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Villagers fear wildfires as residents of illegal South Downs ‘shanty town’ repeatedly burn rubbish inside tinder-dry national park
Villagers near Soberton in the South Downs National Park say they fear a wildfire could break out after repeated fires were lit at an illegal “shanty town” of caravans that has occupied the site for more than a decade. Firefighters have been called seven times in recent weeks to tackle blazes started at the settlement,…
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Women’s Super League 2026-27 preview No 4: Brighton
Brighton head into the 2026-27 Women’s Super League season looking to build on a landmark campaign that saw them reach their first FA Cup final, where they lost to Manchester City at Wembley. Manager Dario Vidosic, now entering his third season and the WSL’s second-longest-serving boss, has overseen a relatively stable summer with seven arrivals…
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Jobs market for graduates is the worst it’s been in at least 10 years
The number of graduate job vacancies advertised in Britain has fallen to its lowest level in at least a decade, according to recruitment website Adzuna, deepening concerns about career prospects for the record numbers of school leavers heading to university. The drop matters because it coincides with a broader “jobs drought” and a wider slowdown…
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AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
A revised Stanford University study finds that artificial intelligence is significantly reducing job opportunities for young workers in occupations most exposed to AI, even as older employees remain largely unaffected. The updated paper, an August 2026 revision of last year’s “Canaries in the Coal Mine?” research, shows the gap between AI-exposed and AI-resistant fields has…
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Newsnight ‘could be axed’ as BBC bosses battle to save £500million
The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Newsnight faces potential closure as the corporation tries to save £500million over the next three years, according to sources cited in reports. Staff on the 40-year-old show fear it could be axed by the end of next year as the BBC shifts its focus towards social media output and…
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You don’t want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine
Security researcher Dominik Reichel has identified a previously unseen Windows backdoor, dubbed Sleepwalker, that lurks silently in a compromised machine’s memory until a specially crafted network packet activates it. Unlike typical malware, it never contacts a command-and-control server or opens a listening port, making it invisible to network monitoring tools that watch for suspicious outbound…
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Nottingham Forest close in on signing Liam Delap from Chelsea
Nottingham Forest have moved closer to signing Chelsea striker Liam Delap, who fell out of favour under Xabi Alonso and was left out of the squad for Monday’s game at Fulham. Head coach Oliver Glasner confirmed talks were progressing and that the club was targeting one further signing besides Delap, most likely a wing-back to…
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Female school worker called child UGLY then held them upside down by their feet, prosecutors say
A former education aide in Marshall, Texas, has been indicted after allegedly calling a young child “ugly” and holding them upside down by their feet while swinging them around. Rachel Kirspel, 37, worked at the Marshall Early Childhood Learning Center, which serves three- and four-year-olds, and was reported by a colleague who heard screaming and…
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Commuter chaos as a major Sydney train line is shut down due to emergency repairs
Train services on Sydney’s north shore were suspended on Tuesday morning after urgent repairs were needed to overhead wiring at Chatswood station, leaving thousands of commuters facing severe disruption. All city-bound trains were halted, with knock-on effects across the T1 North Shore and Western Line, the T9 Northern Line, and the Central Coast and Newcastle…