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California high school football season opener descends into CHAOS…fans run for cover after accused shooter, 15, gunned down promising teen athlete
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after 17-year-old Levi Brown was shot dead at a high school football season opener in Bakersfield, California, triggering panic as spectators fled the stadium. The shooting occurred at Independence High School on Friday night, just as the game against Centennial High School was getting under way, following a fight…
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Pauline Hanson refuses to back down against Mehreen Faruqi and plots new legal move to clear her name after losing battle over tweet
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has announced plans to seek special leave to appeal to Australia’s High Court after losing a Federal Court battle over a 2022 social media post telling Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan”. The Full Federal Court ruled the post breached section 18C…
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KPMG axes hundreds of jobs in Australia as it is suspended from applying for government contracts
KPMG Australia will cut around 5% of its workforce, equating to roughly 360 employees and 27 partners, after being suspended from bidding for federal government contracts. The move follows an audit leak scandal in which executives were found to have misused confidential board papers to win audit work and mistreated a whistleblower, a matter now…
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Shein aims for almost $27bn valuation in stock market debut
Fast-fashion giant Shein is set to make its long-delayed stock market debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 1 September, in a listing valuing the company at nearly $27bn (£19.8bn). The move follows abandoned attempts to list in London and New York, where regulatory scrutiny of the Chinese-founded, Singapore-headquartered retailer’s supply chain and origins…
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Ex-spy chief warns of Chinese spying risk as Lammy hit by fraudster phone number
TalkFuse briefing: security fears over a Chinese-owned Chery research hub near Millbrook and fresh embarrassment for David Lammy lead, alongside record cyclist-pedestrian casualties, Gary storm blackouts, dramatic Ryanair footage, Waymo’s new chip and a vitamin B6 depression breakthrough.
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Teen joyrider killed in A66 police car crash was awaiting trial for racially abusing and assaulting officers it’s revealed as grieving widow of cop who died in carnage says ‘the pain of losing him is beyond words’
Two Cleveland Police officers, PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, were killed when a VW Passat carrying five young men fleeing police drove the wrong way down the A66 dual carriageway near Middlesbrough and crashed head-on into their vehicle in the early hours of Saturday. All five men in the car also…
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David Blunkett says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should get a ‘limited’ level of royal security
Former home secretary David Blunkett has said Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should be given a “limited”, temporary level of security protection as they consider relocating to the UK, with the arrangement subject to review over time depending on the assessed threat level. His remarks come amid a deepening political row over whether taxpayers should…
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Widow who bought fly-tipped wasteland and transformed it into a farm for schoolchildren is ordered to tear it all down by jobsworth council
A widow who spent two years transforming a fly-tipped patch of wasteland in Sidlesham, West Sussex into a smallholding used by local schoolchildren has been ordered to dismantle it after losing a planning appeal. Tara Dexter, 57, bought the £57,000 plot while grieving the sudden death of her partner Gary from brain cancer, turning it…
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Arriva North London Bus Drivers Strike Next Week Over Hot Working Conditions
More than 1,500 bus drivers employed by Arriva in North London will strike next week after negotiations with management collapsed without resolution. The industrial action centres on concerns about excessive heat in buse
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More than 100,000 North Sea oil and gas jobs set to disappear by 2050
Labour’s own departmental figures show that more than 100,000 North Sea oil and gas jobs are expected to disappear by 2050, an 80 per cent decline since the party took office in 2024. The projection matters because it comes as ministers weigh whether to approve new drilling at two Scottish fields, Rosebank and Jackdaw, and…