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Tory MP argues party must confront unsustainable state pension triple lock
A senior Conservative MP has said the party should be the first to publicly acknowledge that the pensions triple lock is unsustainable, arguing this would show the Tories are serious about fiscal responsibility. The MP proposed alternatives to the current guarantee, which raises the state pension each year in line with the highest of inflation,…
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Monica Dolan Shares How She Prepared to Portray the Woman Who Uncovered an Irish Mass Grave Scandal in ‘The Lost Children of Tuam’: TIFF
Actress Monica Dolan is featuring in three films at the Toronto International Film Festival, most notably playing Catherine Corless in “The Lost Children of Tuam,” a drama about the amateur historian who exposed that up to 796 infants and children were buried in unmarked graves at a former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in…
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Sufjan Stevens compiles 16-track festive album for November release
Sufjan Stevens has announced Worst Christmas Ever!, a 16-track holiday compilation due on 6th November via Asthmatic Kitty Records. The release condenses his sprawling festive catalogue, built up since 2001 when he began recording Christmas songs at home each December as gifts for friends and family, into a single album, and includes one previously unreleased…
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Hollywood Marine veteran Rob Riggle doubts modern stars would make Jimmy Stewart’s WWII sacrifice
Actor and Marine veteran Rob Riggle has questioned whether today’s Hollywood stars would make the same wartime sacrifice as Jimmy Stewart, who left an Oscar-winning career to enlist as a private in the US Army Air Corps before America entered the Second World War. Riggle, who plays Stewart’s squadron commander in the upcoming biopic “Jimmy”,…
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d-Matrix licenses Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect for upcoming Raptor chips
AI infrastructure startup d-Matrix has agreed to license Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology and adopt its MGX rack reference designs, joining a growing roster of chipmakers—including Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu and MediaTek—that have struck similar deals. The move lets d-Matrix build its future accelerators, including the upcoming Raptor chips, around Nvidia’s racks and NVSwitch…
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Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled
The UK government opposed an amendment that would have forced air traffic control provider NATS to reimburse airlines for passenger compensation following its failures, only weeks before a major system outage this week led to roughly 2,000 flight cancellations and disrupted around 330,000 passengers. The revelation, raised by Liberal Democrat MP Luke Taylor in a…
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Green Party councillor in Birmingham appears in court charged with assaulting five people – including three police officers
A Green Party councillor in Birmingham has appeared in court charged with assaulting five people, including three police officers, following an alleged incident in Edgbaston in August 2026. The case is significant because the defendant, Siobhan Harper-Nunes, was a prominent figure in the local Green Party, having previously stood as its West Midlands mayoral candidate,…
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Pilot’s speed warning preceded crash of Amazon cargo plane in Miami
Newly released cockpit audio and flight data have shed light on the final seconds of a fatal Amazon Air cargo plane crash in Miami, revealing that one of the pilots repeatedly warned the aircraft was going “too fast” as it came in to land and called for a “go around” to abort the attempt. The…
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England’s mayors to be given power to introduce tourist tax
The UK government is granting mayors in England the power to introduce a “tourist tax” on overnight stays, allowing local leaders to charge an uncapped levy calculated as a percentage of accommodation costs rather than a flat fee. Ministers say this will let regions reinvest in high streets, transport and local attractions, but hospitality bosses…
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Two firms fined after worker’s death in trench collapse
Two construction firms have been fined more than £1.1 million following the death of Gheorghita Arsene, a 33-year-old Romanian labourer who was buried alive when a 10ft trench he was digging by hand collapsed on top of him at a care home construction site in Banstead, Surrey. A court heard the death, which occurred on…