Tyre marks were analysed some distance from where the Lamborghini's tyre blew out
All the evidence so far suggests Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota was driving when his car crashed on a Spanish motorway, and he was likely speeding, say police.
The 28-year-old Liverpool player was killed with his brother André Silva, 25, when their Lamborghini car had a suspected tyre blowout in northwestern Zamora province early last Thursday.
Spain's Guardia Civil police force said at the time the car had apparently been overtaking on the A52 motorway near Palacios de Sanabria when it left the road and burst into flames.
"Everything also points to a possible excessive speed beyond the speed limit of the road [highway]," said Zamora's local traffic police.
Police said they had studied the marks left by one of the Lamborghini's tyres and that "all the tests carried out so far indicate that the driver of the crashed vehicle was Diogo Jota".
The expert report is being prepared for the courts on the accident, and their investigation is understood to have been made more complex by the intensity of the fire that almost completely destroyed the car.
The accident happened 11 days after Jota had married his long-term partner Rute Cardoso in Portugal. The couple had three children.
The brothers had been heading to the Spanish port of Santander so Jota could return to Liverpool for pre-season training.
Their funeral took place in their hometown of Gondomar, near Porto at the weekend.
Tyre marks were reportedly visible about 100m (330ft) from the moment of impact.
Although there had been suggestions that the asphalt on the road was uneven where the crash took place, police told Spanish media it was not an accident "black spot" and the road should have been driveable beyond the speed limit of 120km/h (75mph).
It will be the first time that the tapestry has been shown in the UK since it was made, almost 1000 years ago
The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK more than 900 years after its creation, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has confirmed.
The 70m-long masterpiece, which tells the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, will be loaned in a historic agreement to be signed between the French and British governments.
The huge embroidery - which is widely believed to have been created in Kent - will go on display at the British Museum in London.
In exchange, treasures including artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon burial mounds at Sutton Hoo and the 12th Century Lewis chess pieces will travel to museums in Normandy.
George Osborne, the British Museum's chair of trustees, told the BBC the exhibition "will be the blockbuster show of our generation" - like Tutankhamun and the Terracotta Warriors in the past.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to make the official announcement of the deal on Tuesday evening at Windsor Castle.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy called the loan "a symbol of our shared history with our friends in France, a relationship built over centuries and one that continues to endure".
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An ornate iron helmet is among the Sutton Hoo artefacts that will be loaned by the British Museum to museums in Normandy
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The agreement will see the British Museum lend Lewis chess pieces to museums in Normandy
The Bayeux Tapestry will be displayed from September 2026 until July 2027, while its current home, the Bayeux Museum, is being renovated. The 1000th anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror is also in 2027.
A loan was first suggested in 2018 between President Macron and then-Prime Minister Theresa May. It's taken until 2025 for it to become a reality.
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The 70m-long Bayeux Tapestry depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle of Hastings
The Bayeux Tapestry, which dates back to the 11th Century, charts a more contested time in Anglo-French relations, as Anglo Saxon dominance was replaced by Norman rule.
Although the final part of the embroidery is missing, it ends with the Anglo Saxons fleeing at the end of the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Its 58 scenes, 626 characters and 202 horses give an account of the medieval period in Normandy and England like no other, offering up not just information about military traditions but also the precious details of everyday life.
The work has inspired many through the centuries, including artist David Hockney whose Frieze depicting the cycle of the seasons in Normandy was influenced by the Bayeux Tapestry.
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A Year in Normandy by David Hockney, pictured in 2021, was inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry
The British Museum's director, Nicholas Cullinan, said: "This is exactly the kind of international partnership that I want us to champion and take part in: sharing the best of our collection as widely as possible - and in return displaying global treasures never seen here before."
Eagle-eyed watchers of the British Museum may view this latest announcement as offering a template for the ongoing discussions with the Greek government about the future of the Parthenon Sculptures.
The Parthenon Project, a group which lobbies for the return of the classical marble sculptures to Greece, have suggested what they term a "win-win" solution, with never before seen items from Greece brought to the British Museum in exchange for the Parthenon works.
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The contested Parthenon Sculptures are currently on display in the British Museum
Today's focus is closer to home and an exhibition that the British Museum expects will be one of its most popular ever, a once-in-a-generation show.
Every British schoolchild learns about King Harold, William the Conqueror and 1066.
As Osborne put it: "There is no other single item in British history that is so familiar, so studied in schools, so copied in art as the Bayeux Tapestry.
"Yet in almost 1,000 years it has never returned to these shores.
"Next year it will and many, many thousands of visitors, especially schoolchildren, will see it with their own eyes."
Monzo did not check the "implausible" addresses of applications
Digital bank Monzo accepted customers claiming to live at 10 Downing Street, Buckingham Palace and even its own premises, an investigation has found.
A lack of address verification meant it failed to spot the "implausible" use of London landmarks on applications to open accounts.
Monzo was fined £21m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its failures regarding anti-financial crime measures.
The bank said the regulator's findings related to problems of more than three years ago and vast improvements had since been made to its systems.
The FCA's investigation, which has taken a number of years, found Monzo took on customers using using PO boxes, foreign addresses with UK postcodes or "obviously implausible UK addresses, such as well-known London landmarks".
They included home of the UK Prime Minister 10 Downing Street, the Royal residence Buckingham Palace and its own business premises.
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Buckingham Palace was one address used in an application
The lack of verification meant it took on risky customers who were based outside of the UK, and illustrated "how lacking Monzo's financial crime controls were", the regulator said.
It was one of a number of areas in which it failed to mitigate the risk of financial crime.
Monzo had grown rapidly, with the number of customers increasing almost tenfold from around 600,000 in 2018 to over 5.8 million in 2022. Many were attracted by its claims to be a digital pioneer. It has no physical branches.
