PC Mason O'Connor is dismissed after a hearing found he had breached standards of professional behaviour, the Met said.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:02:57 (Source: BBC News)The British 200m ace sparked a huge reaction after hitting out at an ad where Sydney posed naked with strategically-placed footballs and other sporting equipment
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:49:24 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Referees' chief Howard Webb has admitted that the video assistant referee (VAR) did not even consider whether Enzo Fernandez was offside for Erling Haaland's controversial winner in Sunday's Manchester derby.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:42:20 (Source: BBC News)The BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale explains what an arms race in space might look like - and what it could mean for us on the ground.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:35:02 (Source: BBC News)The nine jury members, who had 10 questions to answer, returned their verdict on Tuesday at the end of an inquest which began in January.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:12:51 (Source: BBC News)Trains were cancelled or delayed on Tuesday after objects were found on tracks at multiple locations.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:55:04 (Source: BBC News)Plans will be "urgently" developed for live-streaming cameras after an inquiry report into Lucy Letby's crimes.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:53:53 (Source: BBC News)Inquiry chair Lady Justice Thirlwall set out how the culture of the health system created the conditions that enabled poor care and criminality.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:51:43 (Source: BBC News)The audio of the VAR making the decision to award Manchester City their winning goal during Sunday's Manchester derby has been released.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:50:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Thomas said he has done nothing wrong as Gwent Police confirms arrest on suspicion of assault.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:45:49 (Source: BBC News)The president assailed the justices for blocking his plan to allow delivery of ballots only to voters on lists of citizens.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:40:43 (Source: BBC News)The former England winger crashed a Lamborghini into motorway barriers in May.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:24:00 (Source: BBC News)Around 5,000 bogus pharmacy websites were accessed by UK consumers in 2025, according to cybersecurity firm Avast
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:22:24 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Iran says El Gaia caught fire after hitting mines, but the US says the oil tanker was struck by a missile and then a drone.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:13:41 (Source: BBC News)The star says tour promoters took the decision, after Macklemore made pro-Palestinian statements on stage.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:01:54 (Source: BBC News)King Charles' letter confirmed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are considered "private citizens" and any duties carried out would not be on behalf of the Royal Family, as experts analyse what this means for the couple's new life in the UK
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:47:40 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The report has shed more details on Lucy Letby - the most prolific child killer in British legal history.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:42:03 (Source: BBC News)The inspector also found a bottleneck in resupply, despite President Donald Trump's claims that US supplies are "virtually limitless".
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:31:34 (Source: BBC News)Ed Sheeran has issued a statement following the removal of US rapper Macklemore as his tour support act, saying there is a reason he does not use his professional platform for politics.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:26:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)After years of delay, the jury has reached a verdict but some questions remain unanswered over what happened to the 14-year-old.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:58:49 (Source: BBC News)A vehicle hit four people before colliding with two cars on White Rose Way in Doncaster, police say.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:47:59 (Source: BBC News)The UK had the hottest summer ever and now it has been suggested that yet more sunshine is on the way in the coming weeks
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:38:21 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Language is what connects us as humans across the globe. Unless it’s Brits and Americans. In which case, it seems to have driven a wedge between two cultures that are entirely unwilling to meet half way. We say this after Twitter user @gabrielledisco posted about the Americanism that is becoming commonplace and they are really, […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:37:21 (Source: The Poke)Some of the babies killed by Lucy Letby - one of Britain's most prolific child serial killers - could have been saved, a damning inquiry has found.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:34:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)The announcement by the US points to a developing field of modern warfare in the Earth's orbit.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:23:14 (Source: BBC News)Experts tell BBC Verify the pipeline's closure could cut oil supplies by as much as 3.6 million barrels per day.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:21:14 (Source: BBC News)A search is under way for a three-year-old boy who went missing at a playground.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:18:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)The video shows a helicopter holding steady mere feet from a cliff face in the Sierra Nevada mountains while a rescue team secures an injured climber.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:57:04 (Source: BBC News)We wouldn’t have believed someone could pull off this shot if we hadn’t seen it for ourselves, courtesy of ESPN. @espn WAIT FOR IT 😳 (via @Bonzatron) #bowl #bowling #trickshot #timing ♬ original sound – ESPN Well done to @Bonzatron for that 2022 stunner. We’d like to know how many recordings show disaster. It certainly […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:51:16 (Source: The Poke)Going to the doctor provokes a myriad of emotions, one of which, depending on your ailment, can be an enormous amount of awkwardness. However, experiencing an extreme level of cringe in a medical setting is such a common experience that we can all comfort one another with similar war stories. Which is what they’ve been […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:42:18 (Source: The Poke)An ongoing review into Personal Independence Payments (Pip) has found the system is "not fit for purpose".
