Alex Binley
@alexbinley.bsky.social
Senior Digital Journalist BBC News Ex-ITV News
My very talented friend wrote this. If you love golf, you should really read this. Even if you don't love golf, you should still read this www.telegraph.co.uk/golf/2025/06...
Women are still only tolerated at golf clubs... and it is exhausting
It is as if the clock stopped around 1975 in terms of fair access and treatment for female members who are still made to feel like outsiders
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Strong winds are continuing to cause some travel disruption in parts of the UK as millions of people travel ahead of Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yellow weather warnings for wind amid Christmas getaway
Roads, ferries, rail and air travel face disruption on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
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Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham and former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas have quit as president and vice-president of the RSPCA after a campaign group alleged animal cruelty at some of the charity's approved list of abattoirs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RSPCA: Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas quit charity roles over animal cruelty claims
The TV presenter and ex-Green MP quit after an investigation into some of the charity's approved abattoirs.
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Weather warnings for strong winds have come into force in parts of the UK as millions of people take to the roads ahead of Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yellow weather warnings for wind kick in amid Christmas getaway
Disruption is expected on the roads, with Met Office yellow warnings announced for parts of the UK.
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A man is being questioned about the fatal shooting of a healthcare insurance boss in New York last week, officials tell the BBC's partner CBS News www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Live updates: Police question man in hunt for UnitedHealthCare CEO killer, CBS reports
NYPD says the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan was
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Also on Monday, the IDF released photos of its personnel who crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the buffer zone where UN peacekeepers are based www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel carries out air strikes on suspected Syrian chemical weapons sites
The IDF also released photos of its personnel who crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the buffer zone where UN peacekeepers are based.
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Some 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia's invasion began, Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a rare admission of the extent of the nation's casualties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ukraine war latest: 43,000 dead, Volodymyr Zelensky says in rare update
The Ukrainian president also claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and 550,000 wounded.
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