BBC News:
| Snooker player Graeme Dott goes on trial over child abuse allegations | Tue 18th Aug 2026 17:28 BST |
The 2006 world champion is accused of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. | |
| Wetherspoons bans customers playing music from phones in pubs | Tue 18th Aug 2026 16:23 BST |
The pub chain says the decision follows complaints about "other people's videos and amplified phone conversations". | |
| Actress Phyllida Law, mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson, dies at 94 | Tue 18th Aug 2026 17:10 BST |
Law appeared in films alongside both of her daughters, Dame Emma and Sophie, including 1996's Emma. | |
| Serco employee charged over sharing asylum seeker addresses | Tue 18th Aug 2026 12:10 BST |
The 62-year-old man is charged with misconduct in public office and appears before magistrates. | |
| Ferguson shipyard to cut a quarter of its workforce | Tue 18th Aug 2026 13:56 BST |
The state-owned yard on the Clyde will lose 70 of its 283 staff through a voluntary redundancy process. | |
| One dead and hundreds ill in UK salmonella outbreak | Tue 18th Aug 2026 16:52 BST |
Most of the cases were in England in recent weeks, linked to eating imported eggs, experts believe. | |


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