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Army’s first female Master Tailor accused of repeatedly pinching subordinate’s bum leaving him feeling ‘violated’, court martial told
Warrant Officer Emma Colton, the British Army’s first female Master Tailor, was acquitted at Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire after being accused of repeatedly pinching a subordinate’s bottom and engaging in inappropriate conduct whilst deployed to the Falkland Islands. The case involved allegations that she had followed the male sergeant, touched him without consent during…
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‘This noise came out of me and I just crumbled’: Mint Velvet founder opens up on tragic death of her 20-year-old son after he was hit by car while cycling
Liz Houghton, co-founder of fashion brand Mint Velvet, has opened up about the death of her 20-year-old son Will, who was struck by a car whilst cycling on the A32 in Hampshire in January 2016. Speaking on Davina McCall’s podcast Begin Again a decade later, she described the moment she learned her son’s head injuries…
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Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
Microsoft’s September security update for Excel, intended to address remote code execution vulnerabilities, inadvertently broke the paste function across multiple versions (2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024). The paste operation fails silently without error messages, making the malfunction particularly troublesome for users who receive no indication that their paste action has failed. This represents part of…
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Airports chaos caused by ‘software glitch’ officials find – as Government orders further probe but dodges sacking under-fire NATS boss
A preliminary investigation found that a software glitch in NATS’s air traffic control system caused widespread disruption on 8 September, grounding more than 2,000 flights and affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers. The malfunction occurred when an aircraft identification-code request was interrupted by a higher-priority task and failed to restart correctly, triggering restrictions on UK…
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Banker boyfriend wanted to offer his partner £70,000 plus land in Greece to separate before she stabbed him to death and left his body to rot for nine days, court hears
The trial at the Old Bailey concerns the death of City banker Henrik Slotsaa, 52, who was killed by his partner Joanna Cierpka, 51, in March 2026. After police discovered his partially-decomposed body in their Elephant and Castle flat, Cierpka attempted to harm herself and was arrested. The case has attracted attention because of evidence…
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Susan Calman: Tall Tales – comic’s first tour in 10 years is raw and riotous
Susan Calman has returned to standup comedy with her new show “Tall Tales”, marking her first new material in a decade. She undertook the tour as a means of overcoming severe depression, returning to the performance form she feared most. The show represents a significant personal comeback, blending her familiar comedic observations with deeper material…
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Patrick Clancy’s new wife reveals romantic way they met to 60 Minutes and hails him as an incredible father and partner
Patrick Clancy’s new wife, Dr Rachel Danis, has said they met while running in New York’s Central Park and described him as a selfless father and supportive partner. Their 60 Minutes interview is his first since the murder trial involving his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, whose trial ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked…
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‘The man’s a psychopath when it comes to hedgerows’: Derek vs Derek, the unexpectedly heartwarming doc about farmers at war
The documentary *Derek vs Derek* follows two Devon farmers with opposing approaches: Derek Gow is restoring his land to nature, while Derek Banbury runs an intensive cattle and crop farm. Initially presented as neighbours locked in a bitter dispute over rewilding, food production and environmental decline, the film becomes an unexpectedly warm portrait of how…
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Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says
A new report says private aviation in the US is expanding rapidly while wealthy owners pay a disproportionately small share of aviation taxes. Private jets produce up to 14 times more direct carbon emissions per passenger than commercial flights, raising concerns about climate damage and public subsidies. The report estimates that private jets and charter…
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‘I pay a lot more for fewer and fewer items’: five US shoppers on their food budgets
Despite Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to reduce grocery prices “on day one” of his second term, American consumers continue to face high food costs more than two years later. Over half of Americans report struggling to afford groceries, driven by supply chain disruptions, tariff disputes, international conflicts, cuts to Snap benefits, and climate crises.…