Author: Darren Smith

Eight spectators have been taken to hospital after a motorcycle crashed into a crowd barrier at Parliament Square in Ramsey during the opening practice session of the 2026 Isle of Man TT, forcing the suspension of all activity on the famous Mountain Course for the remainder of the day. The incident occurred at around 1.30pm on Monday during an untimed practice session for Superbike and Superstock machines. A crashed bike on the exit of Parliament Square entered a spectator area and pushed crowd barriers back into onlookers, according to GB News. The red flag was immediately displayed, bringing the session…

Morrisons has become the first British supermarket to stop selling sharp-pointed kitchen knives, replacing them with blunt-ended alternatives that cannot pierce skin — in a move backed by anti-knife charities and survivors of some of Britain’s most devastating knife attacks. The retail giant has switched to Viners’ rounded-tip Assure Collection across its stores, with David Scott, Morrisons’ corporate affairs director, saying the knives were “just as effective in the kitchen but reduce the risk of harm.” He added that the company hoped the move would “help normalise safer knives and make our communities safer.” The decision comes as knife crime…

Half of unaccompanied child migrants reassessed by Kent County Council last year were found to be adults, according to figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws — raising serious concerns about the integrity of age verification processes for small boat arrivals. Of 19 so-called child migrants placed in the care of Kent County Council who were retested in 2025 after frontline staff raised doubts about their true ages, ten were determined to be adults, The Sun can reveal. The individuals had been due to be placed in foster care or children’s homes as minors. Kent is at the centre of…

A prestigious Los Angeles private school attended by the children of some of America’s biggest celebrities is facing legal action after a lawsuit alleged that a student-run group sexually abused children as young as seven in school bathrooms — and that staff covered up evidence rather than reporting it to authorities. The Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, which charges up to $48,600 a year in tuition and counts among its alumni Kendall and Kylie Jenner, LeBron James’s sons Bronny and Bryce, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow, was named as a defendant in a civil complaint filed by…

Russia has issued a stark warning to foreign nationals and diplomats in Kyiv to leave the Ukrainian capital “as soon as possible,” threatening a fresh wave of strikes on government buildings, military command posts and drone manufacturing facilities — just days after one of the most devastating attacks on the city since the war began. Russia’s foreign ministry said it had recommended that the United States and other countries with diplomatic missions in Kyiv ensure the evacuation of their personnel, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov personally informing US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of Moscow’s plans to strike the capital.…

A senior Metropolitan Police commander has been suspended after an artificial intelligence system found alleged sexual content on his work phone — as the force confirms more than 100 officers have been flagged by the same technology since its rollout last month, triggering a major internal inquiry. James Deller, a Special Constabulary Chief Officer responsible for overseeing 1,200 volunteer officers, is under investigation after being identified by software developed by US data firm Palantir. The system, which scans data held on officers’ work phones and laptops, flagged Deller for allegedly holding “sexualised content” on a force device. The civilian volunteer,…

China has launched three astronauts into orbit aboard its Tiangong space station as part of an accelerating programme designed to put Chinese boots on the Moon before the end of the decade — and for the first time in history, one of those astronauts comes from Hong Kong. A Long March 2-F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch centre in China’s northwestern Gobi Desert at around 3pm GMT on Sunday, carrying the Shenzhou-23 crew to the orbiting station. Li Jiaying, 43, a former Hong Kong police officer, made history as the first person from the city to travel to…

Sixty firefighters are battling a large fire near Hackney Downs Station in east London, sending thick plumes of dark smoke into the sky and forcing a partial suspension of the Mildmay Overground line on Sunday evening. Eight fire engines have been deployed from stations across east London to tackle the blaze, which broke out on Cottrill Gardens. The London Fire Brigade confirmed that a static caravan and two cars have been engulfed by the fire, along with part of a grass embankment. Video footage circulating on social media shows heavy black smoke rising above the area as crews work to…

A 22-year-old man has been banned from every Tesco store in Derby until 2029 after stealing two cans of cider — with his custody photograph sparking a wave of Ed Sheeran jokes online after Derbyshire Police posted it on social media. Bailey Esmonde, of no fixed abode, was caught on camera entering a Tesco Express on St Peter’s Street and making off with two cans of cider. Two days after the theft on 30 March, he was arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine. Charged with shop theft and possession of crack cocaine, Esmonde appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court on…

The stepfather accused of abandoning two young boys blindfolded in a Portuguese forest had recorded a series of disturbing videos just days earlier in which he warned of an impending apocalypse, urged people to hide in nature and claimed a horse he encountered had been “hybridised with reptile DNA.” Marc Ballabriga, 55, a former police officer, is alleged to have filmed the videos on 15 May — just four days before he and his partner Marine Rousseau, 41, are accused of abandoning their sons Barthelemy, five, and Zacharie, three, on a remote rural road near Alcacer do Sal in southern…