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Firm urges customers to avoid running washing machines and dishwashers between 6pm and 8pm on WednesdayWhere in the UK will get the best view of the solar eclipse?Business live – latest updatesGreat Britain’s biggest household energy supplier is calling on its customers to use less electricity this week during the deepest solar eclipse in almost 30 years.Octopus Energy has urged customers to avoid...
Counter-terrorism police investigating the death of Ann Widdecombe have reopened an inquiry into an incident last yearFarage and Yusuf are now taking questions.Q: [From Jack Fenwick from the BBC] Are there other countries where you might send foreign offenders? And how much would this cost?We have to admit that there might not be too many colour TVs.It’s not going to be a summer camp. It’s not goi...
Exclusive: Grid operator Neso can now respond with rolling blackouts as last resort without need for government powersBusiness live – latest updatesMillions of households could face power cuts at short notice under new rules to help the electricity system operator avoid widespread blackouts when energy supplies run low.The changes, which come into effect this week, will make it easier for the nati...
The House Republican has been disavowed by his own party amid allegations that he has been abusive toward his ex-wife and daughterSign up for the Breaking News US emailThe Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars to cities across the US to create more Memphis-style enforcement surges – on the condition that they abandon progressive ideologies on policing.The US Depart...
Campaign group says firm is ‘taking the mickey’ by paying fee, and Andy Burnham should nationalise itBusiness live – latest updatesThames Water has paid its finance chief a £1m signing fee despite teetering on the brink of a government-handled administration, in a decision which campaigners labelled “indefensible”.The utility company revealed that it made the payment last month, in a letter sent l...
Ninety vehicles confiscated in weekend operation including rare Ferrari Monza SP2, driven by someone without insurance or full licenceA police officer got the opportunity to drive an open-top limited edition Ferrari in Mayfair, London, after the car was seized as part of a record-breaking crackdown on uninsured vehicles and dangerous driving.The Dubai-registered supercar, worth £3.7m, had been in ...
Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself after disciplinary proceedings which coroner found be to be flawedThe Treasury “materially contributed” to the death of Chloe Moffat, a 26-year-old personal assistant who took her own life after facing disciplinary proceedings, a coroner has found.Anna Crawford also found there was a risk of future deaths within the civil service from flawed handling of disciplinar...
Counter-terrorism police investigating the death of Ann Widdecombe have reopened an inquiry into an incident last yearFarage and Yusuf are now taking questions.Q: [From Jack Fenwick from the BBC] Are there other countries where you might send foreign offenders? And how much would this cost?We have to admit that there might not be too many colour TVs.It’s not going to be a summer camp. It’s not goi...
Monday is last day Miller can resign and give his party time to find a replacement candidateHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Today is the last day that Max Miller, the beleaguered US Republican representative from Ohio, can resign and give his party time to find a replacement candidate.Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Will Scharf, the staff secretary who helped secure approval...
Crossing in larger vessel highlights changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coastUK politics live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesA dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday.It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating ...
Discovery of 2,100-year-old vessel hailed as ‘one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years’A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck carrying about 500 amphorae has been discovered 3 miles off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.Italy’s cultural heritage police, the Carabinieri, investigated the wreck with the help of divers and underwater cameras after receiving a ti...
Grid operator Neso can now respond with rolling blackouts as last resort without need for government powersBusiness live – latest updatesMillions of households could face power cuts at short notice under new rules to help the electricity system operator avoid widespread blackouts when energy supplies run low.The changes, which come into effect this week, will make it easier for the national elect...
Israeli PM is insisting on a full Hamas disarmament before the deal can be implemented. Plus, what it feels like to get locked into an opera performance that lasts nearly 24 hoursGood morning.Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump. In a statement, Israel’s prime minister said he was confronting a “wave of rumours about Isra...
Nigel Farage says an adviser to the party would go to El Saldavor for talks on how the country might house foreign prisonersZia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, is speaking at the press conference now.He claims that a combination of sending foreign prisoners to serve their sentences in jails abroad, and building “Nightingale prisons”, could create an extra 22,000 jail spaces.We will r...
Jane Coates says foreign secretary should draw attention to coroner’s finding that Lucy Harrison was unlawfully killedThe UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is being urged to push US authorities to reopen an investigation into a man who shot dead his 23-year-old British daughter while she was visiting him in Texas.Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was fatally shot on 10 January 2025, the...
