we re expecting to hear from the prime minister shortly outside number ten. labour performed poorly, losing 59 seats, many of them in places they ve held for decades. jeremy corbyn says he ll stand down as leader early next year. i think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing, and i won t do that. i will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. a strong result for the snp, who now hold 48 seats out of 59 in scotland. leader nicola sturgeon says it sends a clear message for a second independence referendum. liberal democrat leaderjo swinson quits, after she loses her own seat to the snp and the party fails to improve its position at westminster. iam i am proud to have been the first woman to lead the liberal democrats. iam even woman to lead the liberal democrats. i am even more proud that i will not be the last. we will go original this hour, looking at the west midlands, where the tor
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the bbc can, for the first time, name a major new suspect in the murder of stephen lawrence after a special investigation into the uk s most notorious racist killing 30 years on. these five prime suspects became widely known after the murder, but the met police always maintained there were six attackers. today, the bbc can name matthew white as the sixth suspect. he died in 2021, aged 50. we ll have more on white in a moment, but first, let s look at the main events of the last three decades. it was in april 1993 that stephen lawrence was stabbed to death by a gang of young white men in eltham, south east london, while waiting for a bus. he was 18. after police investigations failed to produce results, the family brought a private prosecution in 1996, but no one was convicted. three years later, the macpherson report, which resulted from a public inquiry ordered by the government, found that the met police was institutionally
there to create my own chances and i think i did that. but can andy murrayjoin her? the british number one is first up on centre court tomorrow where he ll face big serving american sam querrey. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at 8pm. an appalling tragedy that should never have happened, that s what the prime minister called the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and 80s. the government today announced an inquiry into the worst treatment scandal in the history of the nhs. 2,400 died. 7,500 patients infected. and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses, hepatitis c and hiv among the viruses after being given blood products by the nhs. our health editor huw pym reports. it s been called the worst disaster in the history of the nhs. patients trusted the service to deliver safe treatments, including haemophiliacs needing blood clotting treatments, but they were given products tainted with life threatening viruses. these are medications for hiv. i take one of those
A couple’s attempt to rent a room in their family home – on the condition the prospective tenant babysits their children – has sparked a debate about Britain’s rental market.
More and more young people are allegedly feeling apathetic towards work or ghosting their employers entirely, leading to questions about the state of work culture today. But Adam White isn’t sure it’s exclusive to the young, or whether occasional indifference to your job is necessarily a bad thing