Despite the pilot being successful, some obstacles to travel remained. Participants reported difficulties with service availability, reliability, coverage and accessibility. During the project, there were 51,416 free public transport trips made. Buses were the most frequently used mode, ac...
After a DJ career spanning half a century, Brian Pearce is preparing to perform his final vinyl set at the same club he played his first mix in 1976. Pearce, 77, aka DJ Tom Bryan, from Stanground, Peterborough, said he started to DJ "by accident" after he brought his record player to provi...
A 17-year-old pianist who is partially blind has described how music helped him during his cancer treatment. Felix, from Feering, Essex, was born with retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer that affects about 50 children a year in the UK. He said he started "fiddling" with the piano whe...
In 2013, Lane said she bought the exclusive right to be buried in a space behind her mother, this was confirmed by a document from Deeping St James Parish Council, which has been seen by the BBC. "I bought a plot to be near to my parents," Lane said. "There's no point in me being...
Donald Trump has said "Iran militarily is effectively over", and said that there is "positive momentum" behind negotiations to end the Middle East conflict. "We're just keeping it the status quo," the US president said on Monday. "And we're doing that really at the behest of countries that...
Three children and one woman were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto tents in central Gaza following heavy rain, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Five injured people were also reportedly rescued after the incident on Sunday night at a camp for displaced families south of Deir ...
As the US midterm election results rolled in, long-held Israeli assumptions about the transatlantic alliance began to shatter. "For us in Israel, this will be a generational sea change," wrote one prominent journalist in Israel's biggest-selling newspaper, right-leaning Yedioth Ahronoth. "...
Democrats swept to victory in the US midterm elections, taking back both the Senate and the House from Republicans. With majority in both chambers, the BBC's Asma Khalid breaks down the new balance of power and what it means in relation to the war in Iran. Video by Mabel Pickering...
In a year marked by protests, crackdowns and war, ordinary Iranians have found their lives turned upside down. BBC Panorama follows a grieving mother, Samira, who takes on the regime after her teenage daughter, Sevda, was shot dead while protesting on the outskirts of Tehran....
Warning: Distressing content and strong language Samira says she never used to be political. "I worked in sales in Iran. I sold cosmetics," she tells BBC Panorama. But that all changed the day her only child was shot dead in front of her by Iranian security forces. Sixteen-year-old Sevda w...
Could Netanyahu persuade Eisenkot to join him in a national unity government? Eisenkot would have to abandon his key platform to do so. He's framed himself as the only alternative to Netanyahu, and built his campaign on ousting him from power. On election night, he took to the stage at his...
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried." So said Winston Churchill in the House of Commons in 1947. His aphorism came to mind as Israel's election results filtered through on Tuesday night - exit polls blending with ballots that wer...