Новости за 22.08.2016

A competition is launched to find a new voice for the speaking clock to celebrate 80 years of the telephone service.

Long jump star Greg Rutherford, actress Lesley Joseph and EastEnders actress Tameka Empson complete this year's Strictly Come Dancing line-up.

A "bully" grabs a schoolboy by the throat and calls his girlfriend a "whore" after spotting them cuddling in east London, a court hears.

The family of a man killed by a dog says he was a passionate Huddersfield Town FC fan who spent his spare time volunteering.

Some 40 lizards are spotted sunbathing at a Northern Ireland nature reserve after an exceptional summer for the tiny reptiles

A prominent dissident republican, facing trial over charges of encouraging terrorism, has his bail conditions changed so he can go on holiday.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine dismisses reports Theresa May could "kill off" George Osborne's elected mayor project.

A mysterious black door has appeared on Sonning bridge, puzzling nearby residents.

A penguin at Edinburgh Zoo inspects the King of Norway's Guard for whom is mascot.

How a tiny team is prepping the beloved 'ding-ding' trams for their next century

A college lecturer admits killing his wife in "a stabbing frenzy" after wrongly believing he was not the father of their two children.

BBC News looks at the Labour leadership contest in numbers.

A Briton working for a US contractor in Iraq is reported to have died as he tried to defuse a bomb planted by the so-called Islamic State group.

A young woman holidaying in Cornwall is rescued by the same lifeboat crew three times in four days, after being cut off by the tide.

Panorama's Richard Bilton meets the people stepping in to keep services running in his local town of Selby after deep cuts in spending.

Drones carrying larges amounts of drugs and mobile phones are intercepted by police as they were being flown near a north London jail.

Six people died around the UK and Channel Islands coastline in a series of incidents at the weekend - so can people stay safe at the coast?

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning pleads guilty to 21 child sex offences between 1969 and 1986, following a police inquiry into a popular teenage disco which ran for four decades in Surrey.

Brexit complicates Swiss efforts to reach a deal with the EU on immigration, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes writes.

A mother is keen to raise awareness of toxic shock syndrome after her son's case was misdiagnosed as tonsillitis.

Team GB is second in the Rio Olympics medals table - watch some of the highlights.

Spider silk is used to create a superlens for a microscope, allowing Bangor University scientists to view objects previously deemed "invisible".

A steam train aficionado has bought a former GWR locomotive to restore in his Weston-super-Mare bus depot.

A three-year-old boy suffers a head injury when a plasterboard wall falls on him in a carpet shop.

How the most powerful object of all time was invented