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Restrictions on carrying liquids over 100ml in hand luggage are being temporarily reintroduced at some regional airports in the UK.The change will apply from 00:01 BST on Sunday 9 June 2024 and will affect passengers at Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, London City, Aberdeen, Southend and Teesside airports.All of the airports affected have Next Generation Security Checkpoints (NGSC) in full operation and had scrapped the 100ml liquid rules after introducing the high-tech CT scanners.The Department for Transport says the move will “enable further improvements to be made to the new checkpoint systems” and is not in response to a specific threat.A spokesperson…

14 hours agoBy Joe Inwood and Insaf Abbas, BBC News, Symi • Nikos Papanikolaou, BBC NewsLive News / Mega TVCCTV footage shows Michael Mosley in the main street of PediNew CCTV images appear to show missing TV presenter Michael Mosley less than half an hour after he left a beach to go on a walk.The footage suggests he completed a walk to the nearby village of Pedi after leaving Agios Nikolaos beach while on a holiday on the Greek island Symi.The presenter, known for his TV programmes and his Just One Thing podcast which airs on BBC Radio 4, was reported to have left the…

The board of Howard University, a historically-black university in Washington DC, has moved to strip Sean “Diddy” Combs of his honourary degree The announcement comes after CNN published a CCTV video of the hip-hop producer hitting an ex-girlfriend in a hotel hallway. In a statement on Friday, the university said his “behavior as captured in a recently released video is so fundamentally incompatible with Howard University’s core values and beliefs that he is deemed no longer worthy to hold the institution’s highest honor.”The rapper apologised after the video was released last month for the attack on singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura.”I…

Labour has promised to “pull up the shutters” for small businesses and entrepreneurs if it is elected in the UK general election.On Friday, the party said it would overhaul the business rates system to help High Street shops, as well as cracking down on the late payment of invoices.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that “hard-working small businesses have been held back”.The party first put forward a plan outlining how it wants to support Britain’s small businesses back in November.It has drawn praise from trade bodies for its proposals around the business rates system, which sets out taxes payable on…

Eminem has claimed his 11th number one single in the official charts this week with the track Houdini.It comes from his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), and is the rapper’s first chart topping hit since Godzilla in 2020.The Detroit artist is best known for his collaborations in recent years, but his newest track is his first solo number one single in 19 years.Houdini is also the biggest opening week for a song since Dave and Central Cee’s hit Sprinter, which came out this time last year.Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has sparked debate…

Getty ImagesApollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most famous photographs taken in outer space, has died at the age of 90.Officials say a small plane he was flying crashed into the water north of Seattle, Washington.Anders’ son Greg confirmed that his father was flying the small plane, and that his body was recovered on Friday afternoon.”The family is devastated. He was a great pilot. He will be missed,” a statement from the family reads.Anders – who was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission – took the iconic Earthrise photograph, one of the most…

The Conservatives are promising to bring in a new law if re-elected, which they say would curb “unnecessary restrictions” on drivers. The plans would include “unilaterally reversing” the expansion of the Ulez clean air scheme in London, and giving communities referendums on low-traffic neighbourhoods.Ministers have been trying to position themselves as being “on the side of drivers” for some time.But Labour criticised the announcement as “desperate stuff from a government that has run out of road”.If it retains power, the Conservative party says it would to introduce a bill to Parliament which it says would prevent any potential “pay per…

1 day agoBy Zoe Kleinman, Technology editorBBCThe Rabbit R1 looks like a bright orange box – with a bit of punch on the insideI’ve just spent the past few days with the latest gadget billed as being able to take on the smartphone: the Rabbit R1.I wanted to see if I could imagine this portable, artificial intelligence (AI) digital assistant one day becoming what my phone is now – something I can’t live without.You can see the thinking behind it: millions of people have played with AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.Given that success with software, it seems the Next Big…

6 hours agoBy Jonathan Geddes, Frankie Allan, BBC Scotland NewsSub ClubIt’s the beating heart of the Scottish clubbing scene – and even thousands of miles away from Glasgow, James ‘Harri’ Hannigan and Domenic Cappello are reminded of the love for the Sub Club.“We used to joke when we’d go away that there’s always someone who’ll come up with a Sub Club T-shirt and a Sub Club tattoo,” says Domenic, one half of the duo at the core of the Jamaica Street venue.“We were in Penang [in Malaysia] in a bar joking about how there’s no chance this is going to happen, and as…

Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen has been left “shocked” after being attacked in the street in Copenhagen, her office says.The assault took place on a square in the centre of the city where a man walked up to her and hit her.The attacker has been arrested. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen called it a “despicable act, which goes against everything we believe in and fight for in Europe”. “Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was beaten on Friday evening at Kultorvet in Copenhagen by a man who was subsequently arrested. The prime minister is shocked by the incident,” the prime minister’s…