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Extra precautions were put in place to protect Fulham’s women’s team from the club’s late owner Mohamed Al Fayed, a former manager has said. Five women alleged they had been raped by Mr Al Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with a number of others alleging sexual misconduct. Gaute Haugenes, who managed the team from 2001 to 2003, told the BBC that members of staff were […]

A weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy showers is in force across much of southern England and Wales. The Met Office says damage to buildings as a result of lightning strikes, disruption to public transport and flooding should be expected within the affected areas. The yellow warning, which covers all of Wales and southwest England, the Midlands and parts of southeast and northern England, came into effect at 1am and […]

Hezbollah has announced the death of a top military official in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Israeli officials had earlier said the rare strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs killed Ibrahim Akil, a commander of the Lebanese militant group’s elite Radwan Force. The strike killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. In a statement, Hezbollah described Akil as “a great jihadist leader”. It said he had […]

A capybara which escaped from a Shropshire zoo has been captured safe and well after spending nearly a week at large. One-year-old Cinnamon escaped from Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Telford on Saturday and was found living in a field next to the zoo by a search team on Tuesday night. She was finally captured on Friday by a team of “over a dozen experts” in a pond within […]

In-person voting for this year’s presidential election began in the US on Friday – a milestone that kicked off a six-week sprint to election day after a summer of political turmoil. Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia, the states with the first early in-person voting opportunities. About a dozen more states will follow by mid-October. At a polling site in Minneapolis, Jason Miller arrived well […]

The Prime Minister and his most senior ministers will no longer accept donations to pay for their clothes. Neither Sir Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, nor Chancellor Rachel Reeves will accept such donations in the future, the PA news agency understands. The move comes as Labour seeks to put to bed a row about Sir Keir and his wife Lady Victoria Starmer’s acceptance of gifts, including clothing, from […]

The Israeli military has announced that its air strike on a neighbourhood of Beirut killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official. There was no immediate confirmation of his death from Hezbollah. The Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital killed at least 14 people and wounded nearly 60 others, according to Lebanese health officials, and flattened two apartment buildings. The Israeli military also claimed that its strike […]

Nigel Farage has promised that Reform UK will “be vetting candidates rigorously at all levels” in future as he delivered his keynote speech to the party’s conference. Addressing the crowds in Birmingham, Mr Farage said the party has not got “time” or “room” for “a few extremists to wreck the work of a party that now has 80,000 members”. He described the weekend’s conference as the point his party “comes of age” […]

Leader Nigel Farage will be among the speakers as the two-day event gets underway in Birmingham Reform UK will begin its party conference on Friday saying it plans to win the next general election. The party, which secured five seats at this year’s general election, is set to begin its two-day conference in Birmingham with speeches from party leader Nigel Farage, deputy leader Richard Tice, chairman Zia Yousuf and MPs Lee […]