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Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his officers should not be “policing toxic culture wars debates” as he responded to his force’s arrest of Father Ted writer Graham Linehan over anti-trans posts.The UK’s top police officer said his officers are in an “impossible position”, adding that he has offered to provide suggestions to the Home Office about clarifying the law and policy within weeks. “Greater clarity and common sense would enable us to limit the resources we dedicate to tackling online statements to those cases creating real threats in the real world,” he said.Explainer: What you can’t say…

A US federal judge has ordered a major makeover of Google’s search engine in a crackdown aimed at addressing the damaging effects of monopolistic practices.In an effort to curb Google’s influence, Washington DC Judge Amit Mehta has introduced new limitations on how the company directs traffic to its search engine. He is requiring the tech giant to grant current and potential competitors access to key elements of its search engine, including the vast data collected from trillions of queries that enhance the quality of its results.However, the judge rejected the government’s more ambitious bid to split up the company, and…

More than a thousand high street jobs will be put at risk this week when Bodycare, the health and beauty retailer, is forced to call in administrators.Sky News has learnt that Bodycare, which was founded on a Lancashire market stall more than half a century ago, is expected to appoint administrators from Interpath Advisory as soon as Friday. Bodycare, which specialises in selling fragrances, toiletries, cosmetics and skincare products, employs about 1,500 people and trades from nearly 150 stores across the country.The chain’s collapse into insolvency proceedings is likely to trigger a further effort by Interpath to find a buyer…

Graham Greene, the Canadian First Nations actor best known for his performance in Dancing With Wolves, has died aged 73.The star died peacefully after a long illness. His agent Michael Greene (not a relation) said he loved everything the actor “did for his people and for all the world” in a statement sent to Sky News.”He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed…God bless his beautiful soul.”Greene was a “trailblazer” who opened doors for indigenous actors in Hollywood, US entertainment outlet Deadline reported. He made his screen debut in an episode of the…

“AI has changed my life, absolutely,” Lucas Horne tells Sky News. “When I play my music, I’m happy because the words I know mean a lot to me can now be heard by everyone else.”Lucas was 17 when, in December 2016, with no warning, he suffered a large, traumatic bleed across his brain. He didn’t wake up until almost four months later.Unknowingly, he had been living with a defect in the blood vessels known as an AVM (arteriovenous malformation), a ticking time bomb which had ruptured, and the next three years of his life were spent in recovery in a…

Nestle shares opened down more than 2.5% after the maker of Nescafe, Cheerios, KitKat, and Rolos dismissed its chief executive after an investigation into an undisclosed romantic relationship with an employee.On Monday night, Nestle announced that the immediate dismissal of Laurent Freixe, effective immediately, following the investigation into the relationship, with a direct employee, which had breached the company’s code of business conduct. Money blog: ‘My best friend didn’t give me a wedding gift – what should I do?’The replacement for Mr Freixe was announced as being Philipp Navratil, a long-time Nestle executive and former head of Nespresso, the brand…

Hollywood star Rupert Everett has been working behind the bar of his village pub in a bid to keep the doors open. Everett, known for his roles in Another Country and My Best Friend’s Wedding, has joined a roster of volunteers working to save The Swan, a local pub in Enford, Wiltshire, that is currently under threat of closure. The pub is staffed by a rotation of 30 people after it was initially closed when the previous licensee left.”There has been an amazing effort by our community to keep this pub open,” said the 66-year-old Shrek voice actor.”Times are hard…

South Australia will become the first place in the world to ban soy sauce fish-shaped containers as part of a wider cutdown on single-use plastic.From 1 September, the small dispensers often included in takeaway sushi meals will be phased out in the state. The move is part of an update to previous environmental legislation from September 2023 that banned supermarket carrier bags, plastic straws, cutlery, drinks stirrers, cotton buds, and confetti, among other things.The latest move will also cover non-compostable fruit and vegetable stickers and prepackaged cups and bowls for takeaway meals.Fish-shaped sauce containers were invented in Japan in the…

The McLaren Formula One team is to be valued at over £3bn in a deal that will reap a stellar return for the investors which helped bail out its parent company during the pandemic.Sky News can exclusively reveal that McLaren Group’s owners – Mumtalakat, the Bahraini sovereign wealth fund, and Abu Dhabi-based automotive investment group CYVN Holdings – are to buy out the 30pc stake in McLaren Racing that they do not already own. Sources said the deal, which will give the two Gulf investors full ownership of McLaren Racing, could be announced as soon as Tuesday.Money blog: Child psychiatrist’s…

Tennis player Kamil Majchrzak tracked down a fan whose cap was snatched away from him at the US Open – so he could give him a new one.The Polish star, 29, signed balls and towels for people in the crowds at Flushing Meadows in New York after he won his match against Russia’s Karen Khachanov on Thursday. Footage of him giving his cap to a young boy – only for it to be taken from his hands by a man next to him – was circulated widely online.Majchrzak, who was forced to pull out of the tournament due to injury…