2 h. ago Shop boss running illegal £1m tobacco operation ordered to pay £87k and sell BMW

The shop was described as a 'very busy and successful' cash-based business which was being run 'primarily for the purposes of selling illicit tobacco'

Economics

4 h. ago Labour minister admits he was wrong to claim most small boats migrants are 'babies, children and women'

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones faced mounting criticism after his erroneous comments on BBC Question Time

Politics

4 h. ago Members of international trafficking gang who smuggled people into UK in Vauxhall Vectras jailed

Mukhlis Jamal Hamadamin led a gang which smuggled illegal immigrants into the country stuffed into hidden compartments of Vauxhall Vectras

Events

4 h. ago The moment Rochdale groomers were finally grilled over sickening crimes against two teenage girls

The sexual predators were questioned over a string of allegations relating to two victims

Events

4 h. ago Travellers set up illegal encampment next to primary school as parents told to take 'extra precautions' when dropping their children off

Lainesmead Primary School is open and operating as usual despite the 24 caravans, which appeared on Thursday evening.

Society

5 h. ago Minister agrees small boats crossings mainly men after Question Time claim

Darren Jones faced criticism after suggesting on the BBC’s Question Time that the majority of small boats crossings are ‘children, babies and women’.

Politics

5 h. ago Children’s social worker who got boy, 15, to sell drugs and supplied guns jailed

Chloe Scott and Miles Addy sourced a firearm linked back to a murder investigation, Scotland Yard said

Events

5 h. ago Home of gangster who sparked Scotland's violent drug war "shot at" in chilling warning

A firearm was discharged at a home owned by the hood who set up the £500k cocaine deal to rip off Dubai-based Mr Big Ross McGill with a payment of fake notes.

Events

5 h. ago Love Island contestant dubbed 'Barbie' jailed for 14 years over her role in 'eye

A blonde Love Island contestant dubbed "Barbie" is starting a 14-year stretch behind bars for helping a major international crime cartel flood UK streets with illegal drugs.

Events

5 h. ago Many oil tanker owners reluctant to brave Strait of Hormuz, Frontline chief says

Israel’s strike on Iran raises questions about waterway handling quarter of world crude oil supplies

Events

5 h. ago Republicans back Israeli attack on Iran but some Democrats say it sabotages nuclear talks

Trump and GOP cheered the strikes, but others say Israeli PM deliberately harmed nuclear program negotiationsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump and Republicans in Washington on Friday cheered Israel for carrying out long-threatened strikes on Iran, but several Democrats accused that country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of deliberately sabotaging talks to resolve the question of Tehran’s nuclear program peacefully.Iran has few friends within the American political establishment, while Israel retains widespread support in Congress, even as some Democrats publicly condemn its conduct in the war in Gaza. Republicans lined up behind the president in praising the attack, which seems certain to put an end to weeks of thus-far fruitless negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Continue reading...

Politics

6 h. ago How police can help with a missing person case and what to expect

It can be difficult to know what to do when a loved one goes missing. Here we answer some of the most asked questions on the topic.

Events

6 h. ago Can I use an expired Covid test? Pharmacist answers important question as 'Nimbus' variant detected

The UKHSA have confirmed that 13 cases of the ‘Nimbus’ variant have been found so far🧪

Politics

7 h. ago Israelis in triumphant but foreboding mood after unprecedented Iran strikes

Many welcome attack on military and nuclear targets but unease lingers as country braces for what happens nextMiddle East crisis – live updatesTrepidation mixed with triumphalism in Israel on Friday, after an unprecedented attack on Iran’s military and nuclear programme brought ordinary life to an abrupt halt.The country’s main airport was closed “until further notice” with no flights expected for days and hospitals began moving hundreds of vulnerable patients to emergency underground facilities and sending home anyone who could be discharged. Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago Nursing home 'horrors' as 75 pensioners found drugged with feet tied together

A total of 75 people were found in "illegal" nursing homes with their feet tied together and heavily drugged up, with ministers branding the discovery as a "house of horror"

Events

7 h. ago Government ‘focused’ on tackling smuggling gangs after minister’s boats claim

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said the majority of people crossing the Channel in small boats are ‘children, babies and women’.

Politics

7 h. ago Police questioning millionaire over murder of student who went missing 32 years ago

Annie McCarrick disappeared in Dublin more than three decades ago. But this week, police arrested a respected businessman aged in his 60s in connection to her murder

Events

7 h. ago Eric Dane shuts down question about ALS diagnosis, reveals which role made him feel like an artist

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star was asked about his diagnosis in a new interview with ‘Variety’

Politics

7 h. ago Football Daily | ‘Suited and booted’? Club World Cup lands in a furnace of political tension

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!After years of existing only as a fever dream inside the shiny, spacious cranium of Fifa’s greatest showman, Gianni Infantino, the first edition of an expanded, summertime Club World Cup that nobody asked for is finally here. Infantino’s most ambitious vanity project to date is about to collide with reality, and as students of the Swiss school of football farce, we’re excited. It’s not so much a question of what will go wrong over the next 30 sun-baked days in an increasingly dystopian USA USA USA, but what might actually go right. Saturday’s opener pitches Egyptian giants Al-Ahly (who qualified by winning the 2021 African Big Cup) against MLS middleweights Inter Miami (who qualified by having Lionel Messi in their team) at the 65,000-capacity Hard Rock Stadium. Fifa has denied reports that fewer than 20,000 tickets have been sold for the game in Miami, but the tournament’s dynamic pricing model is trending in one direction: from $3...

Politics

7 h. ago Federal workers are still required to fill out DOGE ‘five things’ email despite Musk being long gone

The White House and other government agencies defend the practice despite some employees questioning their utility

Politics