All news for 2024-09-05

A senior Army officer has narrowly avoided prison after he was found guilty of drunkenly touching a woman in a karaoke bar and attempting to kiss her, a court martial heard.

Investigators will check if buyers were given clear and timely information, whether consumer protection law was breached, and whether fans were pressured to buy tickets in a short period of time - at an inflated price.

Merseyside Police have appealed for help from the public to find Layla Rose Wheeler, who was last seen in the area of Wallasey Village on the Wirral.

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak made the call as he expressed ’real concerns’ about Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners

Macron tasks former EU Brexit negotiator with forming a unifying government after months of political paralysis

A London business and ‘community hub’ is raising money to try and fight legal action from an American company over its name.

Autopsies of tech billionaire Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah are set to take place on Friday, with four victims already confirmed to have died from suffocation

Indecent assault charges in the UK against disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein have been discontinued.

Donald Trump’s latest efforts to get re-elected include promising to reveal footage from the real life X-Files with the public – even though he says he doesn’t believe in aliens

Lord chancellor says she wants to ‘inject energy’ into stalling efforts to set up Nuremberg-style trial

Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died after being set on fire by her boyfriend last weekend.

A drunk passenger tried to storm the cockpit and open the door of an easyJet flight from Gatwick to Greece while it was 30,000ft in the air.

A famous white whale accused of being a Russian spy was shot to death by poachers, animal rights groups claim.

Water company bosses could face time in prison for repeatedly polluting the UK’s rivers and seas, under new legislation set out by the government.

Academics say vulnerability of the two countries’ nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likely

Government’s bill would prevent the 92 remaining peers who inherited their titles from sitting in upper chamber