Teen’s killer sentenced to 35 years A drill rapper who shot and killed a 15-year-old boy at a family festival in west London later recorded himself rapping about the crime, a court heard. Rene Graham was shot by drill rapper Aderahman Boumzough at Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park in Ladbroke Grove on 21 July 2024. Boumzough, […]

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The incident in May has finally been ruled on by Ofcom Listeners tuning into an Essex radio station were given a shocking announcement in May when the programme suddenly suggested that King Charles III had passed away. The message appeared during The Barry Marsh Show on Radio Caroline, with pre-recorded audio telling listeners that regular […]

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Theme park forced to close just an hour after opening A major UK theme park was forced to shut its doors just an hour after opening after a water outage caused unexpected disruption. Chessington World of Adventures opened at 10am as planned, but was closed for the remainder of the day when a burst water […]

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Weather grounds Red Arrows The Red Arrows have withdrawn from a series of UK air shows after the RAF’s aerobatic team was left stranded in Canada by a spell of poor weather. The team had been touring the United States with Operation Eagle Hawk, a run of displays marking 250 years of the Declaration of […]

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Harry Potter fans just changed an energy project On a windswept stretch of Pembrokeshire coastline, fans of Harry Potter still make the pilgrimage to Freshwater West beach, leaving painted stones and handwritten notes at a makeshift shrine. The spot marks where Dobby, the free house elf, was laid to rest in Harry Potter and the […]

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Aaron McKenna rules the 3Arena Aaron McKenna produced a composed and dominant display against previously unbeaten Etinosa Oliha to claim the IBF world middleweight title in his first professional fight on Irish soil at Dublin’s 3Arena. The Monaghan fighter, known as ‘The Silencer’, extended his perfect record to 21-0, controlling much of the 12-round contest […]

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Arsenal add another major signing Bruno Guimaraes has completed a £75m move to Arsenal from Newcastle United, with the Gunners confirming the signing of the Brazil midfielder on Saturday, two weeks before the new season begins. The 28-year-old, who has signed a four-year deal with the option of a further year, called the switch one […]

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Cambridge acts after resignation Cambridge University will review how it appoints senior academics after Professor Jason Arday resigned amid a plagiarism row, the institution has confirmed. Arday, who became Cambridge’s youngest black professor in 2023, stepped down on Wednesday after the university launched a probe into his “academic qualifications and honorary appointments”. As the Independent […]

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Morrisons’ tasty new addition Harry Ramsden’s is heading to the supermarket, with Morrisons shoppers soon able to tuck into a chippy tea while doing the weekly shop after the two brands struck a new partnership. From 10 August, 32 Morrisons cafés across the UK will begin serving the “world famous” fish and chips under a […]

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FC 26 goes offline FC 26 is down for thousands of players after publisher EA was hit by a major global server outage on Friday afternoon, leaving gamers on PlayStation, Xbox and PC unable to get online. Reports of problems flooded in from across the world, including the US and UK, with tracking site DownDetector […]

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RIP William Orbit, the Grammy-winning musician and producer best known for his work with Madonna, All Saints and his work with Blur, has died at the age of 69. His family confirmed the news in a statement posted to his Instagram account on Friday. One of British pop’s most influential studio figures, Orbit passed away […]

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Arrests double under Labour Arrests for illegal working have more than doubled since Labour came to power, the Home Office has said, with more than 17,000 people detained in the two years since the July 2024 general election. According to the Home Office, the total is more than double the number recorded in the previous […]

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There’s still more House of the Dragon House of the Dragon is not quite done with 2026 since a surprise “mini arc” tied to the hit HBO series arrives on Monday 10 August, though not on the screen you might expect. The return comes in Game of Thrones: Conquest, the long-running mobile strategy game from […]

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A once-in-a-generation eclipse For up to one minute and 40 seconds next Wednesday, the middle of the day will slip into an eerie dusk across a narrow slice of Europe and a lucky few British holidaymakers will be standing right underneath it. The solar eclipse 2026 is Europe’s first mainland total eclipse since 1999, and […]

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Your holiday starts with a queue Brits heading to the continent this summer have been warned to brace for even longer waits at EU airports, with a key flexibility allowance due to expire on 6 September. Borders across the bloc have suffered lengthy delays since April, when the Entry/Exit System (EES) was fully rolled out. […]

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A costly blow for Meta A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay a further $567m (£421m) for failing to warn the public about the dangers its platforms pose to children, which is the largest Meta fine yet handed down over child safety. The ruling, delivered on Thursday, comes on top of […]

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Fury vs Joshua heads stateside? After years of speculation, failed negotiations and constant back-and-forth, it finally looks like Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are on track to face each other later this year. The fight has moved a huge step closer after both heavyweights came through their recent bouts. Joshua stopped Kristian Prenga, while Fury […]

