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Andy Burnham has promised to set out plans for "stronger public control" of essential services as he addressed the House of Commons for the first time since taking power. The prime minister said "a series of wrong turns" since the 1980s had seen economic power in the UK privatised and pointed to the water industry

Sir Mel Stride and Dame Priti Patel have left the shadow cabinet as part of a significant reshuffle of the Conservative top team by leader Kemi Badenoch. Andrew Griffith will replace Sir Mel as shadow chancellor, while Tom Tugendhat will take the place of Dame Priti as shadow foreign secretary. Badenoch is forming a new

Prisoners who were freed under the government's last early release scheme are returning to jail at a rapid rate, prison governors have told the BBC. They say they are seeing the same inmates, who were let out as part of the 2024 early release scheme to ease overcrowding, coming back after reoffending - including for

Thirty-seven people have died and almost 400 have been evacuated after a Russian drone strike hit a depot storing weapons for Ukraine's military near a residential area on the outskirts of Kyiv. The strike caused shells, mines and drones to detonate late on Friday, triggering a blast that damaged nearby properties including a care home

A video has captured the moment a group of people stranded on a balcony in Nepal survived as powerful floodwaters rush around them. It's one of several clips BBC Verify has located along the Trishuli River after a deadly cascade of water, mud and other debris flooded the area on Wednesday, as Merlyn Thomas reports.

Floods have devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region which have destroyed towns and swept away bridges. Hundreds of people have been reported dead and hundreds more missing. BBC Verify has traced the path of the deadly flash flood using verified videos and satellite imagery. Merlyn Thomas reports. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Verification

Video shows the moment a deadly massive flash flood and mudslide hit the Nepal-Tibet border. At least 31 people have been killed, and hundreds of tourists are missing. The first two video clips have been edited by the BBC with white flashes, due to the distressing content. Other clips show bridges being torn apart by

Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family announced on her social media. "Sadness lies with us, not with Dolly," Parton's nephew Brian Seaver said in a video announcement. In a seven-decade career, Parton won 10 Grammy awards, sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and wrote in excess

Twelve people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the A66 crash that killed seven people, including two police officers. Nine men and three women, aged between 19 and 61, have been arrested across Teesside on suspicion of a range of offences including possession of a firearm and being part of an organised

Police abandoned the pursuit of a car seconds before it crashed going the wrong way down a dual carriageway, killing all five men aboard and two officers, investigators have said. Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jacob Matusiak, 23, Theo Rae, 17, Makai Saddington, 18, and Cole Robert Worthy, 17, died when a Volkswagen Passat struck a