Phyllida Law, prolific performer across stage and screen, dies aged 94
Phyllida Law, whose prolific acting career encompassed a wide range of stage, TV and film roles – a number of which were alongside her daughters Emma and Sophie Thompson –…
Romanian killer guilty of ‘strikingly similar’ second murder in UK just years after release from prison
Eugeniu Neamtu has been found guilty of stabbing his flatmate Gheorghe Trica to death in Walthamstow in February A foreign killer who served a prison sentence in Romania for murder…
One dead and hundreds ill in UK salmonella outbreak
A person has died and hundreds have fallen ill with salmonella food posioning in an outbreak that UK experts believe is linked to eating food made with imported eggs. The…
‘The truth about Diana’: Charles Spencer to publish book about late sister
Charles Spencer is to publish about a book about his sister Diana in September. In the book – titled Swan Song: Diana, My Sister – Spencer recounts the story of…
Men argued about ‘right of way’ before fatal Wakefield dog attack, court told
The German Shepherd dog has been seized by police officers A man has appeared in court accused of manslaughter after his German Shepherd fatally bit a man on a footpath…
Poundland owner ‘looking to sell’ a year after takeover that shut 200 stores
Around 200 stores were shut a year ago, leaving 600 around the UK The owner of Poundland is reportedly looking to sell the discount high street store just a year…
Boris Johnson’s Covid U-turns were like a ‘slow-moving car crash’, former aide says
Lee Cain said the government was making the same mistake ‘over and over again’ A series of Covid U-turns made by Boris Johnson’s government were like a “slow-moving car crash”…
UK retailers too slow to pass on fuel price falls, watchdog says
Some petrol stations are still not passing on changes in wholesale prices quickly enough and more than 1,000 warning letters have been sent to retailers failing to give prices to…
Artificial intelligence to stop nuisance 101 police calls about late pizza delivery
The non-emergency line receives ridiculous reports on issues from delayed pizza delivery to requests for a lift Artificial intelligence software is set to be deployed to help clear the police…
England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the…