Yahoo News Thursday evening news briefing: Tragedy strikes packed beach
Good evening. A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after two children were killed in the sea off Bournemouth.
Children killed off Bournemouth Pier may have been caught in boat’s waves
A 12-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy were pulled from the water with “critical injuries” on Wednesday, before being rushed to hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Officers investigating the deaths have revealed they are working on the belief that there was no actual contact between “a vessel and any swimmers”.
A man in his 40s described as being “on the water” at the time has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
Madeleine McCann detectives seize ‘number of items’ from Algarve reservoir
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have “seized a number of items” from a reservoir in Portugal, it has emerged.
The Barragem do Arade was searched by Portuguese and German police last week, about 30 miles from the Praia da Luz resort where the three-year-old disappeared while on holiday with her parents in May 2007.
Ewan Somerville has more details on the update given this morning by the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Phillip Schofield to sell £1.2m London flat where he ‘secretly met’ ITV colleague
Phillip Schofield is selling the London flat in which he allegedly conducted an affair with his much younger ITV colleague, it has been claimed.
Henry Bodkin reports that the two-bedroom penthouse has been put on the market for £1.2 million. The asking price appears to have been reduced by £100,000, with sources reportedly saying the family are anxious to offload the property.
Evening Briefing: Today’s essential headlines
Geraint Davies | A Labour MP has had the party whip suspended following allegations of sexual harassment. Geraint Davies, the MP for Swansea West since 2010, has been accused of subjecting five younger female colleagues to unwanted physical and verbal sexual attention. Mr Davies denies the allegations.
Inheritance tax | System ‘genuinely unfair’ as wealthiest escape it, says leading economist
Kathleen Stock | Gender-critical feminist says trans activist’s glue stunt was ‘a bit Blue Peter’
North Korea | Kim Jong-un gains weight again by ‘gorging on foreign snacks and alcohol’
Weather | New heatwave warnings are not the ‘nanny state’, insist health officials
Brexit | Leaving the EU was ‘a historic error’, ex-US Treasury Secretary claims
Comment and analysis
Ross Clark | The great heat pump hype is almost dead
Karol Sikora | I fear we are witnessing a Covid cover-up
Julian Jessop | The quiet Brexit success story Remainers don’t want to talk about
Ryan Crighton | Labour’s latest net zero folly could cost them the next election
Con Coughlin | Putin is plotting a new front in his war on the West
World news: Buildings ablaze in Russian town as pro-Ukraine fighters launch attack
Pro-Ukraine volunteer fighters set several buildings on fire as they shelled the border town of Shebekino using Soviet-era Grad rocket systems, it has been claimed. Get up to speed with developments on the ground by reading our Ukraine live blog.
Interview of the day
Jenny Erpenbeck on life in East Germany: ‘Sexual freedom was greater’
With her fourth novel out, the author talks about growing up behind the Wall, age gap relationships – and why she’s wary of democracy
Business news: Amazon’s Ring doorbell employees spied on users’ bathrooms
Staff at the security camera maker Ring could watch thousands of videos of people in their bedrooms and bathrooms without owners’ knowledge, a US regulator has claimed.
Editor’s choice
Terror from the sky | Reconstructing the Myanmar airstrike that shocked the world
Tax | Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state
Telegraph readers | Over £30,000 raised for Jon Chapple’s cancer treatment after he was failed by NHS
Sport news: BBC F1 commentator sacked by Formula E for inappropriate behaviour
Jack Nicholls, a leading voice of the BBC’s Formula One coverage, has been dismissed from a lead commentary role on Formula E, the all-electric motor racing series, for alleged inappropriate behaviour. Tom Morgan has the full story.
Three things for you
Review | I’m a monarchist – but this republican polemic made me pause
Health | Are you suffering from ‘midlife fitness drift’ like Rishi? Here’s how to get going again
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