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268,000 passengers travelled through its terminals on June 30 Heathrow has experienced its busiest ever day for passengers numbers. The airport said 268,000 passengers travelled through its terminals on June 30. It recorded a daily total in excess of 260,000 passengers five times during the month, including on consecutive days on June 23 and 24. […]

Household water bills in England and Wales are to rise by an average £19 a year over the next five years – a third less than the increase requested by companies, under draft proposals announced by Ofwat. The regulator says water firms proposed increases averaging £144 over five years. For example, Thames Water’s proposed increase […]

That’s according to the think tank, The Nuffield Trust Progress tackling the NHS waiting numbers has “stagnated” and “long waits remain endemic in the NHS”, according to a report. While progress has been made in some areas, such as cataract surgery, waits for some major surgeries have been slower to get back to pre-Covid levels, […]

That’s according to Citizens Advice Watering down Royal Mail delivery rules risks “rewarding failure” as millions of households are hit by post delays, Citizens Advice has warned. Following concerns about postal voting for the election, the charity said letter delays hit almost one in six people – or 7.2 million – this spring. Research by […]

The FCA say new rules will apply from the end of July The UK’s financial regulator has set out an overhaul of the country’s stock market rules amid rising pressure after a string of firms shunned London listings. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said new rules will apply from the end of this month which […]

Ollie Watkins struck at the death to send England to their second successive European Championship final as Gareth Southgate’s side dug deep to see off the Netherlands. The eyes of the nation were fixed on Dortmund on Wednesday evening as the Euro 2020 runners-up looked to seal a shot at history in Sunday’s Berlin showpiece […]

Latvian livewire Jelena Ostapenko blew herself out as Barbora Krejcikova reached her first Wimbledon semi-final. Ostapenko had blitzed her way through the women’s draw, dropping only 15 games in four matches with a ferocious flurry of winners. But when the unforced errors started to creep well above the winner count on Court One, Krejcikova was […]

American rock band The Killers have been awarded two Guinness World Records titles for their hit song Mr Brightside. The indie-rock anthem, which has dipped in and out of the lower half of the UK’s top 100 singles chart over the past 20 years, has spent the most amount of time in the chart compared […]

Triple murder suspect Kyle Clifford has been found following the crossbow deaths of the wife and two daughters of a BBC racing commentator. Clifford, 26, was found in the Enfield area of north London on Wednesday afternoon, Hertfordshire Police said. He is receiving medical treatment having been found with injuries. No shots were fired by […]

A prosecutor told jurors that Alec Baldwin “violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety” in opening statements at his trial for involuntary manslaughter. “The evidence will show that someone who played make believe with a real gun and violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety is the defendant, Alexander Baldwin,” special prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson […]



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