The last 24 hours of eye-wateringly expensive missile duelling over the Persian Gulf has made one point above all. A prolonged war could do calamitous damage to the global economy. In just one day and night, Iran has hit energy targets in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Israel. So much for its military being defeated, […]
The selling of crossbows and hunting arrows will be banned under government plans following a series of violent attacks. The Home Office said existing crossbow owners will also need a licence. It follows the death of BBC racing commentator John Hunt’s wife and two of his daughters, who were murdered in a crossbow and knife
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The family of a 16-year-old who was killed after a car crashed into a river in Cambridgeshire has paid tribute, calling her the “kindest, most loving girl”. Eden Bunn was among five people in a blue VW Polo, which veered off the road into the River Nene near Wisbech at about 8.20pm on Tuesday. Her
Former Google executive Matt Brittin is expected to be the next director-general of the BBC. He would follow in the footsteps of the outgoing Tim Davie, who has held the position for nearly six years. And yes, despite a female deputy director-general in 2016 – Anne Bulford – all 16 who came before have been
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Angela Rayner was “wrong” to stage a high-profile intervention criticising the direction of Sir Keir Starmer’s government this week, Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the veteran Labour peer said Ms Rayner had offered just “one criticism after another” rather than “positive proposals”. Politics
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The NHS “came close to collapse” during the pandemic, the chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry has said. “We coped, but only just,” Baroness Heather Hallett concluded in the inquiry’s third report, released on Thursday. She said UK healthcare systems “teetered on the brink of total collapse”. Module 3, the third of the inquiry’s 10
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Online forum 4Chan has been fined £450,000 by regulator Ofcom for failing to have age checks in place to stop children from seeing pornography on its site. The controversial US website must now add an effective age check by 2 April or face a penalty of £500 a day, the online safety watchdog said. Ofcom
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Sharp rises in the price of oil and gas as a result of the war in Iran have set off an economic chain reaction which is already hitting people in the pocket. The benchmark Brent crude oil remains around $110 a barrel, compared to around $72 before the war. And a unit of wholesale gas
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Heavy social media use has led to a stark drop in happiness among young people, according to a major academic study. Fifteen-year-old girls who use social media for more than five hours a day are the most likely to see a drop in life-satisfaction, the 2026 edition of the World Happiness Report reveals. The annual
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Val Kilmer is to posthumously appear in an action-adventure film, a year after his death from pneumonia. The company behind the movie, First Line Films, say it is the first-ever performance enabled by generative artificial intelligence. The Top Gun star was originally cast in As Deep As The Grave five years ago but had been
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