A mother has admitted killing her five-month-old daughter who was found injured in a park in Leeds. Hayley Macfarlane, 39, was initially charged with murdering baby Evelyn but pleaded guilty to infanticide at Leeds Crown Court on Monday. Police found the child with serious injuries in Woodhouse Moor park on 20 December 2023, but she...
A mother has pleaded not guilty to killing her four sons who died in a house fire in south London. Deveca Rose, 29, appeared at the Old Bailey charged with the manslaughter of Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and Kyson and Bryson Hoath, four. The brothers, who were two sets of twins, died after...
10 minutes ago Kevin Keane,Environment correspondent, BBC Scotland Garth Mortimer/CCP Restoring peatlands involves re-profiling the land with diggers to ensure it remains wet enough to store carbon One of Scotland’s most powerful weapons in tackling climate change is not being properly recognised, experts have claimed. Restoring poor quality peatlands could cut Scotland’s emissions by almost...
BBC Writer Daf James says his bilingual drama about a same-sex couple adopting feels like a “massive triumph” When Daf James and his husband adopted two young children, he found the experience so profound he “couldn’t not write about it”. “It felt very dramatic, it felt insane, it felt beautiful, extraordinary, remarkable… it was such...
12 minutes ago Lewis Adams,BBC News, Suffolk Suffolk Police Victoria Hall was last seen just yards from her house when she disappeared aged 17 Steve Wright is due to appear in court, charged with the murder and kidnap of a 17-year-old girl in 1999. Victoria Hall’s body was found in a ditch about 25 miles...
Three people have been charged with invading the pitch during the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said. Yevhenii Lubnenko, 29, David Carneckij, 28, and a 16-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons are accused of going on to the playing area at a football match contrary to...
The Conservatives have promised to amend the Equality Act to ensure the protected characteristic of sex is defined as “biological sex”. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the “safety of women and girls” meant the “current confusion around definitions of sex and gender” cannot be allowed to continue. The Tories say their election pledge will make...
6 hours ago Alix Hattenstone,BBC England Kim/BBC Millie helps her mum Kim run a nature group A BBC investigation has found the number of children moving to home education in the UK is at its highest level since the pandemic. Councils received almost 50,000 notifications in the last academic year from families wanting to take...
The Conservative Party’s latest attempt to appeal to voters makes the front page of many of the papers on Monday. The Times reports that Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch will “accuse “sexual” predators and “activist” campaign groups of abusing Britain’s equalities laws” in a speech to be delivered on Monday. Pictured alongside the report is the...
Getty Images Patients are sometimes cared for in corridors because of a lack of hospital beds Caring for patients in hospital corridors has become “normal”, despite being unsafe and unacceptable for patients, says a report from the Royal College of Nursing. At its annual conference starting on Monday, RCN boss Prof Nicola Ranger will say...