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Pop singer Olly Murs has cancelled two of his UK tour dates after contracting a respiratory infection. The Troublemaker singer, 41, who found fame as a contestant on The X Factor, was due to perform at Manchester’s AO Arena on Friday and Birmingham’s BP Pulse Live on Saturday. He apologised to his fans, including those who witnessed his voice “failing” him during a Thursday performance at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro. In […]

Two youths have admitted murdering a 14-year-old schoolboy in a machete attack on a London bus. Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed around 27 times as he travelled home on a route 472 bus in Woolwich, south-east London, on Tuesday January 7. Emergency services were called to Woolwich Church Street, near Woolwich Ferry, just before 2.30pm. Kelyan, an aspiring rapper, had sustained a severed femoral artery and died shortly after medics arrived […]

Ivan Toney has earned a recall to the England squad for forthcoming games against Andorra and Senegal, with Trevoh Chalobah handed a maiden call-up. Toney has not represented his country since Euro 2024 following his move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Ahli last summer. But boss Thomas Tuchel has handed him a lifeline after he scored 29 goals in 43 games for the Saudi Pro League champions. The former Brentford striker […]

A woman who was diagnosed with rare blood cancer while pregnant with twins has launched an appeal to find a stem cell donor. Katie Matthews, 32, has been told she has just six years to live without a transplant. Abnormalities were initially detected at the scan where she and husband Tommy, 37, found out they were having two babies. Following a biopsy, Mrs Matthews was diagnosed with myelofibrosis, a type […]

Household energy bills will fall by 7% from July, Ofgem has confirmed. The typical bill will drop by £129 to £1,720 per year when the regulator’s new price cap – which sets the limit on how much firms can charge customers per unit of energy – comes into force. This is £660 (28%) lower than at the height of the energy crisis at the start of 2023 when the government […]

Millions of people in England will now be able to get “Amazon-style” tracking updates on their prescriptions using the NHS app, officials have said. The new feature will aim to “tackle the administrative burden” on pharmacies by slashing unnecessary phone calls and visits, allowing staff to spend more time assisting patients. According to NHS England, around 45% of phone calls to community pharmacies are from people chasing prescriptions. Now patients […]

Leeds Trinity University has been fined more than £100,000 by England’s higher education regulator for failing to effectively address risks associated with its franchised courses. An investigation by the Office for Students (OfS) identified “serious failures” in the arrangements the university had in place to oversee its subcontractual partnerships – more commonly known as franchised providers. The penalty of £115,000 comes after the watchdog previously warned that it would intervene […]

A total of 20 prisons are to pilot the chemical castration of sex offenders, the Justice Secretary has said. The Government is exploring whether to enforce the chemical castration on offenders as mandatory, Shabana Mahmood told MPs, after recommendations from the independent sentencing review to explore its use further to reduce the risk of reoffending. The review led by former justice secretary David Gauke recommended reforms to overhaul the prisons system and […]

The difference between the number of people moving to the UK and leaving the country is estimated to have halved, in the biggest fall in net migration since the pandemic. The figure stood at an estimated 431,000 in the year ending December 2024, down 49.9% from 860,000 a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said. This is the biggest calendar-year drop since the early stages of the pandemic when […]