Author: Eleanor Price

The UK’s record-breaking heatwave is set to end this weekend with temperatures expected to plunge by as much as 15C from Sunday, bringing welcome relief after one of the most extreme heat events in British history pushed the mercury to 40C and triggered widespread disruption across schools and transport networks. The Met Office has confirmed that Thursday will mark the peak of the heat for most of the country, with temperatures expected to hit 40C in some areas and widespread readings above 37C. A rare red heat warning remains in place covering a swathe of England stretching from London through…

Seven NHS nurses have secured £187,000 in damages from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust after winning a landmark employment tribunal ruling that the hospital unlawfully required female staff to share changing facilities with a biological male colleague who identified as a woman. The Trust has also issued a formal apology and committed to providing separate changing, washing and sanitary facilities for biological men and biological women — and has scrapped the “Transitioning in the Workplace” policy that allowed the original situation to arise. The settlement, which does not include legal costs still to be determined, came after two…

British holidaymakers face a summer of travel disruption after airport and ferry industry leaders warned that the EU’s new Entry-Exit System is causing serious delays, with passengers queueing for hours and planes already taking off without dozens of their passengers on board. The EU’s Entry-Exit System, which requires travellers from outside the bloc to register biometric data including fingerprints and facial images when entering most European countries, has been blamed for chaos at several major airports since its rollout. Stefan Schulte, president of Airports Council International Europe, delivered a blunt assessment at an event in Prague, saying politicians should “stop…

Fears have mounted over Jordan Peterson’s health after his daughter shared a cryptic Father’s Day message saying she “misses” her father, prompting a flood of concern from fans before the psychologist himself broke his silence to confirm he remains too unwell to return to public life. Mikhaila Peterson, 34, posted a childhood photograph of herself with her father on X with the words “Happy Father’s Day. Miss you,” leaving thousands of followers alarmed about the 63-year-old’s condition. The message sparked immediate speculation, with some users questioning whether Peterson was still alive. “Miss you? Is he still alive?” one commenter wrote.…

A Toronto-based model has been left with rope burns after being used as human fishing bait in a dangerous stunt that saw her dragged underwater by a shark in Florida, sparking widespread criticism online despite the clip attracting more than 10.6 million views. CeCe Rose was filmed for a video by influencer Anthony Dawson, known online as TooTurntTony, after agreeing to be hurled into the water with a rope tied around her ankles and a dead fish attached to her as bait. She spent several hours floating peacefully in the water before a nurse shark eventually took the bait, dragging…

Toy Story 5 arrives in cinemas worldwide on Friday, with critics largely hailing it as a fitting return to form for the beloved Pixar franchise more than three decades after the original film, though a handful of reviewers have questioned whether the series should now finally bow out. The film reunites Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz and Joan Cusack as Jessie, with Bonnie’s toys this time facing competition for her affections from a new tablet device called Lilypad — a storyline several critics have praised as a genuinely meaningful exploration of technology’s place in modern childhood. Taylor…

Robbie Williams sent his Instagram followers into a spin on Wednesday night as he stripped down to his pants while hunting through his wardrobe for a lucky outfit to wear while watching England take on Croatia — a match the Three Lions went on to win 4-2 in Dallas. The former Take That star, 52, shared the clip alongside his wife Ayda, who filmed the debate from behind the camera. “I genuinely don’t know what to wear,” Williams told viewers while rifling through piles of clothes. “I need something lucky and I don’t know what that is. I don’t know…

Radio 4’s The World Tonight is to be axed after more than half a century on air, BBC Breakfast will no longer broadcast on Sundays from September, and 550 jobs are to go from the corporation’s news, television and radio teams as the BBC embarks on its most sweeping cost-cutting programme in a generation. The cuts, revealed to staff by new director-general Matt Brittin in an email on Wednesday, form part of a drive to save £500 million over the next two years. More than a quarter of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 total redundancies will come from editorial and…

The BBC has removed planned repeat episodes of Ashley Cain’s documentary series Into The Danger Zone after an investigation revealed historic tweets in which the presenter referred to women in deeply offensive terms and sent abusive sexualised messages to female users. The Guardian published the investigation detailing a series of tweets in which Cain called women “sgs,” “sts” and “psychos,” made jokes about hitting women, and used degrading sexual language. In 2014, responding to a female user, he reportedly wrote: “Go and choke on a ck you st.” In 2015, he wrote to another: “The only thing that’s desperate around…

French holiday towns are slapping bare-chested men with fines of up to €150 as local authorities move to ban shirtless walking in public areas, marking a significant shift for a country long associated with relaxed attitudes towards beach attire. Sunbathing topless on French beaches remains perfectly legal in most places, but town councils are drawing a firm line at the water’s edge. Walking without a shirt through town centres, pedestrian zones and historic areas is increasingly being treated as a matter of public order rather than personal choice, with hygiene and decency cited as the main justifications. Narbonne is the…