Gabar Choli tells of how, for months, he was shackled, pinned and forcibly fed – and the physical and emotional scars the ordeal has leftIn June 2025, a sluggish and thin Gabar Choli, with sunken temples and bones visible under his skin, braced himself for the immigration detention center guards to charge into his cell once again.Choli was in a solitary confinement medical cell inside the Port Isa...
Melissa Donnelly, the national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, will replace the outgoing ACTU headGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMelissa Donnelly, the national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, will take on the role as the next head of the trade movement in Australia, after the resignation of Sally McManus.The Australian Council of ...
Exclusive: Film-maker Gabar Choli describes how he endured coercive treatment over eight months in detention in TexasA Kurdish man who was force fed over the course of eight months while on hunger strike in US immigration detention has spoken out about it for the first time, describing how much the process harmed him physically and psychologically.Gabar Choli, a film-maker and activist now living ...
The upgraded alerts will be in place from 9am on Tuesday until 6pm on WednesdayMore than 25 million people face restrictions on water use, according to the Environment Agency, with millions under hosepipe bans, including all South East Water and Thames Water customers.Another record is likely to tumble this week after Sunday was the 34th day this year on which temperatures exceeded 30C somewhere i...
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group is frontrunner to buy Knightsbridge-headquartered department store chainCan Harvey Nichols find its way back to being Ab Fab again?Business live – latest updatesHarvey Nichols has warned that it will not be able to survive another year without new investment, as bidders for the Knightsbridge-headquartered department store chain circle.The retailer’s Hong Kong-based owne...
Prosecutors to allege Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis ordered killing and provided gun in Las Vegas drive-by shooting of rapperThe trial is to begin of a former gang leader over the decades-old killing of the rapper Tupac Shakur, one of the most high-profile unsolved murders in the US.The proceedings, which begin in Las Vegas on Monday and are expected to last a month, are unlikely to make clear who fired t...
Prosecutors to argue that Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis ordered killing and provided gun in Las Vegas drive-by shooting of rapperThe trial is to begin of a former gang leader over the decades-old killing of the rapper Tupac Shakur, one of the most high-profile unresolved murders in the US.The proceedings, which begin in Las Vegas on Monday and are expected to last a month, are unlikely to make clear who f...
Drought and wildfires intensify across continent, while tropical storms bring heavy rain and disruption to east AsiaEurope live – latest updatesHigh pressure has dominated central and eastern Europe in early August, breaking temperature records across the region. Austria recorded a high of 41.2C (106.2F), while Slovakia reached 42.2C. Hungary hit a peak of 41.8C, surpassing a record set in 1905, ...
The heat and continuing dry conditions are being supercharged by the escalating climate crisisThe National Drought Group (NDG) is expected to meet this afternoon and declare that more parts of England are officially in drought, as parts of the UK head into a potential fifth heatwave of the year this week.All of Wales and more than half of England are already in drought after an unprecedented perio...
The woman had gone to London hotel for a ‘night away from the fear’ in latest incident of chain giving keys to men without checking firstTravelodge staff gave a room key to the domestic abuser of a woman, who then physically attacked her.The woman, who is remaining anonymous, told the BBC that she was staying in a branch of the hotel in London to escape the man, but he followed her and was given a...
Campaign group says firm is ‘taking the mickey’ by paying fee and Andy Burnham should nationalise itBusiness live – latest updatesThames Water has paid its chief financial officer, Steve Buck, a £1m signing fee despite intense scrutiny of Britain’s biggest water company’s finances as it tries to avoid being taken into public control.The utility revealed that it made the payment last month, in a le...
Reform says it will free up space in jails in England and Wales by rapidly deporting all foreign offendersGood morning. Andy Burnham has said Middlemarch is his favourite novel, but he may not remember George Eliot’s line about the genial businessman Mr Vincy who “blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister”. Burnham only took over in No 10 three weeks ago...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that strikes on such facilities were directly linked with putting more pressure on MoscowA Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan region killed 12 people and wounded 39 others, Russian authorities said.The city, some 1,000 kilometers within Russia, hosts a major oil refinery, with facilities long targeted by Ukrainian army. Ukraine previous...
This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice say the remains found in a suitcase near Goulburn are not human.Supt Linda Bradbury with NSW police said:Some good news here that we don’t have a suspicious death of a human on our hands. … We are still undertaking more forensic work to identify what they are. But we can identify that they’re not human.But we’...
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beachHarry Potter fans have forced a new multimillion-pound power cable between the UK and Ireland to be relocated after complaining it would desecrate the “grave” of Dobby, a fictional elf.The character was laid to rest on Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, during the...
