Suspects, all aged 18, arrested on suspicion of murder after man died following fight in park
Four teenagers have been arrested after an 18-year-old man died following a fight in Bournemouth.
Police received a report just before 1.30am on Saturday that a man had been badly injured after a fight in the Lower Gardens park.
Continue reading...Archeologists and palaeontologists say legislation needed to protect major finds championed by David Attenborough
Leading British archaeologists and palaeontologists are warning that one of the nation’s most significant palaeolithic sites is under threat because there is not enough legislation to protect it.
They are calling for changes to the law amid fears that crucial evidence at a site in the Cotswolds could be lost to the UK for ever.
Continue reading...Winds in Berry Head in Devon of 78mph could be August record for area while trees fall on Exeter-Penzance track
Storm Antoni, the first the Met Office has named this season, has hit the UK, with forecasters warning that flying debris thrown up by strong winds could pose a danger to life.
The highest wind gust recorded was in Berry Head (78mph) in South Devon followed by Cardinham (56mph) in Cornwall. The Met Office said these were both provisionally a new highest wind gust for August in those places.
Continue reading...Energy secretary says government wants to focus on cutting taxes once inflation falls
Grant Shapps has suggested it is unlikely the government will step in to protect households from rising energy bills this winter.
The energy secretary said in an interview with the Times that once inflation had fallen the government would “absolutely” need to cut taxes.
Continue reading...Simon Squibb plans to provide small businesses with rent-free space after bidding £25,000 for disused stairs
An entrepreneur who woke up homeless in a stairwell at the age of 15 with his first business idea has spent £25,000 on a disused stairwell to provide a rent-free space in London for small businesses to fulfil their dreams.
Simon Squibb, who retired at 40 after selling Fluid, his marketing agency, to PricewaterhouseCoopers, hopes the stairwell in Twickenham, south-west London, will provide a showcase for owners of small businesses.
Continue reading...Journalist takes ‘irresistible’ chance to take part in show while still working as Channel 4 newsreader
Krishnan Guru-Murthy has been announced as the fourth celebrity to join this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The journalist, who is a main presenter on Channel 4 News, joins a lineup that includes Angela Rippon, the actor Amanda Abbington and the Bad Education star Layton Williams.
Continue reading...Ex-newsreader famous for dancing on 1976 Morecambe and Wise show will be joined by Amanda Abbington and Layton Williams
Angela Rippon is to compete in the upcoming season of Strictly Come Dancing becoming the oldest competitor on the BBC primetime show at the age of 79.
The actor Amanda Abbington and Bad Education star Layton Williams have also been announced as the first contestants for the 21st series of the dancing competition this autumn.
Continue reading...Actor and writer posted yesterday after performing her show Sunsets to one audience member
An actor who went viral online after she posted a tearful tweet about performing her one-woman show to an audience of one at the Edinburgh festival fringe has played to a sell out crowd only 24 hours later.
The actor and writer Georgie Grier received messages of support from comedians including Jason Manford and Dara Ó Briain when she posted on Twitter on Thursday afternoon: “There was one person in my audience today when I performed my one-woman play, ‘Sunsets’ at #edfringe. It’s fine, isn’t it? It’s fine …?”
Continue reading...Mahek and Ansreen Bukhari convicted over killing of pair who died when car was rammed off road
A former TikTok influencer and her mother have been found guilty of murdering two men who died in a fireball when their car was rammed off the road during a late-night chase outside Leicester.
Mahek Bukhari, 24, and her mother, Ansreen Bukhari, 46, were convicted alongside two other defendants of killing Saqib Hussain and his friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, in February last year.
Continue reading...Farmers warn wheat, oilseed rape, potatoes and other crops have been affected after wettest July on record
UK farmers have warned that harvests of wheat, oilseed rape, potatoes and other crops have been hit by the cool, wet summer, raising fears of further food price inflation.
The wettest July on record for parts of the UK risks colliding with rising prices of essential ingredients on global markets due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and unpredictable weather affecting harvests from southern Europe to China.
Continue reading...Plans to cut waiting lists in England were welcomed but critics say they do not address deeper staffing issues
Rishi Sunak has been warned his plan for more private sector partnerships with the NHS in England to cut waiting lists will amount to “reshuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic” without addressing deeper structural issues with staffing.
