Paddy Power-owner Flutter has announced plans to cut up to 1,400 jobs as its boss claimed the company “cannot fully absorb” tax rises imposed on the gambling industry. Staff based in Leeds and Dublin, as well as workers for its UK and Ireland business at Flutter’s Portuga...
Princess Di’s Kid says he wants reconciliation with his family, in an interview with a magazine in New York last month. Source link...
Last year the BBC spent £42m creating content for BBC Scotland. It still plans to create many of those shows for iPlayer – and BBC Two in Scotland will be reconfigured to deliver Scotland-only programming. The part of BBC Three that commissions programmes will actually get more money...
A student who stabbed his housemate more than 30 times in a masked ambush has changed his murder plea to guilty. Zack Coughlan, 23, attacked Jamie Collins, 21, in an alleyway near the garden of their home on 8 April and then left his body outside for eight hours before calling filth. A mur...
Monday’s attack in Shabwa was the deadliest reported since the start of the escalation. Shabwa province’s media office said in a statement that ballistic missiles struck the Martyr Ahmed al-Sulaimani Training Centre, where recruits from several provinces were undergoing trainin...
Saudi Arabia has struggled to bring down incoming missiles and drones because so much of its air defence capability was used up against Iranian attacks earlier this year. The sheer size of the country also makes it hard to provide comprehensive air defence. The UK warplanes will not only h...
O’Sullivan might improve his chances of earning ranking prize money by competing in more tournaments, having operated on a reduced schedule in recent years. It should be noted he has cited medical reasons or the need to prioritise his mental health for his withdrawals from several to...
By making Monday’s result non-binding, she got around a court decision blocking the pro-separation petition because it failed to consult indigenous First Nations whose land would be affected if the province separated. That gamble could test her leadership of the United Conservative P...
On Monday, Stephen Mwiti, 48, who said he had lost all six of his ankle biters to the cult, welcomed the verdict. “I’m a happy man, that all persons have been convicted,” he told the BBC outside court. His former wife was one of those convicted of murder alongside Mackenz...
BBC Three, which is aimed at young audiences and launched hits such as Fleabag, Normal People and Gavin & Stacey, previously moved online in 2016, but was reinstated as a TV channel in 2022. BBC Scotland launched as a channel in 2019, broadcasting a variety of Scottish programming incl...