News 02/08/26

Three people were taken to hospital following a fire and crush at a festival entrance in North London.

Organisers of Ghana Party in the Park at Copthall Playing Fields in Barnet said the event was stopped after a major incident on Saturday evening. The Metropolitan Police said a fire near the gates caused them to close, leading to a crowd buildup and a surge when they reopened.

Police are appealing for help to trace a missing sixteen-year-old girl from Northampton who was last seen in Slough.

Ryonne was last seen yesterday evening wearing a mini dress and black flat open-toe sandals. Described as black with afro hair, she is known to frequent the Slough, Langley, and Wexham areas. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to contact police.

A man in his seventies and a woman in her forties have been arrested following a fatal shooting at a Traveller site in Wiltshire.

The victim, in his thirties, died at the scene in Calcutt, near Cricklade, on Sunday morning. Police say a murder investigation is underway to establish the full circumstances. The pair were arrested on suspicion of firearm possession and assisting an offender.

A British citizen has survived a crash between two helicopters in Greece, the country’s fire department said.

A Greek national on board the same aircraft was also rescued alive. However, two crew members on the second helicopter, a Greek national and a Danish national, died. The fire service added that further details about those involved have not yet been released.

Andy Burnham has pledged to be relentless in tackling small boat crossings, saying that providing safe routes is also a way of tackling criminal gangs.

Speaking after visiting Dover’s Joint Command Centre to meet National Crime Agency and Border Security Command teams, the Prime Minister said progress is being made, but insisted he is not complacent.

A man has been arrested over the death of a British woman whose body was found dumped in a suitcase inside an abandoned building in Athens.

The body of Elisabeth-Jane Ross, aged thirty-eight, from the Edinburgh area of Scotland, was discovered by a homeless man in Kypseli on the eighteenth of July. Police believe she died between five and seven days before being found.

The prime minister of Greece warned that firefighting aircraft could not operate safely in strong winds just hours before two crashed.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis made the comment on Facebook while discussing wildfires sweeping parts of the country. He said that although the government had invested more than ever in resources, the intensity of weather phenomena sometimes exceeds all human planning and operational capabilities when winds blow fiercely.

A seventeen-year-old girl has died at the Kendal Calling festival in the Lake District in Cumbria.

Cumbria Constabulary said emergency services were called to the site in the early hours of Sunday morning following reports she had suffered a medical episode. Despite the best efforts of emergency responders, including the administration of CPR, she was pronounced dead at the scene. Her family is being supported by specialist officers.

Police failed to execute an arrest warrant against a paedophile in the eighteen months before he killed his partner’s two-year-old daughter.

Twenty-two-year-old Harrison Simpson and the child’s mother, Alexandra Walker, aged twenty-six, were jailed last week for murdering Isabelle Welsh. The toddler collapsed at home last September following a massive head injury, with a post-mortem revealing she suffered twenty-one broken bones prior to her sadistic death.

Donald Trump says the United States was ready to launch strikes on Iran, but halted them for the future benefit of the world.

Writing on Truth Social, the US president said Middle Eastern countries requested he hold off after agreeing parameters for a deal. Mr Trump stated any agreement must include the total reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.

England cricketer Joe Root says he is ready to embrace a second stint as Test captain, stating he is in a very different place to when he stepped down four years ago.

First appointed in twenty-seventeen, Root led England in sixty-four Tests before resigning in April twenty-twenty-two following a defeat by the West Indies.