Nepalese teenager has broken the world record for the youngest mountaineer to summit Earth’s 14 highest peaks. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, stood atop Tibet’s Mount Shishapangma at about 06:05 local time on Wednesday. In doing so, he became the latest of just a few dozen people to have scaled all of the world’s “eight-thousanders”…
New book claims Trump spoke with Putin 7 times since leaving office – CBS News Watch CBS News A new book from veteran journalist Bob Woodward claims former President Donald Trump has had at least seven calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving office. Woodward’s book, “War,” also reveals Trump sent Putin a COVID-19…
