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The Prime Minister is finalising the details of a Royal Navy mission to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, which he hopes will form part of his post-No 10 legacy.

The Napa County Sheriff's Department said Paul Pelosi, 86, allegedly 'admitted to hitting something, but said he did not know what he had hit, so he kept driving.'

One is a modest, pitch-perfect stickler for the rules and never puts a foot wrong. The other has a cheeky, naughty side and adores a designer frock.

The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host had been personally and publicly invited to the couple's wedding by Taylor during an interview in October 2025.

It's hard to make the Bezos-Sanchez wedding look tasteful, but it seems there's nothing Taylor Swift can't do.

The singer, 67, had been rumoured to take to the stage in Trafalgar Square alongside Beth Ditto and MNEK.

The driver of the Peugeot, a woman in her 70s, was declared dead at the scene. She has since been identified as beloved local pet shop owner and grandmother, Barbara Mullaney.

The 57-year-old released a statement, saying: 'I am convinced that it will continue to grow, to thrill an entire nation, and to write brilliant chapters in its history.'

It was an evening when Hugo Vickers and his girlfriend Cindy Jackson were walking home from a romantic dinner in Central London.

Paramedics and officers rushed to the scene in Gillingham, Kent, before the child was taken to a hospital in London with serious injuries, where he remains.

A Lake District village once described by Wordsworth as 'the loveliest spot that man hath ever found' is under siege... from a kebab shop.

South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News: In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home to several sets of remains buried in shallow graves. Metal buttons suggested the men had been Continental soldiers, but there was no other identification... About 2,000 Continental soldiers were killed, wounded or captured, and some men never returned home. Their families could only guess at their fates. But Legg and Smith's discovery, paired with an explosion in DNA technology, is changing what's possible. A set of remains, previously known only as 9B, has been identified as John Pumphrey, a young man from Maryland who enlisted in the Continental Army's 7th Maryland Regiment as young as 13... Pumphrey likely marched more than a thousand miles with the regiment. The unit fought in battles with then-Gen. George Washington in New Jersey and Pennsylvania... The Pumphrey family still exists today. The DNA that helped identify Pumphrey's remains came from three women: Pam Donahue, Karen Pumphrey Etchison, and Nancy Pumphrey White... In late June, members of the extended Pumphrey family came together to hear his story and say his name for the first time in centuries. His remains are interred in South Carolina, where he and the other soldiers were discovered, but the tombstone, once marked "Unknown," will soon have his name carved on it.

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'One of the most frustrating things for experts is that around 80 per cent of people with fatty liver don't show up on tests and go undiagnosed,' Siggi Clavien, founder of the Liver Clinic said.

He was awarded an MBE for splintering drug cartels in Colombia, but Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton may well become known for fixing a different conflict entirely - reuniting Britain's warring brothers.

With about 1,300 pupils applying for just 150 places a year, Greg Fairchild, of historic Reading School, Berkshire decided to take a hands-on approach to catching out unscrupulous parents.

Norfolk County Council has opened a safeguarding inquiry into the support provided to the 30-year-old after he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on June 18.

The 18-year-old had been riding the bike on Zakynthos island (Zante) with another person on board when a tourist bus crashed into them as the pair were driving onto a main road.

As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions of Americans, however, will be contending with a heatwave that is blanketing much of the country, including in Philadelphia where the Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade that had been set for Friday was canceled due to the dangerous heat wave, according to Philadelphia ABC station WPVI. Elsewhere, America's Independence Day Parade, which was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on July 4 in downtown Washington, D.C. was canceled by organizers late Friday evening due to the extreme heat in the District of Columbia... Amtrak announced it will be canceling a number of trains due to heat-related conditions. The outages seemed to last throughout the day, with 790,103 household outages still in effect by 4:30 p.m. EST. Ironically, the power outages hit several American states that were among the country's original 13 freedom-declaring colonies, including New Jersey (143,072 outages), Pennsylvania (40,944 outages), and Virginia (27,392 outages). CNBC adds that America's largest power grid operator said Friday "it was under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption across its territory as it battled generator outages, massive overloading on its transmission lines and a surge in air conditioning use from prolonged sweltering heat." PJM said it told utilities to reduce electricity to customers who are under contract to reduce consumption during emergencies. PJM serves 67 million people in the Mid-Atlantic, South and Washington, D.C., area. Spot wholesale electricity prices in northern Virginia, home to the largest collection of data centers in the world, have surged beyond $2,000 per megawatt hour this week. That compares to about $40 per MWh when PJM is not in distress.

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MIKE KEEGAN IN MEXICO CITY: The Three Lions' World Cup hopes have been hit by a series of injuries to the right side of their defence throughout the tournament.

Swift and Kelce, both 36, officially tied the knot at Madison Square Garden on Friday in front of 1,000 of their closest friends and the world's biggest stars.