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  • Father and son’s 17-year mission to collect 7,000 Saints signatures is finally complete

    It’s the biggest collection in the world.

  • Falklands War veteran recalls sinking of HMS Coventry on 40th anniversary of air attack

    A Falklands War veteran has recalled the moment the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Coventry was sunk 40 years ago. Christopher Howe, 65, was a petty officer aboard the Type 42 destroyer off Pebble Island when the Argentine Air Force launched an attack on May 25 1982. Speaking to the PA Media news agency, Mr Howe said he tried to warn the ship's captain of the incoming air raid: "I'm not sure if I actually finished my statement," he said, "when there was this thud, if you like. And it was a dull thud, followed by an extreme heat, and a fireball rolling around the ops room." Mr Howe was knocked unconscious, but recovered and was able to escape from the ship. He suffered 27% burns in the attack, and feared he had gone blind as his eyelids were badly swollen. Events are taking place across the UK and in the Falkland Islands to mark the 40th anniversary of the conflict, which started when Argentina invaded the remote British Overseas Territory on April 2 1982. Mr Howe told PA Media: "There's not a day goes by I don't think about what happened then. You can't help it. And there are triggers in your life that take you back to 1982, and things that make you stop and think 'I'm lucky – why am I so lucky?' "I feel it's very important that we continue to remember this conflict, and any conflict, because of those that came forward and stood up, and really offered their lives. "They made a sacrifice. And as we say in the (Kohima) epitaph: 'We gave our today for your tomorrow.'"

  • False alarm forces Elizabeth Line platforms to shut just hours after opening

    The long-awaited train service opened to commuters this morning.

  • Kate Moss to appear via videolink to testify in Johnny Depp defamation trial

    The British supermodel, who dated Mr Depp in the 1990s, is expected to address the Virginia court on Wednesday.

  • William and Kate brave the rain at palace garden party

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were all smiles despite the rainy weather as they joined the Earl and Countess of Wessex and Princess Beatrice at a Buckingham Palace garden party today. Kate stood under an umbrella and wore a mint green dress as she chatted with guests in the palace grounds.

  • Monkeypox and travel: Have any countries introduced travel restrictions?

    An unusual outbreak of monkeypox is causing concern in some European countries.

  • 16-year-old banned from whole of Swindon in knife crackdown

    A teenager has been banned from Swindon after a knife crime crackdown by Wiltshire Police.

  • Fire at Campsite in South of France Forces Evacuations

    A fire resulted in gas explosions at the Prairies de la Mer campsite in Grimaud, France, on Tuesday, May 24, with over 2,500 campers moved to safety, according to local news reports.One person and two children were “slightly” poisoned, officials said, with the fire destroying 18 mobile homes and damaging four.According to France Bleu Grimaud, the fire spread quickly because cylinders of gas stored in the dwellings exploded, causing the fire to jump from one mobile home to the next.According to a machine translation, local media said about 2,500 campers at the site were brought to safety, first evacuated to the beach before being directed to other bungalows in a secure area of the campsite. Fourteen people were evacuated from the campsite, and 30 will have to be relocated. Five cars were also destroyed by the flames.This video taken by Aure Ly shows smoke billowing from the area. Credit: Auré Ly via Storyful

  • Ocado slashes retail outlook as customers cut back on spending

    Ocado Retail, which is owned 50-50 by Ocado and M&S, said sales slipped further in recent weeks.

  • CBeebies viewers significantly older than usual as Harry Styles reads Bedtime Story

    The singer drew in a whole new audience for his turn on kids' TV.

  • Ukraine news – live: Zelenksy says Kyiv won’t give up land for peace

    Negotiations for a peace deal cannot resume until Russia pulls out troops, president says

  • Ukraine's embattled farmers running on empty as world faces food crisis

    After making it through the spring planting season, sometimes with the help of bulletproof vests and helmets, Ukraine's farmers are facing another challenge – finding enough diesel for the harvest to come. The war with Russia cut fuel supplies just as farmers stepped up work for the spring season and they have lost about 85% of their normal supplies since the conflict started on Feb. 24, farmers, fuel distributors and analysts say. The total area planted with grain this spring is already expected to be up to 30% smaller than last year because of the fighting, and yields could drop too if farmers don't get fuel so they can apply chemicals and harvest crops at the right time.

  • Watch: Frenchman breaks world record for longest tightrope walk ever

    On Tuesday, French tightrope walker claimed a new world record as he completed a 2,200-metre-long (nearly 1.4-mile) trip to Mont Saint-Michel along a wire suspended between a crane and the famous abbey on the tidal island.

  • Sharp slowdown in UK business activity rings recession alarm

    LONDON (Reuters) -Momentum in Britain's private sector slowed much more than expected this month, adding to recession worries as inflation pressures ratcheted higher, according to a business survey on Tuesday that showed rising pessimism. "The collapse in the composite PMI in May is the clearest sign yet that demand is faltering in response to the intense squeeze on households' real disposable incomes," said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. May's survey of British retailers by the Confederation of British Industry, also released on Tuesday, showed sales holding up at normal for the time of year, after a big slump in April.

  • Audience boos former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway during her appearance on The View

    Audience boos former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway during her appearance on The View

  • As hunger spreads in Somalia, babies start to die

    DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) -Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi's twin granddaughters. "She is malnourished and her two babies died of hunger," Abdullahi said at the Kaxareey camp which sprang up in January and now houses 13,000 people. With global focus on Ukraine, aid agencies and the United Nations are desperate to attract attention to a calamity they say is shaping up to be comparable to Somalia's 2011 famine.

  • Partygate report ‘lays bare the rot’ Johnson has spread in No 10, says Starmer

    Sue Gray's Partygate report “lays bare the rot” Boris Johnson has spread in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer has suggested. Responding to the prime minister's statement and apology in the House of Commons, the Labour leader suggested the government has treated the British people with “utter contempt”. “That report lays bare the rot that under this prime minister has spread in No 10,” Mr Starmer said.

  • 'Stand up to the gun lobby,' Biden urges Americans after Texas massacre

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Americans must stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday after the killing of at least 19 children and two teachers in a Texas school shooting. "As a nation, we have to ask when in God's name we're going to stand up to the gun lobby, when in God's name we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done," Biden said in a televised speech, his voice rising to a crescendo. Authorities said an 18-year-old gunman opened fire earlier in the day at an elementary school in Texas, about 80 miles (130 km) west of San Antonio, before he apparently was killed by police officers.

  • Mr Motivator held at gunpoint during traumatic robbery in Jamaica

    Mr Motivator has spoken out about being tied up by a gang armed with guns, knives and machetes during a home robbery 15 years ago. The veteran fitness fanatic, real name Derrick Evans, said he noticed a side door was open while they were having dinner and then eight people ran in. Mr Evans was taken upstairs to open the family's safe after refusing to allow the criminals to take his wife Sandra upstairs.

  • UK condemns Putin’s ‘despicable’ blockade preventing Ukraine food exports

    There are no plans for Royal Navy warships to be involved in efforts to break the blockade.