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It's set to host some events this weekend, after a blaze last Saturday which damaged it's roof Somerset House will begin a “phased reopening” this weekend after a fire damaged the roof of the arts venue on Saturday. Some 125 firefighters and 20 engines had helped to tackle the blaze in central London, the London Fire Brigade said. There were no reported injuries. Somerset House said on Tuesday that the reopening of the venue […]

The King has arrived in Southport to meet survivors of the fatal Southport knife attack and their families. Charles travelled to Merseyside on Tuesday for a private meeting to hear the experiences of some of the young children who were attacked at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29. Crowds cheered as the King arrived at Southport Town Hall shortly after 1.30pm, where tributes have been left outside in […]

Ted Baker shops are to disappear from British high streets by the end of the day, some 36 years since the fashion chain first opened in Glasgow. The fashion chain’s 31 remaining stores in the UK and Ireland are expected to have shut down by Tuesday, while the website has also been pulled. Ted Baker was founded by Ray Kelvin in 1988, and the brand’s clothing and accessories are widely recognised for […]

British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and five others are feared to have died, with their bodies trapped inside a luxury yacht which sank in a tornado. Vincenzo Zagarola of the Italian Coastguard said this was the working theory of officials on Sicily because it is believed the boat sank quickly and search and rescue efforts by sea and air have so far delivered no results. He told the PA news […]

The King will sit down with survivors of the fatal Southport knife attack and their families during a visit to Merseyside. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were killed in the attack which was followed by rioting in Southport and across the country. The disorder included looting with hotels housing asylum seekers also attacked before counter demonstrations appeared to quell the disturbances. The violence, denounced […]

The search for British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter has resumed after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Sicily. They are among six tourists missing after the yacht, named Bayesian, was battered during intense storms off the coast of Palermo in the early hours of Monday. Four of the missing passengers are British and two are American. The BBC reported that Morgan Stanley […]

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it has recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’s October 7 attack that started the war in Gaza, as US and Arab mediators tried to advance an agreement to halt the fighting and release scores of other militant-held captives. The military said its forces recovered the bodies in an overnight operation in southern Gaza, without saying when or how the six […]

Jamie Vardy rolled back the years to terrorise Tottenham again and earn Leicester a 1-1 draw in their Premier League opener. Spurs were ahead at half-time thanks to Pedro Porro’s 29th-minute header after a one-sided first 45 at King Power Stadium. It was a different story after the break though with veteran Vardy able to punish slack away marking in the 57th-minute to earn Steve Cooper a point in his […]

A man has been arrested after a woman died and two others were seriously hurt in a triple stabbing in Manchester. The 43-year-old woman died at the scene after being found with stab wounds at a property in Barnard Road, Gorton, at about 11.20pm on Sunday. A 17-year-old girl and a 64-year-old man were also injured and taken to hospital, where their conditions have been described as life-threatening. A 22-year-old […]