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Deborah Mary Turness (born 4 March 1967) is an English journalist, former CEO of ITN (2021), and as of 2022, CEO of BBC News. [ 3][ 7] Prior to this she was president of NBC News (2013–2017) and then president of NBC News International. [ 8] Before NBC, Turness was editor of ITV News (2004–2013), which made her the UK's first female editor ...
bbc.com (global) BBC News is an operational business division [ 2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output ...
Motive. Far-right extremism. On 30 October 2022, a petrol bomb attack was perpetrated against a Border Force centre for processing migrants in Dover, Kent, England. Two people suffered minor injuries. After the attack, the suspect, a 66-year-old man from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, drove to a nearby petrol station where he killed himself .
BBC News reported there were four anti-immigration protesters, with one arrest made. [ 229 ] In Paisley, Renfrewshire , 300 anti-racists, including representatives of trade unions and human rights organisations, protested against a planned far-right demonstration outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, but no anti-immigration protestors appeared. [ 230 ]
On 29 July 2024, a mass stabbing targeting children occurred at a dance studio in Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom.Three children were killed, and ten other people – eight of whom were children – were injured, some of them severely.
Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets. First played by British Army officers stationed in India circa 1875, the game uses twenty-two balls (pictured) – a white cue ball, fifteen red balls, and six other balls collectively called "the colours".
The Wennington wildfire was a wildfire that took place in Wennington, east London, on 19 July 2022 during the 2022 United Kingdom heatwave. No-one was killed, but the wildfire destroyed about 18–19 houses, including all the possessions of many residents. [3] One resident said her house burned down "within two minutes".
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...