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“Gut-wrenching” CCTV footage which appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel “has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behaviour” of the rapper, her lawyer has said.Warning: This story includes images readers may find distressing The 54-year-old, whose homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security Investigations agents in March, has faced a series of public allegations of physical and sexual violence.Footage obtained by CNN appears to show Combs – also known as P Diddy and Puff Daddy – wearing only a white towel as he punches and kicks Cassie…

Taylor Swift’s new album helped fuel the highest weekly vinyl sales in 30 years – but is our rediscovered love of owning records environmentally reckless?PVC (poly vinyl chloride), the plastic from which records have traditionally been made, isn’t great for the planet, and concerns have also been raised over packaging as vinyl sales have risedn in recent years. Rou Reynolds, frontman of chart-topping rock band Enter Shikari, believes leading artists need to shoulder some responsibility to “push forward” change.”The bigger you are as an artist, the more influence you have, the more you can push things forward and accelerate progression,”…

Sir Tony O’Reilly, a former Irish international rugby player and one of the country’s leading businessmen, has died aged 88.Sir Tony, who was also a media magnate, died in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin on Saturday. The Irish Rugby Football Union posted on X: “A legend of the game has passed.”Our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.”Ireland’s premier Simon Harris has paid tribute to a “trailblazer” who “forged a path that many other international business figures from Ireland would follow”. In a statement, Sir Tony’s family said: “In the coming days there will be many worthy tributes made to…

A homeless man has been charged over the random attack on Hollywood actor Steve Buscemi on a New York Street earlier this month.The 66-year-old Broadwalk Empire and Fargo star was punched in the face by a stranger while he was walking in midtown Manhattan on 8 May, city police said. He was taken to hospital with bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye but was otherwise fine, his publicist said at the time.A man wanted in connection with the attack was arrested on Friday, police said.The 50-year-old homeless man was charged with second-degree assault in the same precinct where…

Marks & Spencer’s website and app is back online after an outage lasting several hours, with a message telling shoppers “you can’t shop with us right now”.”We’re working hard to be back online as soon as possible,” it had added. But the retailer confirmed to Sky News that services had resumed by 6pm on Saturday.Earlier, all the menus and images had disappeared apart from one showing a model in a green jacket.Customers trying to use the app got the message: “Sorry you can’t shop through the app right now. We’re busy making some planned changes, but will be back soon.”…

Former Weakest Link host Anne Robinson has confirmed she is in a relationship with the Queen’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles.At the end of last year it was reported the 79-year-old TV presenter and 84-year-old retired cavalry officer were dating. Robinson has now confirmed they are, telling Saga magazine: “Yes. Full stop. Mind your own business.”The interview comes as it was announced Robinson will take on the role of the publication’s agony aunt from their June issue.Discussing returning to the dating pool in her 70s, after being single for more than a decade, she told Saga: “I’d been out of the…

Lily Tomlin, Morgan Fairchild and Ben Stiller have led tributes to “one-of-a-kind” actor Dabney Coleman following his death aged 92.Coleman made his career playing comedic villains, mean-spirited bosses and villains in films including 9 to 5 and Tootsie, as well as playing Commodore Louis Kaestner in Boardwalk Empire. Lily Tomlin, who starred alongside him in 9 To 5 with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, said: “We just loved him.”In her post to X, the actress shared a photo of her character Violet Newstead dressed in a Snow White costume beside a tense-looking Coleman as her egotistical boss Franklin Hart Jr.…

Bosses at Revolut, Britain’s biggest fintech, are drawing up plans to allow employees to cash in with a sale of stock valued at hundreds of millions of pounds.Sky News has learnt that the banking and payments services provider is lining up investment bankers to coordinate a secondary share sale worth in the region of $500m (£394m). Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street bank, is expected to be engaged to work on the proposed stock offering, which will take place later this year.Money blog: How to sell your home without an estate agentCity sources said this weekend that Nik Storonsky, Revolut’s co-founder…

The Northern Lights could light up our skies again as early as next month.Skies over the UK turned pink and green last weekend as the Northern Lights produced incredible displays for skygazers. The spectacle came after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US issued its first severe solar storm warning since 2005 as a series of solar flares combined to form a huge burst of solar plasma.”We had a quite enormous sunspot, about 15 times the size of the Earth, on the Earth-facing side of the sun,” said Krista Hammond, a space weather expert at the Met…

Blue Peter’s youngest ever presenter has claimed disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris sexually assaulted her when she was a teenage host of the children’s show.Yvette Fielding, who joined the long-running BBC programme aged 18, told the Sun newspaper how the paedophile predator squeezed and patted her bottom after finding herself alone with him in a TV studio. The now 55-year-old also recalled an uncomfortable experience with “grotesque” Jimmy Savile, who was later revealed to be one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.Fielding has questioned the role of the BBC in allowing their behaviour, arguing people in the industry “must have known”.…