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Former Radio Leeds host Alex Belfield was jailed in 2022 for stalking four people including Jeremy VineThe BBC has issued a “full and unreserved apology” to four female former employees after admitting it did not do enough to protect them from a local radio presenter who was later jailed for stalking Jeremy Vine.Alex Belfield, a former host on BBC Radio Leeds, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in 2022 after being found guilty of waging a stalking campaign against four people, including Vine. The corporation has now said that it is “deeply sorry” to four women

McLaurine Pinover made posts at work as personnel management office enforced Trump and Musk’s layoffsThe chief spokesperson for the agency overseeing mass firings as Donald Trump and Elon Musk slash the federal workforce used her office to record fashion influencer videos even as thousands of workers were losing their jobs.McLaurine Pinover, communications director at the US office of personnel management (OPM), posted several Instagram videos during business hours in which she posed in different outfits, CNN reported. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/doge-mclaurine-pinover-fashion-videos Author : Martin Pengelly in Washington Publish date : 2025-03-12 18:12:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Ukraine president says Kyiv will not ‘recognise any territory occupied by Russians’Ukraine agrees to 30-day ceasefireFrench European Affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad, said the European Union could go further in its response to US tariffs, though a trade war was in no-one’s interest, Reuters reported.“We have the means to go further, if we want,” Haddad told TF1 TV. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/12/ukraine-war-live-updates-russia-ceasefire-putin-trump-zelenskyy-update Author : Jakub Krupa (now) and Helen Sullivan (earlier) Publish date : 2025-03-12 16:55:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Canadian foreign minister condemns ‘unjustified’ trade war and condemns ‘Trump’s talks of annexing our country through economic coercion’ Congressional brinkmanship, including repeated near-misses with shutdowns and over the nation’s $36 trillion in debt, has contributed to global ratings agencies’ moves to downgrade the US federal government’s once-pristine credit rating, reports Reuters.Democrats have long chided Republicans for threatening or voting for government shutdowns, and Republicans were quick to call them out for considering votes that could risk one. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/12/donald-trump-us-politics-tariffs-mahmoud-khalil-education-latest-news-live-updates Author : Chris Stein (now) and Amy Sedghi (earlier) Publish date : 2025-03-12 15:28:00 Copyright for syndicated