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| | | | | Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill | | 31 May 2024 | | | | Good morning. Today we are reporting on the fallout from Donald Trump’s historic trial, which saw the former US President convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. He is vowing that he will nonetheless return to the White House. Elsewhere, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is in Scotland to launch his energy plans, including a pledge to start work on green energy projects within months. We'll also meet some of the NHS cancer patients trialling pioneering personalised vaccines, and delve into the story of a social media post shared by more than 47m people. | | | | | | |
 | | Image: EPA | Trump guilty on all counts in historic criminal trial | | | Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic criminal trial in New York. It is the first time a former or serving US president has been convicted of a crime. The court heard from 22 witnesses over six weeks, including Stormy Daniels, whose alleged sexual encounter with Trump was at the centre of this case. Trump stood accused of concealing a payment made by his former lawyer to buy the ex-adult film star’s silence shortly before the 2016 election. The 12 jurors deliberated for two days before reaching a unanimous verdict. When he is sentenced on 11 July, the ex-president could face prison, but legal experts say a fine is the more likely outcome. Trump himself has called the verdict a "disgrace" and attacked Judge Merchan, who presided over the case. The verdict comes as he campaigns to defeat Joe Biden in November's election and return to the White House. | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Off-peak Friday fares trial on London transport ends | | A scheme piloting off-peak fares all day on Fridays on the Transport for London (TfL) network is ending. City Hall introduced the three-month trial in March with the aim of attracting workers into the office and to boost the hospitality and cultural sectors. Today marks the final day of the trial , and data will be used to inform future decisions on fares, TfL said. | | | |
Starmer vows green energy push, but SNP says plans will destroy jobs | | | Sir Keir is in Scotland to launch Labour's energy plans – including a promise to start work on creating green energy projects within months, if elected. He wants to make Scotland the headquarters of Great British Energy, a new publicly-owned company, but the SNP and Conservatives say Labour's pledge will cost tens of thousands of jobs, while the Greens say it doesn't go far enough. | | | | | | | Thousands of cancer patients to trial personalised vaccines | | | Thousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease. Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad, designed to match patients with forthcoming trials using mRNA technology, as found in current Covid jabs. We spoke to Elliot Pfebve, 55, the first patient in England to be treated with a personalised vaccine against bowel cancer. | | | | |
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| | | | | The James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record, detecting a remarkable sight. | | | | | | |
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| |  | | Image: EPA | The post that's been shared by more than 47m people | | | An AI-generated image depicting tent camps for displaced Palestinians and a slogan that reads All Eyes on Rafah is sweeping social media. The post has been shared more than 47 million times by Instagram users including celebrities like Dua Lipa, Lewis Hamilton and Gigi and Bella Hadid. First posted by a young man in Malaysia, we look at how the image came about, how it went viral, and the counter-campaign it inspired. | | | | | | |
 | | BBC SOUNDS | | | | How police caught a group who claimed £50 million in fraudulent claims for Universal Credit. | | | |  | | BBC iPLAYER | | | | Reluctant globetrotter Romesh Ranganathan travels to some unlikely holiday destinations. | | | | | | |
| |  | 'Trump found guilty' and 'splits in Labour ranks' | | | The guilty verdict in Donald Trump's hush money trial is featured prominently in several of today's front pages. The former US president has been convicted of fraud by a jury that found him guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business records, the Times reports - while the Mirror describes the verdict as "historic". Meanwhile, the Daily Express reports Sir Keir Starmer was yesterday challenged by Angela Rayner to allow veteran MP Diane Abbott to stand at the general election, exposing divisions among the party's senior ranks. Elsewhere, the Daily Mail leads with the news that thousands of NHS patients will get personalised cancer vaccines over the next year, in a "landmark" breakthrough. See all today's front pages. | | | | |
| | | A train company has asked the public to help choose a name for a stray cat who "has become part of the team". The feline, referred to as "The Cat", wandered into Northern's Barrow-in-Furness office two years ago and has stayed with them ever since. Check out the team's shortlist of names here. And if, like her, you also find yourself with time to kill at a train station this weekend, why not try our Quiz of the Week. | | | | Thanks to those who have given us feedback on News Daily. We appreciate it and will continue to develop the newsletter further. You can still let us know what you think by emailing bbcnewsdaily@bbc.co.uk. To recommend News Daily to a friend, please forward this email. New subscribers can sign up here. | | | | | | | | | | To stop receiving ‘BBC News’ newsletters click here to unsubscribe. Or you can update your email preferences in your BBC account settings.
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