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| |  | Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill 1 March 2024 | | | Good morning. George Galloway is back in Parliament with a resounding win in the Rochdale by-election after a campaign in which the Gaza war was a running theme. Elsewhere, we report that police across England and Wales are failing to log the ethnicity of huge numbers of missing people, and we track down the suicide poison killer linked to at least 130 UK deaths. We'll also explain why more singles are ending things after one bad date, get a preview of the UK's 2024 Eurovision entry, and meet an 85-year-old Scottish rock star. | | | |
 Image: Reuters George Galloway wins Rochdale by-election by nearly 6000 votes George Galloway has won a resounding victory in the Rochdale by-election, picking up 12,335 votes, almost 40% of the total. The Workers Party of Britain candidate, whose campaign focused heavily on Gaza, said the result should send a message to Labour over the conflict. On a bad night for the big parties, second place was comfortably won by David Tully - a local businessman running as an independent who began his political career four weeks ago. The Conservatives finished a distant third, while Labour's vote collapsed entirely and the candidate they suspended and disowned mid-campaign came fourth. Labour apologised to the people of Rochdale for not fielding a candidate, and claimed Galloway "only won because Labour did not stand". | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| The UK'S WETTEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD? Met Office stats are expected to show some parts of the UK have had their wettest February on record. it’s been a mild winter with fewer frosty nights than the average. Why is this important? Our BBC weather forecaster Ben Rich explains. | | | |
| | Police failing to log many missing people's ethnicity BBC analysis shows police forces across England and Wales are failing to record the ethnicity of many people reported missing. In almost a fifth (47,000) of all missing persons incidents in 2022-23, there was either no ethnic group recorded or the individual's ethnicity was marked "unknown" - and five forces failed to record an ethnicity in more than half their missing persons incidents. A charity has responded to the data by explaining that people's ethnicity needs to be recorded accurately to help police identify if someone from a particular community is more likely to go missing. The Home Office has said it is funding a report into the issue. | | | | | |
| Suicide poison seller tracked down by BBC A Ukrainian man selling a poison thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths has been identified by the BBC. Leonid Zakutenko advertised his services on a website promoting suicide, and he told an undercover reporter he sends five parcels a week to the UK, supplying the same substance as Canadian Kenneth Law, who was arrested last year and is now facing 14 murder charges. Mr Zakutenko denied the claims when challenged. Read more. | | | |
Essential read | | | | | Experts reveal how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting the world of dating. | | | | | | | |
|  Image: Getty images Will Olly Alexander's 'Dizzy' send Eurovision 2024 into a spin? Olly Alexander, the former frontman of chart-topping pop group Years & Years, and a Bafta-nominated actor, has been obsessed with Eurovision his whole life. So imagine his delight when he was chosen to perform the UK's entry at this year's contest. His song, a pulsing electro anthem called Dizzy, dropped on streaming services at midnight, ahead of its radio premiere on Zoe Ball's Breakfast show this morning. After last year's UK entry came 25th out of 26, how is he handling the pressure in the build up to the showdown in May? | | | | | |
|  | | BBC Sounds Steve Bland returns to host this legacy episode discussing cancer and single parents. | | | | |  | | BBC iPlaYER Claire Bloom introduces the BBC’s 1961 adaptation of Anna Karenina. | | | | | | | |
| Gaza convoy 'chaos' and rogue police 'hiding in plain sight' The Guardian reports claims from Gaza health officials that 100 Palestinians died after Israeli troops opened fire on crowds who gathered around aid trucks, alongside a statement from the Israeli military which rejects these claims. The FT also highlights the two conflicting accounts, but leads on Putin’s state of the nation speech, where he said western support for Ukraine could risk a global war. Meanwhile, the Mail leads on immigration, saying a “sacked watchdog” found “shocking migration system failings” in Britain. The Times and Mirror both lead on the inquiry into Wayne Couzens, the police officer jailed for the murder of Sarah Everard. See all today's front pages. | | | |
| | A Scottish grandfather has become an unlikely 'rock star' after completing a 30-year project to create a map of Scotland from pebbles he collected from across the nation. Harry Young, from East Renfrewshire, was delighted when his family framed the artwork and presented it to him for his 85th birthday earlier this month. The story was shared on social media by his grandson, and has so far been viewed more than four million times.
And speaking of 'rock hard', don't forget to try your hand at our Quiz of the Week. | | | |
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