Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal authorities in Los Angeles last night, his lawyer says.
It follows a Justice Department promise to pursue charges after the journalist covered a protest in a Minnesota church last week. The service was targeted because its pastor allegedly works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Three other people who took part in the protest were detained at the time.
An EU plan to require airlines to offer passengers free cabin bags has been described as a lunatic idea by easyJet chief executive Kenton Jarvis.
He warned the policy could push up fares and cause flight delays. The European Parliament voted last week to give passengers the right to carry a small case as well as an under seat bag. The proposal now goes to the European Council.
Sir Keir Starmer has insisted the UK and the US remain very close allies after Donald Trump warned that building closer ties with China was very dangerous.
The prime minister is in China seeking to boost trade as part of efforts to drive economic growth. Asked about the UK increasing business links with China, the US president said it was very dangerous, and added he believed it was even more dangerous for Canada to do business with China.
An asylum seeker has been sentenced to a minimum of twenty nine years for the murder of a hotel worker at a train station in the West Midlands.
Deng Chol Majek stabbed Rhiannon Skye Whyte in the head nineteen times with a screwdriver, and twenty three times in total, in October twenty twenty four. CCTV showed him following her from the Park Inn hotel in Walsall, where he lived and she worked, to Bescot Stadium station. He was given a life sentence at Coventry Crown Court.
Major disruption continues on the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Watford Junction because of a fire in north London.
About seventy firefighters were sent to a blaze at a commercial building on Regent’s Park Road in Chalk Farm. National Rail warned of major delays until at least mid afternoon. Avanti West Coast tickets are being accepted by other operators, with London Northwestern Railway services suspended from Euston.
A Slough man has been arrested over a huge mountain of waste dumped in an Oxfordshire field alongside the A34 last year.
The 150-metre-long pile of rubbish raised concerns over pollution into a nearby river and sparked widespread outrage. As part of an Environment Agency investigation, two men have been arrested this week. A 69-year-old was detained in Andover, Hampshire, and a 54-year-old in Slough. Both have been released on bail pending further inquiries.
Two serving British Army officers are to face a court martial over their handling of a sexual assault case involving teenage soldier Jaysley Beck, who later took her own life.
Gunner Beck, 19, was found dead at her barracks at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire in 2021. She had reported being sexually assaulted. Last October, former Battery Sergeant Michael Webber was jailed for six months for sexual assault. An earlier inquest heard the Army’s handling of her complaint played more than a minimal contributory part in her death.
Donald Trump said it was dangerous for the UK to deal with China as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer continued his visit to Beijing to reset relations.
The US president was reacting to agreements aimed at increasing business and investment between the UK and China announced after Sir Keir met Chinese President Xi Jinping. Downing Street said Washington had been aware of the trip in advance.
A man has been charged with impersonating an FBI agent after arriving at a New York jail claiming to have a court order to release Luigi Mangione.
Mark Anderson from Minnesota was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Authorities say he told officers he was an FBI agent with paperwork signed by a judge.
Around six million low income households will continue to receive one hundred and fifty pounds off winter energy bills after the government confirmed the Warm Home Discount will remain for five more years.
The scheme has been in place since twenty eleven with eligibility widened last year to include a further two point seven million families.
A couple expecting to pay less than fifty pounds for a locksmith became victims of a bait and switch scam costing more than five thousand pounds.
A BBC investigation filmed twenty four seven Locksmiths UK trying to charge up to ten times the original quote. The company has not responded and appears to have shut down its website.
