News 13/01/26

Michael Carrick has been announced as Manchester United’s head coach until the end of the season.

Carrick became the main focus of discussions on Monday before the former United captain was pictured arriving at the club’s training ground on Tuesday. Negotiations continued late into Monday night when all outstanding issues were resolved. In a statement, Carrick spoke about succeeding there.

The body of a woman in her sixties has been recovered from a river near the Buckinghamshire Berkshire border.

Police were called morning January twelve after reports of someone in the water at Jubilee River in Datchet. Officers attended before ten am and a body was recovered at the scene. Her next of kin informed. Coroner file prepared.

Keir Starmer has U-turned on plans for mandatory digital ID cards for workers.

When announced last year, the government said digital IDs would become mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament in twenty twenty-nine. It is now understood this will no longer apply. A government spokesperson said they were committed to right to work checks.

Three teenagers, including two sixteen-year-old boys, have been arrested in connection with a murder investigation after a man was fatally stabbed in west London.

Officers were called to reports of a stabbing on Victoria Road in Feltham around five pm on Monday. An eighteen-year-old man was taken to hospital and later pronounced dead. His family have been informed. Police confirmed.

The Red Arrows will be led by a woman for the first time in its history.

Wing Commander Sasha Nash has taken over as the most senior officer in the Royal Air Force aerobatic team. She described the role as the opportunity of a lifetime. Nash said she was incredibly proud and hoped to inspire generations of aviators from backgrounds.

The water watchdog has raised concern as around twenty-five thousand properties remain without water across Kent and Sussex, a day after a major incident was declared.

Many households entered a fourth day without supplies, with outages blamed on Storm Goretti causing power cuts and burst pipes. Problems developed overnight between Friday and Saturday last week. South East Water said supplies to Loose in Maidstone, Blean near Canterbury, Headcorn, West Kingsdown and parts of Tunbridge Wells were restored on Tuesday.

Three men have been found guilty of harassing a BBC journalist who presented the podcast series and documentary

A Very British Cult. Kristofer Deichler, forty-seven, Jatinder Kamra, forty-six, and Sukhraj Singh, thirty-nine, were convicted at Stratford Magistrates’ Court of harassment without violence. All three are members of Lighthouse, which was investigated for the 2023 documentary and podcast fronted by BBC journalist Catrin Nye.

Two women have accused Spanish singer Julio Iglesias of sexually assaulting them while working for him, alleging he normalised abuse in a coercive, threatening and violent environment.

The allegations, reported by Spanish news site elDiario.es and US outlet Univision, are being investigated by Spain’s judiciary. Iglesias employed the women at properties in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. They say the assaults took place in 2021.

US President Donald Trump has spoken about the situation in Iran.

He called on demonstrators to KEEP PROTESTING. Citing violence against protesters, he said he has cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials until the crackdown stops, adding that HELP IS ON ITS WAY.

Another hospital trust has declared a critical incident due to severe and sustained pressure on its services.

Nottingham University Hospitals trust said rising demand, winter infections, and staff sickness since Christmas had caused significant and unacceptable delays in its emergency department and wards. The trust has urged the public to attend A&E only in cases of genuine emergency or serious accident. This follows four hospital trusts in southeast England declaring critical incidents on Monday after a surge in complex A&E admissions.

The next stage of a new law aimed at preventing cover-ups has been temporarily delayed after MPs raised concerns about whether it fully applies to the security services.

Families of Manchester Arena attack victims wrote to the prime minister last week, urging him to ensure the so-called Hillsborough Law applies to individual employees of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. A third reading of the bill had been scheduled for Wednesday, but the government confirmed the remaining stages will now take place next Monday to allow time for amendments to be considered.

According to the Hengaw human rights group, a 26-year-old protester is due to be executed in Iran tomorrow.

The Norway-based organisation says Erfan Soltani, from Fardis, was arrested during protests in his city. In a statement released yesterday, it said he is facing the imminent execution of a death sentence following a rapid and opaque judicial process. Hengaw added that while Soltani’s family has been informed of the planned execution, they have been deliberately kept uninformed about the judicial process itself.

A rogue roofer who ran over a mother-of-three on a golf course during a police chase has been jailed for thirteen-and-a-half years for her death.

John McDonald, fifty-two, admitted causing death by dangerous driving after sixty-two-year-old Suzanne Cherry was hit by a van being followed by police. Ms Cherry had been playing golf with her husband at Aston Wood Golf Club in Shenstone, Staffordshire, when the incident happened on eleven April last year.

More than three hundred Metropolitan Police officers and staff have declared links to the Freemasons or other hierarchical associations after a new requirement last month, a High Court judge said.

The Met announced in December that membership of the Freemasons or similar groups would be added to its declarable associations policy. Officers and staff were required to declare past or present membership of any hierarchical organisation with confidential membership.

Michael Carrick has reached a verbal agreement with Manchester United to become interim head coach until the end of the season.

Negotiations continued late on Monday night, Sky Sports News has been told, when outstanding issues were resolved. Contractual details are now being finalised by lawyers on both sides, and Carrick could sign the paperwork later on Tuesday afternoon.

Airports have been forced to close and flights disrupted across parts of Europe due to icy weather conditions.

Airports in Budapest in Hungary, Bratislava in Slovakia and Vienna in Austria temporarily shut on Tuesday morning because of the conditions. A thick layer of ice formed on runways in Vienna and repeatedly froze again during clearance efforts, an airport spokesperson said. Flights were diverted elsewhere.

Mobile phone users in Iran were able to make calls abroad this morning as Tehran’s crackdown appeared to ease slightly.

Several people in the capital contacted the Associated Press, but calls could not be returned. Witnesses said the internet remained cut off. Iran shut down calls and internet on Thursday as protests intensified. NetBlocks said the blackout has lasted hours.

Donald Trump has announced a twenty five percent tariff on goods from countries with commercial ties to Iran.

The US president said the tariff was effective immediately and final. Iran already faces severe American sanctions, a collapsing currency and high inflation. Food prices have risen by as much as seventy percent. Food makes up about one third of Iran’s imports.

The BBC will seek to have Donald Trump’s lawsuit dismissed, according to court documents.

The US president filed a defamation claim over a Panorama edit of a speech he made on January the sixth, twenty twenty one, when supporters stormed the Capitol. The programme spliced sections to show him urging supporters to walk to the Capitol and fight. The documentary Trump A Second Chance aired the week before the US election.

Sir Keir Starmer has warned he will control X’s AI chatbot Grok if the platform continues creating sexual images of women and children.

The prime minister told Labour MPs the actions were disgusting and shameful, adding that if X cannot control the tool, the government will act.

A record number of illegal worker arrests and raids have been carried out by the Home Office over the past eighteen months.

Government figures show raids rose sharply after July twenty twenty four, when Labour came to power, leading to a large rise in arrests. More than seventeen thousand four hundred raids targeted businesses including nail bars, car washes, barbers and takeaway shops.

A Quarter resident in Slough says they were devastated after seeing damage to a café, as a police investigation follows a burglary report.

The Factory Café at the former Horlicks Factory site on Stoke Poges Lane was cordoned off early on Sunday January the eleventh. Thames Valley Police say officers carried out CCTV enquiries and are appealing for information.