BBC News
Get the latest, breaking news from our trusted global network of journalists.
See the top stories from the UK and around the world, and personalise your experience by choosing to see the latest news on topics such as technology, sport, entertainment, health and business.
You can also watch the BBC News channel for up-to-the-minute live reports, and see video clips on most of the top stories.
Key features
- All the latest news as it happens
- In-story video over 3G and wi-fi
- Download the latest stories when you have a signal and then read them offline at your leisure
- Share stories to a range of social networks, or email/SMS to a friend
- Personalise the homescreen by adding, removing and re-ordering news categories to suit your preferences
- Live streaming of the BBC News channel for Android 4.0+ devices
- Homescreen widgets
- Settings to allow the app to automatically update in the background
- Font controls to increase or decrease the story text size to suit you
- Ability to send stories, video, and photos directly to the BBC News team
- Full range of News categories: Top stories, World, UK, Sport, Technology, Entertainment & Arts, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Business, Politics, Health, Education, Science & Environment, Features & analysis, Also in the news
- Ability to store the app on the SD card. Widgets will not be available if you choose to use this function. This is a feature of the Android system.
Permissions
- full network access
- modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
- view network connections
- test access to protected storage
- prevent device from sleeping
Comments
- ...beautifully made. Tablet mode for 7" devices would be great as others have asked but having it in profile is fine and it is a very clean interface. First app I open in the morning with my pre-work coffee and last thing I check at night. Thank you for your hard work! May I please ask for an update that allows you to click on images to expand them to fullscreen, as sometimes they can appear tiny on a phone screen?
- Since the improvement I have found that the news reel reverts to the beginning after reading an item and then returning to the needs reel, this also occurs when the phone enters sleep mode during the news item. Both these occurrences I find highly annoying. Please put it back to how it was and then I will give you 5 stars. Samsung Galaxy S3. All Sorted.
- If I've scrolled across a news theme (eg Entertainment), read one article and then gone back to the main page, it resets where I was so I have to scroll across again. Not the worst thing in the world but very annoying nonetheless. Update 10/1/13: Since latest update, the above issue is now resolved. Thanks for listening beeb!
- Great app, use it every day. Since the update, the main screen goes not remember the horizontal scroll (which it did on the past). Now, after exiting story nine, you have to scroll right through to story ten from the beginning (on the main screen). For this minus one star, now only 4. Fixes now 5
- Love it, only problem is, when it updates, it removes all widget functions, so I have to un install and then reinstall again to get it back
- An easy and quick way to access the latest news. A free app that is better than many that cost. Nothing to loose by trying it out.
- Was terrible after recent update but all feedback heeded and now great app again since the last update. Thank you.
- Itd be great if the article didnt skip back to the top after locking and unlocking
- Love it. Love to know the news straight away. And u can do this on this app
- Great app if your on the move and don't want a paper. Does the job
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