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Coast Guard personnel exchange gunfire with shooters across US-Mexico border
Coast Guard personnel exchanged gunfire with people on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande while intercepting migrants near Garceno, Texas. The incident has been cited by the US military as an example of increased illegal activity in the area, as US and Mexican forces repositioned personnel along the border. The shots were fired on…
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Anti-migrant protesters scuffle with police after nearly 150 small boat arrivals use ‘new route’ to land at historic naval port
Nearly 150 migrants landed on Hampshire’s coast on Sunday after crossing the Channel in a small boat from Normandy, using what officials described as a “new route”. Around 300 anti-migrant protesters gathered near Haslar Marina in Gosport, with scuffles erupting between demonstrators and police, flares being set off, and chants of “send them back”. The…
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BT to buy TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses for £400m
BT has agreed to buy TalkTalk’s wholesale and consumer businesses out of administration, after reaching a deal with the broadband company’s largest creditor. BT says the £400m acquisition is needed to prevent disruption for customers and services that rely on TalkTalk’s network, including parts of the UK’s critical national infrastructure. The businesses will be sold…
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Audience go off-piste on eclectic third album The House On The Hill
Audience’s 1971 album “The House On The Hill” demonstrates the band’s distinctive approach to progressive rock, blending soul, R&B and innovative arrangements. Though the band enjoyed college gigs in the early 1970s, their originality and willingness to “distort things a little bit and go in off-beat directions” (as singer Howard Werth put it) never quite…
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Sam Wood’s neighbours at $3,000-a-night Noosa holiday villa reveal what they witnessed before DV charges were laid – as details emerge of the multi-millionaire’s ‘mental health concerns’ in lockup
Sam Wood, a multi-millionaire businessman and former Bachelor star, has been arrested and charged with domestic violence offences following an alleged incident at a luxury beachfront resort in Noosa on Saturday night. The 46-year-old has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and strangulation in a domestic setting, with the alleged incident occurring whilst he…
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John Boyega praises Damilola Taylor for helping him to be ‘unrealistic with his dreams’ as he shares poignant poem school friend wrote before he was killed aged ten
John Boyega has paid tribute to his childhood friend Damilola Taylor, who was stabbed to death aged 10 in Peckham in 2000, crediting the boy’s ambitious dreams with inspiring his own successful acting career. Speaking in a new BBC documentary, the Star Wars actor has reflected on how Damilola’s legacy of refusing to be limited…
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Holiday cottage company insisted on a death certificate to amend our break
Sykes Holiday Cottages required official proof of death before transferring a family’s booking, despite being told the husband who made it had died shortly before the trip. The case highlights the distress rigid procedures and poor communication can cause grieving customers, particularly when a company has no formal bereavement policy. The £2,400 cottage break was…
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A+E Global Media Hires Banijay Distribution Veteran Chris Stewart
Chris Stewart, an international television distribution executive with decades of industry experience, has joined A+E Global Media as Vice President of Content Sales. He will oversee sales across the UK, Ireland and Germany from a UK base, bringing to the role extensive expertise in sales, acquisitions and programming across major media companies. His appointment comes…
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West Virginia awards five abused children $4.4 million over CPS failures
Five children abused by their adoptive parents have been awarded a $4.4 million settlement from West Virginia over Child Protective Services’ handling of repeated reports about their welfare. The settlement recognises failures in the agency’s response and will be held in a trust to support the children, some of whom have significant needs linked to…
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Four killed in US strike on Caribbean vessel accused of drug trafficking
The US military conducted a lethal strike on a Caribbean vessel on Sunday, killing four people it identified as narco-traffickers. Video footage captured the vessel erupting in a dramatic fireball, marking the latest operation in an expanding Trump administration campaign against alleged drug smugglers. Southern Command claimed intelligence showed the vessel’s involvement in trafficking along…