Major UK motorway blocked after car bursts into flames during rush hour

A car was smashed into a drop-off sign outside Bolton's A&E department on Sunday (May 21) as police arrested the driver on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs.

The party supplier business founded by Kate Middleton ’s parents has been sold as part of a rescue deal after falling into administration. Party Pieces Holdings, which was founded by Carole and Michael Middleton in 1987, has been sold to entrepreneur James Sinclair in a pre-pack administration deal.The Middletons hired insolvency specialists from Interpath Advisory earlier on Thursday after the news broke that the company had fallen into administration following the pandemic.The business saw trading “impacted significantly” by the pandemic, pressing down on demand for party decorations and personalised gifts.

Amanda Holden risked flashing her fans and followers as she sported a cheeky minidress while receiving a career boost. The Britain's Got Talent judge was seen doing the splits in her gorgeous short dress as she showed off her outfit choice to fans as she headed to work on Heart.

Beyoncé‘s concert last night (May 18).Thousands of fans descended on the Welsh capital’s Principality Stadium on Wednesday for the music icon’s first UK date of her ‘Renaissance’ world tour.Ahead of the show, South Wales police said the facial recognition technology would be used in Cardiff city centre, but not at the stadium itself, to help identify people wanted for “priority offences” (via The BBC).They added that it would be used “to support policing in the identification of persons wanted for priority offences… to support law enforcement… and to ensure the safeguarding of children and vulnerable persons”.“Facial Recognition is not a condition of entry and it will not be on the stadium footprint,” a spokesperson said.However, the technology has been criticised by human rights campaigners due to concern about racial bias.South Wales Police added that the biometric data won’t be stored of anyone who is not on a watch list, and is instead immediately deleted.The same technology was used at the King’s Coronation where campaigners expressed similar human rights concerns.Daragh Murray, a senior lecturer of law at Queen Mary University in London, told The Guardian that he found it “very hard to believe that it could be useful at a concert, or at a rugby match”.“But given the really significant interference with human rights, I think it’s up to the police to provide a really compelling argument as to why it’s necessary.”The UK leg of Beyoncé’s world tour continues this week in Edinburgh (20), followed by Sunderland (23).

A murder bid thug who cut off part of his friend's ear and scratched his name on the victim's chest has been jailed for seven and a half years. Thomas Fullerton, 29, left Liam Day in a pool of blood after turning on him at his home in Drumchapel, Glasgow, last April 30.

Speaking with TV Tonight, a Seven spokesperson revealed that filming had ceased due to water damage at the Quay Centre at Sydney Olympic Park. 

Jonny Lee Miller has shared some huge career news – revealing he has qualified as a volunteer firefighter. The 50 year old actor, who recently starred in Netflix’s controversial Royal drama The Crown, announced that he has completed a five-month course at Suffolk County Fire Academy in New York.

Police were forced to close a busy Scots road after five vehicles crashed into each other on the A92 in Fife.

Naman Ramachandran British singer-songwriter Craig David (“22”) and singer and stage actor Beverley Knight (“Sister Act”) will headline the Windrush 75 celebration at London’s Royal Albert Hall on June 9. The event is being curated and hosted by DJ and radio presenter Trevor Nelson. The Windrush generation came to the U.K. from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. The ship MV Empire Windrush had arrived in Tilbury on June 22, 1948, bringing workers from the Caribbean to help address a post-war labor shortage in the U.K. The concert will aim to capture the breadth of musical influence which the Windrush generation has had on British culture over the last 75 years, with performances including R&B group Loose Ends’ “Hangin’ on a String,” G-folk’ pioneer Hak Baker’s “Windrush Baby” and David’s “Fill Me In,” as well as renditions of classic tracks like Lord Kitchener’s “London is the Place for Me,” Bob Marley’s “Is this Love,” and Goldie’s “Inner City Life.”

King Charles was said to have been “crushed” after learning Prince Harry was issuing a statement confirming his relationship with Meghan Markle just 20 minutes before its release. The 74-year-old now monarch, who was still Prince of Wales at the time, was on an important tour of the Middle East in November 2016 and was set for a delicate summit with the King of Bahrain.

Jonathan Majors appeared via Zoom during a status update hearing about the assault charges that have been brought against him.

Jonathan Majors could be imprisoned for up to a year if found guilty of a charge unveiled this morning in his domestic violence case. At the same time, the actor’s attorney today slammed proceedings as a by-product of “the racial bias that permeates the criminal justice system.”

Concerns have been raised after women's safety volunteers were among those arrested at the King's Coronation this weekend, as rape alarms were seized.

A seven-mile stretch of the Minnesota State Highway 5 is being renamed for Prince Rogers Nelson, the rocker behind such hits as “Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry” and “Raspberry Beret,” among many other songs.

Kate Garraway was left shocked on this morning's Good Morning Britain after her 'rude' co-star Richard Arnold made a dig at I’m A Celebrity’s Carol Vorderman's makeup.The former Countdown star has created a routine of posting about the new I'm A Celeb series on her Instagram page after each episode has aired. Joined by show regular Richard, Kate and Ben were shown a clip from Carol Vorderman’s Instagram live on the show.

openly mocked for sobbing her way through her acceptance speech, and the fact that “Shakespeare in Love” upset Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” for Best Picture didn’t sit will with a lot of movie fans.“I felt a real pivot on that night because I felt like up until that moment everybody was kind of rooting for me in a way. And then when I won, it was like too much, and I could feel a real turn,” she said.Paltrow explained why she was so emotional that Oscar night, her father: the late director Bruce Paltrow, who was seated with her, was undergoing cancer treatment.

A woman who was bitten by a dog needed emergency surgery after going out leaflet dropping in her local area. Sharon Connor was shocked as she retrieved her hand from a letterbox to find it covered in blood.

Goodbye rosé all day… hello meatballs on Miami Beach?Nikki Beach, the Miami hotspot where Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton partied and rosé-drinking was turned into a lifestyle, is facing being evicted to make way for a Carbone spin-off.Its city-owned property parcel, valued at $1 billion, is looking set to be handed to Boucher Brothers, the hospitality group which runs every other venue on the party-hearty strip — and they are bringing in the Major Food Group to help plot the future for the spot which made Miami Beach glamorous again.Located at 1 Ocean Drive, the management contract spans a 23,000-square foot building and exclusive use of the public beach for outdoor seating, include lounge chairs and day beds. On Friday, the City of Miami Beach Commission voted 5-2 to negotiate with the Boucher Brothers to take over Nikki Beach’s lease and management contract, which expires in May 2026. The Boucher Brothers run all the beach concessions up and down Miami Beach — except the Nikki Beach parcel.

A double killer has died in Carstairs State Hospital – 10 years after he was detained for stabbing another murderer to death.

A subtle tribute. Before Queen Consort Camilla is officially crowned during her husband King Charles III’s coronation, she will enter Westminster Abbey with a small piece of Queen Elizabeth II’s memory.