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A lottery ticket holder in Wolverhampton is sitting on a fortune worth £120,000 but has yet to claim the prize.The winning ticket from the Set For Life draw held on Monday, April 27, remains unclaimed more than two weeks later.The fortunate player successfully matched all five main numbers in that draw: 6, 13, 37, 42 and 43.Rather than receiving the sum as a lump payment, the prize structure awards the winner £10,000 each month over 12 months.The ticket was purchased in Wolverhampton, although the buyer’s identity remains unknown.National Lottery operator Allwyn has described the unclaimed winnings as “incredible” and is…

While the Conservative Party regularly contests leadership contests, this week could soon see the first challenge to a sitting Labour Prime Minister.Labour’s rulebook undoubtedly brings about a different challenge to whoever occupies No10, with a more ambiguous set of hoops for candidates to jump through.A potential challenger needs the support of 20 per cent of Parliamentary Labour Party colleagues, totalling 81 MPs given Sir Keir Starmer’s majority.Meanwhile, a Tory Prime Minister could face the chop if just 20 per cent of fellow MPs submit letters to the chairman of the 1922 Committee, a role long occupied by Sir Graham Brady.…

Jamaica’s path to becoming a republic remains at a standstill eight months after the current parliamentary session began, with the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the opposition People’s National Party unable to bridge their differences on constitutional change.The central point of contention involves whether removing King Charles as head of state should be pursued alongside replacing the UK-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice as Jamaica’s highest appellate body.Opposition Leader Mark Golding has maintained that the PNP will not budge from its stance that genuine decolonisation requires both changes to occur together. His written…

A global recession threatens the worldwide economy as oil prices risk surging towards $130 per barrel next year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.The financial institution has cautioned that crude oil remaining at $120 to $130 per barrel until 2027 risks plunging the world economy into a technical recession.A recession is defined as a period of economic decline when a country experiences two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP).While the UK under Prime Minister Keir Starmer has so far avoided this crisis, the IMF has signaled that the country’s economy is at risk of seeing its growth…

Erik Fleming, the drug addiction counsellor who supplied fatal doses of ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence at a Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday, also ordering three years of supervised release and a $200 (£147) penalty.The 56-year-old, who has remained free on bond for nearly two years, must surrender within 45 days to begin serving his sentence.Before sentencing, Mr Fleming addressed the court, stating: “It’s truly a nightmare I can’t wake up from. I’m haunted by the mistakes I made.”Matthew Perry passed away…

On Wednesday, the Sheffield Star reported further social media posts from a now deleted X account, including one in which he described people in the UK as being “fatter, uglier and poorly dressed” compared to those in continental Europe, adding: “On top of this we have a disgusting, almost subhuman underclass of people bringing the place down.”

Spain’s Igor Arrieta beat Afonso Eulalio of Portugal to win a soaking-wet stage five of the Giro d’Italia after a thrilling breakaway battle, although Eulalio had the consolation of taking the overall lead.The pair had been battling it out for victory since riding away from the peloton with about 50km to go in torrential rain, before suffering identical heavy late crashes.Both riders slid into the kerb after losing their front wheels on left-hand corners on roads covered by streams of rainwater, leaving them covered in cuts and with ripped Lycra. Despite losing the stage, Eulalio benefited from the pair being…

A devastating blaze tore through the former Parkway Middle School in Haverhill, Suffolk, on Tuesday evening, resulting in a partial structural collapse of the building.At the height of the incident, approximately 70 firefighters from both Suffolk and Cambridgeshire fire services worked to tackle the inferno.Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service was inundated with more than 60 emergency calls from 8:20pm on Tuesday, with witnesses reporting the smoke could be seen from considerable distances.Nine fire engines were deployed to the scene, with crews arriving from Haverhill, Bury St Edmunds, Wickhambrook, Woodbridge and Orford.Dramatic footage from the scene showed intense orange flames consuming…

The ceremonial is magnificent. The Imperial State Crown has its own carriage that has to share it with the cap of maintenance and the sword of state. The officials are all there. The tabards come out of the cupboard as you see the heralds standing in line organising the procession.The King reads his speech, the Government speech of Belgium. But what did it signify today? If anything, what was the point of it?Because normally the big speech of the year, the one setting out the full throttled thrust of the Government, comes from the King’s Speech. It renews a parliamentary…

Pippa and James Matthews have responded after a Government planning inspector ruled the couple are unable to cite privacy and security worries as grounds for blocking a disputed footpath running through their £15.5million Berkshire estate.Ken Taylor, the inspector presiding over a six-day public inquiry, determined on Wednesday that such considerations fall outside the hearing’s remit.The inquiry will instead examine whether local residents walked the route, known as Mill Lane, with sufficient regularity during a two-decade period between 2002 and 2022 to establish lawful public access rights.A spokesman for the couple rejected claims that any public footpath had ever existed on…