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Amanda Knox, who was convicted and later acquitted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, has defended her solo comedy show following calls for it to be cancelled.The sold-out show called Cartwheel, which Knox will perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, discusses motherhood and how she will explain the case to her daughter.Knox told the she is not the first person to use comedy to talk about traumatic events and said her material focuses on “how the world is unsafe and unfair towards women”.But Stephanie Kercher, the victim’s sister, said she is concerned it will “normalise and…

McCullum also gave his support for close friend Stephen Fleming, who has replaced him as Test coach. Fleming, 53, will not be in charge for the Pakistan series as Marcus Trescothick will step in, meaning his first assignment will be the tour of South Africa in December.”I had a great time in my four years but now it’s going in a different direction, I think Flem will be excellent,” McCullum said.”He’s a little bit like me, but better – that’s how I would sum him up. He’ll do a great job, and the ECB have done incredibly well to get…

The fire created delays at the busy London airport | PA By Alice Tomlinson, Published: 06/08/2026 – 19:50Updated: 06/08/2026 – 20:00Heathrow has been hit by flight chaos after a fire erupted causing one of its runways to close.A grass fire broke out next to one Heathrow’s runways, causing flight delays at the UK’s busiest airport.Images posted of social media show smoke rising from near one of the airport’s runways. An account dedicated to Heathrow runway updates wrote on X just before 6pm: “Due to a grass area fire 27L has had to be temporarily closed and therefore we will be 27R…

Almost 2,000 high street businesses are licensed to sponsor foreign workers, despite changes to legislation. This comes after changes last summer which ended the overseas recruitment of care workers and raised the minimum salary for skilled workers to £41,700.However, one year after the changes were brought in, more than 1,500 grocery and convenience stores, 150 taxi operators, 100 barber shops, and dozens of car washes and vape shops are still on the register.All of these businesses are able to sponsor people to apply for visas, reports the BBC.While being on the register does not mean applications for individual visas would…

Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, have welcomed their third child, a baby girl born on Monday, August 3, 2026. Buckingham Palace confirmed the arrival in an official statement, stating that the baby was born at 6:20pm at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, weighing six pounds and nine ounces. However, as of August 6, 2026, the official website of the British Monarchy, royal.uk, has not updated its published line of succession list to include the newborn child.The omission on the official website coincides with the couple not yet publicly releasing their daughter’s name. Formal updates to the Royal Family’s…

Tesco has rolled out its latest Clubcard Challenge, offering chosen customers the opportunity to accumulate up to 5,000 bonus loyalty point, the equivalent of £50 in store spending.The promotion went live on August 3 and will remain open until September 13, giving participants roughly six weeks to rack up the maximum reward.Shoppers who complete a full set of personalised shopping tasks through the supermarket’s app stand to collect the entire points haul, which can then be redeemed as Tesco vouchers or converted into rewards worth double through more than 100 partner brands such as Cineworld, Hotels.com, Disney+ and RAC.To take…

GB News presenter Bev Turner is joined by her parents in Essex as she and Michelle Dewberry speak to fans of the People’s Channel in Essex.Taking part in a special episode of Dewbs and Co for Celebrate Britain, Bev’s parents travelled to Essex to support their daughter for the People’s Channel’s five-year celebrations.WATCH ABOVE. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

Wales has seen confirmation that Wood entered the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize, which is for unpublished novels of at least 50,000 words.All entrants in the main literature prizes in the National Eisteddfod compete under pseudonyms, as a part of the festival’s strict confidentiality rule.During the ceremony on Tuesday, judge Meinir Wyn Edwards said there was “no plan or narrative arc in this novel” and that the “clumsy, flawed expression makes the whole thing almost impossible to read”.”So much so, that we suspect an artificial intelligence machine created the novel and that the author didn’t even bother to read through the…

More than £80m has now been spent on Trafford in initial transfer fees.As part of the deal taking him to Leeds, BBC Sport understands City will retain a 20% sell-on clause and have matching rights – meaning if they match a future offer for Trafford they will get first refusal on him.Leeds boss Daniel Farke appears willing to pay a premium despite Trafford’s limited opportunities at Manchester City last season, after both Karl Darlow and Illan Meslier left Elland Road this summer.Lucas Perri and Alex Cairns remain on the books, though Perri lost his place to Darlow in the second…

A body found by road workers close to a motorway bridge has been identified as a man aged between 20 and 28 years, say police.The discovery of the body was made close to a bridge between junctions 3 and 4 of the M67 on Tameside at about 23:00 BST on Monday 3 August, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.The force said a post-mortem examination had taken place, identifying the body as a man of medium build, between 5ft 5″ (1.65m) and 5’9″. His ethnicity is not known at this stage.GMP said it was continuing to work with specialist teams to understand…