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Tommy Robinson’s ex-wife denies failing to comply with accounting rules as trial date set

Dressed in a black trouser suit, Lennon was released on bail by His Honour Judge Tony Baumgartner ahead of a further case management hearing on October 1 2026. A trial date has been set for July 31 2028. Lennon denied…

I thought Man Utd were done with transfers – until I spoke to Michael Carrick

A net transfer spend a third of Ipswich’s so far has done little to placate the discontent. I felt the full force of the vitriol last week when I dared to suggest United were perhaps due a careful summer window, after 13…

Temperatures soar to 38C as amber extreme heat warning in effect

It is the second time the UK has reached 38C this year – the first was at Lingwood, Norfolk on 26 June. The only time a temperature this high has been recorded twice in a calendar year was in 2022. It comes as a rare…

Moorland hit by fresh wildfire as heatwave peaks

Fire crews were sent to the blaze near Holmfirth Road in Oldham, at about 22:25 BST on Wednesday - with the fire covering an area of about 1,640 by 492ft (500m by 150m) at its height. Engines remained at the scene on…

Thousands of Lime bikes are left on the street as clean-up begins after skywatchers gathered to marvel at the solar eclipse

Millions gathered to watch the sun disappear behind the moon last night in the first proper solar eclipse since August 1999. The partial eclipse began shortly after 6pm in parts of the UK, with maximum coverage occurring…

Will this be the last heatwave of the summer – or is more hot weather looming?

Temperatures hit 37C on Thursday and provisional Met Office data shows the UK’s mean temperature for meteorological summer so far is currently at 16.48C – that is 1.88C above the 1991 to 2020 average temperature. England…

UK records hottest day of year as fifth summer heatwave reaches peak

As temperatures on the continent surpassed 40C at the peak of the summer's fifth heatwave, the thermometer at Kew Gardens in west London on Thursday surpassed the previous high of 38C on 28 June, the Met Office said. In…

UK records hottest day of the year so far as temperatures hit 38.1°C

The new high is the second time this year the country has seen temperatures reach 38°C, and it surpasses the previous hottest day of 2026 when 38°C was recorded in the late June heatwave as the UK struggled under a rare…

Two severely injured after derailed train near East Sussex station traps passengers

Emergency services were called to the scene at around 3.55pm, with the public warned to avoid the area. According to reports, passengers were left trapped in overturned carriages, with approximately 150 believed to be on…

Person fined after using foghorn to wake sleeping polar bear

The incident happened earlier this month after someone sounded the horn from aboard a vessel that had been sailing in a fjord in north-western Svalbard - about 1,000km (620 miles) from the North Pole. On Thursday, a…