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Mark SimpsonBBC News NI community correspondent BBC It is exactly a year, on Monday, since the £340m station opened An action plan is being drawn up to try to improve traffic flow in Belfast in the run up to Christmas. There was widespread congestion last year after the opening of …

An Australian mother who murdered her estranged husband’s parents and aunt by feeding them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms has been jailed for a minimum of 33 years. Erin Patterson, 50, lured her former parents-in-law Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail Patterson’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66, …

Grace WoodBBC News, Yorkshire Drone footage shows large stones having fallen in front of the Victorian building in Cleckheaton (Footage provided by Westcliffe Landings Ltd) Drone footage has revealed the extent of damage to a former Victorian church after part of its facade collapsed onto the street below. Large chunks …

King Charles and Queen Camilla have been watching Highland games events at the annual Braemar Gathering in Royal Deeside. The spectacle, which is one of the last Highland games of the summer circuit, draws large crowds from around the world and coincides with the monarch’s annual summer holiday at nearby …

Provided The Victorian building was originally a church, but has recently been transformed into a wedding venue Part of a Grade II* listed former Victorian church has collapsed on to a street in a West Yorkshire town. Police were called to reports of a building collapse on Bradford Road in …

Jonny Humphries & Gill DummiganBBC News, Lancashire Family handout Valerie Kneale died at Blackpool Victoria Hospital four days after she was admitted following a stroke A “wonderful” grandmother who was subjected to a violent sexual assault while in hospital after suffering a stroke was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded. …

Ffynhonnell y llun, Dion Jones Tybed sut daith ydy recordio albym i gerddor? Y cerddor Dafydd Owain sy’n rhoi cip i ni ar ei daith yntau wrth recordio ei ail albym, Ymarfer Byw. ‘Y plentyn bach ynof fi’n dal i ganu’ Ffynhonnell y llun, Dion Jones Dyma fi’n chwarae’r piano …

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, known for ready-to-wear fashion and staple suits, has died. The 91-year-old started the fashion house in 1975 with his partner Sergio Galeotti, but it is the 1980 classic film American Gigolo that is credited with launching Armani’s career. He designed the wardrobe for the film’s …

Victoria ScheerBBC News, Yorkshire Family handout James Rownsley died due to emollient cream residue making his clothes more flammable A coroner has called for action after a grandfather died when his clothing caught fire on a gas heater due to a build-up of flammable skin cream. James Rownsley, 89, died …

Olivia DemetriadesBBC News, London Bus mounts pavement near London’s Victoria station Seventeen people have been injured after a bus mounted a pavement in central London on Thursday morning. Emergency services, including London’s Air Ambulance, were called to Victoria Street, near Victoria Station, at about 08:20 BST following the crash. Fifteen …

The simple Victorian prints that Laura Ashley had seen in the V&A worked brilliantly in monochrome, which, coupled with imported cotton, kept costs low, enabling customers to style themselves and their homes on a budget. “They somehow clocked the aspirational desires of a whole generation,” says Sebba. “And by producing …

Captain Peter Handscomb has signed a new one-year deal with Leicestershire – but will miss the final weeks of the County Championship Division Two leaders’ push for promotion. The 34-year-old will be unavailable for the three remaining games this month as he returns home to Australia for the start of …

Australia’s top court has thrown out a last-ditch attempt by the country’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, to overturn a landmark defamation ruling. Thursday’s ruling ends Mr Roberts-Smith’s long legal battle with newspapers he had sued over reports of serious misconduct while he was deployed to Afghanistan. A judge in …

Victoria ScheerBBC News, Yorkshire Family handout Heidi Howson was first diagnosed with a rare blood cancer just days before her sixth birthday The mother of a girl diagnosed with a rare blood cancer is urging people to join the stem cell register after her daughter’s relapse. Heidi Howson, from Sheffield, …

Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country’s history. Known as “Robodebt”, the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid and demanded they repay these debts, which often never existed. In …

Should Osaka defeat Anisimova, she will become the first player to reach a Grand Slam final after becoming a mother since Victoria Azarenka made the 2020 US Open showpiece, which Osaka won. And if the four-time major winner goes all the way in New York, she will be the first …

Ian YoungsCulture reporter House of Commons The five-year, £80m restoration of the Big Ben tower in London has been nominated for the UK’s leading architecture award, alongside a new fashion college campus, a science laboratory and an “inventive” home extension. The refurbishment of Big Ben – officially known as the …

Marie-Louise ConnollyBBC News NI health correspondent BBC Dr Kieran McManus is the first medical consultant to publicly speak out about the alleged bullying and harassment A retired surgeon has said there was a “toxic and unnerving” environment within the Belfast Health Trust intensified by “secret files” being kept on staff. …

Olivia RichwaldBBC News, Yorkshire and Tim DaleBBC News, Yorkshire Family handout Victoria Taylor’s disappearance prompted extensive searches in the Malton area The family of a nurse who drowned in a river have said she “had been failed” and left without the mental health support she needed. Victoria Taylor, 34, was …

BBC Steven Mill, left, will join Amy Irons for The Saturday Show Presenters Amy Irons and Steven Mill have been reunited to kick-start a new weekend programme on BBC Radio Scotland. The pair will front The Saturday Show from late September, giving the station a fresh new sound. Irons and …