Image copyright Getty Images Marks and Spencer is planning a big shift towards food at its stores, the retailer has said. It said it wanted to target the weekly family shop by having more stores that offer its full range of food. At the moment, only around 12 of its stores offer all 6,500 of […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Frank was born when Sievey decided to wear a papier mache head to a fancy dress party In the 1980s and ’90s, Frank Sidebottom was a giant-headed, cartoon-eyed, cult comedy hero – but few knew who was behind the mask. A documentary is now telling his full story for […]
Image copyright centro sefarad Image caption The diplomatic ID for Angel Sanz Briz issued in 1942 Thousands of Holocaust survivors and their descendants escaped the Nazis thanks to a Spanish diplomat nicknamed “the Angel of Budapest” – yet the late Angel Sanz Briz is hardly known in Spain today. His improvised heroics in 1944 saved […]
Image copyright Robin Hutson Image caption Robin Hutson has had an illustrious career in the hotel industry The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Robin Hutson, founder and chief executive of UK hotel business Home Grown Hotels. Robin Hutson’s life would probably have […]
Image copyright Brendan Marshall Image caption Police, fire crews and the NI Ambulance Service attended the scene of the incident on Sunday night Two people have died following a St Patrick’s Day event at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone. A third person has been brought to hospital following the incident at the Greenvale Hotel. […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption An early photo of Dick Dale alongside a custom Fender guitar at an exhibit in California US rock guitarist Dick Dale, whose music featured over the opening credits to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, has died aged 81, reports say. Dale, who is known for creating a style of music […]
Image copyright Tom Corban/REX/Shutterstock Image caption Passengers have complained of long queues Eurostar has told passengers only to travel from Paris to London “if absolutely necessary”. Its services have been hit by serious delays with long queues due to strike action by French customs officers. Four trains were cancelled on Sunday. The firm has also […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPhilip Hammond: “We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it” Theresa May’s Brexit deal will not return to the Commons this week unless it has support from the DUP and Tory […]
Image copyright EPA Kirsten Gillibrand has become the latest US Democrat to join a crowded race to be the party’s candidate for the 2020 presidential election. The 52-year-old senator for New York announced her bid in an online video released on Sunday. Fifteen other Democrats having already declared they will seek the nomination. They include […]
Image copyright Reuters Flight data from the Ethiopian Airlines disaster a week ago suggest “clear similarities” with a crash off Indonesia last October, Ethiopia’s transport minister has said. Both planes were Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. Last Sunday the Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board. Transport […]