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Singer Taylor Swift has announced her engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce. The Love Story singer, 35, made the announcement in a joint Instagram post with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Kelce, which showed pictures of him proposing to her and the pair embracing in a garden. The post read: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” Swift, who has 280 million Instagram followers, also posted a […]

More than 500 people were arrested over the two days of the Notting Hill Carnival, including 61 after the use of live facial recognition. The number is up from 349 last year when the event also saw the murders of 32-year-old mother Cher Maximen and chef Mussie Imnetu. This year police said there was a reduction in serious violence, with four stabbings, none of which resulted in life-threatening injuries. The […]

An emergency alert drill will send a test message to mobile phones across the UK next weekend. t will mark the second test of the national emergency alert system – after the first in 2023. On Sunday September 7 at around 3pm, mobile phones connected to 4G and 5G networks will vibrate and emit a siren sound for up to 10 seconds. Mobile phone users will also receive a message […]

Former London’s Burning actor John Alford sexually abused two teenage girls at a party, a court has heard. The 53-year-old is accused of four counts of sexual activity with a 14-year-old and two counts relating to a second girl, then aged 15, of sexual assault and assault by penetration. Opening his trial at St Albans Crown Court on Tuesday, prosecutors said Alford sexually assaulted both girls, who did not previously […]

A long spell of above-average temperatures means this summer will “almost certainly” be the UK’s warmest on record, according to new figures from the Met Office. The country would have to see several days of below-average temperatures between now and the end of the month for 2025 to miss out on the top spot. Such a scenario is not suggested by the latest forecast. The mean average temperature for the […]

The owner of an Essex hotel, which was blocked from housing asylum seekers at the site, is set to have a bid to challenge the decision heard at the Court of Appeal on Thursday. Somani Hotels Limited, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping, is seeking to appeal against a High Court ruling ordering it to stop accommodating asylum seekers at the site by September 12. It followed Epping Forest […]

Nigel Farage has warned of a “genuine threat to public order” without action to tackle illegal migration. The Clacton MP launched Reform UK’s “operation restoring justice”, which the party is billing as a five-year emergency programme to detain and deport illegal migrants and deter future arrivals that they would enact if elected to government. Speaking at London Oxford Airport, he said: “The mood in the country around this issue is […]

Households are expected to learn that their energy bills will rise by around 1% in October when the regulator updates its price cap on Wednesday. Ofgem, which sets the limit on what energy companies can charge customers, is set to confirm its latest price cap on August 27. In their last forecast last week ahead of the update, experts at Cornwall Insight predicted the typical household energy bill will rise […]

Liverpool boss Arne Slot saluted his team’s fighting mentality after watching them kill off Newcastle’s unlikely fightback with the decisive final punch. The Reds led Eddie Howe’s 10 men 2-0 after 46 minutes at St James’ Park on Monday evening and looked set to cruise to victory before the Magpies dragged themselves back into the game only to be felled finally by 16-year-old substitute Rio Ngumoha. Slot later admitted that […]