Lawsuit alleges Jay-Z and Diddy raped 13-year-old girl
Getty Images US rapper Jay-Z has hit back at a lawsuit which alleges that he, along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl at a party in 2000. The anonymous accuser alleges she was assaulted at a house party after the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in New York and that an […]
Cornwall crab pots ‘deliberately’ damaged by French trawlers
Getty Images French fishermen have allegedly been “deliberately” damaging British crab pots. A fresh fishing row has broken out after claims that British crab pots are being damaged “deliberately” by French trawlers. The alleged incidents occurred between the six and 12-mile limit off the Cornwall coast. The Cornish Fish Producers Organisation is discussing the issue […]
Call for NHS to fund £240,000 cancer treatment Optune
BBC Nancy Carter-Bradley said the treatment would be a game-changer A woman who has been given two years to live is campaigning for a £240,000 cancer treatment to be funded by the NHS. Nancy Carter-Bradley, from Penwood in Hampshire, has been battling a brain tumour on and off since 2005. The 46-year-old described a treatment […]
End of an era as ‘proud’ star finishes tour in Vancouver
Getty Images More than 10 million tickets were sold for the tour worldwide Taylor Swift thanked her fans for making the Eras Tour “the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging” experience of her life, as she played the closing show in Vancouver on Sunday. Prior to playing All Too Well, Swift told the audience […]
Jeep pushed to retire Cherokee name from SUVs
Jeep The Cherokee Nation wants Jeep to stop using its name to sell the firm’s classic sports utility vehicles. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr said “it’s time” for companies and sports teams to retire Native American iconography from logos, mascots and other products. Jeep has sold vehicles under the name since the 1970s. […]
The online Casanova and his lover
Julia Quenzler In the dock: Rowaida El-Hassan and Munir Mohammed A couple who met online have been convicted of preparing for terrorism in a plot that could have attacked Derby or poisoned supermarket food. Who was the man behind the plans – and why was he even in the UK in the first place? Munir […]
Should you be buying a second-hand smartphone?
Back Market French entrepreneur, Thibaud Hug de Larauze, looks down at his laptop and taps a few keys. “So today we have 200,000-plus smartphones available to sell,” he tells me. None of those smartphones are new, instead they have been refurbished, a process involving checks, repairs and cleaning. Once the phones meet the required standard […]
Painting of Newquay petrol station wins people’s choice
Dianne Griffiths The piece, called Driving Home, was bought by the petrol station featured A painting of a petrol station under a star-lit sky in Cornwall has won an art award. Driving Home, a painting of a Texaco petrol station on Trevemper Road near Newquay, won the People’s Choice Award 2024 as a part of […]
The people behind a corner shop art exhibition
Southampton Forward The project centred around corner shops from across Southampton Students from universities across Hampshire have joined forces to put together a multi-media exhibition about convenience stores. The Corner Shop and Portal into Other Worlds project is a collaboration between Solent University and Winchester School of Arts. It also had the help of Southampton […]
Why some farmers are turning away from the Tories
Getty Images NFU President Minette Batters (pictured) has long been calling on MPs to back British farmers post-Brexit Traditionally British farmers have been a solid support base for the Conservatives, but as they struggle with rising costs and policy changes, the mood is shifting in a way that could benefit the Liberal Democrats and shape […]