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The average annual energy bill will be £506 cheaper than a year ago from July, the sector’s regulator has announced.The energy price cap – which limits what can be charged per unit of energy – is due to fall from the month after next. It means the average annual bill will be £1,568 a year, 7% less than at present.But while the July figure is a reduction, bills are still more expensive than before.Before the energy price shock, caused primarily by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a standard 12-monthly bill was £1,084. Money latest: Energy bills fall -…

These are the largest images of the universe ever taken.They come from the Euclid space telescope which is trying to create a 3D map of the universe. That map will help us understand how our universe formed and what is happening to it now. A huge treasure trove of information was released on Wednesday, based on just 24 hours of data gathering by the telescope.The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid mission, which blasted off in July 2023, uses one of the largest cameras ever sent into space to observe two billion galaxies. Image: Beta Phoenicis, a very bright foreground star…

A SWAT team has raided the rented Florida mansion of singer Sean Kingston and arrested his mother on fraud and theft linked to the installation of a gigantic TV.Detectives detained his mother, Janice Turner, 61, at the property in a Fort Lauderdale suburb, popular with celebrities and professional athletes, including Dwayne Johnson and Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill, on Thursday. Image: Kingston was thought to be out of town and not present during the raid. Pic: AP The sheriff’s office said the investigation is ongoing and declined to release specific details about the charges against Turner or whether her 34-year-old…

If Paula Vennells’s first day in the witness stand was memorable for her tears and self-justifications at facing public scrutiny for the first time in nine years, the second was less dramatic but more substantial.During her seven years as chief executive, hundreds of sub-postmasters were sent to jail based on flawed evidence thrown up by the Post Office’s Horizon IT system. Ms Vennells’s defence is that despite her experience – she was in senior roles for five years before taking the top job – she just did not know.She spent much of day one establishing just how complete her ignorance…

UK scientists have discovered a new planet that could potentially support human life and it isn’t that far away… relatively speaking.The temperature on Gliese 12b is around 42C which means it could be liveable. In fact, it is one of the few known planets where humans could theoretically survive. “It’d be uncomfortable for a human but the way we define ‘habitability’ is that liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet, which in this case it could,” says Larissa Palethorpe from University of Edinburgh.Ms Palethorpe and a team of scientists from around the world used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet…

Seinfeld star Michael Richards has revealed he was diagnosed with cancer and was forced to undergo surgery to remove his whole prostate – or risk dying within months. Richards, 74, opened up about the troubling time in his soon-to-be released memoir, Entrances And Exits, saying the diagnosis came after a routine check-up showed high PSA levels. The star recollected how he was diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer back in 2018.He said in an interview with People on Thursday that his then nine-year-old son motivated him to find a way to live longer.”I thought, ‘Well, this is my time. I’m ready…

The approach of business to general elections is not what it was.Not that long ago, it was common for big corporates to make donations to political parties, including big FTSE 100 names such as SmithKline Beecham, United Biscuits, General Accident and Whitbread. Most of these donations would go to the Conservatives but there were some companies, such as Marks & Spencer and Pearson, which also made donations to other parties.Some, such as Hanson – whose founder Lord Hanson was a loyal supporter of Margaret Thatcher – continued to do so even after the 1992 Cadbury Report recommended companies stop making…

The surprise election announcement made for a sluggish start to the campaign in most ways. But the speed of digital meant the online campaign was up and running in minutes – in fact, as we’ll see, the shadow campaign was already being waged. Every election, we talk about it being the biggest digital election. That’s not untrue. With five years between each vote, platforms move on – last time, TikTok was not the behemoth it is now, for example.But this is different, for a very old-fashioned reason: money. Lots of it. X This content is provided by X, which may be…

Jennifer Lopez has deflected questions that her marriage to Ben Affleck is heading for divorce amid swirling rumours.The 54-year-old actress and singer hit out a reporter who asked if there was any truth to the rumours during a press conference for her new Netflix film Atlas. Social media footage of the event in Mexico City shows a journalist ask: “Is your divorce with Ben Affleck real? These rumours?”What is the truth? Para le press le Mexicana [for the Mexican press], what is the truth of the situation?”Lopez’s co-star Simu Liu, best known for playing Shang-Chi in Marvel’s 2021 film Shang-Chi…

The search for an inaugural chairman for a new English football regulator is being put on hold amid expectations that legislation to introduce it will not make the pre-election cut.Sky News understands that Whitehall officials had begun sifting through applicants to become chair of the Independent Football Regulator (IFR) when Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that Britain would go to the polls on July 4. The Football Governance Bill, which is in the intermediate stages of the legislative process, could be rushed through given that it has broad support from both major parties.However, one Whitehall insider said on Thursday morning…