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Ed Sheeran has reignited controversy around a “wildlife pond” he built in the garden of his Suffolk mansion, after sharing a video showing him bombing into the water in his swimming trunks after taking a run and sauna.The 33-year-old pop star applied to build the kidney-shaped pond on his estate in several years ago, angering some neighbours who felt it could be used as a swimming pool. Image: Ed Sheeran’s ‘wildlife pond’ pictured in 2019. Pic: Splash News Planning documents said it would “support nature conservation” and the application was approved on the basis it was used for wildlife and…

The energy price cap will rise to an average annual £1,717 from October, the industry regulator has confirmed as the clock ticks down to the loss of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.The new figure represents a 10% a year – or £12 per month – leap in the typical sum households face paying for gas and electricity when using direct debit. Ofgem said that the rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas prices and it urged bill-payers to “shop around” as there are fixed rate deals on the market that could offer savings.Money latest: Warning £2,500 will…

This is a bittersweet moment for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and their families.Hopes had been high that for the first time they would have access to a treatment that could slow the decline in memory and thinking. When a pivotal clinical trial was released last year doctors hailed lecanemab as a game-changer, one that could delay the need for care and give families more time together.But while the medicine’s regulator has agreed that the drug can be prescribed, the NHS spending watchdog has ruled in draft guidance that it is too expensive to justify the benefits.Unusually that isn’t just…

Lionsgate has recalled the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s multimillion-pound movie Megalopolis, after critic quotes it featured were exposed as fake.Admitting “we screwed up,” the studio immediately pulled the new trailer, which had been released on Wednesday. A Lionsgate spokesperson said: “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry.”The trailer had included quotes from critics including Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert and Owen Gleiberman about other Coppola films – but the quotes never appeared in their reviews.A voice…

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed as among the dead after a superyacht sank off Sicily this week.The Italian coastguard also said the bodies of Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and US lawyer Christopher Morvillo had been recovered, along with their wives, Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo.Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah remains missing.Superyacht search – follow latestRecaldo Thomas, the yacht’s chef, also died and was found in the hours after Monday’s early morning sinking.The confirmation of identities comes as another body was brought up from the wreck on Thursday morning, after divers recovered four yesterday.Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela…

A drug that can slow the debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer’s has been approved by the UK’s medicines regulator.In an unusual double-header assessment by UK authorities, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said the drug lecanemab is safe and effective enough for doctors to prescribe, but a separate NHS watchdog has ruled that it’s not cost-effective and won’t be available. The decision by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) means that the first drug to show an effect in Alzheimer’s will only be available privately.In the US the treatment costs £20,000 a year.A key clinical…

Hollywood star Alicia Silverstone has reassured fans she is “alive and well” after she shared a video of herself appearing to eat a poisonous fruit in England.The US actress, best known for her role as Cher in the 1995 film Clueless, shared the clip on her Instagram account on Monday. In the video, she bites into a small orange fruit, which looks like a cherry tomato, before asking her followers what it is.Social media users began to speculate that the fruit was solanum pseudocapsicum, commonly known as the Jerusalem cherry.The fruit is mildly poisonous and the Royal Horticultural Society warns…

Government borrowing rose to the highest amount since the pandemic in July, official figures show, as public sector pay increased.Not since 2021 has there been a July with such high borrowing, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It means there was a £3.1bn difference between what the government took in from things such as taxes and how much was spent on public sector services. The government has committed to borrowing only to invest and to bring down debt.Money blog: Top chef shares Yorkshire pudding secrets The sums are also higher than expected when looked at across…

Vogue, Wired and GQ publisher Conde Nast has done a multi-year deal with OpenAI.The artificial intelligence company announced the partnership on Tuesday, saying ChatGPT and its prototype tool SearchGPT would display content from “top brands like Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Wired, Bon Appétit, and more”. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.In June, OpenAI and Time magazine announced a “multi-year content deal” to allow OpenAI to access more than 100 years of Time’s content. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 4:53 Reports by analysts at Goldman…

The comedian whose joke was voted the funniest at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has said it isn’t the best one in his show and it isn’t the sort of gag he most enjoys.Mark Simmons took this year’s award for his gag with: “I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship but I bottled it”. Simmons, a Mock The Week panellist, told Sky News: “I don’t think it’s my best joke in my show, but I think it is probably the best one written down so that, you know, so everyone can understand it.”Personally, I like…