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Leeds go all in Leeds United have signed England goalkeeper James Trafford from Manchester City in a club-record deal worth an initial £40m, rising to around £45m with add-ons. The 23-year-old leaves the Etihad just a year after rejoining from Burnley in a £27m switch last summer. It is comfortably the largest fee Leeds have […]

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Crowe and Priyanka team up Russell Crowe has signed on to star in Bluefly, a military sci-fi action film that will see the Oscar winner play opposite Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The casting brings together two of the biggest names attached to the project so far. The film will be directed by Nimród Antal, the filmmaker […]

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EasyJet is changing hands EasyJet has agreed to be taken over in a £5.7bn deal by US investment firm Apollo, after rival bidder Castlelake withdrew from a drawn-out battle for the no-frills airline. Apollo said it wants to help the carrier grow and does not intend to cut any jobs in the first 12 months […]

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Author denies AI claims An author has said she was “devastated” after National Eisteddfod judges accused her of using artificial intelligence to write the novel she submitted to one of the festival’s most prestigious writing competitions. Romy Wood, a Welsh learner from Cardiff, entered her novel Y Dderwen under the pseudonym Lithedora for the Daniel […]

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Vinicius isn’t going anywhere Vinicius Jr has signed a new six-year contract with Real Madrid that will keep the Brazil winger at the Bernabeu until 2032, ending months of speculation over his future. The 26-year-old had entered the final 12 months of his previous deal and, as the noise around him grew during the summer […]

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John David Washington’s creepy new project John David Washington is attached to star in Mime, a supernatural horror thriller that Sony’s Screen Gems has landed after a competitive bidding situation. As The Hollywood Reporter first detailed, the film will be directed by Nikyatu Jusu, who made her feature debut with the Sundance Grand Jury Prize […]

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Heathrow hit by fire disruption A Heathrow fire briefly shut one of the airport’s runways and delayed flights on Thursday evening, after a grass blaze broke out adjacent to the southern runway. London Fire Brigade said around one hectare of grassland was scorched, while a photograph shared from inside a terminal showed thick smoke billowing […]

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Ryan Murphy does it again When Ryan Murphy first read Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 autofiction horror novel The Shards, it landed close to home. The prolific creator behind American Horror Story, Love Story and Glee had lived through the same early-1980s Los Angeles the book conjures and now his FX adaptation of The Shards has […]

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A major boost for British motorsport The British Grand Prix will remain on the MotoGP World Championship calendar until at least 2028 after the series extended its partnership with Silverstone to cover the 2027 and 2028 seasons. The race, which fans can still win British Grand Prix tickets to attend, returned to Silverstone in 2010 […]

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A scandal too big to stay A Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row has resigned “with immediate effect”. Prof Jason Arday said he had “concluded that the only way to bring this chapter to an end is to step away”, days after the University of Cambridge launched an investigation into his “academic […]

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A bin rule many ignore A binman has shared a warning that could leave some households with uncollected bins, after revealing two common items that should never be thrown away with general rubbish. Ashley, who regularly posts videos from his waste collection rounds on TikTok, recently filmed himself refusing to empty a wheelie bin after […]

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Reform shifts focus to employers Reform UK will fine firms 10% of their global revenues and imprison bosses who employ illegal migrant workers under a new policy dubbed the ‘Deliveroo Law’. Nigel Farage’s party says employers would be held responsible even if they were unaware of a worker’s immigration status, in a policy set out […]

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A major shift in the Hormuz crisis Iran has said an agreement with Oman on a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz is “in the final stages”, a potential breakthrough for a waterway that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the “geographical […]

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Another big name picks a side The boss of Regal Cinemas has become the latest exhibitor to endorse the Paramount merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, throwing weight behind David Ellison’s $111 billion bid to combine the two studios. Regal chief Eduardo Acuna went public with his blessing on Wednesday, joining AMC’s Adam Aron in backing […]

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Brighton mean Business Defender Gabby George has completed a move from Manchester United to Brighton, the WSL club has confirmed, strengthening Dario Vidosic’s squad before the start of the new Women’s Super League season. The 29-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee understood to be in six figures. George, who joined United in 2023 and made […]

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The new T20 GOAT Jos Buttler has become the all-time leading run scorer in Twenty20 cricket, smashing an explosive 51 from just 20 balls to fire Manchester Super Giants to a nine-wicket win over Welsh Fire in the Men’s Hundred on Wednesday evening. The England wicketkeeper-batter’s blistering cameo carried him past every other player in […]

