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An easyJet flight to Tenerife had to make a sudden U-turn and return to Gatwick due to a “technical issue”.The captain of flight EZY8033, which left the London airport at 7.26am and was due to arrive in Tenerife at 11.50am, decided to return to Gatwick “as a precaution”, easyJet said. Image: The Easyjet flight turning back after the emergency call. Pic: Flightradar The airline added: “The captain performed a routine landing in accordance with standard operating procedures and passengers have disembarked normally.”We are arranging for an alternative aircraft to operate the flight to Tenerife and would like to thank customers…

Vanessa Hudgens has given birth to her first child with husband Cole Tucker. The High School Musical actress, 35, revealed her pregnancy at the Oscars in March when she arrived in a bump-hugging black gown. Hudgens was spotted leaving a hospital in Santa Monica, California, on Wednesday.She was being pushed to a waiting car in a wheelchair as she cradled her newborn. Image: Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Tucker. Pic: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni On the same day, Hudgens had posted on Instagram wishing her husband a happy birthday as he turned 28. “Happy birthday to my slice of heaven,” she wrote. “You make…

David and Victoria Beckham have recreated their iconic throne wedding scene to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.The couple shared photos on Instagram, dressed in the matching purple ensembles they wore as their second outfit on the big day back in 1999. Image: Announcing their engagement in January 1998. Pic: Reuters They wrote: “Look what we found…”, with David adding in a second post, “Yep, still got it! Can’t believe it’s been 25 years and they still fit!”The former England footballer and Spice Girl married on 4 July 1999 in Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland, in front of an intimate audience of…

Cineworld is drawing up plans to axe dozens of British cinemas as part of a radical restructuring that would also include extensive rent cuts.Sky News has learnt that the company, which until last year was listed on the London Stock Exchange, is considering closing about a quarter of its roughly-100 British multiplexes. Cineworld also wants to renegotiate rent agreements at a further 50 sites, with the remaining 25 untouched by the restructuring.Sources said the proposals were expected to be formally outlined to creditors including landlords in the coming weeks.They added that the insolvency mechanism employed by the cinema operator was…

P Diddy – aka rap mogul Sean Combs – is reportedly being sued over another allegation of sexual assault and trafficking.A former porn actress has accused him of forcing her to have sex with a guest at a 2007 party, according to US media. Adria English alleges Combs also demanded she have sex with guests at other parties he held in New York and Florida.Her lawsuit was filed on Wednesday and alleges he threatened to wreck her career – and that of her boyfriend – if she didn’t agree.Combs faces multiple other sex lawsuits filed in the last year, and…

Tiny fragments of glass fibre widely used to make small boats around the world have been found in the marine food chain for the first time.Scientists at the universities of Portsmouth and Brighton found the glass shards, just a fraction of a millimetre long, in shellfish caught off the south coast of England. The needle-shaped fragments of fibreglass, or glass reinforced plastic, were so sharp that some had speared biological tissue.Professor Faye Couceiro, lead researcher and an expert in environmental pollution, told Sky News more research was urgently needed to understand the risk to people who consume oysters and mussels.”The…

Fraud groups take billions of dollars a year out of the music industry through fake streams, a streaming technology company has warned. At least 10% of all song streams are fraudulent, and this takes between $2bn and $3bn (£1.6bn and £2.4bn) out of the global music industry each year according to Beatdapp, the streaming fraud detection platform. Global streaming jumped by a third last year with 7.1 trillion song streams recorded in 2023, according to the latest figures published by Luminate, the music data provider.The revenue from streaming was $19.3bn in the same year, according to the International Federation of…

Her time at the top of the Conservative Party memorably ended just 42 days after becoming prime minister, yet Liz Truss has been a name frequently heard throughout general election debates. The Labour Party hoped to remind voters of the unfunded tax cuts and spending plans announced in the September 2022 mini-budget which caused government borrowing to soar and necessitated an intervention by monetary regulator the Bank of England to prevent a collapse of pension funds. The party has bet that associating current-day Tories with Ms Truss and her economic plans will be a vote winner. The party wants voters…

A former chair of the Post Office has told the Horizon IT scandal inquiry that in-house lawyers advised him against sharing a report he commissioned on the accounting system. Tim Parker, who held the role for almost seven years from October 2015, said he regretted taking the advice the findings of the review by Jonathan Swift in 2016 were legally privileged. He said he could not recall whether it was received orally or in writing from Jane MacLeod – general counsel at the Post Office.Money latest:Marks & Spencer knocked off top spot as new grocer of the year namedCounsel to…

The world’s biggest gaming championship kicks off today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Around 1,500 global esports champions are heading to Boulevard City, competing for eight weeks for a record prize pool of $60m (£47m). “The Esports World Cup is a major moment in esports history,” said Ralf Reichert, chief executive of the Esports World Cup Foundation.”It’s a historic culmination of two universal languages, gaming and sports, to unite the global community across games, leapfrog the esports industry and drive growth across the entire ecosystem.” Image: Players compete at one of the World Cup qualifier events. Pic: Enos Ku / EWC24…