On 21 October 1966, as a primary school and surrounding homes in Aberfan were engulfed by slurry from a collapsed coal tip, a dinner lady was collecting money from pupils. Within moments, 144 people were dead, including 116 children, on what was the last day of class at Pantglas Junior Sch...
Online pornography depicting strangulation or incestuous relationships will be banned from early November, the government has announced. From 6 November, it will be illegal to possess or publish porn which shows strangulation or suffocation, depicts sexual activity between people who are r...
Jess Bacon does all her clothes shopping online. As a plus-size woman, she finds the size ranges available in stores unreliable. “The sizing in store is notoriously bad. I find it quite demoralising in store,” she says. “The average size woman in the UK is a size 14 or a ...
Swimmer Archie Goodburn has been successful in his efforts to improve brain cancer care for patients as the UK government announce new measures. The Scottish athlete, who was diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumours two years ago, met Prime Minister Andy burnout after making an emotio...
Taking the stage at Plaid Cymru’s first conference in government, cabinet minister for Education Anna Brychan’s assessment was more blunt than a month earlier, when the Pisa results came out. Speaking in Welsh, she called them “brawychus” – roughly translated ...
“When I first started this project, I genuinely didn’t know whether it would work,” said Sim. “No one had really explored whether dogs could help tackle this problem in the marine environment. It began as a proof-of-concept project and has exceeded every expectation...
The head of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, has given his annual speech at the intelligence service’s headquarters in London. Sir Ken spoke about counter-terrorism, combatting state threats and warned about the emerging threat posed by AI (artificial intelligence). BBC Security Correspondent ...