Tea leaves from Sri Lanka’s hills dating back two centuries could help shield the crop from climate change. Thamali Kariyawasam has travelled to the University of Bristol to study how tea crops can be protected as weather becomes more extreme. Saplings take about two years to move from nursery to field and can live for up to a hundred years, but they are fragile and longer droughts and heatwaves can […]

Families of those killed in the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash have published 110 questions about the tragedy. They plan to hand a petition to Downing Street. The Chinook Justice Campaign's petition has more than 47,000 signatures calling for a public inquiry. The crash on the Mull of Kintyre on 2 June 1994 killed 25 intelligence personnel and four Special Forces crew as the helicopter travelled from RAF Aldergro ve in […]

TV presenter Vernon Kay, Sir Stephen Fry, and Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were among the recipients at the 2025 Variety Club Showbusiness Awards held at the Londoner Hotel in London. Kay received the Silver Heart award for outstanding contribution to radio, while McPartlin and Donnelly were recognised with the Silver Heart for outstanding contribution to television; Fry was honoured for outstanding contribution to film and theatre.

Chris Robshaw has been eliminated from this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, making him the third celebrity to leave the BBC show. The 39-year-old former England rugby captain and his partner Nadiya Bychkova were defeated in the dance-off by Balvinder Sopal and her partner Julian Caillon during Sunday’s results show. Robshaw said he had loved the experience and that his partner had helped him gain confidence. "I've loved it, I've had […]