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Rishi Sunak has said it was a "mistake" to return from D-Day commemorations in Normandy early.The prime minister was heavily criticised for not being at the final moments of the 80th anniversary D-Day ceremony on Thursday as he travelled back from France to the UK to carry out a TV interview. On Friday morning, he issued an apology and said he cares "deeply about veterans".Follow live:Reaction to apology and election […]

The Duke of Westminster will lose his unofficial title, "Britain's most eligible bachelor", as he marries Olivia Henson today.Hugh Grosvenor, 33, who ranked 14th on the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £10.1bn, will make Ms Henson a duchess when he marries her at Chester Cathedral. The largely private couple only made their first public appearance together last month, but their wedding is being billed as […]

The world has marked 80 years since D-Day with the King and Joe Biden among leaders who travelled to Normandy to join veterans in commemorating the solemn anniversary.The King addressed an emotional crowd at the British national commemorative event on Thursday morning in Ver-sur-Mer, France, where he shared his "profound sense of gratitude" to those who served in the Second World War.Veterans could be seen wiping their eyes with tissues […]

An urgent health warning has been issued after an E.coli outbreak was linked to a "nationally distributed food item".An unspecified number of people are being treated in hospital due to the outbreak, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The UKHSA said testing indicates that most of the 113 cases reported in the UK are "part of a single outbreak" but did not give more details about the "food […]

A dad who died just hours before the birth of his daughter could have been saved, a coroner has ruled.On the morning of 7 June last year, Rebecca Moss went to wake up her partner, Thomas Gibson, telling him "wake up, it's baby day" as she was due to give birth by elective Caesarean that day.An inquest heard she went to kiss him but found him stiff and cold, so […]

It's a meeting that's so top secret that those attending - at a secret location - are ordered to surrender their mobile phone and any other electronic devices when they arrive.They're given numbered copies of the agenda, thick bundles which are then collected from them at the end of the meeting. Security is extremely tight. Nothing is left to chance. No, this is not a meeting of spooks and generals […]

Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething has lost a vote of no confidence - but dismissed the motion as a "gimmick" and vowed to carry on.He lost the vote with 29 voting against and 27 for. The motion of no confidence was put forward by the Conservatives, the largest opposition group in the Senedd (Welsh parliament). Mr Gething has only been first minister since March, but in that time he has […]

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has been fined for speeding on the M1 motorway.The 58-year-old was caught doing 73mph in a temporary 60mph zone while driving a Ford B-Max on the M1 near Caddington in Bedfordshire. It happened earlier this year but details were revealed by the Evening Standard on Wednesday.Follow live general election updatesSir Ed, who represented Kingston and Surbiton from 2017 until parliament was dissolved for the […]

Are you ready for it? Because this week, Taylor Swift rolls into town for the first UK dates of her record-shattering Eras tour, to dominate front pages, social media, and a large proportion of the national conversation for the foreseeable.Something has shifted in the Swiftverse in the past few years. She now transcends even the highest echelons of pop fame, massively boosting everything from music sales to, well, the entire […]