General news

• Sports commentator Dave Lanning dies at 78

  29-10-2016 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Darts and speedway commentator Dave Lanning, who called the first televised nine-dart finish, has died aged 78.
  
  Read more

• Strictly's outfits are a spooktacular success

  29-10-2016 22:38
  
  The contestants got the best costumes of the series so far.
  
  Read more

• Calais 'Jungle': France urges UK to take more children

  29-10-2016 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  France's president says the UK should take in more migrant children after the Calais "Jungle" shuts.
  
  Read more

• Exeter fire: Drone footage shows smouldering hotel

  29-10-2016 19:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police drone footage of the Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, Devon, which has been destroyed by a fire.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Man accused of putting bleach in pregnant girlfriend's water is charged with attempted murder

  29-10-2016 19:27
  
  Theophilous Washington, 20, is also charged with reckless endangering.
  
  Read more

• This MP helped deliver his own daughter on living room floor after his wife went into labour early

  29-10-2016 19:23
  
  Conor McGinn performed the task after “a crash course in midwifery over the phone”.
  
  Read more

• Wurzels frontman Adge Cutler honoured with bronze statue

  29-10-2016 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A bronze statue is unveiled to commemorate the life of Wurzel's frontman Adge Cutler.
  
  Read more

• Mobile phone reception: How bad is the signal in Cumbria?

  29-10-2016 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A group of MPs have called on mobile phone companies to allow customers to roam between providers to improve reception.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Brother and sister killed in suspected arson attack named by police

  29-10-2016 18:34
  Two children who died after a suspected arson attack at their home in Birmingham have been identified by police. Eight-year-old Saros Enris and his sister Leanor, six, were pulled from their burning home in Holland Road in the Hamstead area of the city in the early hours of Friday morning. Detective Inspector Justin Spanner, from West Midlands Police, said: "This is an absolutely tragic set of circumstances and my thoughts are with everyone who has been affected.
  
  Read more

• North Ireland leader says special status for province possible after Brexit

  29-10-2016 18:02
  By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland could have a different relationship to the European Union's single market or customs union from the rest of the United Kingdom following its exit from the EU, the leader of the British province said on Saturday. The head of Scotland's devolved government Nicola Sturgeon this week said she would make specific proposals over the next few weeks to keep Scotland in the single market even if the rest of the UK left, and that British Prime Minist
  
  Read more

• Labour MP Chuka Umunna demands answers about Nissan deal

  29-10-2016 17:59
  
  Labour MP Chuka Umunna has demanded answers over the Government deal with Nissan. The former shadow business secretary said it was "extraordinary" that Parliament and the public are being kept in the dark over the deal and said he has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, calling for more details be released. Nissan's chief executive Carlos Ghosn had threatened to build the new Qashqai and X-Trail models elsewhere if it faced export tariffs following a so-called "hard Brexit".
  
  Read more

• Chuka Umunna puts pressure on government after Nissan commits to Sunderland plant

  29-10-2016 17:57
  
  The former Shadow Business Secretary welcomed Nissan’s decision but called for transparency over assurances given to persuade them.
  
  Read more

• Firefighters continue tackling blaze after 'oldest hotel in England' gutted

  29-10-2016 17:12
  
  A ruptured gas main fuelled the flames on Saturday after the blaze spread from adjacent buildings on Friday morning.
  
  Read more

• Disputed Matisse work the Portrait of Greta Moll 'not Nazi looted art'

  29-10-2016 16:24
  The National Gallery insists the Henri Matisse masterpiece Portrait of Greta Moll, which is at the centre of an ownership row, is not Nazi looted art. The relatives claim it was stolen from Mrs Moll after World War II and are reportedly seeking compensation costs of £24.6m, as well as the return of the painting. The Moll family claims that before Greta Moll moved to Wales to live with her daughter, she "entrusted" an art student of Oskar to take the masterpiece to a Swiss ar
  
  Read more

• Blue-chip boards set 2021 target for ending all-white status

  29-10-2016 15:40
  Britain's leading public companies should have at least one non-white director by 2021, a Government-backed report will demand next week. Sky News has learnt that a review lasting nearly two years chaired by Sir John Parker, the City grandee, has concluded that FTSE-100 boardrooms are insufficiently representative of their workforces, customer bases and supply chains. The report will contain the most significant recommendations so far aimed at bolstering the ethnic diversity of British companies
  
  Read more

• Help find him, says sister of missing French student

  29-10-2016 15:27
  The sister of a French student missing in Edinburgh has appealed to volunteers to help join in the search for him. Emilia Maury made the appeal five days after her brother, Antoine, went missing after a night out with friends. Miss Maury appealed for help to find her brother, urging people to volunteer for the search.
  
