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Parliament’s standards commissioner found Mr Lowe had not breached the rules governing donations to MPs over a crowdfunder for his grooming inquiry.

Headliners include 50 Cent on Friday, Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro on Saturday, with Snow Patrol closing the festival on Sunday.

The Duke of Sussex and six others are bringing legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited.

The UK Health Security Agency issued an amber heat health warning for the weekend.

Campaign group Defend Our Juries said demonstrations will take place in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Londonderry.

The Conservative leader, a supporter of the leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, also said it was time for ‘people to stop blaming Brexit’.

The 24-year-old was found with stab wounds in Seville Street, near Hyde Park, on Wednesday night and died at the scene.

British-Bangladeshi mountaineer Akke Rahman hopes to reach the summit before the end of July.

Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell spoke out against the assisted dying Bill.

Jacqueline Rutter, 53, was fatally shot in Moreton, Wirral, in 2022.

The Scottish Government is ‘committed to raising awareness of and addressing issues around spiking’, a minister said.

Bernard Williams was sentenced to nine years in prison for rape and sexual assault at Harrow Crown Court on Friday.

The BBC said it was launched because Mr Lowe is yet to declare money from his private grooming gang inquiry on his register of interests.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was hearing evidence from a former employee at a special residential school in Fife.

There have been 47 days so far in 2025 when no rainfall was measured at all in this part of the UK.

A report by Audit Scotland found lavish spending at the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (Wics).

Brussels said it wanted to know more about the ‘substance and the form’ of the agreement.

Former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg was also in the Royal Box.

Susan Davy said she will step down as chief executive and director on the South West Water parent firm’s board after 18 years with the firm.

Melissa Mathieson, 18, was strangled by Jason Conroy at Alexandra House in Bristol in 2014