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The family of a musician who was seriously injured in a racist attack have criticised the police’s handling of the investigation, saying there have been “multiple failings” in communication.Boyan Chowdhury, a founding member of indie band The Zutons, was left with a significant head wound after being hit with what is believed to be a piece of wood, near to his home in Wavertree, Liverpool, on Saturday afternoon. Speaking to Sky News earlier this week, he said he could have been killed but that he did not have faith in the way the incident was being dealt with.He shared graphic…

Just Eat and the funeral provider Dignity are among the latest companies being investigated as part of an inquiry into fake online reviews. The competition watchdog said its expanded crackdown on false and misleading information for consumers also took in the motor sales platform Autotrader, customer review and feedback firm Feefo and dining chain Pasta Evangelists. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was looking into whether Just Eat’s ratings system had inflated some restaurant and grocer star ratings, giving a misleading picture of quality.Money latest: The most expensive supermarkets for branded products For Autotrader and Feefo, the CMA…

How BMI is calculated According to the NHS website, BMI is calculated by dividing an adult’s weight in kilograms by their height in metres squared. For example, if you weigh 70kg (around 11 stone) and are 1.70m (around 5ft 7in) tall, you work out your BMI by: 1. Squaring your height in metres: 1.70 x 1.70 = 2.89 2. Dividing your weight in kilograms: 70 ÷ 2.89 = 24.22 Your result will be displayed to one decimal place, for example, 24.2. For most adults, if your BMI is: Below 18.5 – you’re in the underweight range 18.5 to 24.9 –…

The Oscars ceremony is leaving Hollywood, organisers have announced.Coinciding with the previously announced broadcast switch to YouTube, the show will move from the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to the Peacock Theatre about nine miles (14.5km) away, in downtown Los Angeles’s LA Live complex, in 2029. The Peacock Theatre has a capacity of about 7,000 – roughly twice the current amount. Image: The Peacock Theater is already home to the Emmys, where British actor and Adolescence star Owen Cooper won the award for outstanding supporting actor last year. Pic: Danny Moloshok/Invision for the Television Academy/AP It will come after more…

A benefit cheat who defrauded more than £23,000 by claiming she was too ill to go outside was caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico.Catherine Wieland, 33, claimed her anxiety was so severe it left her housebound. But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it discovered she had been lying about her condition.The DWP said it found evidence of Wieland, from Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, surfing in Cancun and visiting Thorpe Park three times while earning tens of thousands of pounds in Personal Independence Payments (Pip) over more than two years.It added she had also spent money from her disability…

If you spend much time on social media, you’ll have surely noticed the surge in AI-generated video filling up your feed.We were promised superintelligence but instead got “AI slop” – clips-for-clicks of people and pets doing funny, diverting, but ultimately pointless things. Or worse.Deepfake videos of politicians or celebrities have improved in line with the advancing sophistication of AI video-generating models.A surge of supposedly “educational” AI-generated video on platforms like YouTube Kids, say campaigners, threatens to misinform, or at best confuse, young minds. Then there’s the film and TV industry, understandably furious that their stories, actors and characters appear to…

HBO Max has officially launched in the UK today. The US streaming service features HBO content as well as Warner Bros Pictures and Television, DC Studios and Max Originals shows and films. It means the return of Friends to a UK streaming service, as well as the Harry Potter films.Other content available on the platform includes new seasons of Euphoria and House Of The Dragon and the new Harry Potter TV series, which is expected to air next year. Subscription plans start at £4.99 a month, with adverts included. Ad-free plans start from £9.99 a month. TNT Sports subscribers can…

National Savings and Investments (NS&I) is facing a bill worth hundreds of millions of pounds over a missing savings scandal.An update will be given by ministers later on Thursday following a report by the Daily Telegraph that the Treasury-backed bank was seeking taxpayer funds to help it compensate customers for alleged failures in the management of their cash. The paper said it could amount to a £400m bailout.Money latest: What do high gilt yields mean for your pension?Sky News understands that the bank is being told to foot the bill, which is not expected to run to such a high…

Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has been ordered to pay $375m (£280m) in damages after it was found to have knowingly harmed children’s mental health. In what was described by campaigners as a “watershed moment”, a court in New Mexico, USA, has found the company had concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms. The verdict marks the first time a jury has ruled on such claims against Meta, as the tech giant faces a wave of lawsuits over how its platforms affect young people’s mental health.The New Mexico case relied on…

A woman charged with the attempted murder of Rihanna following a shooting at the singer’s home has pleaded not guilty.Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, of Orlando, Florida, is accused of opening fire on the property in Los Angeles when the singer and her hip-hop star partner A$AP Rocky, as well as their three young children and others, were home on 8 March. Ortiz is charged with one count of attempted murder in relation to Rihanna, 10 counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three counts of shooting at an occupied vehicle or dwelling.Through her attorney, she also pleaded not guilty to…