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Kevin KeaneScotland environment, energy and rural affairs correspondent BBC Experts say Scotland has huge offshore wind potential A huge wind farm planned off the north coast of Scotland will not be built unless “unfair” transmission charges are overhauled, the developer has warned. The 125-turbine West of Orkney wind farm had …

Niall McCrackenBBC News NI Mid Ulster Reporter Getty There have been more than 66,000 pest-related reports across Northern Ireland There have been more than 66,000 pest reports and complaints made to councils and housing authorities across Northern Ireland since 2020. New figures obtained by BBC News NI show that the …

Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Jason Garcia Emma Bergeron and her Suzuki Cappuccino mini sports car America is known as the land of big cars and even bigger SUVs but Donald Trump has an idea that could change that. The president wants to bring to the US tiny vehicles, like those commonly …

Angie BrownEdinburgh and East reporter Stephen Tierney Team captain Clara Stewart holds the cup aloft while standing next to the boys’ trophy When South Morningside Primary School girls football team won the prestigious Edinburgh Schools cup last year, they were presented with a small plastic trophy. It paled into comparison …

Antonia MatthewsBBC Wales Vast amounts of fly-tipped waste cascades down Bwlch mountain A farmer says she is “devastated” by a “disgusting” river of fly-tipped waste dumped down the side of a mountain. Katie Davies, whose family has owned land on Bwlch Mountain in Treorchy for 90 years, said the clean …

BBC Carl Olsen, a former civilian volunteer with the Royal Observer Corps, worked in the clifftop bunker Paul MurphyEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire climate and environment correspondent A Cold War volunteer has been recounting his “bleak and secretive” existence as a look-out in a nuclear bunker on the East Yorkshire coast. …

Chris ClementsScotland social affairs correspondent Sheena Millar Mikhail Ackrim was found dead in a flat used for Home Office accommodation Mikhail Ackrim was found semi-naked, face down on a bedroom floor in a Glasgow flat more than a year ago. He had been dead for hours. The 37-year-old had drugs …

Elon Musk has suggested he could buy Ryanair and called for its chief executive to be fired amid a deepening spat between the pair. The budget airline on Tuesday branded the Tesla chief executive an “idiot”, and used the extraordinary row to promote its January sale. Musk and Ryanair boss …

Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent Reuters Tuesday marks one year to the day Trump was inaugurated as president for his second term On day one, he put the world on notice. “Nothing will stand in our way,” President Donald Trump declared, to thunderous applause, as he ended his inauguration speech in …

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the “old order is not coming back” and urged fellow middle powers to come together in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” Carney said …

It had been a while since we’d seen the whole Beckham family out together. And while the tabloids had picked up last year on the fact that their eldest child had been noticeably missing from family photo-ops, few could have foreseen how Brooklyn would briefly break the internet. Will their eldest child come …

Brewing coffee like the pros do requires a bit of science. The golden ratio is the ideal balance of coffee to water and a great place to start from if your current strategy is just to wing it.  Beyond nailing the measurements, there are some essential pieces of hardware that help extract …

Netflix has boosted its offer for media giant Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) as it seeks to fend off a hostile takeover from entertainment conglomerate Paramount. The streaming giant is now offering to pay cash, not just Netflix shares, in an attempt to improve the attractiveness of its offer. The total …

Chris Puncher The short-snouted seahorse was found at sea on Sunday A trawler skipper released a seahorse back into the sea after it was caught on the side of his fishing pot. Chris Puncher, skipper and owner of Salcombe Fish and Shellfish Ltd in Devon, said the male seahorse, which …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed a vice premier over a factory modernisation project in a rare public rebuke ahead of a ruling party congress, state media has reported.  Mr Kim blamed Yang Sung Ho, a vice premier in charge of the machine-building industry, for causing what he …

A large section of a retail park was temporarily evacuated after suspected ammunition was reportedly handed in to a charity shop. The items, believed to have been donated in a small bag, were handed into the Cancer Research UK store at the Greenbridge Retail Park in Swindon earlier. The items …

The ESPN direct-to-consumer streaming service comes in two flavors. The ESPN Unlimited plan costs $30 a month (or $300 a year) and lets you stream all ESPN linear networks: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes, SEC Network and ACC Network. You also get access to programming on ESPN on ABC, …

“I’m not stupid. I feel like they [the crowd] weren’t all there of their own accord, shall we say, and it was quite a small venue. “Everything needs to start somewhere, but as long as people walk away from the week and are like, ‘You know what, we really enjoyed …

French officials have made their first interception on the water as part of a new policy aimed at stopping small boats carrying illegal migrants to the UK. A so-called “taxi-boat” was boarded by French officers on Saturday on the Aa canal in Gravelines, which is on the Channel coast above …

“Except for when I’m playing a match, the ringer is on all hours of the day just in case. “There’s more to life than just tennis, but I’m going to be here for as long as I can and as long as Maria lets me.” Ruud has travelled with his …