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Erik ten Hag wants Manchester United to be more ruthless but insisted a frustrating first Premier League loss of the season was far from doom and gloom. United were beaten 2-1 at Brighton on Saturday after a late defensive lapse led to unmarked Seagulls striker Joao Pedro heading home in the fifth minute of added […]

Three comedians were announced as winners at the 42nd annual Edinburgh Comedy Awards for their “gift for comedy and how to use it”. On Saturday morning, the 2024 winners were announced at the event at Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, which was presented by author and presenter Richard Osman and 2023 best comedy show winner Ahir […]

Kirstie Allsopp said she was contacted by social services for allowing her teenage son to go on an interrailing trip. The Location, Location, Location presenter, 52, said she allowed her 15-year-old son, Oscar, to go interrailing across Europe with his 16-year-old friend this summer but had since been contacted by a social worker who informed […]

The King has appointed a composer of the London 2012 Paralympic Games as Master of the King’s Music. Errollyn Wallen CBE was also commissioned to compose pieces marking the Golden and Diamond Jubilees of Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Belize-born 66-year-old, who is also a pianist and singer-songwriter, was the first woman to receive […]

About a million people are expected to descend on west London for Notting Hill Carnival, which will see performers dance through the streets in colourful costumes this weekend, as thousands of officers prepare to police the event. The festival is a “fixture in London’s cultural calendar” and attracts similar numbers each year, the Metropolitan Police […]

Cocaine with a street value of more than £40 million has been seized by a Royal Navy warship in the Caribbean Sea. The Royal Navy said it is the sixth drug bust made by HMS Trent in 2024, and it has seized close to seven tons of drugs worth £551.5 million from traffickers. HMS Trent’s […]

Israel launched a series of intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon early on Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike against the Hezbollah militant group, threatening to trigger a broader region-wide war that could torpedo efforts to forge a ceasefire in Gaza. The army said Hezbollah was planning to launch a heavy barrage of […]

The Prime Minister is set to use a major speech on Tuesday to attack the inheritance left by the Conservatives Britain will get worse before it gets better, the Prime Minister is set to warn in his first major speech since taking office. Marking a week before Parliament returns from a shortened summer recess, Sir […]

Three people were killed at a festival in Solingen on Friday night The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and wounded eight others, according to its Amaq news site. The group said the attacker targeted Christians and is a “soldier of the Islamic […]

The pair were only supposed to be in space for a week Nasa has decided it is too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they will have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a week-long test flight for Butch […]



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