Month: May 2025

About 150,000 fans watch as the team parades through the city centre on open-top buses.

VE Day 80 sees big crowds supporting surviving veterans of World War Two, our correspondent writes.

Blackpool South MP Chris Webb raised concerns that Lancashire’s flag would be banned from being flown.

Campaigners criticise the pace of payments as the Infected Blood Inquiry prepares for new hearings.

Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime after a clip was posted on social media.

Trent Alexander-Arnold leaves Liverpool as a modern great – but there will be fans hurt by his decision, says BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty.

Tributes are paid to Layton Carr whose death following a Gateshead fire leads to the arrest of 14 children.

Richard Irvine runs a smokehouse in Colonsay but is giving it away to help regenerate the local population.

The singer can drown his Ipswich Town sorrows after taking over a pub for a fortnight.

The first minister will set out his programme for government this week, with a focus on steadying the ship.