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The women Henry left behind HBO and the BBC have greenlit 1536, a darkly comedic new series set in the turbulent aftermath of Anne Boleyn’s execution, and the 1536 drama comes from acclaimed playwright and showrunner Ava Pickett. The six-episode series is based on Pickett’s stage play of the same name, which only finished its […]

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LIV Golf isn’t going anywhere LIV Golf has secured a new lead investor to keep the breakaway tour running in 2027, easing fears over its future after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund confirmed it would end its multibillion-pound backing at the close of this season. The Saudi withdrawal, revealed in April, had plunged the series […]

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Your guide to August’s solar eclipse People across the UK will have the chance to witness one of the year’s most striking astronomical events on 12 August, when a partial solar eclipse sweeps across the country. Although the eclipse’s narrow path of totality will miss the UK, much of Britain will still see the Moon […]

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A brand new record for Spidey Spider-Man: Brand New Day has swung to the biggest domestic opening weekend in cinema history, taking a staggering $360 million and knocking Avengers: Endgame off the top of the all-time list. The Marvel sequel, starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, is now only the second film ever to open above […]

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They’re back! Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are preparing to reunite on screen once again, but this time in a very different role. The trio became household names during their long-running stint on Top Gear, where they worked together from 2002 until 2015, before launching The Grand Tour on Prime Video in 2016. […]

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Britain’s most crowded ballot On 13 August, the Clacton by-election will hand voters what is understood to be the longest ballot paper in British electoral history. Thirty-four names will be crammed onto it, among them a man dressed as a bin, an actor-turned-politician and three candidates from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. At the […]

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‘This has to change’ Prime Minister Andy Burnham has invited Scottish swimmer Archie Goodburn to a personal meeting after the 25-year-old’s emotional plea for more brain cancer research funding. Speaking to BBC Breakfast through tears, Goodburn had implored the government to “give us a chance to fight for our lives”. Goodburn was diagnosed with inoperable […]

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Juno says ‘I do’ Ted Lasso star Juno Temple has revealed that she has married her long-term partner Michal Szymanski, after the couple’s relationship began in a rather unexpected way on the set of the hit Apple TV+ series. Temple shared the news during an appearance on TFI Unplugged with Chris Evans, where she was […]

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Families warn of a justice gap Families of crime victims have condemned the government’s prisoner early release scheme, warning that some offenders could serve less time than the sentences their loved ones fought for. The early release plans, designed to ease prison overcrowding, have become one of the first major tests of public opinion for […]

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Brits warned over malaria risk in popular travel destinations New health warnings have been issued for UK travellers heading to 13 countries where malaria remains a risk, after officials revealed that British visitors continue to die from the disease after returning home. Travel Health Pro, a service supported by the Foreign Office, has recently reviewed […]

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Blumhouse’s risk doesn’t pay off Blumhouse’s latest experiment has set a record, just not the kind the studio wanted. Soulm8te, the R-rated spinoff from the M3GAN universe, has debuted with the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score in the franchise’s history. Released straight to streaming on 1 August 2026, the erotic thriller opened on 55% on Rotten […]

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Squid Game has a rival A Netflix K-drama has pulled off a feat only Squid Game had managed before it. Teach You a Lesson, the action series released on 5 June 2026, has blitzed its way into the streamer’s all-time Top 10 chart for non-English TV in under two months. Teach You a Lesson has […]

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The West End has spoken From the shower to the school run, the nation cannot stop singing and now it has picked a champion. Disney’s The Lion King, which has run in the West End since 1999, has been named Britain’s favourite musical, roaring past a clutch of long-running rivals to top a new national […]

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Deadly night for Kyiv A Russian ballistic Kyiv missile strike overnight has killed at least two people and injured more than 20 others, officials in the Ukrainian capital say. The barrage began after midnight on Wednesday, with air raid alerts sounding for more than an hour as waves of ballistic missiles hit the city and […]

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The royal family grows Princess Eugenie has given birth to a baby girl, her third child with husband Jack Brooksbank. The daughter was born on Monday 3 August at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, weighing 6lbs 9oz, Buckingham Palace confirmed. Eugenie, 36, announced the news on Instagram alongside a photograph of the newborn, the BBC […]

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Gotham’s new favourite Batman: Caped Crusader has returned in style, with the animated Prime Video series landing an 82% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes for its second season. The DC show released its new episodes on Friday, 31 July, marking one of the year’s biggest wins for the Dark Knight. The 82% audience rating is […]

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Nightmare crossing ends in rescue More than 170 migrants have been rescued after their boat caught fire in the middle of a Channel crossing on Tuesday morning, with the UK government insisting that “all will be returned” to France. The boat was attempting to reach the UK when its engine caught fire, according to the […]

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