Simon Furness

Letchworth Garden City – The UK’s first!

The UK’s First we hear you ask. Well, the picturesque Hertfordshire town of Letchworth Garden City, was once simply Letchworth, but in 1903 it became the first […]

The requirement for those arriving in England to take a test within 48 hours is to be scrapped.
BBC News – Business

Kurdish-led forces say they are being used as human shields in the jail they have surrounded in Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

Lourdes Maldonado López is the second journalist murdered in the city of Tijuana in a week.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

About half of the staff working in Kyiv will return to the UK amid fears of a Russian invasion.
BBC News – Europe

Tory MP Nusrat Ghani says she was told her faith was given as a reason for her sacking as a minister.
BBC News – UK

The Wikileaks founder can petition the UK’s highest court for a hearing, stalling his extradition to the US.
BBC News – US & Canada

After gunfire is heard in the capital, President Roch Kaboré is reportedly under military arrest.
BBC News – Africa

Inspectorate criticises the police after only one of 69 victims of a fraud has their case investigated.
BBC News – Business

More than 70 people have been killed in the fighting between militants and Kurdish-led forces.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazilian footballer Robinho loses his final appeal against a conviction for taking part in the gang rape of a woman in Milan in 2013.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The Foreign Office takes the unusual step of naming a former Ukrainian MP as a potential Kremlin candidate.
BBC News – Europe

Nusrat Ghani says she was told her faith made colleagues uncomfortable – but the chief whip rejects her claim.
BBC News – UK

The incident began as an argument among guests, one of whom was the gunman, at the hotel near Cancún.
BBC News – US & Canada

Those opposed to the coup say they will stay on the streets until the generals leave power.
BBC News – Africa

2021 NFL Divisional Games Preview.
And then there were eight! Yes, we are at the quarter-final stage and after the Wildcats games pretty much went to plan it will be interesting to see if the 2 No 1 seeds can get […]

Five business groups write to Chancellor Rishi Sunak asking for support for firms on energy costs.
BBC News – Business

Rescue workers have been pulling bodies from rubble after the site was destroyed in an air strike.
BBC News – Middle East

Her career spanned six decades and she used her music to campaign against racism.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Their top diplomats say they want to pursue dialogue as fears of Russian military action persist.
BBC News – Europe