Author: Eleanor Price

Punk rap duo Bob Vylan have announced they are taking legal action against the BBC following the broadcaster’s response to their controversial performance at Glastonbury 2025, in which the band led the crowd in chants relating to Gaza. In a lengthy statement posted to social media on Friday, the duo accused the BBC of applying labels to them that they say were false and of attempting to suppress voices critical of Israeli actions in Palestine. “We have decided to take legal action against the BBC,” the statement read. “In the immediate aftermath of our performance at Glastonbury 2025, the BBC…

Strictly professional dancer Neil Jones has married Love Island star Chyna Mills in a quiet ceremony at Marylebone Town Hall, with no family members present following a bitter dispute in which Chyna accused Neil’s mother of racism and bullying. The couple shared black-and-white photographs from their Wednesday ceremony on Instagram on Friday, showing just the two of them on their wedding day — Chyna in a white Bardot satin gown and Neil in a fitted suit. Their two-year-old daughter Havana, whose baptism last year became the flashpoint for the family fallout, was not pictured at the ceremony. The couple are…

Police have threatened to arrest journalists and onlookers outside Madison Square Garden as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding festivities reach fever pitch, with officers ordering members of the press to leave a public street or face arrest for trespassing. The confrontation unfolded on Thursday evening as reporters and photographers gathered on the street outside the iconic New York venue ahead of a pre-party for the couple’s wedding. NYPD officers told journalists to move to a designated press pen, with one officer warning: “It’s managed access. That means unless you have a business on the block, you gotta go to…

ITV World Cup pundit Lucy Ward has paid an emotional tribute to her partner Neil Redfearn after revealing the former footballer saved her mother’s life while she was thousands of miles away working on coverage of the tournament in the United States. Ward, 52, has been working as a co-commentator and analyst for ITV throughout the World Cup, travelling across Mexico, Canada and the USA to cover matches. While she has been away, Redfearn, a former Premier League footballer, has been at home in the UK keeping a close eye on her mother. Last Friday, that responsibility proved critical when…

Daveigh Chase, the actress who haunted a generation as the terrifying Samara Morgan in The Ring, died of AIDS at the age of 35, with chronic polysubstance use listed as a significant contributing condition, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has confirmed. Chase died in a Los Angeles hospital on 16 June 2026, two weeks before the cause of death was made public. Her manner of death has been recorded as natural. Her boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, had confirmed her death earlier this month, describing a devastating final weeks that included meningitis, a blood infection and sepsis. She had been admitted…

YouTube star Zoe Sugg, better known as Zoella, has been plunged into a bitter countryside planning dispute after installing a donkey shelter, shepherd’s huts, fencing and gates on agricultural land behind her £2 million Sussex mansion without first seeking planning permission. The influencer, 36, and her YouTuber fiancé Alfie Deyes, 32, are now seeking retrospective approval from Mid Sussex District Council for the development on a five-acre plot in the affluent village of Hassocks, which includes a secure enclosure of almost 3,000 square metres, a timber stable, a tractor parking area, a wildlife pond and three shepherd’s huts. Two of…

Dame Penelope Keith, the much-loved actress best known for her role in the BBC sitcom The Good Life, has died aged 86 after a battle with cancer. A family statement confirmed she passed away peacefully at her home in Surrey, where she had lived for more than 50 years. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Dame Penelope Keith died peacefully whilst living with cancer at her home in Surrey,” the statement read. “The family is grateful for the care and support she received throughout her treatments, and ask that their privacy be respected at this time.” Keith became a…

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…