I spoke to Amanda Grant about this “magical moment” she and her family experienced on a rainy visit to see the River of Light installation in Liverpool. She said the video she captured just shows “you can't dampen a Scouser's spirit"

It was so good to return to one of my favourite places with my daughter today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ♥️ 🌳

Oh my, do you think I’d be able to go on placement with the BBC concert orchestra for next year’s proms. I could maybe play triangle for the John Williams movie music night, which I am absolutely loving right now. Pretty please 😆

It was such a privilege to talk to young DJ AJ Murphy about being invited to join Chris Martin on stage at Coldplay’s Wembley Stadium concert last night

Thank you to Emma Miller for talking to me about her brother’s disappearance nearly five years ago. She said her family “holds on to hope” that they will see him again.

“I have always wanted to bring him since he was little and I just never had the opportunity.” A family speak about the difference a sensory room at @evertonfc.com’s new stadium has made to them.

Shop owners should greet customers as soon as they enter a store in a bid to deter shoplifters, police have advised

"It all started off with stuff I'd heard that he hadn't that I knew he was going to love.” The sister of Elbow frontman Guy Garvey has told how his love of music was inspired by mix tapes she made for him, beginning in the 1980s.

“We've had to expand Friday's clinic to put in some extra slots as we have had so many children referred in.”

Reform UK councillor Amanda Clare has been charged with assault and criminal damage after an incident at a Pride event.

“When you take it out of the ground and you are the first person to touch it in 2,500 years then it does give you a bit of a jolt."

“I wish dad was still here but doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me and you have always got your memories.”

“Life happened and my mum never got a chance to travel” ❤️

“I don't want anyone else to go through what I did”

Two Labour MPs have called for Reform UK to suspend one of its newly elected councillors after a photo of Adolf Hitler was shared on his official Facebook page.

“I'm so grateful that I found it that day because we got it quickly before it had a chance to spread”

Premier League champions Liverpool will parade through the city on an open-top bus, it has been announced

“It just bumps up the power and prestige of these tribal groups in North Yorkshire and it makes them even more glamorous”

Love this! 🤭

“If I can stop one family from going through what we went through then I have done a good thing.”

Azar Nazir, who has earned over 900,000 followers on Tik Tok, told me that running the shop had affected his mental health and he felt it was "time to move on" from Wakey Wines

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day! 🌼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌼

Four financially struggling councils in the north-west of England are to receive millions of pounds in additional funding from the government.

“My neurologist, when he diagnosed me, they worked out I had over 100,000 sub-concussive hits in my brain” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A council has rejected calls to raise the default 20mph speed limit on a number of roads in Monmouthshire, Wales

The mother of a student killed in the Nottingham attacks said she had spoken with the family of one of the three young girls murdered in Southport last summer

Energy firm Cuadrilla has announced it will start work on plugging the UK's only two shale gas wells in February - around two months after the deadline for doing so passed.

Cardiff University has confirmed plans to cut 400 full-time jobs amid a funding shortfall

Patrick Hurley said the removal of harmful content "needs to happen now" and online platforms should not wait until the Online Safety Act comes into force in March

A farmer has described the government's changes to inheritance tax rules as "absolutely ludicrous", warning he may have to sell the family business as a result.

“I'm a 10-year survivor which is fantastic but I might not have been if I hadn't gone for that cervical screening test.”

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for Wales", author Jeff Towns has said

“Cheshire used to be near the equator and there was this big tropical salt water lagoon in the area and water used to flood in and would then evaporate and then reflood, laying down layers of salt.”

As we say goodbye to 2024, let me remind you of some of the good stuff that happened bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... May 2025 bring you peace, joy, and inspiration.

Campaign group spokesperson Jessica Garner said it was within the council's power to lower the speed limit on Wrexham Road, Chester, immediately

‘Care home elf’ Farrah Amjad said loneliness was a "massive problem at the moment in the community" and so doing this "makes people feel happy and makes me feel happy"

Professor Tariq Aslam said that when his son was in a wheezy state, he often struggled to accept the mask and spacer device pressed against his mouth

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

The hospice's appeal has also been backed by the father of a terminally ill boy, who has pleaded with the government to give further support to them

Dr Ruth Quinn from the National Science and Media Museum said the meme was being exhibited in Bradford as it was "such an important part of popular culture"

Holyhead port is "highly unlikely" to reopen before Christmas after being damaged during Storm Darragh, the Irish prime minister has said

Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said the new ferry was "as iconic as the Liver Building or the Cammell Laird shipyard” where it is being built

Until now, anyone using the historic church in Monmouthshire has had to walk across a busy road and go up a long steep path to a nearby hall if they want to spend a penny

Tens of thousands across Wales are still without power following Storm Darragh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aw, some very special decorations have gone up on our Christmas tree ♥️ Nadolig Llawen! Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The bereaved families of four Merseyside shooting killings have told how they have been united in "a club we never asked to be in" - as a special new film aims to highlight the impact of violent crime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We do feel desperately sorry for all the residents who've had to get out of their homes just before Christmas” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was a privilege to speak to Mike Dennett’s family for this tribute on the BBC News website. What an extraordinary life he had www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I spoke to volunteers from the Langar Aid charity who travelled from Coventry to Pontypridd to do their bit to help the community after the flooding caused by Storm Bert www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Campaigners calling for a boxer to become the first black person to be honoured with a statue in Manchester have said the move would help young people in the city "feel themselves reflected" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...