“In Ribble Valley... they live seven years longer than the people of Blackpool only 33 miles away”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is correct.
BBC Reality Check
BBC Reality Check was the fact-checking service of the BBC in the United Kingdom.
“A tank of fuel already costs £10 more than it did at the start of the year”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is correct.
“We produce more offshore wind than any other country”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is correct.
“He's complaining about having to share his 115-room, taxpayer-funded mansion with the foreign secretary”
BBC Reality Check rated this: False - it is not funded by the taxpayer.
“People are leaving California for the first time in our state's 170-year history”
BBC Reality Check rated this: The trend started before Governor Newsom took office.
“A Saudi athlete died after losing to an Israeli at the Tokyo Olympics.”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This claim is false. The athlete is very much alive.
“Protesters let lions out of a game reserve.”
BBC Reality Check rated this: False. This video is old and unrelated to the protests.
“It is very strange that there are dozens of news [stories] that began to escalate about Ethiopia's readiness to launch a nuclear strike on Egypt, especially after the escalation of the Renaissance Dam crisis at unprecedented rates”
BBC Reality Check rated this: Ethiopia doesn't possess nuclear weapons.
“We will liberate the telecoms sector”
BBC Reality Check rated this: The sale of two telecoms licenses has not been completed.
“Posts from the Israel Defence Force twitter account said: "We just love killing" and "Just bombed some kids".”
BBC Reality Check rated this: These screenshots are fake.
“The number of apprentices has fallen by 200,000 in the three years to 2020”
BBC Reality Check rated this: That figure is correct.
“In the first quarter, our economy grew at a 6.4% rate - outpacing growth we are seeing from our friends in the eurozone”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is correct.
“1.1 million people in Scotland are taxed more for doing the same job than the rest of the UK”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is correct but needs context.
“Over 11 million undocumented folks - the vast majority overstaying visas”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This hasn't been the trend overall over recent decades.
“We've done 50% of the population and 25% of the adult population have now had two doses [of vaccine]”
BBC Reality Check rated this: These figures are correct.
“Lord Palmerston said "it's so difficult to live when no-one wages war on Russia.”
BBC Reality Check rated this: We've found no evidence of Lord Palmerston saying this.
“We've got 1,500 young people who are waiting for mental health support for over a year”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is correct.
“Children in Tigray pictured drinking unsanitary water”
BBC Reality Check rated this: This is misleading. This picture is not from Tigray at all.
“Face masks were responsible for "thousands" of deaths from bacterial pneumonia.”
BBC Reality Check rated this: There is no evidence for this claim.
“Vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc can cure Covid”
BBC Reality Check rated this: False. None of these can cure Covid-19.