[ad_1] A former prisoner has claimed she only survived her time in jail thanks to a theatre company.Cheryl Byron was serving a two-year prison sentence for drugs offences at HMP Low Newton, near Durham, when she was introduced to Open Clasp in 2013.Before she began working with the group she had been so scared she had locked herself in her cell and would not speak to anybody, she said."This company
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[ad_1] UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has visited the crew of HMS Vanguard after the submarine returned to UK waters after months of undersea service. The nuclear-armed submarine had been patrolling for more than 200 days, marking one of the longest deployments in British Royal Navy history. Sir Keir, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary John Healey, was the first prime minister to visit the boat's "Day Zero" off
[ad_1] Owen PinnellBBC Eye InvestigationsBBCAn iridescent film could be seen on the water surface in some places the BBC visitedColombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found.Data leaked by a former employee reveals more than 800 records of these sites from 1989 to 2018, and indicates the company had failed to report about a fifth
[ad_1] Theo LeggettInternational Business CorrespondentBBC"This has been our family car for three years, and it has been an absolute dream," says Ben Kilbey as he shows me his gleaming pearl-white Tesla Model Y.Ben is a staunch electric car advocate. He runs a communications firm that promotes sustainable businesses in the UK. Yet now, he says, the Model Y has to go – because he disapproves vehemently of Tesla CEO Elon
[ad_1] A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation, ordering it to pay more than $660m (£507m) in damages to an oil company for the environmental group's role in one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history.Texas-based Energy Transfer also accused Greenpeace of trespass, nuisance and civil conspiracy over the demonstrations nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline.The lawsuit, filed in state court, argued
[ad_1] Getty ImagesAhead of PM Modi's meeting with Trump in February, India cut tariffs on some US productsIndia has usually turned to economic reforms in times of distress, with the most famous example being 1991, when the country embraced liberalisation in the face of a deep financial crisis.Now, with US President Donald Trump's tit-for-tat tariff wars and the global trade upheaval that has followed, many believe that India finds itself
[ad_1] ESAThe force that is pushing galaxies away from each other is not behaving the way it shouldThe mysterious force called Dark Energy, which drives the expansion of the Universe, might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space, scientists have found.Some of them believe that they may be on the verge of one of the biggest discoveries in astronomy for a generation -
[ad_1] Getty ImagesNASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore trained for years to prepare their bodies for spaceSpending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of.However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover.Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back
[ad_1] At Prime Minister's Questions Sir Keir Starmer declared that welfare reform was a "moral issue", while the veteran left-wing MP Diane Abbott argued there was "nothing moral about cutting the benefits of millions of people".Their divisions were very publicly evident.But most MPs who had concerns expressed them behind closed doors.Around 100 MPs attended a briefing by Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall and minister Sir Stephen Timms.The BBC has
