housed on former military bases instead of hotels in new plans due to be announced later. germany prepares for the first state visit by king charles since becoming monarch. israel s prime minister reacts angrily to comments by the us president who urged him to walk away from his controversial judicial reform plans. amsterdam warns rowdy british sex and drug tourists to stay away in a digital discouragement campaign targeting men aged 18 to 35. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with the news that the celebrated british tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement his partner andre portasio said he died unexpectedly but peacefully on tuesday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . paul o grady first came to fame as a drag artist before becoming he first came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act, honed in a succession of pubs, had to be toned down for tv but it was as acerbi
Meanwhile, the Labour Leader keir starmer has been out meeting voters in the West Midlands where he told voters that stabilising the economy would be a number one priority. Heres our Political Correspondent helen catt. The Labour Leader arriving at a Football Club in the West Midlands, here to put the boot into the tories economic record and to explain what a Labour Government would do. Stability is change. Its strange to say that in 2024 but a stable economy has to be the first step of an incoming Labour Government, and that is what we will make an absolute priority if we are privileged enough to come in to serve. It comes as a leading think tank, the ifs, urged both labour and the tories to be open about the tough choices they will face over the countrys finances if elected. For rishi sunak it was a low key visit, a cuppa with veterans in the north of england. He answered some gentle concerns about his drenching in downing street. It was wet. The amount of people whove given me an um
Just as his mps began taking their seats behind him, one of them the conservative Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor to sit directly behind the Labour Leader. Timed for maximum political effect, and less than two weeks after the defection of dan poulter, how the Labour Leader enjoyed it. If one week, a tory mp whos also a doctor says the Prime Minister cant be trusted with the nhs and joins labour and the next week, the tory mp for dover, on the front line of the small boats crisis, says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins labour what is the point of this failed government staggering on . In her statement, the dover mp said the conservatives under rishi sunak had become a by word for incompetence and division. In 2019, the conservatives took on a manifesto that was very much Centre Ground. But under rishi sunak, theyave abandoned the Centre Ground and broken many election promises. Meanwhile, under keir starmer, labour have changed, and i think that change i
are doing ourjobs. online abuse is nothing new. there was a panorama investigation and i investigated how the changes at twitter have affected the changes at twitter have affected the trials and according to that investigation people still at the company, people who have left and uses, they said it is getting worse and the abuse we experience is not just simple criticism, someone saying i don t agree with you, this can be really nasty, misogynistic hater slurs, threatening language, racist abuse and other forms of nasty hate. and what we discuss in the newscast episode is the way we individually deal with those trolls. for me, i cover online abuse and so looking at the backlash in response to that panorama investigation and what it tells me about twitter trolls, that is part of myjob but for reporters who cover other areas, politics or business, it is different. but that doesn t change the fact that women in particular
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After multiple trips back to the drawing board, Kansas City’s first small shelter community for the unhoused was introduced on April 28.
Merging KC, led by Houston DeFoe, is heading up the project that brings together resources from across the city, including local government, to provide meaningful transitional housing to Kansas City’s homeless population.
No official location has been announced for the community, known as Verge. The community will initially have 60 64-square-foot shelters and five 100-square-foot shelters, bathroom and shower facilities, a community space, and office for the case workers, volunteers and medical staff. They can be assembled anywhere there’s flat ground.