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Solving over-tourism crisis – and how it can benefit British holidaymakers

In May, 1967 a skinny, pale junior schoolboy from a rural market town celebrated his seventh birthday with his parents. Not at home under the big skies of East Anglia, but in Malgrat de Mar, a beach...

BBC team's tense encounter with sanctioned Israeli settler while filming in West Bank

BBC team's tense encounter with sanctioned Israeli settler while filming in West Bank14 minutes agoFergal Keane & Alice DoyardBBC NewsReporting fromJordan ValleyBBCDust was rising on the track....

Southport attack officers nominated for awards

Southport attack officers nominated for awards1 hour agoJenny ColemanBBC News, MerseysidePA MediaThree police officers who were first on the scene to respond to the "unimaginable horror" of the...

Watch: How Lady Gaga's record-breaking concert almost ended in disaster

Watch: How Lady Gaga's record-breaking concert almost ended in disaster On Saturday night Lady Gaga performed for her biggest audience ever, two million people on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro....

Woman dies after car rams into pedestrians as child also injured

A woman has died after a car collided twice into pedestrians in Rochdale, injuring three others. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said a male driver, aged 49, has been arrested on suspicion of murder...

Watch video shown to jurors in Sycamore Gap tree trial

Watch video shown to jurors in Sycamore Gap tree trialJurors were shown mobile phone footage in court on Wednesday, which prosecutors claim shows the moment the "iconic" Sycamore Gap tree was...

Convicted murderer missing from prison near Dundee

Convicted murderer missing from prison near Dundee25 minutes agoOttilie MitchellBBC NewsPolice ScotlandA convicted murderer has been reported missing from an open prison near the Scottish city of...

Jim Davidson shares astonishing comment made by police during Operation Yewtree enquiry

Jim Davidson was cleared of sex offences back in 2013 - but not before he'd spent a terrifying year on bail, fearing he'd never work again. He has now opened up on the eye-opening comments he alleges...

Watch: Olympic legend leaves parents in her dust at school sports day

Olympic legend shows no mercy to fellow parents at school sports dayThis is the moment Jamaica's sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce completely demolished other parents in a race at her son's school...

Russian hairdresser jailed over neighbour claim of spreading fake news

Russian hairdresser jailed over neighbour claim of spreading fake news1 day agoPaul KirbyEurope digital editorPushkin court press serviceA hairdresser from St Petersburg has been given a jail term of...

Russian hairdresser jailed over neighbour claim of spreading fake news

Russian hairdresser jailed over neighbour claim of spreading fake news13 hours agoPaul KirbyEurope digital editorPushkin court press serviceA hairdresser from St Petersburg has been given a jail term...

Indian pot belly: From status symbol to silent killer

Indian pot belly: From status symbol to silent killer 13 hours agoSoutik BiswasIndia correspondent•@soutikBBCGetty ImagesThe Indian pot belly - once a badge of prosperity, indulgence and aging...

Indian pot belly: From status symbol to silent killer

Indian pot belly: From status symbol to silent killer 11 hours agoSoutik BiswasIndia correspondent•@soutikBBCGetty ImagesThe Indian pot belly - once a badge of prosperity, indulgence and aging...

'He was like an angel...it was just a beautiful to hear his voice'

The Carousel Ball (Image: Getty)BEE GEES icon Robin Gibb never got over the death of his twin brother Maurice and suffered recurring dreams in which they would laugh and joke together as a band.In a...

Man ends up changing locks on his property after 'spooky' finding in attic

A person got a shock when they found something strange in the attic of their new house.Buying a home gives people the rewarding feeling of knowing that they own a property as many want to get on the...

Trevor Lock, hero of Iranian embassy siege, dies aged 85

Trevor Lock, hero of Iranian embassy siege, dies aged 8524 minutes agoRuth ComerfordBBC NewsGetty ImagesTrevor Lock, the policeman who was taken hostage in a siege on the Iranian embassy in 1980, has...

Police visit over mushroom picking alarms forager

Police visit over mushroom picking alarms forager25 minutes agoDan MartinBBC News, LeicesterBBCA woman says police overreacted by trying to ban her from a park over allegations she was illegally...

My mother’s love endured in the face of pure evil

When Renee Salt closes her eyes, she can still visualise her elegant, well-dressed mother, Sala. “Lovely skin, beautiful hair. She was my whole life, such a loving kind mother,” she tells me of...

'Psychopath' eye-gouger's parole board decision shows how broken UK justice is

Britain has the highest prison population in Western Europe. Almost 160 men and women per 100,000 of the population in England and Wales; a bit less in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The numbers have...

Mary Berry's heartbreaking confession about late son after tragic death

Great British Bake Off icon Mary Berry has never avoided speaking about the greatest tragedy of her life - the death of her son William, which happened when he was just 19. In a candid new interview...