  Read more

• Paint a motion picture

  29-10-2016 15:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An artist who worked on the first fully oil painted feature film tells how she helped create 65,000 Van Gogh-style paintings in a warehouse in Poland.
  
  Read more

• Drone footage shows fire damage to 'oldest hotel'

  29-10-2016 15:02
  
  Drone footage has revealed the extent of the damage done to England's "oldest hotel".. The damage to the 300-year-old Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter has been described by a historian as a "heart-breaking loss for the city". The inn, which is now called the Abode Hotel and is part of the Andrew Brownsword group, was built within the precincts of Roman Exeter and survived the 1942 Blitz, according to University of Exeter historian Dr Todd Gray.
  
  Read more

• Marr reveals how close The Smiths came to re-forming

  29-10-2016 13:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There was a "real prospect" of the Smiths coming back together - but only for four days, according to Johnny Marr.
  
  Read more

• The M25 is 30 years old - marking the anniversary with another jam

  29-10-2016 10:56
  The M25 has reached its 30th birthday in a manner many of its regular users will surely find fitting: with long delays.
  
  Read more

• Festival lights up Blackpool town centre

  29-10-2016 10:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blackpool town centre has been transformed with more than 30 installations and sculptures, as the first Lightpool Festival gets under way in the resort.
  
  Read more

• Foreign visitors get better mobile phone coverage than local people, MPs warn

  29-10-2016 10:22
  
  The frustration of trying to send a text when you can’t
  
  Read more

• Pothole repair backlog in England and Wales will take 14 years

  29-10-2016 05:32
  It will take 14 years and £12bn to fix the millions of potholes on the roads of England and Wales, councils have warned. New figures published by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveal the time it will take to clear the backlog has increased three years from 10.9 years in 2006. The LGA, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, called on the Treasury to announce in next month's Autumn Statement that a further £1bn a year will go towards roads maintenance to
  
  Read more

• Britain falling behind mobile phone coverage targets

  29-10-2016 04:45
  Britain's mobile phone users are suffering an "unacceptable" level of signal coverage, despite billions of pounds spent trying to improve the network. A report by a group of backbench MPs reveals mobile coverage has not improved significantly since 2014 and there are at least 525 areas that suffer from poor network coverage or none at all. Some 17 million mobile phone owners have poor reception at home and a plan to deliver 90% coverage of the country by 2017 is now not expected to be
  
  Read more

• Pothole peril: England and Wales repair backlog to take 14 years

  29-10-2016 03:31
  It will take 14 years and £12bn to fix the millions of potholes on the roads of England and Wales, councils have warned. New figures published by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveal the time it will take to clear the backlog has increased three years from 10.9 years in 2006. The LGA, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, called on the Treasury to announce in next month's Autumn Statement that a further £1bn a year will go towards roads maintenance to
  
  Read more

• Bob Dylan 'speechless' over shock Nobel Prize in Literature win

  29-10-2016 00:28
  
  Bob Dylan has said he was left “speechless” after learning he had become the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 75-year-old was controversially handed the prestigious accolade earlier this month for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The Swedish Academy said Dylan acknowledged the prize […]
  
  Read more

• Teenager stabbed to death at London birthday party

  29-10-2016 00:09
  A teenager was stabbed to death at an 18th birthday party in northeast London - on the night he turned 19 himself. Ziggy Worrell-Owusu was attacked in front of scores of people at the Basement Shisha Lounge in Ilford in the early hours of Thursday. Scotland Yard said while Mr Worrell-Owusu, from Hackney, has not been formally identified, his next of kin have been informed.
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralnewsUK on Twitter!