News 06/12/25

Charlton Athletic say they are devastated after a supporter died following a medical emergency during their EFL Championship match against Portsmouth at The Valley.

The lunchtime game was halted in the twelfth minute while the fan received urgent treatment and was later postponed with the score at nil nil. The club thanked staff, first responders, supporters, and the Portsmouth team for their patience and understanding as the tragedy unfolded.

More wet and windy weather is expected across the UK this weekend as the Met Office warns of a system that could bring further potentially disruptive conditions from next week.

Twenty two flood warnings are in place in England, with eight in Scotland and six in Wales. Heavy downpours are most likely in South Wales, southwest England and Cumbria, and forecasters say additional rainfall could cause localised flooding and travel disruption.

A charity is appealing for support to help seriously ill children in Slough and beyond.

The Rainbow Trust is urging donations to open windows of support for families like that of Emily, a fourteen year old with a neurological disorder that means she could stop breathing at any time. Support workers assist families managing the constant care required, helping them cope with the demands of round the clock medical needs.

An elderly woman has died after being hit by a car while walking to a local shop.

The eighty one year old was struck by a dark coloured vehicle that failed to stop in Longmoor Lane in Fazakerley, Liverpool, at about four fifteen on Friday. She was taken to Aintree Hospital with serious injuries and died a short time later. Merseyside Police are searching for the driver.

Part of the Tower of London has been closed after reports of criminal damage to a display case holding the Imperial State Crown.

Police say four protesters were arrested following the incident shortly before ten on Saturday. It was reported that food was thrown at the glass before two protesters left the scene. Footage appears to show one demonstrator removing a foil tray of apple crumble and striking it against the case.

Piers Morgan is raising tens of millions of dollars to expand Uncensored, his YouTube based media venture, into a broader global business.

He is finalising a thirty million dollar fundraising that values Uncensored at about one hundred and thirty million dollars. New investors are understood to include The Raine Group and media mogul Theo Kyriakou, whose Antenna Group holds a stake in The News Movement. Marketing veteran Michael Kassan is advising on advertising matters and may also invest personally.

At least eleven people, including a three year old boy, have been killed in a shooting at an illegal bar in Pretoria’s Saulsville township.

Police say fourteen others were wounded and a manhunt is under way for three unidentified suspects.

A BBC investigation has found that driving instructors are being offered up to two hundred and fifty pounds a month to sell their official test booking login details to touts.

These details are then used to bulk book tests that are resold to learners for as much as five hundred pounds, far above the usual seventy five pound fee. This makes legitimate booking harder and adds to long waiting times. The outgoing DVSA chief Loveday Ryder was told about the operations in February, yet some sellers reported to the agency remain active. The DVSA says it does not comment on specific complaints and maintains zero tolerance for those exploiting learner drivers.

Trans women will not take part in the main session at Labour’s Women’s Conference next year following a legal review after a Supreme Court ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex.

They will be excluded from formal proceedings but may attend fringe events open to all.

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A former schoolfriend has claimed that Nigel Farage sang antisemitic songs to Jewish classmates and expressed racist attitudes, including having what he described as a big issue with anyone called Patel.

Jean Pierre Lihou, who knew him at Dulwich College in the 1970s and visited his family home, says it soon became clear Farage was not the person he first thought. Another former pupil, Stefan Benarroch, who is Jewish, says Farage was not a kid when he made the alleged remarks and that his behaviour was unacceptable in any era.

Children as young as seven are being referred to Britain’s national cyber crime intervention programme as companies face costly hacks.

The National Crime Agency says the average age of referrals to Cyber Choices this financial year is fifteen, mainly involving gamers aged ten to sixteen. Insurance payouts to UK businesses hit by cyber attacks have risen by two hundred and thirty percent. Former cyber criminal Ricky Handschumacher says he was around that age when early hacking on a video game led to a four year federal prison sentence for stealing cryptocurrency worth seven point six million dollars.