Just Eat and the funeral provider Dignity are among the latest companies being investigated as part of an inquiry into fake online reviews. The competition watchdog said its expanded crackdown on false and misleading information for consumers also took in the motor sales platform Autotrader, customer review and feedback firm Feefo and dining chain Pasta…
Cards on the table, when I first read a story heavily suggesting the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s mobile phone was somehow connected to requests for messages about Lord Mandelson, I thought to myself: that is an absurd conspiracy theory. After all, what are those “raising an eyebrow” at this affair saying happened? Was Number 10’s…
An inquest into the death of Soham killer Ian Huntley will open next month in County Durham, it has been announced. Huntley, 52, died earlier this month at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle after being allegedly attacked with a metal bar in a workshop at HMP Frankland in Durham on 26 February. Senior coroner Jeremy…
Sir Keir Starmer says Donald Trump is seeking to “put pressure on me in different ways” – but has insisted that he won’t “buckle under pressure”. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister said he “wanted a good relationship” with the US president and still does, but vowed he is “not…
Detectives investigating the murder of a woman who was found dead by a canal more than 30 years ago have made a fresh appeal for help to find who killed her. Carol Clark’s partially clothed body was found by a dog walker in reeds and undergrowth at the side of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal….
Military intelligence specialists from the Ministry of Defence have been helping in the painstaking search for the remains of a mother and son who were murdered nearly 50 years ago. Renee MacRae, 36, and her three-year-old son Andrew were killed by William MacDowell in November 1976. Married MacDowell, who had been having an affair with…
Maisie Adam likens the show – where comedians try to keep a straight face – to being back at school. Source link
A cloned animal that helped pave the way for the creation of Dolly the sheep has gone on permanent display at a Scottish museum. Morag the sheep and identical twin Megan were cloned from the same embryo and were the first mammals to be successfully replicated from differentiated cells. Their births in June 1995 at…
A man, 26, is in custody after an alleged sexual assault on a woman at rapper Gunna’s concert. Source link
The Oscars ceremony is leaving Hollywood, organisers have announced. Coinciding with the previously announced broadcast switch to YouTube, the show will move from the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to the Peacock Theatre about nine miles (14.5km) away, in downtown Los Angeles‘s LA Live complex, in 2029. The Peacock Theatre has a capacity of about…
