Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Jonah Fisher/BBC Between May and July 2025 10,000 tests for water pollution at the Environment Agency’s Starcross laboratory in Devon were cancelled Thousands of water tests to identify potential harmful pollution in rivers, lakes and estuaries in England have been cancelled in the last three months due to staff shortages, […]

Graham Fraser, Liv McMahon & Grace Dean BBC News Getty Images The days of porn users ticking a box to say they are 18 are meant to be over. From Friday, websites operating in the UK with pornographic content must “robustly” age-check users. Adults wanting to access explicit material should experience a significant change in

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Black Sabbath in 1970 (L-R): Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne If you saw Black Sabbath’s first ever gig, you wouldn’t have recognised greatness. Back in 1968, they had the decidedly less sinister name of The Polka Tulk Blues Band, and came complete with a saxophonist

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rafael Devers had a glove on Tuesday as he made his debut at first base during the San Francisco Giants’ second game of a three-game series with the Atlanta Braves. Playing defense was largely a surprise, considering Devers was adamant about his desire to exclusively handle designated

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 39-year-old woman is accused of using fraudulent documents and at least 10 different aliases to land nursing jobs across Pennsylvania. Shannon Nicole Womack, 39, has been charged with crimes including forgery, identity theft, procurement fraud, unlawful use of a computer, theft by unlawful taking, and endangering

Steffan Messenger Environment correspondent, BBC Wales News Big Circus Media Sara Jenkins and her partner Ioan Jones had been looking for a farm to rent for several years before winning Channel 4’s Our Dream Farm A woman who won the opportunity to rent a farm for 15 years on a hit TV programme has called

Google The Welsh government’s Cardiff HQ in Cathays Park averaged 19% of staff working there daily in March The Welsh government “can’t justify continuing to hold offices open if people don’t turn up” to work in them, First Minister Eluned Morgan has warned. Ministers aim to have staff working from the office two days a

Getty Images Home health tests bought by people seeking answers about their conditions could give inaccurate and misleading results and require much greater regulation to ensure they are safe, reliable, and effective, researchers have warned. From bowel cancer to the menopause, shop-bought health kits now test for a wide range of conditions and are readily

Nadine Yousif & Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News Getty Images Warning: this story contains graphic details Five Canadian ice hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman will learn their fate on Thursday in a case that has gripped the country. The accused men, all former players for Canada’s world junior hockey team, have pleaded

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DNI Tulsi Gabbard doubled down on her allegations that Obama administration officials politicized intelligence and laid the groundwork for a “yearslong coup” against President Donald Trump after he won the 2016 election. Gabbard told “Jesse Watters Primetime” Wednesday that there were “deep state obstacles” to releasing her information