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“Further escalation in the Middle East must be avoided at all costs.” Foreign Secretary David Lammy has urged Israel to show “restraint” after an exchange of fire with Lebanese militants Hezbollah on Sunday morning. The Israeli military carried out a series of air strikes in southern Lebanon early on Sunday, saying it had intelligence Hezbollah was planning to carry out an attack of its own. The Iran-backed militants subsequently launched […]

Erik ten Hag wants Manchester United to be more ruthless but insisted a frustrating first Premier League loss of the season was far from doom and gloom. United were beaten 2-1 at Brighton on Saturday after a late defensive lapse led to unmarked Seagulls striker Joao Pedro heading home in the fifth minute of added time. Amad Diallo cancelled out Danny Welbeck’s opener at the Amex Stadium before Joshua Zirkzee […]

Three comedians were announced as winners at the 42nd annual Edinburgh Comedy Awards for their “gift for comedy and how to use it”. On Saturday morning, the 2024 winners were announced at the event at Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, which was presented by author and presenter Richard Osman and 2023 best comedy show winner Ahir Shah. Part of the Edinburgh Fringe, this year’s Don and Eleanor Taffner Best Comedy Show […]

Kirstie Allsopp said she was contacted by social services for allowing her teenage son to go on an interrailing trip. The Location, Location, Location presenter, 52, said she allowed her 15-year-old son, Oscar, to go interrailing across Europe with his 16-year-old friend this summer but had since been contacted by a social worker who informed her that a file had been opened after child protection concerns were raised. Allsopp said […]

The King has appointed a composer of the London 2012 Paralympic Games as Master of the King’s Music. Errollyn Wallen CBE was also commissioned to compose pieces marking the Golden and Diamond Jubilees of Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Belize-born 66-year-old, who is also a pianist and singer-songwriter, was the first woman to receive an Ivor Novello Award for classical music and the first black woman to have a […]

About a million people are expected to descend on west London for Notting Hill Carnival, which will see performers dance through the streets in colourful costumes this weekend, as thousands of officers prepare to police the event. The festival is a “fixture in London’s cultural calendar” and attracts similar numbers each year, the Metropolitan Police said. It is one of the longest-running street parties in the UK and celebrates Caribbean […]

Cocaine with a street value of more than £40 million has been seized by a Royal Navy warship in the Caribbean Sea. The Royal Navy said it is the sixth drug bust made by HMS Trent in 2024, and it has seized close to seven tons of drugs worth £551.5 million from traffickers. HMS Trent’s commanding officer Commander Tim Langford described the latest bust on August 8 as “another significant […]

Israel launched a series of intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon early on Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike against the Hezbollah militant group, threatening to trigger a broader region-wide war that could torpedo efforts to forge a ceasefire in Gaza. The army said Hezbollah was planning to launch a heavy barrage of rockets and missiles towards Israel. The Iranian-backed group had been promising to retaliate for Israel’s […]

The Prime Minister is set to use a major speech on Tuesday to attack the inheritance left by the Conservatives Britain will get worse before it gets better, the Prime Minister is set to warn in his first major speech since taking office. Marking a week before Parliament returns from a shortened summer recess, Sir Keir Starmer is expected to use the speech on Tuesday to ramp up attacks on the inheritance […]