Labour-run councils are considering legal challenges to close hotels housing asylum seekers after a landmark ruling prompted officials to consider increasing the use of former military sites as emergency accommodation. Wirral and... Read more »
Simon Jack Business editor, BBC News PA Media The government is preparing to take control of the UK’s third largest steelworks in a bid to save the business and protect 1,500 jobs.... Read more »
Ukrainian students at the University of Edinburgh plan to protest the upcoming appearance of the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a literary festival in the city over what... Read more »
Germany would welcome China taking a more active role in the peace process in Ukraine as negotiations with Russia appear likely to ramp up, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told DW on Wednesday. At the... Read more »
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2025. MANDEL NGAN / AFP The United States on Wednesday, August 20,... Read more »
Becky Morton Political reporter Getty Images Asylum seekers moved out of a hotel in Epping should not be put in other hotels, flats or house-shares, the Conservatives have said. It comes after... Read more »
The bell signalling the Angelus is sounding at Piltown’s Church of the Assumption while Father Paschal Moore is detailing the track-by-track inspiration behind his new CD, ‘Soulful Harmonica’. Fr Paschal, who will... Read more »
Jayne McCormack BBC News NI political correspondent Google The hotel has been the subject of some anti-immigration protests Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council has started an enforcement investigation into the legal planning... Read more »
With its orchards of low-growing fruit trees and a harbor dotted with yachts, Bitterfeld has an air of pastoral charm. But this former East German town, about 140 kilometers (86 miles) southwest... Read more »
Tom Jackson/Severn Screen Welsh actors Tom Cullen and Erin Richards lead the cast in Mudtown, set in Newport A dual-language series is set to take viewers behind the scenes at a Welsh... Read more »