B&M Retail Ltd has been fined £2m over mice infestations at three Birmingham stores where inspectors found rodent-gnawed foodstuffs and droppings near children’s toys. The company was prosecuted for food hygiene offences by Birmingham City Council after complaints led to inspections being carried out between November 2024 and October 2025. Locations included St Andrew’s Retail…
Ed Harris — who famously endured the torturous making of James Cameron’s The Abyss — said he wanted to escape Taylor Sheridan‘s Dutton Ranch. The 75-year-old actor is speaking out about his time on the Paramount+ hit, where he is billed as one of the show’s main characters. In the Yellowstone spinoff, he plays Everett…
A record number of osprey chicks have delighted birdwatchers at a nature reserve. Five chicks have been given leg rings and tags after their birth at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve in Cumbria. Cumbria Wildlife Trust said the increase was down to a new breeding pair joining the longstanding pair known as Blue 35 and White…
Harry Styles‘ Tuesday night concert in São Paulo, Brazil has been canceled over an unspecified “tour illness,” a representative for the singer confirmed on Monday, further confirming that Friday’s show will proceed as planned. “We deeply regret to share that the Harry Styles show on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at MorumBIS has been canceled due…
Deadites will rise from the cursed pages of the Necronomicon as Evil Dead Burn becomes the latest house confirmed for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. Born from the 1981 indie cult classic, the newest installment in New Line Cinema’s ongoing franchise that centers on the Book of the Dead — an ancient text that unleashes…
In 2024, the Amazon rainforest experienced its worst forest fires in over two decades, which the Copernicus Climate Change Service put down to “climate extremes and human activity”. “The 2025 figures are significant and show that it is possible to reduce the burned area in the country,” Vera Arruda, a researcher at the Amazon Environmental…
Pierce Capital Entertainment (PCE), the independent film finance and production company founded by Thomas Pierce, who served as an executive producer on Brady Corbet’s Oscar-winning The Brutalist and Olivier Assayas’The Wizard of the Kremlin, and Munich, Germany-based production company FilmCrew Media have entered into a three-picture co-production partnership. FilmCrew, founded by brothers Kevin Schmutzler and…
Jones, who was also previously chief secretary to the Treasury, wrote on X, external that the Digital ID programme was unfunded. While praising the VAT cut as “good”, he said “the government will have to set out how it will pay for its new policies at the budget”. Conservative Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride also criticised…
Officials in Chile have declared a state of catastrophe in the Coquimbo region, and the province of Huasco, after heavy rains triggered floods and mudslides. At least five people are reported to have died, say local mayors. Chile’s disaster response service, Senapred, said the extreme weather has left thousands affected, with more than 99,000 people…
Lebanon’s army says its troops have begun deploying to a “pilot zone” in the south of the country following the withdrawal of Israeli forces under a US-brokered agreement reached last month. A statement from the army command said units had entered the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh in Nabatieh district on Tuesday morning. On Monday night,…
