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The Gymnastics Academy changed my prepaid booking but said ‘no’ to a refund
A Guardian Money reader booked and paid for three summer holiday gymnastics sessions for her daughter in November, but The Gymnastics Academy later switched the venue to a harder-to-reach site and changed one of the dates without warning her in advance. When she requested a refund because the new arrangements were unsuitable, the company refused,…
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US restricts government travel to Mexican border city over threat concerns
The US Embassy and Consulates in Mexico have restricted government travel to Nogales, in the border state of Sonora, after receiving unspecified threat information. American officials have limited government activity in the city to essential movement during daylight hours only and have warned US citizens of the change in security posture, though no details of…
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‘Lazy’ Aussie tourists blasted for ruining Bali: ‘Going to the same island five times’
Australian tourists are being accused of worsening overcrowding in Bali by repeatedly returning to the same well-trodden hotspots rather than exploring the rest of Indonesia. Travel content creator Lauren Larsen, who has visited Bali twice, said the island had become “so overrated” and questioned why Australians keep revisiting it instead of trying nearby alternatives such…
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The residents fighting back against traveller landgrabs: Villagers descend on council offices to demand eviction from Essex field – days after another site was cleared following protest
Residents of Willows Green, near Felsted in Essex, have confronted Uttlesford District Council over its failure to remove an unauthorised traveller encampment that has occupied a local field for four months. The dispute has drawn attention because a similarly unauthorised development in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, was cleared within days by a different local authority acting through…
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Reform UK Faces Foreign Donations Row as Farage Defends £500k US-Sourced Payment
Reform UK has become embroiled in a controversy over funding sources following the release of undercover Channel 4 footage documenting discussions regarding a £500,000 contribution purportedly originating from the United
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Anglo-Russo peace push falters as Farage donor row deepens and rail chaos hits CrossCountry
US envoys Witkoff and Kushner met Zelensky in Kyiv after Moscow talks with Putin, while Farage battled a foreign-donations row engulfing Reform UK; also today, royal news, rail disruption, a new TfL calm pod, Celtic’s Asian Games blow, and tributes to Olivia Newton-John.
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How a booming coastal escape learned to coexist with the ocean’s top predator
Cape Cod, the popular Massachusetts coastal destination, has seen its tourism economy grow substantially even as great white sharks have become an established seasonal presence in its waters. Rather than deterring visitors, the sharks are driving a new strand of “ecotourism,” with local businesses, conservation groups and the tourist board adapting to coexist with the…
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Jimmy Buffett Doc ‘Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers’ Rocks Key West, ‘Buddy’s On A Roll, CatVideoFest Hits $1M — Specialty Box Office
Deadline’s specialty box office round-up covers the Labor Day long weekend, led by dark comedy Buddy, which held strongly in its second week, and a debut for the Jimmy Buffett documentary Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers at a Key West theatre. The report also notes Oscilloscope’s CatVideoFest 2026 crossing $1 million cumulatively and continuing…
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Political heavyweights clash over Budget tax plans and Trump’s Falklands signals
Laffer warns Labour against “taxing Britain to death” as Burnham backs public control; Hitchens questions the special relationship; plus Katie Taylor’s retirement, gambling site data breaches and a big Premier League weekend.
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Pair who ‘cynically abused’ the healthcare system by selling more than 2,000 fake Covid-19 ‘passports’ during the pandemic are jailed
Two men have been jailed for running a fraudulent scheme that sold more than 2,000 fake Covid-19 vaccination “passports” during the pandemic, in a case described by investigators as a cynical abuse of the healthcare system for financial gain. Waqas Hanif and Touqir Nasir advertised the bogus documents online, charging clients up to £150 each,…