Month: August 2022

A young woman “looked like she had seen a ghost” moments after emerging from a bedroom where footballer Benjamin Mendy allegedly raped her three times, her friend has told a court. The friend said she had gone to look for the 20-year-old, who she regarded “like a sister”, after she had gone missing with Mendy for around 20 minutes during a party at the Manchester City star’s mansion in Cheshire. […]

A teenage pilot attempting to be the youngest to fly the globe solo has revealed the “hairy moment” he cheated death on an abandoned Pacific Ocean island. Mack Rutherford took off from Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 23 this year and flew to Italy and Greece, before navigating Asia, Africa, the US, and two oceans. The 17-year-old made his first return to England on Monday, touching down at London’s Biggin Hill […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are relocating to Windsor and now have four properties at their disposal. – Kensington Palace Apartment 1A Their central London home, Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace, used to belong to Princess Margaret, and will remain their official working residence. It was refurbished at a cost of £4.5 million to the taxpayer with a new roof and electrics, and the removal of asbestos. It has […]

Tory leadership frontrunner Liz Truss has said there is “too much talk that there’s going to be a recession” as she insisted an economic slump is not inevitable. The Foreign Secretary suggested a “level of ambition” was needed to “change the orthodoxy” and avoid the outcome forecast by the Bank of England. Her optimism came after Conservative heavyweight Michael Gove warned that she was on a “holiday from reality” with […]

Barristers are voting on plans for an all-out strike next month as part of a row with the Government over jobs and pay. Members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) have been walking out on alternate weeks but are now being balloted on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike that would start on September 5. The ballot closes at midnight on Sunday, with the result expected on Monday. According to Ministry of […]

The first of an eight-day workers strike at the UK’s biggest container port begins on Sunday. Around 1,900 members of Unite at Felixstowe will walk out in a dispute over pay in the first strike to hit the port since 1989. It is the latest outbreak of industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the economy. Workers including crane drivers, machine operators and stevedores are taking action […]

The captain of the Lionesses is looking ahead to their next potential trophy England skipper Leah Williamson is dreaming of adding the World Cup to the Lionesses’ Euro 2022 success. A point against Austria in their penultimate qualifier next month will secure the Group D leaders’ passage to the finals in Australia and New Zealand in 2023, where Arsenal’s Williamson will hope once again to lift the trophy. Asked if […]

He's set to appear at Newcastle Crown Court next month after denying the charge Actor Stephen Tompkinson will appear at Newcastle Crown Court charged with a single count of inflicting grievous bodily harm, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed. The 56-year-old, who is best known for starring as Inspector Alan Banks in crime drama series DCI Banks, is facing a trial after denying the allegation at Newcastle Magistrates Court on […]

He says she's been an 'absolute superstar' after suffering for two years Jamie Oliver has praised his wife Jools calling her “an absolute superstar” after suffering from long Covid for two years. The celebrity chef, 47, who rose to fame on cookery show The Naked Chef, said his childrenswear designer wife had been “really affected” by the virus. He told the Daily Mail Weekend magazine: “She’s had bad Covid and […]