BBC News

The latest 25 UK stories from the BBC:

(Timestamp = GMT*)

• Covid: PM calls for 'unity' and agrees to publish data behind new tiers
  - Boris Johnson will publish data behind England's new tiers later in a bid to win over disgruntled MPs.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:00:36 +0000
• Brexit: Ministers unveil next steps in England's farming policy
  - The government says the post-Brexit plans for farm payments are the most significant for 50 years.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:43:14 +0000
• Covid infections in England fall by 30% over lockdown - React study
  - There were an estimated 72,000 new cases of coronavirus a day in England between 13 and 24 November.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:29:28 +0000
• Women 'completely let down' in rape investigations
  - A report finds "catastrophic" failures in the way rape cases are investigated and prosecuted.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:07:44 +0000
• Covid: Researchers fear cancer advances delay due to pandemic
  - Scientists fear research has been pushed back due to the pandemic, a survey suggests.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:04:15 +0000
• Stonehenge tunnel: Legal challenge to 'destructive' plans
  - Plans to build a £1.7bn road tunnel near the ancient monument are being opposed by campaigners.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:57:58 +0000
• Student Covid testing begins for Christmas exodus
  - Universities open mass testing centres for students so they can travel home safely for Christmas.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:56:24 +0000
• Coronavirus: Ministers urged to extend universal credit 'boost'
  - A £20 weekly universal credit boost has kept 700,000 out of poverty and should continue, says a think tank.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:53:16 +0000
• The Grand Tour stars on pirate treasure, cycle lanes and electric cars
  - Clarkson, Hammond and May discuss their recent hunt for pirate treasure and their TV future.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:42:39 +0000
• British mercenaries investigated over Sri Lanka war crimes
  - The investigation by the Met is looking into activities in the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1980s.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:38:14 +0000
• Why 2020 has been good for England's beavers
  - Homes for these "ultimate environmental engineers" have been set up in enclosures across England.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:34:38 +0000
• Beavers build first Exmoor dam in 400 years
  - The National Trust says the dam in Somerset "might look modest, but it is incredibly special".
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:29:05 +0000
• Covid-19: Wales could see more than 44,000 long-term unemployed
  - Experts say long-term unemployment number could dwarf that caused by the 2008 financial crisis.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:16:16 +0000
• SNP Conference: Winter payments of £100 for low income families in Scotland
  - It is part of a £100m winter hardship fund that Nicola Sturgeon is set to announce at the SNP conference.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:04:32 +0000
• Huawei ban from UK 5G network brought forward
  - The cut-off date of September for the installation of new equipment is earlier than expected.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:02:20 +0000
• Arcadia: Topshop owner faces collapse within hours
  - The collapse of the group, which includes Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, would put 13,000 jobs at risk.
  BBC News - UK - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:02:09 +0000
• Newspaper headlines: Vaccine 'celebrity drive' and PM's call for resolve
  - Boris Johnson's attempts to quell a Tory revolt over England's new tiers continue to dominate the papers.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:54:58 +0000
• Sinn Féin member Brian Stanley apologises over 'insensitive' tweet
  - An Irish parliament member deletes a tweet referring to a bombing in which 18 soldiers died.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:54:17 +0000
• Esther Dingley search: Six teams look for her in Pyrenees
  - The gendarmerie said witnesses reported seeing Esther Dingley, 37, on a mountain a week ago.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:55:20 +0000
• Nottingham student halls party broken up by police
  - The party was one of several broken up overnight by police across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:15:24 +0000
• Covid and schools: 'Children know things aren't right'
  - Students have lost hundreds of days of education to Covid and self-isolation. How are they coping?
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:22:26 +0000
• Liverpool: How one city took on the Covid-19 crisis
  - The inside story of how Liverpool got to grips with soaring infection rates and pioneered mass testing.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:51:55 +0000
• Lowestoft boy donates 360 crackers to 'save Christmas'
  - Siblings Harry and Jessica inspire their mother to give crackers and goodie bags to 350 school kids.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:27:26 +0000
• Covid: 'Lockdown took away our magical visit to Santa'
  - Families must rethink traditions as visits to Father Christmas are curtailed by Covid-19 restrictions.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 06:24:37 +0000
• 'When it's brutal in the Cairngorms, it can kill you'
  - Willie Anderson looks back on 40 years as a mountain rescuer in some of Scotland's toughest terrain.
  BBC News - UK - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:41:23 +0000

