Today, we look at the biggest set of elections in the UK since the 2024 General Election.

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Laura and Paddy run through what the polls tell us, how insiders are feeling, and the challenges each of the parties face in different parts of Britain.

Political correspondent Joe Pike joins to help, as well as reveal the insights you can gather from looking inside a communal bin.

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There are nearly 100 documented cases so far of children fathered by British soldiers near an army base in Kenya since the 1950s who have grown up without knowing their dads, sometimes facing poverty or being ostracised by their community.

Now, some are finally finding answers with the help of a UK lawyer bringing evidence from commercial DNA databases into family court proceedings for the first time. BBC World of Secrets and Africa Eye follow Yvonne, who grew up thinking her father was dead.

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BBC correspondent David Wallace Lockhart travels to Greenock, the town centre with the highest density of shops registered to sell vapes per head of population in Scotland.

New figures from the University of Edinburgh, shared exclusively with BBC News, highlight the growth of outlets selling vapes in Scotland.

With no licensing regime, a retailer simply has to register on a Scottish government online portal and then they can stock these products.

In 2020, there were 5,573 shops selling vapes in Scotland. By 2024, that was up to 7,069 – an increase of 28%.

This growth of 1,500 outlets has not been even across the country. It’s concentrated in the most deprived communities.

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Ukraine is considered a global hub for surrogate pregnancy. Four years after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, people from all over the world still pay thousands of dollars for Ukrainian women to have babies for them.

But Ukraine’s parliament is now considering a bill that would introduce stricter oversight of the surrogacy industry and effectively ban access to foreigners, who make up 95% of the intended parents.

The BBC’s global health reporter Sofia Bettiza has been speaking to surrogate mothers, and the families who hire them, about the ethical questions surrounding surrogacy, how the industry currently works, and the impact the proposed law could have.

She also tells us what happens when children born to a surrogate are left behind by their intended parents.

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00:00 Intro
01:43 Why Ukraine wants to restrict surrogacy
02:40 One surrogate mother’s story
04:20 How much do surrogates make?
07:08 Waiting for a baby in a war zone
08:15 Children left behind
10:28 What would a crackdown mean for surrogates?

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned world leaders not to attend Russia’s Victory Day parade in Moscow, which …

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