The recommendations of an elective recovery plan, published on Friday, were broadly welcomed by opposition parties and health experts, but said to be overdue. Critics also said they only addressed a fragment of the much wider capacity and staffing issues across the whole of the country’s health systems.
Continue reading...Ansreen Bukhari and her daughter, Mahek, partied together and ended up plotting to murder two young men
When she gave evidence at Leicester crown court, 46-year-old Ansreen Bukhari described how her daughter’s fame on TikTok had completely transformed her life.
“When I got married I was like a housewife, but with this TikTok thing I was going out more. It was like two different lives,” she said. “It was more excitement. We were out and meeting people and stuff.”
Continue reading...Thousands of scouts to be removed from site after hundreds of heat-related illnesses at event in South Korea
Thousands of UK and US scouts attending the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea are being removed from the official campsite in the south-western county of Buan amid a suffocating heatwave.
The event, which started this week, has drawn 43,000 young scouts from 158 countries, with the UK contingent the largest at 4,500.
Continue reading...Health secretary says ‘every available resource’ must be used to help patients access diagnosis and treatment faster
More private and third sector providers should be used by the NHS to help cut post-Covid waiting lists, Steve Barclay, the health secretary, will say after a review of capacity in the health service.
Barclay will draw on the work of his “elective recovery taskforce” – a group convened by ministers to look at how to bring down waiting times.
Continue reading...Police in remote Welsh town appeal to anyone who may have seen someone have ‘sudden influx of beehives’
Police in a remote Welsh town are on the hunt for a thief who stole 14 beehives.
Witnesses have been urged to come forward after the hives disappeared from Blackwood Road near Llangollen, North Wales, over the weekend.
Continue reading...New analysis of Environment Agency data by Lib Dems shows more than 100 systems are faulty
An increasing number of sewage monitors in England’s swimming spots are broken, new analysis has shown, meaning unknown quantities of raw sewage may be present in bathing waters.
New analysis of 2022 Environment Agency data by the Liberal Democrats has shown that more than 100 sewage monitors in bathing waters were faulty. This is an increase on 2021, when 88 of the monitors were broken.
Continue reading...Capital’s mayor moves to reduce political fallout over scheme’s extension after Tory byelection win in Uxbridge
Sadiq Khan has expanded the grant scheme for London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to cover any household with a heavily polluting car or motorbike, spending an extra £50m after intense pressure over the political fallout of the plan.
The revised proposals, announced on Thursday, also notably increase the scrappage payments available for non-compliant vans owned by sole traders and small firms, as well as for minibuses and wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
Continue reading...Chancellor wants Financial Conduct Authority to investigate whether practice is ‘widespread’
Jeremy Hunt has asked the financial regulator to urgently investigate whether banks are barring politicians from accounts on a “widespread” basis, after Nigel Farage had his account shut down by private bank Coutts.
The chancellor said everyone must be able to express their opinions and people must have access to banking.
Continue reading...Deputy PM suggested FBU’s Labour affiliation influenced its decision to raise concerns about the Bibby Stockholm
The deputy prime minister has been accused of making “disgraceful” comments after claiming that the firefighters’ union had raised safety concerns over a barge due to house asylum seekers because of close links to Labour.
Oliver Dowden suggested that the Fire Brigades Union’s affiliation and donations to the opposition were a motivating factor behind fire and overcrowding concerns raised about the Bibby Stockholm in Portland, Dorset.
Continue reading...The FBU had said the Bibby Stockholm could be a floating ‘death trap’ for asylum seekers
The Greenpeace campaigner Philip Evans says the four activists who have been on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s house since around 6am are “holding firm for now”.
Speaking from outside the house, Evans told the PA Media news agency they had made sure the prime minister’s family were on holiday and not going to be at home before carrying out the protest, which is a response to Sunak saying he would “max out” oil and gas in the North Sea.
It’s an incredibly dangerous thing to be saying and in general there’s been an attack on the climate since the Uxbridge byelection.
Rishi Sunak’s government has been the worst government we’ve had on climate.
This is the prime minister. He is the one that was standing in Scotland going to drill for every last drop of oil while the world is burning. He is personally responsible for that decision and we’re all going to be paying a high price if he goes through with it. It is personal.
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