Author: Eleanor Price

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…

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…