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The “Love Island effect” is being blamed for a “dramatic increase” in the number of women, often young, seeking to have cosmetic surgery. The number of high street salons offering cosmetic surgery has also increased. One plastic surgeon told Sky News that younger women increasingly request dermal filler packages, explicitly asking for the “Love Island look”.A former contestant on the ITV dating show, Malin Andersson, believes cosmetic surgery can become an addiction.She told Sky News she started getting lip fillers in her late teens, but could not stop. Image: Younger women increasingly request dermal filler packages, explicitly asking for the…

A British hypersonic aviation campaign which has been hailed as a successor to Concorde is this weekend racing to avert collapse.Sky News has learnt that Reaction Engines has lined up PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the accountancy firm, to act as administrator if its quest to secure new funding is unsuccessful. The company is understood to be in detailed talks with the UAE state-backed Strategic Development Fund (SDF), one of its existing shareholders, about an injection of new capital.A number of Reaction Engines’ other investors are also said to be considering whether to assist with new funding for a company which has previously…

A judge has ordered social media giant X, formerly known as Twitter, to be taken down in Brazil.Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes made the order after the site’s billionaire owner Elon Musk failed to name a legal representative in Brazil. The judge and Musk have been feuding in public for months after X did not comply with legal orders to block certain accounts accused of spreading fake news and hate.In the decision, the judge also ordered the payment of fines amounting to 18.5m reais (£2.5m).Anyone who uses virtual private networks (VPN) to circumvent the block and access X could…

Rod Stewart has denied reports he and his wife Penny Lancaster are facing “disharmony” in their marriage, telling fans they “could not be more in love with each other”.The 79-year-old rock star shared a black-and-white statement on Instagram, which he said was intended to “put the record straight”. The Do Ya Think I’m Sexy singer said he was countering earlier tabloid reports that the couple were arguing over leaving the US and returning to live in the UK. Image: The couple shopping in LA in 2020. Pic: Rex Features Stewart, who recently extended his Las Vegas residency into 2025, wrote:…

House prices are now growing at the fastest annual rate in nearly two years, the UK’s largest building society has said, with rises expected to continue.In the year up to August, houses became 2.4% more valuable with the average property costing £265,375, according to Nationwide. But prices are still below the all-time highs recorded in the summer of 2022 by about 3%.Money blog:NatWest customers unable to make paymentsDuring that time people were spending lockdown savings as COVID-19 restrictions were unwinding and borrowing rates had not reached the current highs. The annual increase and associated increase in buying demand is still…

The first-ever open world Star Wars video game, the highly-anticipated Star Wars Outlaws, launches today.The third-person role play game (RPG) focuses on a Han Solo-inspired scoundrel, Kay Vess, and is set between the events of the 1980 hit The Empire Strikes Back and 1983’s Return Of The Jedi. The game encourages fighting, stealing, and even gambling despite being set in a franchise widely perceived as being child-friendly. Image: Star Wars Outlaws. Pic: Ubisoft/Disney Disney will be anxious for a hit, following news last week that the House of Mouse had already cancelled its latest Star Wars live-action show, The Acolyte.Despite a mostly positive…

Oasis have announced three extra concert dates in the UK for their reunion tour next year.The band said they were adding the extra gigs due to “unprecedented demand” following registration for a ticket pre-sale. They have also extended the deadline to confirm entries to the pre-sale, to 10am UK time on Friday, after worry from some social media users that they had not received responses. Fans who are successful in the ballot will be contacted by 5pm tomorrow with access information.Noel and Liam Gallagher confirmed the band’s reunion on Tuesday morning, following weeks of speculation. The comeback comes 15 years…

The government will not defend the legal challenges brought against plans to develop the UK’s largest untapped oil and gas field and a second North Sea site. Rosebank, 80 miles west of Shetland, contains around 300 million barrels of oil and is the UK’s last major undeveloped oil site. It is twice the size of the controversial Cambo oil field.Jackdaw, another untapped gas site, is 150 miles east of Aberdeen.Legal claims against developing the sites for oil had been brought by environmental campaign groups Greenpeace and Uplift. Policy changingOn Thursday, the government confirmed it would now not contest these legal…

Champions League organisers have assured clubs and fans there is no possibility of the new AI-assisted draw for the men’s UEFA competition being manipulated tomorrow, with extra security in place to guard against cyber attacks.The traditional manual draw can no longer be solely relied on to determine fixtures as the competition has expanded from 32 to 36 teams with a more complex format. It is the biggest transformation to European men’s football in more than three decades since the introduction of a group stage that gave entry to multiple clubs from countries – rather than just their domestic league champions.The…

A hotel chain in Manchester has been accused of cancelling a booking after the Oasis reunion was announced – and relisting the room for a higher price.Sacha Lord, the night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester, wrote on X last night that he’d been contacted by “several people” who were told their rooms had been cancelled by Maldron Hotels after a “computer error”. He claimed they were later “back up for three times the price”.Several users have replied saying they have been affected by the issue. Image: Maldron hotel in Manchester Oasis fan Mark Slinger, 36, who lives on the Isle…