Skip to content
Watch Live
British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
  • Documentaries
Watch Live

29 May 2018

  • 2018
  • May
  • 29 May
News imageAneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, meeting a patient at Papworth Village Hospital, following the establishment of the new NHS

'I was a nurse at the start of the NHS'

Olive Belfield was a young nurse when Britain launched the National Health Service in 1948.

News imageFile photo a pregnant woman, 1 April 2014

Should women be paid to carry other people's children?

Paying a surrogate in Canada is currently illegal and comes with harsh penalties and steep fines.

News imageEddie Gilfoyle

'Harder' to appeal wrongful convictions

The body that represents people who may have been wrongly convicted is accused of failing applicants.

News imageSteffan Lewis

'I'm so grateful I managed to survive'

An AM who has stage four bowel cancer thanks doctors who treated him when he came close to death in February.

News imageSteffan Lewis

Doctors gave Plaid AM 'second chance'

Steffan Lewis, who has stage four bowel cancer, said he came close to death in February.

News imageAn obese child

What does it mean if a child is 'severely obese'?

Children are becoming more overweight as they go through primary school, latest figures show.

News imageMarket trader, Berwick Street Market, Soho, London, 1957

A suitcase full of photographic wonder

A treasure trove of quirky street photographs by John Turner capture London's past.

News imageChild playing

'All my wages were spent on childcare'

Parents share their views on the Welsh Government's free childcare scheme.

News imageCash

Complaints about loans see sharp rise

Lenders' treatment of customers with high-cost loans is questioned by the Financial Ombudsman.

...

British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
  • Documentaries
  • Weather
  • BBC Shop
  • BritBox

The BBC is in multiple languages

Read the BBC In your own language

BBC News Brasil
BBC News Mundo (Spanish)
BBC News မြန်မာ (Burmese)
BBC News 中文 (Chinese)
BBC News Indonesia
BBC News 코리아 (Korean)
BBC News ไทย (Thai)
BBC News Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
BBC News Azərbaycanca (Azeri)
BBC News Кыргыз Кызматы (Kyrgyz)
BBC News Polska (Polish)
BBC News Русская служба (Russian)
BBC News na srpskom (Serbian)
BBC News Україна (Ukrainian)
BBC News O'zbek (Uzbek)
BBC News عربي (Arabic)
BBC News فارسی (Persian)
BBC News Türkçe (Turkish)
BBC News বাংলা (Bengali)
BBC News دری (Dari)
BBC News ગુજરાતી (Gujarati)
BBC News हिन्दी (Hindi)
BBC News मराठी (Marathi)
BBC News नेपाली (Nepali)
BBC News සිංහල (Sinhala)
BBC News پښتو (Pashto)
BBC News ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi)
BBC News Afaan Oromoo
BBC News አማርኛ (Amharic)
BBC News Afrique (French)
BBC News Hausa
Gaelic NAIDHEACHDAN
BBC News Ìgbò
Japanese 日本語
BBC News Gahuza
Kirundi KIRUNDI
BBC News Pidgin
BBC News Somali
BBC News Swahili
BBC News தமிழ் (Tamil)
BBC News తెలుగు (Telugu)
BBC News ትግርኛ (Tigrinya)
BBC News اردو (Urdu)
BBC News Yorùbá
Follow BBC on:
  • Terms of Use
  • Subscription Terms
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Contact the BBC
  • Advertise with us
  • Do not share or sell my info
  • BBC.com Help & FAQs
  • Content Index
  • Set Preferred Source

Copyright 2026 BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

You might also like:

news | sport | weather | worklife | travel | future | culture | world | business | technology