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:36:33 (Source: BBC News)Manchester United's highly-rated 15-year-old forward JJ Gabriel is on the verge of leaving the club.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:33:09 (Source: BBC News)The Vice President is often given the unthankful task of taking on an impossible problem to keep busy while their boss handles the bigger issues. In the curious case of Donald Trump and JD Vance, Trump has given his #2 an assignment that hits a little too close to home: fraud. In his forever efforts […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:32:02 (Source: The Poke)It comes after Reform received donations totalling £72m from two British crypto-billionaires who have both recently lived abroad.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:25:48 (Source: BBC News)Back in 1979, the hugely popular BBC magazine show That’s Life! sent their roving reporter on a mission to interview a load of school kids about what they would do if they suddenly hit the jackpot. Their answers are a brilliantly funny and delightfully bizarre time capsule of unfiltered 70s TV magic. It’s been going […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:19:19 (Source: The Poke)The boss of a major airline has slammed the UK's latest air traffic control problems as 'unacceptable' after a rescue mission was launched to bring 7,200 stranded passengers home
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:15:34 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The world is an increasingly complex place with an awful lot of things to get to grips with, from which bin to use for which recycling to the ways in which AI is going to end humanity. So it’s no wonder there are some things we just cannot fathom, no matter how hard we try. […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:12:28 (Source: The Poke)If you want the perfect final word on Artificial Intelligence then you’d better call Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and the (now Emmy award winning) sci-fi satire, Pluribus. The great man was asked about AI at the Emmy awards and he totally nails it in less than a minute. Not for […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:53:00 (Source: The Poke)The inquiry found a "complete failure to protect babies on the neonatal unit" where the nurse worked.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:37:11 (Source: BBC News)Another major UK high street chain is closing 17 stores forever, launching clearance sales while adding to a growing wave of nationwide retail closures
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:29:45 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Noel Gallagher watched Manchester City beat Manchester United at the weekend but has had troublesome fan experiences in the past
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:15:14 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Your state pension will likely rise by 3.9% next year, according to provisional data published on Tuesday morning by the Office for National Statistics.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:58:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)When we think about altering the UK for the better, we tend to think of the big things, like a change of government or eye-wateringly expensive infrastructure projects (we’re looking at you HS2). But there are smaller changes that could be more easily implemented that would make all of our lives noticeably better. They’ve been […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:50:05 (Source: The Poke)Collectors are eagerly awaiting the first release of the 30th anniversary Pokémon trading cards.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:45:04 (Source: BBC News)To the world – briefly – of Isabel Oakeshott, the Dubai-based international editor of Talk TV and self-described ‘feather ruffler’. Except there’s one class of people who Richard Tice’s betrothed appears to believe should never have their feathers ruffled. And that’s the poor old put-upon billionaires. Here’s what she had to say on Talk TV […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:39:22 (Source: The Poke)New research reveals 84% of people only felt their talent was worth pursuing after a teacher, boss, or mentor stepped in
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:06:08 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The increase has reignited the debate about the state pension's long-term affordability and generational fairness.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:05:42 (Source: BBC News)Afrobeats and RnB singer Leeno Daash has gone viral, after making and starring in a video about the contribution immigrants make to Europe, or more accurately – what would happen without them. Having moved to Italy from Cameroon, he’s likely to be only too familiar with the angry bigotry portrayed in the clip. It’s in […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:41:59 (Source: The Poke)We make no secret of the fact that we’re more than partial to a map. Good maps, bad maps, accurate maps, deliberately incorrect maps. It’s almost as though the Terrible Maps account – @TerribleMaps – has tapped straight into our browsing tastes. They describe themselves as ‘The home of terrible maps with a pinch of […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:38:02 (Source: The Poke)Here’s a rather fabulous ‘morning after the night before’ exchange which has been making us smile all over again. It was posted a little bit back in the day by Dan White – @atdanwhite over on Twitter– who said: ‘Trying to be a good guy.’ Trying to be a good guy. pic.twitter.com/nXHggXzRLi — Dan White […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:18:28 (Source: The Poke)To Rightmove now, where this particular house for sale has been raising eyebrows – and keeping people awake at night – over on Twitter. It’s somewhere called Station House on Station Road in Bleasb in Nottinghamshire and, well best have a look for yourself. @SarahDuggers I know you love these…..you may think you know what […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:48:43 (Source: The Poke)To the Trades Union Congress now – not a phrase you read too often on these pages – where Angela Rayner has been having her say on Nigel Farage. Rayner is back on the Cabinet now Andy Burnham is in charge, and you don’t have to like her to appreciate what she is saying here, […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:27:11 (Source: The Poke)British sprinter Amy Hunt says she is concerned about the controversial advert starring Sydney Sweeney being part of a "barrier" to girls' participation in sport.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:22:10 (Source: BBC News)Liz Truss – you remember – took time out from her busy schedule to attempt to seize some sort of economic high ground as we await the first Budget of Andy Burnham’s government. We can only hope it goes better than the mini budget unveiled by Kwasi Kwarteng which proved to be the undoing of […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:51:54 (Source: The Poke)It was TV’s big moment on the red (well, actually it was blue) carpet on Monday night as the stars all came out for the Emmys. Widow’s Bay and The Pitt were among the success stories, with Welsh actor Matthew Rhys making history by taking the Lead Actor Emmy for two separate shows in one […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:43:31 (Source: The Poke)You’ll be familiar with a little bit of the work of Reform UK-er and London mayoral hopeful Laila Cunningham, whose been at it again on Twitter begging up her beloved leader. Cunningham presumably thought she’d got a proper slam dunk after she suggested that unlike other party leaders, Nigel Farage always ‘brings receipts’, instilling in […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:23:10 (Source: The Poke)Former England footballer Raheem Sterling has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in a Lamborghini.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:33:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Reform rent-a-gob and economic migrant to Dubai, Isabel Oakeshott, is often to be found running interference for the party that used to be led by her fiancé Richard Tice, until he was unceremoniously bumped by Nigel Farage before the general election. With increased scrutiny over what two crypto billionaires could possibly want from the party […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:28:09 (Source: The Poke)'People suddenly begin spotting those extremely large, lengthy-legged spiders scurrying across floors.'
