Reality TV star Stephen Bear has been charged in connection with revenge porn allegations, Essex Police has said. The 31-year-old former Celebrity Big Brother winner was arrested at Heathrow Airport earlier this year while arriving back from Dubai, but was later released on bail. Bear, who has appeared in a raft of reality shows, has
Month: May 2021
The Serious Fraud Office has said it is investigating steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s business empire – including links with Greensill Capital. The SFO said in a statement said it was looking into “suspected fraud, fraudulent trading and money laundering in relation to the financing and conduct of the business of companies within the Gupta Family
Entertainment giant Disney has seen another drop in revenues, with the pandemic still weighing heavily on its business, as it plans to put yet another film straight onto its streaming platform. Its world-famous theme parks are still taking a hit as a result of COVID-19-forced restrictions, and cinema closures have kept its films off the
The winner of a $26m (£18.5m) lottery prize may have left the ticket in a trouser pocket – and destroyed it in the wash. Thursday marked the last day to redeem the winning ticket, which was sold at a convenience store in a suburb of Los Angeles, and no one came forward. But Esperanza Hernandez,
Amazon has announced plans to create more than 10,000 new permanent jobs in the UK this year. The online retail giant is opening new operations in Hinckley, Doncaster, Dartford, Gateshead and Swindon in 2021 and is also hiring for corporate roles as well as its cloud-computing division Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s latest recruitment drive, hailed
Black Panther is the next Avenger to assemble in Madame Tussauds after the waxwork was unveiled at the iconic London venue. The king of Wakanda has joined the Marvel Hall of Heroes at the tourist attraction alongside Captain Marvel and the Hulk. It features a futuristic “vibranium effect”, named after the fictional metal mined in
Ireland’s health service has closed down its computer systems after what it described as a “significant ransomware attack”. The Republic’s Health Service Executive (HSE) said it had shut down its entire IT network as a “precaution”. It said COVID-19 vaccination appointments were not affected by the cyberattack and were going ahead as planned. Rotunda Critical
A minister has told Sky News that step three of England’s lockdown easing will still go ahead on Monday, despite soaring cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus in the UK. Latest figures show there are 1,313 cases of the variant in the UK, up from the 520 recorded the previous week. Live COVID updates
Israeli ground forces began launching attacks on Gaza in a widening of hostilities as Israel braced for more internal strife between its Arab and Jewish citizens following Friday prayers. The Israeli military said air and ground forces were firing at the Hamas-run enclave, though it does not appear to mean the start of a ground
Vaccinated people in the US will be allowed to stop wearing their face masks in most settings. Masks are no longer being recommended for vaccinated people when they are in crowded places outdoors and in most indoors settings – and they won’t have to follow social distancing measures either. The Centers For Disease Control And
A leadership candidate for one of Labour’s biggest union backers has been suspended from the party after he suggested Priti Patel should be “deported”, Sky News understands. Howard Beckett, who is standing to be elected as Unite’s new general secretary, was heavily criticised on Thursday night over his tweets about the home secretary. In a
The much-anticipated Friends reunion will be broadcast on 27 May, HBO has announced. Friends: The Reunion, which will feature all six members of the original cast, was supposed to have been filmed over a year ago but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The unscripted, one-off special was instead filmed earlier this year on
Cases of the Indian coronavirus variant in the UK have more than doubled in the past week, according to figures from Public Health England (PHE). Data published on Thursday showed there are 1,313 cases of the VOC-21APR-02 variant in the country – up from the 520 recorded the previous week. The COVID-19 strategic response director
As violence between Israeli and Palestinian groups worsens, misinformation relating to both sides is spreading on social media. Twitter has placed a “media manipulation” warning on a tweet by Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that was shared with his 97,000 followers. The tweet in question featured a 28-second video that
Israel has assembled thousands of troops at the Gaza border, as it prepares for a possible ground operation while airstrikes continue on both sides. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has called up 7,000 reservists, cancelled all weekend leave for combat soldiers and is at “various stages of preparing ground operations”, a spokesperson told The Times
Barry Jenkins’ new limited series The Underground Railroad has been a long time coming for the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who says he has always wanted to make something related to the “American condition of slavery”. The show is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which re-imagines the underground railroad – a network
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