Now BBC journalist whose aristocratic family paid £100_000 slave trade apology faces calls to confront ...

The family of BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has been challenged about their ancestor's role in the Irish Famine after they apologised and donated £100,000 in slavery reparations to Grenada. Laura Trevelyan, whose aristocratic relatives had more than 1,000 slaves across six sugar plantations on the Caribbean island in the 19th century, said her family were saying sorry 'for the role our ancestors played in enslavement'. Irish novelist Katherine Mezzacappa praised the announcement but asked if