News for August 4, 2025

The move faced criticism from the Democratic Unionist Party, Traditional Unionist Voice and some Ulster Unionists.

The Government’s manifesto commitment to deliver a genuine living wage for working people took a step closer today as it set out new considerations for the Low Pay Commission when recommending next year’s National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage.

The Electric Car Grant will make owning an electric car cheaper, easier and a reality for thousands more people across the UK.

We are phasing in identity verification over 12 months to make things simpler for companies and business owners.

Atos SE (AEXAF) reports stable quarterly revenues and improved operational efficiency, despite facing significant financial hurdles and ongoing restructuring…

When “Muhammed” becomes the most popular name for newborns in England and Wales, you know you have a problem. The post Anti-Immigrant Fever Among British Patriots Gains Momentum: ‘Send Them Back’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Patients coming off Wegovy or Mounjaro should have support and advice for at least a year afterwards, NHS told.

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“The Serpent’s Skin” director chats with IndieWire about the Shudder acquisition and the Dark Star Pictures collaboration that’s already turned her into a genre powerhouse.

Another Love Island couple is making series history as the new winners of Love Island U.K. season 12.

Police are warning of mass arrests if a protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action goes ahead on Saturday.

Highlights of the SPFL match between Hearts and Aberdeen.

Agreement pending approval of United States Bankruptcy Court

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you know? It’s turned out to be exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crush…

“Bullied by overbearing bureaucrats, many Church leaders loosely cited Romans 13, masked up and took the jab, not to save lives, but to save their jobs.”

Based on veteran experience and the number of snaps played at the SEC level, no position group on the Kentucky depth chart is deeper than the secondary entering the 2025 season.

So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. W…

Netflix You’ll need to grab a box of tissues if you plan to watch Netflix’s new No. 1 film. Released Friday as part of August’s new arrivals, this Netflix original romance is climbing the streaming charts and leaving plenty of tears in its wake. While it has …

Grayscale reappoints founder Barry Silbert as chairman and hires top Wall Street talent as it looks to defend its ETF revenue lead and sharpen its institutional edge.

In what one peace group described as “a direct assault on international law,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, at least one senior member of Israel’s government told multiple media outlets on Monday.”We are…

Netflix’s new romantic comedy drama “My Oxford Year” stars Sofia Carson as Anna. What else has Carson starred in?

Social media ghouls have seized on the killing of Blackstone exec Wesley LePatner “as symbolic retribution,” roars Jesse Arm at City Journal.

SSEN said it was continuing to restore supplies after about 50,000 homes were left without power.

The treaty provides a legal basis for the groundbreaking UK-France ‘one-in, one-out’ pilot scheme.

The United Kingdom is warning that it could start a war with China over Taiwan. British Defense Secretary John Healey has said that force is possible, but he emphasized that London continues to prefer a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. Europe Unveils Ri…

Teenage sensations like Michael Noonan and Victor Ozhianvuna have put themselves and their young contemporaries in the spotlight based off their exploits with Shamrock Rovers this year, with a batch of big clubs in the UK and in Europe tracking them.

Kentucky’s fall camp is off and running. Before the Cats officially begin the 2025 season, KSR is taking a closer look at the roster and analyzing each position group. Personnel, storylines, questions, and one bold prediction will be included. Next up is a po…

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Mat Dean says younger people should have access to bowel cancer screening.

The winners of the ITV2 series are announced during Monday’s live final in Mallorca.

The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) has initiated proceedings to cancel the registration of 17 vessels recently placed on the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list. The action…

ITV2 revealed the new eye for Big Brother UK 2026. During the Love Island Season 12 finale, ITV2 revealed the first teaser for the reality TV competition, which you can see below. RELATED: ‘Love Island’ Season 12 Crowns Winners On ITV 2 Big Brother is BACK! G…

The ‘one-in, one-out’ deal will see some of those arriving in the UK returned to France.

Summer is far from over and Sexyy Red is in HEAT … the “SkeeYee” rapper is looking for the hoezzzzzzz in Target!!! An unprovoked but clearly hot and bothered Sexyy dropped a since-deleted raunchy public service announcement on Monday… Permalink

This hyper-snatched aesthetic is turning heads for all the wrong reasons.

Web3, also known as Web 3.0, is the concept of a next-generation Internet built on decentralization, blockchain tech, and token-based economics. The post Tech growth: Web3 front runners revealed appeared first on Digital Journal.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the Love Island Season 12 finale. Love Island Season 12 is coming to an end as only four couples remain in the villa, with their fate now in the hands of ITV2 audiences as they vote for their winners. Sunday night’…

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Police have arrested right-wing British political activist Tommy Robinson on suspicion of committing assault last week at a London train station.