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:45:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)You should, by now, have seen the news that AI industry insiders believe that there’s a much higher than zero chance that their product could kill all humans within ten years. If you haven’t heard that, Alexa is probably hiding it from you. Here’s Newsnight’s Victoria Derbyshire reacting appropriately to that information. “You just said […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:17:39 (Source: The Poke)Meghan Markle has shared an adorable social media post showcasing the family's first few weeks back in the UK following their return from California
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)British intelligence have uncovered an Iranian spyware campaign stealing sensitive data from targets around the world.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:07:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)Brits juggle multiple thoughts at once – often resulting in 'too many tabs syndrome'. Here are the top signs you might be experiencing it too.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:00:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The nights are really starting to draw in, the weather has accepted that it’s Autumn, and there’s Christmas stuff in the shops before we’ve even had Halloween. We need something to cheer us up. Luckily, on Threads, they’ve been punning, captioning, and being generally funny, so we’ve collected 25 things that made us laugh. We […]
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Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:50:57 (Source: The Poke)Beyoncé, Cher, Elton John and Miley Cyrus have all worn Mackie's glittery ensembles.
Published on: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:53:39 (Source: BBC News)Two people have died and another four are seriously hurt after a truck collided with a group of pedestrians and two vehicles.
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:01:00 (Source: The Latest News from the UK and Around the World | Sky News)And which songs have made it onto Trump’s Air Force One playlist?
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:26:00 (Source: BBC News)President Trump dismisses need for AI guardrails, saying “whoever wins AI, wins”
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:01:00 (Source: BBC News)IRN-BRU is marking its 125th anniversary by unleashing a gang of balaclava-clad grannies on mobility scooters across four UK cities
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:08:20 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A member of the UK armed forces has tragically died in a “road traffic incident” in Ukraine over the weekend, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed as they extend "thoughts and our sympathies" with their loved ones
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:54:03 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Most small businesses don’t think they’d survive if they stopped taking cash.
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:32:59 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)King Charles has reportedly helped persuade the African nation of Uganda to reconsider its decision to pull out of his son Prince Harry's Invictus Games following a letter
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:21:31 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)One in four homeowners aren't confident they could recognise the warning signs of a gas safety issue at home - putting themselves and others at risk
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:00:50 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Prime Minister Andy Burnham has cancelled engagements today and tomorrow following the death of his father Roy, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s, Downing Street said.
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:32:10 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have left their 19-bathroom Montecito mansion empty after their sudden return to the UK, leaving experts speculating over what happens next
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:15:39 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Jack Shepherd, who was previously jailed for manslaughter over the death of Charlotte Brown in a speedboat incident, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for assaulting his girlfriend
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:33:51 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Sophie Potter, 19, from Huyton, was last seen at the Reminisce Festival in St Helens on Saturday, September 12 – family appeal for information.
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:21:12 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A minor earthquake struck near the town of Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales at around 4am on Sunday, with the tremor sending vibrations and "loud rumbles" through nearby homes and startling residents from their sleep
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:09 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)James Hindson, 69, who worked at Moreton Hall School near Oswestry, has been banned from teaching by a TRA misconduct panel after he accidently shared his sordid search history on YouTube
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:10:00 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)A Turkish Airlines flight travelling from Istanbul to Tunis was diverted to an alternative airport after it was battered by severe turbulence during a violent storm, with passengers screaming in terror
Published on: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:48:20 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)Passengers in part of the train were woken by conductors and temporarily evacuated as drones were detected near the railway line, according to German newspaper Der Spiegel
Published on: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:04:08 (Source: Daily Star - UK News)The ex-wife of 'Britian's most notorious inmate' Charles Bronson has been barred from seeing him inside the 'monster mansion' after she was dubbed a 'security risk'
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