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The first flight between Cornwall and London operated by airline Skybus has taken place on Sunday.The airline agreed a short-term deal to run the service between Cornwall Airport Newquay and London Gatwick following the collapse of Easter Airways last month.The daily year-round route is subsidised by the Government and Cornwall Council due to its economic importance, and is covered by a Public Service Obligation (PSO). Councillor Leigh Frost, leader of Cornwall Council, said he was “delighted” to find a replacement operator so quickly and “even more so to see a Cornish company stepping in”.Skybus currently runs services to the Isles…

A man has died after crashing his car into a tree, while his passenger has been critically injured.They were travelling on Church Road, Urmston at about 01:15 GMT when the driver “lost directional control”, Greater Manchester Police said.The 26-year-old died from his injuries while his passenger, a 22-year-old man, was taken to hospital in a critical condition.Police are asking anyone with information or footage to contact them as part of their investigation.

England just about rode out a second-half fightback from Argentina as an eye-catching Twickenham debut from Max Ojomoh helped extend their winning streak to 11 successive Tests.Ojomoh scored one try and made another with a crossfield kick in the first half as England stretched out into a 17-3 lead at the break.Their advantage could have been even more emphatic had hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie not had a try ruled out for a slight knock-on on the final play of the first half.Argentina, who fought back from 21 points down to beat Scotland last weekend, crowbarred their way back into the contest…

Zack Polanski has said it would be “very tempting” to challenge Sir Keir Starmer in his North London constituency.The Green Party leader, who won a landslide leadership election earlier this year, is a member of the London Assembly but not an MP. When asked by the BBC if he was interested in directly challenging the Prime Minister, Mr Polanski said: “It would be very tempting to take Keir Starmer down.”But actually what I’m doing right now is really focusing on, right across England and Wales, growing the Green Party. We’ve just hit 175,000 members.”The party has seen a membership surge,…

A Reform UK councillor has slammed “net zero madness” on GB News as she delivered a damning tirade on Labour’s energy policy.Laila Cunningham declared that Britain cannot “tax its economy to death and hope that wind turbines will help us later” as she and fellow panellist Ed Gemmell, leader of the Climate Party.Ms Cunningham told GB News: “The cost of forcing an economy to run on expensive, unreliable power before that technology exists to make it cheap, is madness!”While Mr Gemmell insisted that net zero supported Rachel Reeves’ drive to raise funds ahead of the Budget, claiming that a clear…

Why is it that when anyone tries to crack down on illegal migration, the policy is called racist, inadvertently implying that the person who comes up with it is also a racist? Sir Keir Starmer said on the BBC: “It’s a completely different thing to say we are going to reach in to people who are lawfully here and start removing them. They are our neighbours. The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg asked if he would consider it a racist policy, to which he responded: “Well, I do think that it’s a racist policy. I do think it’s immoral. It needs to…

Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.In the latest incident involving Russia’s ships infiltrating UK waters, HMS Severn headed off the RFN Stoikiy, a corvette and Yelnya, a tanker, as they sailed west through the Dover Strait into the English Channel in the past fortnight.Last week, it emerged that the Russian spy ship Yantar was spotted off the coast of Scotland and it used lasers to disrupt RAF pilots tracking its movements.Defence Secretary John Healey branded the Yantar’s move “deeply dangerous” and warned Russia and its president…

Rumeana JahangirNorth WestBBCRoly Howard managed Marine FC across three decadesTributes have been paid following the death of Roly Howard, whose 33-year tenure in charge of the Merseyside club Marine AFC saw him gain a world record at the time for being the longest-serving football manager.He managed the Crosby-based team for 1,975 games between August 1972 and April 2005 and even worked as a groundsman for the club.The current team, which competes in the National League, held a minute’s silence before Saturday’s game after Howard died at the age of 90.Marine chairman Paul Leary told BBC Radio Merseyside: “He was a…

Crowborough residents have unleashed their rage on GB News over Labour’s plans to house 600 migrants in a local army camp. Thousands of protesters descended on the leafy Sussex town on Sunday to protest the controversial move against which many locals have rebuked.Protest organisers reported that around 3,000 residents took part today, marking the third consecutive Sunday of demonstrations against proposals to accommodate asylum seekers at the local military facility – even in the pouring rain.On the ground, GB News Reporter Isobel Feculak spoke to locals, who expressed fears over the future for their families if the plans were to…

Female politicians get more abuse than their male counterparts and it is important to “acknowledge that”, Sir Keir Starmer has said.The Prime Minister was speaking out after Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, said in a newspaper interview that she had been a victim of “mansplaining”.”Mansplaining” is when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending or patronising way that assumes she knows less about the topic than he does.Asked about the comments on the sidelines of the G20 summit of world leaders in South Africa, Sir Keir revealed he believes female MPs receive much more criticism.He said: “I strongly…