Mark Raymond allegedly kept shoving his daughter-in-law’s head under the water, “preventing her from breathing,” the sheriff’s office said.

President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which he said were “rigged”.

Prime Video’s new spy thriller series is a great replacement for Killing Eve’s humor and intensity, but there is one issue for some audiences.

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In a small trial, people lost more weight and fat while eating a diet rich in minimally processed foods than they did eating a diet high in ultra-processed foods.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran MTV Networks executive Nina L. Diaz, who most recently served as President of Content and Chief Creative Officer for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, will be leaving when Skydance’s pending acquisition of Paramount Global is completed Au…

A 14-year-old girl who was supposedly under constant supervision at a children’s mental health unit died after being left alone by her support worker, an inquest has heard.

Left-wing Jewish political journalist Rachel Shabi delivers a nuanced take on antisemitism, legitimate criticism of Israel and the role of race and colonialism.

French farmers in Hautes-Vosges used tractors to spray manure on squatters. They claimed the squatters illegally occupied their land. Farmers alleged they received no help from the police. A similar incident happened in the United Kingdom. A farmer there soak…

A brutal alien planet isn’t quite the same as future Earth, but Predator: Concrete Jungle has more than a few things in common with Predator: Badlands.

Domination will be released on September 5. The post Primal Fear Release New Single “Tears Of Fire” appeared first on MetalSucks.

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just 50 of the many publications that built the community we hold so dear. The post 78 Years Of Le…

Jadarite could just be the climate crisis’s Kryptonite.

/PRNewswire/ — KIDZ BOP, the #1 music brand for kids, is continuing to expand its reach into the spaces that matter most to today’s kids – at school, at play,…

Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 The day started with a little celebration of NISAR, a new Earth observation satellite that made it successfully into or…

Gian Piero Gasperini announced a radical change in the Roma approach, as Lorenzo Pellegrini is no longer the captain. ‘I have 7-8 captains and hope they can become 15 or 20.’

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Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid in Gaza are, first and foremost, a moral atrocity. Israeli policies since March, most notably the initial shutdown on aid entering the Strip, were very obviously going to cause a hunger crisis down the line. There can…

On the heels of the Love Island UK Season 12 finale, ITV has confirmed that the franchise will return in 2026 with Love Island: All Stars. Season 3 of the “All-Stars” edition will be extended by one week when it returns to ITV2 and ITVX in the new year. Inste…

Some new DJI Mini 5 Pro leaks have given us our first potential glimpse of its design and specs sheet. How does it stack up?

A new “diversity and outreach” committee will try to reach parts of society currently missing out on honours.

A major earthquake in the Pacific caused volcanic eruptions. The quake, one of the strongest ever, hit near Russia’s Kamchatka. Klyuchevskaya Sopka erupted after 600 years. Krasheninnikov volcano also erupted, sending ash high. Scientists link the quake to th…

He was cruising for a boozing … and a bruising.

Graeme Shinnie unfortunately turned the ball into his own net in the match between Hearts and Aberdeen.

The Osbourne daughter said she’d sat down to write the message ‘a hundred times’.

Company registrations in India surged for the seventh consecutive month in July, with limited liability partnerships also experiencing a significant rise. This growth reflects investor confidence in India’s economic prospects, despite global headwinds. Projec…

Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”  The maxim lived on. The…

Here’s what made the headlines today.

In the former capital of Hue, historical food fashions are enjoying a renaissance and making this central Vietnam city an unlikely hub for vegetarian cuisine.

The USCIS has updated its immigration policy, restricting visa eligibility for transgender women athletes seeking to compete in women’s sports. This decision aligns with the Trump administration’s efforts to regulate transgender participation in athletics, co…

Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller writer, has died. She was 90. Her family said Monday in a statement that Rimington died on Sunday, the AP reports. The first woman to head a UK intel…

Permission for the first vertical space launch from UK soil by a British rocket company has been granted by the air safety regulator.

The 42-year-old was detained by the British Transport Police after disembarking from a flight from Portugal.

Meta’s Horizon Worlds Desktop Editor now has ‘Creator Assistant’, an AI agent capable of performing many development tasks.

This 1995 Volkswagen T4 Transporter pickup is said to have been sold new in Germany before it was brought to the UK in 2011. It was then used on a farm in Chichester before being acquired by the selling dealer in January 2025. The truck is finished in blue ov…

Automotive industry will have to change techniques and materials as new EU rules come into force in 2026

Patients coming off Wegovy or Mounjaro should have support and advice for at least a year afterwards, NHS told.

Citroen’s line-up of electric cars will receive a £1,500 discount, although all miss out on the top £3,750 saving