News 02/06/26

Football legend Sir Kenny Dalglish has revealed he is undergoing treatment for cancer.

The former Liverpool and Scotland star announced his diagnosis in a post to his Instagram followers. He explained that he had previously shared an inadvertent post indicating his condition, blaming his self-described useless technology skills, and has asked for privacy while he focuses on his health.

UK Athletics has been fined £350,000 over the wholly avoidable death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei, who was killed when a shot-put cage collapsed during training.

The thirty-six-year-old, representing the United Arab Emirates, died at Newham Leisure Centre in 2017 while preparing for the World Para Athletics Championships. A court was told the cage toppled because it was assembled incorrectly without its base plate, described as an accident waiting to happen.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been revealed to have embezzled more than £400,000 from the party through charge cards, bank transfers, and fake invoices.

Murrell, the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon, used the funds to illicitly purchase jewellery, cosmetics, two cars, and a motorhome over a twelve-year period. The sixty-one-year-old, who served as SNP chief executive for over twenty years, pleaded guilty last week and is currently on remand at HMP Edinburgh. He faces a lengthy jail term when he is sentenced on the twenty-third of June.

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed hackers to trick its AI support tool into providing access to other users’ accounts.

Recent reports indicated the chatbot was manipulated to help hijack accounts by allowing users to change associated email addresses after faking their location. A spokesperson for Meta confirmed the issue has been resolved and that the company is currently working to secure all impacted accounts.

Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert has posted an apology video following the club’s “Spygate” scandal.

Eckert stated he is responsible for everything that has happened after the Championship club was expelled from the play-off final last month. The club admitted to sending a young intern to spy on a Middlesbrough training session, an act the EFL described as a deplorable decision to place pressure on a junior member of staff.

Clashes have continued in southern Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US-brokered plan for a partial ceasefire.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that both sides had agreed all shooting would stop. Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the agreement, he warned that strikes on Beirut would continue if Hezbollah persists in attacking Israeli cities. Netanyahu also maintained that Israeli forces will continue to operate within southern Lebanon.

A body has been recovered in the search for an eleven-year-old boy who went missing in a river in South Yorkshire.

Police were called to Ferry Boat Lane near the River Don in Mexborough at around eight o’clock on Saturday evening after the youngster, Mackenzie Swift, was seen entering the water. A major search operation was launched, and police confirmed a body was discovered shortly after eleven o’clock on Monday night. The family of Mackenzie has been informed, and formal identification will take place in due course.

At least nine people have been killed following overnight Russian air attacks across Ukraine, officials report.

More than sixty others have been injured, with people feared trapped beneath the rubble of two damaged apartment buildings in Kyiv. Air raid warnings sounded across the country early today, with major strikes also reported in Dnipro and Kharkiv. The attacks follow recent warnings from authorities that Moscow was planning a major assault.

A survey has revealed that the majority of British defence technology firms have suffered financial harm due to chronic delays in the publication of a vital government investment plan.

Exactly one year after Sir Keir Starmer announced the results of a crucial review of the armed forces, which underlined the urgent need to rearm, his government has failed to set out how this transformation will be funded. The Defence Investment Plan, originally due last autumn, has been repeatedly delayed by disagreements between the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury over the required level of additional funding.