A 23-year-old wild card has reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals after a fightback.
Arthur Fery entered the tournament ranked 114, with only two grand slam victories and no five-set match wins. He has won two matches from positions, beating former semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-6. After trailing Zizou Bergs in the fourth and fifth sets, Fery recovered to earn a meeting with ninth-seed Flavio Cobolli.
A mother has successfully appealed against a Family Court decision which allowed her former partner, who was being investigated by police for rape, overnight contact with their three young children.
The father had admitted domestic abuse, including violence and coercive control, while the mother claimed he had raped her. High Court Judge Michael Keehan said the original judge was wrong to dismiss an allegation. The case will be reheard.
Consultants across England have voted in favour of NHS strike action over pay and pensions.
In a British Medical Association ballot, seventy-six per cent of senior doctors voted to back industrial action, giving them a mandate for the next twelve months. It comes after resident doctors accepted a pay deal to end three years of strikes, during which patients saw hundreds of thousands of appointments cancelled.
An inquest into the death of former Sheffield United footballer Maddy Cusack has heard her coach told the Football Association she was generally a liar.
The twenty-seven-year-old was found dead at home in Derbyshire in September twenty-twenty-three. Coach Jonathan Morgan told Chesterfield Coroner’s Court that Cusack had omitted a lot of information when speaking to her family about his behaviour.
Microsoft has cut four thousand eight hundred jobs, around two-point-one per cent of its workforce, with Xbox bearing a large number of the layoffs.
Sweeping changes will see more than sixteen hundred roles axed at Xbox immediately. The tech giant’s executive vice president Amy Coleman cited a fast-changing industry, while Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma called it the most significant restructure in its history.
President Donald Trump has confirmed he asked Fifa to review United States striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match suspension at the World Cup.
Trump stated football’s world governing body made the right decision to suspend the ban, adding it would have left a big stain on the tournament. Balogun, his country’s top scorer, was set to miss their last-sixteen tie against Belgium in Seattle. However, Fifa suspended the automatic one-game ban for twelve months, freeing the twenty-five-year-old forward to be selected.
Temperatures in the United Kingdom could exceed thirty degrees for up to ten consecutive days as the third heatwave of the year gets underway.
From the middle of the week, the heat is forecast to intensify with temperatures reaching up to thirty-four degrees for some. Amber heat-health alerts have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency for the Midlands, eastern and southern England from Wednesday morning to Sunday evening. Meanwhile, yellow heat-health alerts have been issued across northern England for the same period.
A local authority has launched an investigation into the care of a man arrested after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured in a crocodile enclosure.
The boy was attacked at Johnsons of Old Hurst near Huntingdon on the eighteenth of June, subsequently undergoing surgery five times. Police arrested a thirty-year-old man from Norfolk on suspicion of attempted murder. Norfolk County Council has launched an inquiry under the Care Act to investigate risks to adults with care and support needs.
UEFA has claimed that Fifa crossed a red line by suspending United States forward Folarin Balogun’s red card ban.
The European governing body stated that football relies on rules which form the basis for fair, honest and transparent competition, adding that in this case, the rules were not open to interpretation.
Meanwhile, the Football Association has confirmed that Jordan Henderson will not travel back to Kansas City with the England squad following their three-two victory over Mexico.
Instead, the midfielder will remain in Mexico City accompanied by a member of the medical staff.
Buckingham Palace has denied that Prince Harry will stay at the London landmark during his visit to the UK this week.
The Duke of Sussex is visiting for an event marking one year until the Birmingham Invictus Games. His representative initially stated he had accepted an offer to stay at the palace without his family, but Buckingham Palace later denied this, citing a missed deadline. Harry’s team counter that the accommodation offer was withdrawn.
BBC Newsnight has learned that Pizza Express held an internal inquiry into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor visited its Woking restaurant.
The former prince claimed in a two-thousand-and-nineteen interview that he was at the Surrey branch on the day he allegedly slept with Virginia Giuffre. The chain found no evidence proving or disproving his presence, and research showed no record of anyone seeing him there in two-thousand-and-one. He denies wrongdoing.
The government is announcing that overseas political donors must wait a year after returning to the UK before donating over £100,000 annually.
The cap could affect Reform UK donors Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo. Crypto-billionaire Harborne provided a three-million-pound donation between January and March.
ITV has agreed a one-point-six-billion-pound deal with Sky, the owner of Sky News, for its media and entertainment arm following months of intense talks.
The historic agreement, which is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, will create the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster. The proposed combination was first revealed last November and is aimed at creating a UK-focused streaming giant to face the growing challenges posed by bigger, established American platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
Ten-man England have secured a dramatic three-two victory over Mexico at the Estadio Azteca to advance to the World Cup quarter-finals.
Jude Bellingham struck twice in ninety-eight seconds, before the co-hosts pulled one back before half-time. In the second half, England right-back Jarell Quansah was sent off, but the Three Lions responded when Harry Kane converted a penalty. Raul Jimenez scored a penalty for Mexico following a Kane foul, but England held on. They now face Norway in Miami on the eleventh of July at ten o’clock UK time.
A landmark independent review has warned that police leadership is not consistently of a high enough standard and requires a fundamental overhaul.
The Police Leadership Commission report, published today, found the system for identifying and developing leaders was too weak, with chief constable roles in England and Wales often attracting just a single suitable candidate. The report also pointed to low morale and motivation within the service, recommending reformed recruitment and promotion processes. Policing minister Sarah Jones said the recommendations would shape the government’s programme of police reform to raise standards and restore confidence.
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