You’ll have seen the money shot by now. White sand, navy seats, Olympic rings of red, yellow, green, black and blue, then the small matter of just about the most iconic structure on the planet cast against a perfect, cloudless sky. Yesterday morning

A shop owner whose Southport store was looted of alcohol and cigarettes during an outbreak of violence has described how the community has pledged to protect him and restore his business. Chanaka Balasuryla was speaking outside his Windsor Mini Mart,

Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has arrived at court to face charges of making indecent images of children. The 62-year-old is alleged to have committed three offences between December 2020 and April 2022. The veteran broadcaster is accused of havin

A 17-year-old has been charged with murder after a man in his 70s was killed in a suspected arson attack in Dagenham. London Fire Brigade was called to a mid-terrace house in Oval Road North after a fire broke out on the property’s ground floor at ro

HSBC chairman Sir Mark Tucker completed the shake-up of his top level management team today, bringing in Jon Bingham as chief financial officer, as least on an interim basis. In April chief executive Noel Quinn unexpectedly said he would retire after

Venezuela’s government and opposition are in a standoff after both sides claimed to have won the nation’s presidential election. President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election, according to partial results annou

Drugs firm GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) has lifted its profits and sales growth targets for the year after a boost from cancer and HIV treatments. The firm’s boss, Emma Walmsley, hailed an “excellent second quarter performance”. The pharmaceutical giant tol

Olympics 2024 LIVE! The 2024 Paris Games sees a busy start to day five as both the women’s and delayed men’s triathlons kick off the action as organisers gave the River Seine the go-ahead to swim in. Team GB’s Beth Potter is the favourite for the wom

Metro Bank has said it expects to return to profitability by the end of the year after heavy cost-cutting which saw the firm axe 1,000 jobs. The high street lender saw shares rise in early trading after it reduced its losses for the past half-year. T

Eight people have been arrested after a “beach rave” descended into a machete fight on a seafront in Essex. Shocking footage showed at least four people dressed in black slashing at each other with long knives near the Adventure Island theme park in

Transfer news – LIVE! The start of the new Premier League season is just weeks away and all of Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United are expected to make further signings before it commences. The Gunners sealed a deal for Riccardo Calafiori earlier

The Elizabeth Line and National Portrait Gallery are among the projects up for a top architecture prize awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba). Six structures are in the running for the UK’s leading architecture award, the Riba S

“I didn’t worry too much about pleasing everyone,” says Linda Boronkay, the creative vision behind The Sessile — a new rental proposition that is sure to put Tottenham Hale on the map for more than just a handy interchange from the Victoria line to t

City living isn’t always as glamorous as it appears. Though the concept of a city that never sleeps may seem appealing to young adults moving into the capital for the first time, listening to the roar of traffic and disturbingly loud conversations ou

Team K League vs Tottenham LIVE! Spurs are in Seoul to continue their pre-season preparations as they take on a K League XI for the second time in three years. Tottenham captain Heung-min Son will no doubt be the star attraction on home soil, but Ang

Temperatures on Wednesday are expected to equal the hottest day of the year so far, as a heatwave spreads across the UK amid warnings of thunderstorms. Daytime temperatures are forecast to reach highs of 30-32C in parts of central and southern Englan

Forecast-beating HSBC today stood out in the latest wave of blue-chip results. GSK also raised guidance but its shares struggled in a much improved FTSE 100. London’s rally came amid hopes the Federal Reserve will tonight signal an interest rate cut.

Atletico Madrid are growing in confidence they can strike a deal with Chelsea for Conor Gallagher. Chelsea are locked in new talks with the Spanish side, who are ready to offer a fee in the region of £34million. Atleti chiefs now hope that will be en

Team GB have secured their first two gold medals of the Paris Olympics on day three. Great Britain’s three-day equestrian eventing team of Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Ros Canter held off hosts France in a dramatic finish on Monday to successfully d

Alex Yee athletics’ club never doubted he would win the men’s Olympic triathlon after he pulled off a stunning final surge in Paris, his former training partner has revealed. The triathlete was nearly 15 seconds behind New Zealand’s Hayden White goin

Shadow chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said that, when Labour took power this year, inflation was “nearly half” where it had been when the Conservatives took power in 2010. Mr Hunt said: “Inflation is 2% today – nearly half what it was in 2010 when we had

The police should be shown respect while they investigate the Southport attack, Yvette Cooper said, as she condemned the “thuggery” of rioters in the town. Crowds clashed with police outside a Southport mosque on Tuesday night, following Monday’s att

We have the golden age of Hollywood to thank for our obsession with long, fluttery lashes. As Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Rita Hayworth battered their dramatic eye looks on the silver screen, the beauty world took note and XXL lengthening has be

Tottenham this afternoon continue their pre-season preparations by facing Team K League in Seoul in the Coupang Play Series. Ange Postecoglou has overseen three wins from three so far this summer, beating Hearts, QPR and Vissel Kobe, with new signing

Jury trials at a London crown court were disrupted when a faulty pipe to a coffee machine caused major flooding. Staff at Woolwich crown court arrived for work on Monday morning to discover that water had been pumping out of the broken pipe througho

Seven people had a lucky escape after an e-bike battery burst into flames in a “terrifying incident” in north London. Residents at a block of flats in West Hampstead had been asleep when a lithium battery which was on charge started making a “crackli

Locals in Southport have gathered for a clean-up operation outside a mosque after right-wing rioters brought further misery to a town already reeling from a knife attack that left three children dead. Dozens of residents were outside Southport mosque

The Southport knife attack has led Wednesday’s front pages, with five out of the eight children stabbed in a critical condition, alongside two adults who were also critically injured. Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancomb

A young woman is accused of child cruelty and serious assaults against 12 children at a £1,900-a-month Montessori nursery. Roksana Lecka, 21, is facing 25 charges of child cruelty, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and attempting to cause grievo

Violence against police in Southport after three girls were killed in a knife attack has been condemned, as Sir Keir Starmer said rioters would “feel the full force of the law”. Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, sev