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Fiji is a far cry from Cunningham’s native west Wales and he admits going there was “definitely a culture change”. “It was great as well, learning a different way of coaching and a different approach towards the game,” he said. “Also coaching in extreme heat, I hadn’t done that before, …

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested over the death of a man on a street in Edinburgh. Police were told the 22-year-old was injured on Great Junction Street in Leith, at Bonnington Road, at about 02:10 on Tuesday. Emergency services attended but the man died at the scene. Officers are …

Eimear FlanaganBBC News NI BBC The contaminated Mobuoy dump is thought to cover more than 100 acres of land People concerned about the thousands of tonnes of rubbish dumped at an illegal landfill site outside Londonderry will be able to question the clean-up plan later. The Mobuoy dump, discovered in …

A mother has been prosecuted for the third time after her teenage son failed to attend school for more than two months. The 16-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent, who did not turn up to school at all between February 6 and April 11, had 84 unauthorised absences during this time, magistrates at …

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on plans to send the National Guard to Chicago, Illinois to address crime. The deployment would follow similar arrangements of the National Guard in Washington DC and Los Angeles, California. “We’re going in,” Trump told reporters when asked about Chicago on Tuesday. “I …

Charlotte WrightPolitical editor, BBC South East BBC Richard Tice described the situation with SEND for children as “ludicrous” Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision is being “hijacked by parents who are abusing the system”, the deputy leader of Reform UK has said. Richard Tice said some children were receiving …

The government needs to look at whether police are “getting the balance right”, Wes Streeting has said after the arrest of the co-writer of Father Ted over posts on social media. The health secretary told Sky News with Wilfred Frost that he can’t comment on the specifics of the case …

Enda McClaffertyBBC News NI political editor Standards commissioner Dr Melissa McCullough is due to step down this week after serving five years as the Assembly’s commissioner for standards Stormont’s outgoing standards commissioner has said she was left “frustrated” by some elements of the accountability process at the Assembly. Dr Melissa …

Hitting an inviting short ball at an opponent who has moved towards the net is another common flashpoint. Tsitsipas, regularly at the centre of drama, decided tagging Altmaier was fair game following his opponent’s underarm serve. “Next time, don’t wonder why I hit you, OK? I’m just saying, if you …

“Don’t let this fool you.”   That was the response of Democrat members of Congress, and it tells you whether Tuesday’s release of documents relating to the case of Jeffrey Epstein will end the outcry – it won’t. Of 33,000 pages released by the US House committee, they said 97% …

Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Baroness Sue Gray has challenged the government’s plan to limit a civil service internship scheme to working-class students. The Labour peer questioned the “evidence base” behind last month’s decision to restrict a Whitehall internship to students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds”. The government argued …

A strike on what the US called a Venezuelan gang’s drug-carrying vessel killed 11 people, Donald Trump has said. Speaking at a news conference at the White House, the US president told reporters: “We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot …

Protests over the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers have put police forces under “chronic pressure” when combined with other duties this summer, a senior police chief has said. Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, told the BBC people in leadership positions in the …

Regan MorrisBBC News, Alhambra courthouse, California Getty Images Cardi B was cleared of assault by a Los Angeles jury after a security guard sued her for $24 million in a fingernail attack. Emani Ellis alleged that the US rapper cut her cheek with a 3in (7.5cm) fingernail and spat on …

Ian Hamilton and Daniel Bennett BBC Ann Docherty, 84, was sent a scam message which her son told her was not real Older people are being warned about a surge in scam messages relating to winter heating payments. Age Scotland has issued the warning over texts urging people to “apply …

Eddie BisknellLocal Democracy Reporting Service LDRS The redesign to the Church Street/Vicarage Road/Civic Way roundabout has been mocked by residents A roundabout redesign that cost taxpayers £8,000 has been dubbed an “ill-conceived monstrosity” and compared to a budget Stonehenge by residents. At the end of August, South Derbyshire District Council …

Supplied Maureen Gilbert was found dead in her house in Tapton Terrace A woman was discovered “floating” in flood water by her son after a fire service did not check her home the morning after it was unable to rescue her, an inquest has heard. Maureen Gilbert, 83, was found …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hollywood legend Kim Novak is concerned over how her relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. might be portrayed in an upcoming biopic starring Sydney Sweeney. Sweeney is set to star in “Scandalous!” alongside David Jonsson. The biopic will cover Novak’s relationship with Davis …

A 42-year-old man has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting an 11-year-old boy who rang his doorbell and ran away. Julian Guzman was playing the “ding dong ditch” prank game of ringing doorbells just before 23:00 local time (05:00 BST) on Saturday night in Houston, Texas, when he was …

Some people killed during a earthquake in Afghanistan had to be buried on a mountain top, because it was too difficult to cross the terrain and get their bodies down, the BBC has been told. More than 800 people died in the 6.0 magnitude quake in eastern Afghanistan, which was …