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Drone footage shows firefighters battling blaze

The massive fire destroyed several buildings in the town centre of Abergavenny.




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Watch children's messages shame hospital smokers

Buzzers have been installed at hospitals which will prompt a loudspeaker message for anyone smoking.




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Rugby mental health in right direction - player

Shane Lewis-Hughes discusses the benefits of talking openly for rugby players.




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'I'm called exotic for being black in a rural town'

Nyarai moved to Carmarthenshire when she was 13 and felt "very different" in a white, rural area.




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Don't drop litter, urges award-winning 90-year-old

Michael Barnfather, 90, has collected litter around his home village for 10 years.




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Black veteran wrongly called thief and banned from every Morrisons

Jez Daniels was buying wine and chocolates when store staff approached him.




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Record-breaking runner stars in New York Marathon

Lloyd Martin, who has Down's syndrome, runs the New York Marathon after a record-breaking London run.




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Stargazing photographer shares sense of wonder

Photographer Cormac Downes captures the night sky above Wales in a series of striking images.




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Huw Edwards to keep Bafta Awards despite rule change

Bafta changes its rules for people who are convicted of a crime, but they won't apply to past winners.




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Olympic champion Dodds still has 'taste for winning'

Olympic curling gold medallist Jen Dodds says she has still "got a taste for winning" as she aims to become a European Champion for the second time.




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'I was more excited to fight before Spiderman than Trump'

Paul Craig says he was more excited by "fighting in front of Spiderman" than he would be Donald Trump as the Scot prepares to meet Bo Nickal at Madison Square Garden.




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The Scot in charge of an Australian lighthouse

Sandy Duthie from Aberdeenshire is now the lighthouse keeper on Gabo Island, in Victoria




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How Scotland's first fire brigade inspired the world

Modern fire brigades around the world were created after Edinburgh led the way 200 years ago.




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Watch: Police target fishing boat over 'modern slavery' claim

A 38-year-old man was arrested and two Ghanaian men were removed from the vessel as part of the operation.




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Humpback whale tangled in creel lines set free

Experts used underwater cameras to work out how the whale was trapped, before untangling it in Loch Fyne.




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Watch: Armistice Day tributes take place across Scotland

The traditional 11 November two-minute period of remembrance took place at 11:00 across the country.




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Europe's largest inland surf resort opens in disused quarry

Lost Shore has a wave pool three times the size of Wembley football pitch - but how does it work?




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Edinburgh University students tell of discrimination on campus

Edinburgh University students have been talking about the kind of discrimination they have come across on campus.




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Seven Scots to receive posthumous Elizabeth Emblem

The firefighters, police officers and a nurse are being honoured with a new award for those who died in the line of duty.




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Paddy McGuinness: Chris Hoy training pushed me to 'absolute limits'

Paddy McGuinness is taking on a nearly 300-mile cycling challenge for BBC Children in Need.




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The 88-year-old lorry driver building a rural care home

Alongside a team of volunteers, Rosemary Stevenson has raised £1.5m to fund care for older people in Ballantrae.




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Fiddle linked to Robert Burns to be used at gigs

The instrument is usually on display in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway.




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Scotland's papers: Welby quits and Higher exam 'controversy'

A review of the front page stories from the daily newspapers in Scotland.




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Man jailed for attempted murder of baby boy

A Dundee man who shook a baby so hard he was left with life-changing injuries has been jailed for 12 years.




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The Sikh volunteers feeding thousands in lockdown

One of the UK's largest Sikh temples has reinvented itself as an emergency food operation.




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How one neighbourhood is waking up from 'lockdown coma'

From an excited pub manager's overloaded booking site, to a downbeat barber on universal credit in Brixton.




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Milkman goes extra mile for isolating customers

During lockdown Tony Fowler has offered help to isolated older customers who have been advised to stay indoors.




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The students who put themselves on the front line

How four healthcare students joined 40,000 others in volunteering to join the NHS's fight against the pandemic.




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What was Capt Tom's £33m spent on?

One nurse said welfare packs at work made her job "a little bit easier in a difficult time".




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'I've been very, very upset and sobbing every day'

Piers, who has learning difficulties and sensory issues, says he has missed being in the classroom




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Community garden helps residents through lockdown

St Pauls residents say the garden helps them to "slow down" during the pandemic.




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Locked down with Mum and Dad

Many young people returned to live with their parents during the pandemic. How's it going, a year on?




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'A crazy year to bring a baby into the world'

Four mums share their experiences of having a baby amid coronavirus lockdown restrictions.




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Holding on to hope during India’s Covid disaster

The BBC's Nikita Mandhani reflects on her personal experience of the second wave in India.




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Mother-of-five dies with Covid, aged 40

Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.




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'While in hospital I lost my daughter-in-law'

Betty Tovey, 94, was at a field hospital in Llanelli when her relative died with coronavirus.




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'Something really precious has been taken away from me'

As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.




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‘I cursed the sterile white room where Ann died’

Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.




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Losing Mum and Dad to Covid

BBC reporter Cathy Killick shares her experience after both of her parents died within weeks.




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After Covid: 'I've blood clots and a braced leg, but I'm home'

For three months, Bill Wilson lived a nightmare, trapped behind a plastic facemask fighting Covid.




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Grieving in isolation: A Covid widow's story

Jean Sewell's husband died a few days before England's first lockdown leaving her to grieve alone.




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'The heart of our family': The lives lost to Covid

We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.




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Vaccine refuser paid ultimate price, says partner

Leslie Lawrenson died and his partner became seriously ill with Covid after they refused vaccines.




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'I'm double-vaccinated but can't show the proof'

A woman who got one jab in England and one in Scotland says her vaccine certificate only confirms a single dose.




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Girl dies with Covid on day she was due vaccine

Jorja Halliday, from Portsmouth, was due to have her coronavirus vaccination on the day she died.




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Feeling 'so destroyed' by Covid-19

A woman with long Covid says she feels angry and frustrated at the lack of help in Northern Ireland.