BBC World News

• Covid: PM calls for 'unity' and agrees to publish data behind new tiers
  - Boris Johnson will publish data behind England's new tiers later in a bid to win over disgruntled MPs.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:00:36 +0000
• Australia demands China apologise for posting 'repugnant' fake image
  - A fake image posted by a Chinese government official depicts an Australian soldier murdering a child.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:54:42 +0000
• Brexit: Ministers unveil next steps in England's farming policy
  - The government says the post-Brexit plans for farm payments are the most significant for 50 years.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:43:14 +0000
• White Island volcano: NZ officials charge 13 parties over tragedy
  - Some 22 people died when the volcano suddenly erupted last December with tourists on it.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:31:40 +0000
• Covid infections in England fall by 30% over lockdown - React study
  - There were an estimated 72,000 new cases of coronavirus a day in England between 13 and 24 November.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:29:28 +0000
• Women 'completely let down' in rape investigations
  - A report finds "catastrophic" failures in the way rape cases are investigated and prosecuted.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:07:44 +0000
• Coronavirus: Ministers urged to extend universal credit 'boost'
  - A £20 weekly universal credit boost has kept 700,000 out of poverty and should continue, says a think tank.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:53:16 +0000
• The Grand Tour stars on pirate treasure, cycle lanes and electric cars
  - Clarkson, Hammond and May discuss their recent hunt for pirate treasure and their TV future.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:42:39 +0000
• British mercenaries investigated over Sri Lanka war crimes
  - The investigation by the Met is looking into activities in the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1980s.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:38:14 +0000
• Covid: Fauci warns of 'surge in cases' post Thanksgiving
  - Millions of people are returning home following the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:35:44 +0000
• Why 2020 has been good for England's beavers
  - Homes for these "ultimate environmental engineers" have been set up in enclosures across England.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:34:38 +0000
• Beavers build first Exmoor dam in 400 years
  - The National Trust says the dam in Somerset "might look modest, but it is incredibly special".
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:29:05 +0000
• Nagorno-Karabakh: The boy who swapped his piano for a gun
  - The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is over, but some are still waiting for news of missing relatives.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:23:40 +0000
• A 70-year-old photographic mystery
  - Collector William Fagan finds 70-year-old photographs in a camera.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:12:32 +0000
• Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate 7.7 billion people?
  - Five challenges of distributing a Covid-19 vaccine to billions of people.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:10:31 +0000
• Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president
  - The campaign to save a 100-year-old tree shows cultural fears can make politicians listen in Kenya.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:08:23 +0000
• Stubble burning: Why India cannot stop its farmers
  - The toxic fumes from stubble burning affects hundreds of millions - but curbs to stop it keep failing.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:05:57 +0000
• The tech allowing thousands of students to sit exams at home
  - Machine learning is helping firms across many industries more quickly solve difficult challenges.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:05:43 +0000
• Black Lives Matter founders: We fought to change history and we won
  - The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement tell the BBC's 100 Women season they are optimistic.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:03:19 +0000
• Huawei ban from UK 5G network brought forward
  - The cut-off date of September for the installation of new equipment is earlier than expected.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:02:20 +0000
• Arcadia: Topshop owner faces collapse within hours
  - The collapse of the group, which includes Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, would put 13,000 jobs at risk.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:02:09 +0000
• Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the Mafia
  - Calabria was not hit by the first wave of the pandemic but its fragile health system is buckling now.
  BBC News - Home - Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:01:04 +0000
• The Papers: Vaccine 'celebrity drive' and PM's call for resolve
  - Boris Johnson's attempts to quell a Tory revolt over England's new tiers continue to dominate the papers.
  BBC News - Home - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:54:58 +0000
• Arteta 'not worried' about his future after Arsenal slip to worst start since 1981
  - Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says he is not worried about his position despite a 2-1 defeat by Wolves condemning his side to their worst start to a season since 1981.
  BBC News - Home - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 23:27:10 +0000
• Jimenez conscious after head injury but football told to 'wake up' after Luiz plays on
  - Wolves striker Raul Jimenez is conscious in hospital and speaking after an accidental clash of heads during his side's win at Arsenal.
  BBC News - Home - Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:32:49 +0000

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