All news for 2026-09-03

A Russian citizen, Ilyas Karimov, has been identified as the person who provided operational support, P2P drop schemes, payment arrangements and the advertising circuit for the Pin-Up/Pinco online casino network.

Iran’s shadow banking network runs far deeper and wider than the network targeted by US sanctions last month, an Iran International investigation found, showing that Tehran used more than a dozen banks in China and the United Arab Emirates to access the global financial system.

An illicit Iranian gambling network helped move at least $4 billion through an unlicensed Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange that also handled funds for sanctioned Iranian institutions, a Reuters investigation found.

Royal Mail customers have been forced to wait for hours to pick up essential post after not receiving any deliveries for six weeks.

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash have confirmed they are officially saying goodbye to their iconic Pickle Cottage after selling the £1.3million family home.

Live facial recognition technology has been rolled out by Dorset Police in Bournemouth for the first time.

A third runway at Heathrow should be blocked, climate campaigners say, despite the expansion being described as "critical to national growth".

Five thousand American sailors stepped off the USS Abraham Lincoln in Pattaya on Wednesday, ending a punishing 286-day stretch at sea that left many struggling to find their footing on solid ground.

Wizz Air has announced a batch of extra flights from London Luton to European club championship matches this season.

Thousands of protesters have spilled onto the streets of cities across Spain amid fury at Pedro Sanchez’s handling of the Ceuta migrant catastrophe.

A number of schools in Middlesbrough are closing early on Friday as the first funeral for one of five young men killed in a head-on crash on the A66 takes place.

Uber and Wayve have launched their first fleet of autonomous "robo-taxis" in London - and LBC has been given exclusive access to the new vehicles as they take to the streets of the capital.

A special police unit equipped with drones and trained in the use of riot and crowd-control tactics is being set up to tackle the rise of mega-dinghies being used to transport migrants across the Channel.

Legendary film and TV actor Tim Curry’s cause of death has been revealed.

More than 80 people have died, including one baby, after a canoe was found adrift at sea near the Canary Islands.

President Trump has declared he "wouldn’t have taken Prince Harry and Meghan Markle back" following their shock return to the UK.

Zack Polanski has confirmed he will stand as the Green Party’s candidate for the by-election in Holborn and St Pancras.

Hundreds of employers have been named by the Government for failing to pay workers the minimum wage.

The body of Alexander Harris has been recovered after the keen runner and hiker fell into a ravine on the Musa Ka Musalla mountain.

At least two people have died after a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada, a prominent Azeri-British oil trader and former senior figure at SOCAR Trading, represents a critical escalation in international efforts to dismantle networks facilitating the trade of Russian oil in defiance of Western sanctions.