Bafta-winning actress Sarah Lancashire has said her award-winning performance in gritty TV drama Happy Valley was “born out of fear”. Lancashire, 60, who rose to fame as barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, won two leading actress Baftas for playing no-nonsense Sergeant Catherine Cawood in the BBC series. Her decades-long “brilliant and intangible” working relationship […]

Andrew Picken Data Journalist, BBC Scotland News BBC Edinburgh’s Royal Mile has scores of gift shops selling Scotland-themed souvenirs to a growing number of visitors The Royal Mile is the ancient spine of Edinburgh, visited by five million tourists each year. The collective name for four streets that thread through the city’s Old Town, it

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A convicted felon who allegedly drove his car through a crowd of people outside a Los Angeles nightclub over the weekend has been indicted. Fernando Ramirez, 29, of San Clemente, faces 37 charges of attempted murder and 37 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, all felonies,

Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent BBC The family of a man who was issued with two death certificates after he died following a heart procedure says the hospital covered up what happened to him. Brian Holmes died at Castle Hill Hospital, near Hull, which the BBC last month revealed was at the centre of a

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police in Florida issued a warning after a group of minors took part in the “door kick challenge,” a social media trend aimed at frightening homeowners. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that five juvenile suspects were walking around a neighborhood in Riverview,

Sarah Turnnidge BBC News, Bristol Alastair McKee & Dan Johnson BBC News, Bristol Reporting fromAshton Vale BBC A large cordon is in place around a residential area of the city More than 60 homes have been evacuated by emergency services over concerns there may be explosive items at a house. Police confirmed an arrest has

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Teddi Mellencamp shared footage on Tuesday of an attempted burglary that took place at her Los Angeles home on Monday night. The 44-year-old former reality TV star took to Instagram to share video from her security cameras, which showed three men dressed in black hoodies jumping over

Ghoncheh Habibiazad BBC Persian, World Service reporter EPA Parts of Evin prison were badly damaged in the Israeli strikes One month on from deadly Israeli air strikes on a notorious Iranian prison during the war between the two countries, inmates say they are being kept under unbearable and inhumane conditions after being moved to other

Nicola Goodwin BBC Midlands Investigations team BBC Anna Downes said West Mercia Police made her feel she was a nuisance for reporting the crime A musician said she was ignored by her local police force and made to feel “a nuisance” after she was sent pornographic images and videos by a man she had met

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Colorado’s Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) team made a surprising gesture.  The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) awarded an expansion team to Denver. As the new team searched for its name, colors, and crest, the Colorado Summit decided to “pass the torch.” Over 50,000 fans were surveyed during