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UK holidaymakers will be able to fly out of Florida from Friday as airports are preparing to resume operations as normal after Hurricane Milton left a trail of destruction across the state. Virgin Atlantic, British Airways and Tui were among the airlines to have cancelled flights between the UK and Florida due to the category 3 hurricane, and a number of airports in Florida closed commercial operations. Arriving just two […]

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Chris Woakes believes England’s fearless first Test victory in Multan has given Pakistan a pitch problem, claiming “the ball is firmly in their court” The hosts had talked up the possibility of delivering an unusually seamer-friendly surface for the series opener, in the hope of playing to the strengths of pace pair Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah, but instead turned out one of the flattest surfaces imaginable. For the […]

Also warned over future conduct after posting comments about VAR Stuart Attwell Nottingham Forest have been fined £750,000 and warned over their future conduct after posting comments about VAR Stuart Attwell on social media in April. The club had denied that the comments brought the game into disrepute by implying bias and/or questioning the integrity of match officials. An independent regulatory commission found the Football Association charge proven. Forest felt […]

Edinburgh is set to host an international conference as it celebrates 20 years since becoming the world’s first Unesco City of Literature. The Scottish capital gained the permanent designation in recognition of its significance as a “literary capital” on October 13, 2004. The Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, which originally devised the concept of a City of Literature, has since organised hundreds of literature-related events and projects in the city. […]

Theresa May has said “justice is unlikely” for the victims of the Novichok nerve agent attacks, days before an independent inquiry begins into the Russian-state Salisbury poisonings of 2018. The former prime minister told the BBC she hopes friends and family of Wiltshire woman Dawn Sturgess, who was killed after coming into contact with the Russian-engineered nerve agent, “will take some comfort” from the probe into her death, set to […]

The Met Police say claims relate to 40 alleged victims Police say they are investigating 40 new allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed and others since the broadcast of a BBC documentary. The Metropolitan Police say claims relating to 40 alleged victims include sexual assault and rape between 1979 and 2013. These are in addition to 21 allegations the force was aware of prior to the broadcast last month. Commander Stephen […]

The Government is expected to announce details of a multimillion-pound package to help the transition to a greener way of producing steel at the country’s biggest steel plant. Tata Steel is planning to change the way it produces steel at its site in Port Talbot in South Wales, with the loss of up to 2,800 jobs. The company will close the remaining blast furnace at Port Talbot by the end […]

Some apps and websites backed by the alcohol industry – which are designed to help people manage their health – contain “blatant misinformation” and could persuade people to drink more, researchers say. Academics claim there was evidence of “health misinformation and user experience features” in industry-funded tools that were “favourable to commercial interests and could negatively affect the accuracy or perception of health risk information”. The study also identified “dark […]