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More than 1,900 small high street businesses including mini-marts, vape shops and car washes are licensed to sponsor foreign workers under a specialist scheme intended for high-earning individuals despite visa rules being tightened, BBC Verify has found.The Home Office scheme allows registered employers to recruit workers from overseas who meet a certain skill level. The rules were tightened in July 2025 to restrict the scheme mostly to graduate-level employees who would be earning at least £41,700.But a year on from the rule change, BBC Verify has found more than 1,500 grocery and convenience stores, 150 taxi operators, 100 barber shops,…
Hunter Biden has told the BBC he is “the most privileged person there is” after receiving a presidential pardon from his father, former US President Joe Biden, acknowledging it was not a good choice for America or his father’s legacy. In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC’s Newsnight, Hunter Biden defended the controversial pardon, revealed his father’s “painful” cancer has spread, ruled out seeking elected office and spoke about helping others recover from addiction.Asked about the 2024 pardon, he said he understood the criticism but noted: “What would you have thought of my dad if he did not do that…
AFC is the largest military training establishment for under-19s in the UK and it receives all the Army’s 16-year-old recruits.North Yorkshire Police told the BBC in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request it had received 16 reports of sexual offences linked to the college in the year to June, including allegations of exposure, voyeurism and sexual assault.No information was included on whether the reports had led to prosecutions.A total of 176 complaints of inappropriate sexual behaviour at the college were made between January 2018 and June 2025, according to Ministry of Defence (MoD) data.The women, whose names…
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Police Colonel Thadsakorn Konthong said that the gun and bullets used in the attack belonged to the teen’s grandfather, with an initial inspection finding signs that the firearm had been searched for inside the grandfather’s bedroom. International and local media have reported that the gun was legally registered and had a permit.Thailand has one of the highest rates of civilian gun ownership in South East Asia, with around 10.3 million firearms in civilian possession, around four million of which are believed to be owned illegally.The country has strict gun laws, which punish the illegal possession of arms with up to…
Badenoch wrote: “Mr Farage wants the people of Clacton to settle his problems for him.”He wants to point to you and say, ‘even after the £5m scandal, Clacton still chose me’.”The people of Clacton are entitled to ask why someone would donate Nigel Farage that kind of money”.The Reform leader has said the money was an “unconditional gift”. Farage previously said the money was for his security, given to him “with the knowledge that the state in this country has never, ever wanted to help” with his personal protection.Badenoch, who is the North West Essex MP, continued: “When the proper…
Thursday’s primary in the southern state of Tennessee has provided the first test of the state’s new congressional district map, redrawn in May.Tennessee was one of roughly 10 states to reconfigure its map since 2025, as part of a partisan push to gain an advantage in the 2026 United States midterm election.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe election is seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s second term in office, and the Republican leader has cheered redistricting efforts in right-leaning states like Tennessee, as part of a broader national plan to maintain his party’s control of Congress.Each…
Ukraine continues to strike warehouses and logistics hubs run by Wildberries, which it says aids Moscow’s war efforts.Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine have killed at least six people, local authorities say, as Moscow and Kyiv trade intensifying strikes targeting each other’s economic and energy infrastructure.A wave of Russian attacks killed two people and wounded six in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region on Friday, with strikes reported in five districts, governor Oleksandr Hanzha wrote on Telegram. He said five people were killed on Thursday in the same region by a barrage of Russian attacks.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listRussia’s military…
Andy Burnham has pledged to be the prime minister for the North. But volunteers cleaning up a major plastic spill on the north-east of England coast say his government’s treatment of the “disaster”, which they say lacks urgency, does not support that claim.”This should be declared a national emergency,” says campaigner Olly Armstrong who believes, if the spill had happened further south, it would have been treated differently.Armstrong, from North Shields in North Tyneside, is one of thousands of volunteers who have spent weeks clearing beaches of millions of plastic pellets that washed into the River Tyne and the North…
It remains unclear exactly why tens of thousands of migrants attempted to cross into Ceuta, but the EU’s Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner has suggested criminal networks spreading disinformation were to blame – an assertion the Spanish government has agreed with.The crossings came after Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that migrants stopped at sea while trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla cannot be summarily returned to Morocco.The two exclaves have long been a bone of diplomatic contention between Spain and Morocco, which does not recognise Spanish sovereignty over them.The number of people swimming to Ceuta at once has raised questions about why…