However, the FCA said that Monzo's financial crime controls failed to keep pace with its customer and product growth.
Therese Chambers, FCA joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, said that banks were a vital line of defence in the fight against financial crime.
"They must have the systems in place to prevent the flow of ill-gotten gains into the financial system," she said.
"Monzo fell far short of what we, and society, expect."
'In the past'
TS Anil, chief executive of Monzo, said the FCA's findings "draw a line under issues that have been resolved and are firmly in the past" as improvements had now been made.
The bank was fined for its inadequate anti-financial crime systems and controls between October 2018 and August 2020.
The FCA said it also repeatedly breached a requirement preventing it from opening accounts for high-risk customers between August 2020 and June 2022.
Mr Anil said that financial crime was an issue that affected the whole banking sector, but Monzo was "doing all that we can to stop it in its tracks".
Norman Tebbit, who has died at the age of 94, was at the heart of Margaret Thatcher's political revolution.
He was a man whose philosophy of self-reliance formed the core of his political beliefs.
An able and conscientious politician, his plain speaking on immigration and Europe endeared him to the Tory faithful, and he was once spoken of as a possible party leader.
And while Lord Tebbit's uncompromising views often enraged his political opponents, he was unmoved by the less-than-flattering names they bestowed upon him.
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Norman Tebbit was at the heart of Margaret Thatcher's political revolution in the 1980s.
Norman Beresford Tebbit was born on 29 March 1931 in the working-class suburb of Ponders End in north London.
His father, a manager in a jewellery and pawnbroker's business, had progressed sufficiently in life to be buying his own house.
However, prosperity was not to last.
The manager's job disappeared in the economic depression, and the family moved to what became a series of short-term lets in Edmonton.
Tebbit's father found employment as a painter, although not before he had travelled the streets looking for work on a bicycle that was later became to become famous.
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Norman and Margaret Tebbit on their wedding day in 1956
By the time the young Norman arrived at Edmonton County Grammar School, he had already developed his interest in Conservative politics.
"I felt you should be able to make your own fortune," he said. "You should be master of your own fate."
Leaving school at 16, he joined the Financial Times where, much to his annoyance, the operation of the closed shop forced him to join the print union, Natsopa.
After two years, he went to do his National Service with the RAF where he gained a commission as a Pilot Officer.
However, he decided that his political ambitions were not compatible with a service career so he left to sell advertising with a company run by a family friend.
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As a pilots' union activist he was a thorn in the side of BOAC management
He had not lost his love of flying and he signed up with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force as a part-time pilot.
He narrowly escaped death when his Meteor jet failed to take off and ploughed off the end of a runway in Cambridgeshire.
Trapped in the burning plane, Tebbit managed to force open the cockpit canopy. His aircraft was completely destroyed.
Sixty years later, doctors told him that he'd lived with a cardiac arrhythmia for most of his life. It was possible that he had slipped unconcious on the runway.
In 1953, he joined the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as a pilot and, three years later, married a nurse called Margaret Daines.
For the next 17 years, he juggled his flying with a career as an activist for the British Airline Pilots' Association.
The man who would later be instrumental in tackling Britain's trade unions became a scourge of the airline's management.
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Norman Tebbit first became an MP in 1970
The election of a Labour government in 1964 spurred him towards politics.
He was eventually selected as the Conservative candidate for Epping, a seat once held by Sir Winston Churchill.
He won his chance after giving a characteristically robust Tebbit speech.
It advocated selling off state-owned industries, trade union reform, immigration control and an attack on the so-called permissive society.
The seat then contained the Labour stronghold of Harlow, but an energetic campaign, coupled with the overconfidence of the sitting Labour MP, saw Tebbit victorious in 1970.
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Norman Tebbit rapidly became disillusioned with Sir Edward Heath's style of leadership
He quickly became disillusioned with Ted Heath's leadership.
Tebbit felt that the radical platform on which the Conservatives had won the election was being ignored, in favour of a more consensus style of politics.
But in 1972, he accepted a job as parliamentary private secretary to the minister of state for employment, the first rung on the ladder to ministerial office.
His new post was not to last long.
Angered by Heath's adoption of a prices and incomes policy - a clear breach of a manifesto promise - and his failure to curb union influence, Tebbit resigned from the government.
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Norman Tebbit's appointment as Employment Secretary signalled a tougher approach to the Trade Unions
Three months later, the Conservatives were out of office.
Tebbit, now the member for the newly created seat of Chingford, would gain a reputation as a thorn in the side of Labour ministers.
In 1975, he clashed with the Employment Secretary Michael Foot over the government's failure to condemn the dismissal of six power station workers.
The men had refused to join a trade union following the imposition of a new closed shop agreement at the plant.
Tebbit revelled in his ability to get under the government's skin.
"I was quite amused to find that, as a maverick backbencher with no formal standing, I could lure ministers into wasting their time, and fire power, on such an unimportant target," he said.
Foot fired back, famously comparing Tebbit to a "semi-house-trained polecat" during a debate on parliamentary business.
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He became a favourite at Conservative Party conferences
When the Conservatives won the 1979 election, Margaret Thatcher appointed Tebbit as an under secretary of state at the Department of Trade.
Within 18 months, he was employment secretary, a move that signalled the government's intention to take a tough line on industrial relations.
In the autumn of 1981, with three million unemployed and with riots blighting a number of inner city areas, Tebbit made the speech for which he will always be remembered.
Addressing the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool, he strayed from his prepared text to remember how his father had reacted to his own unemployment.
"I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it."
The trade unions and the labour movement were outraged, claiming that Tebbit had told the unemployed to "get on your bike".
But the education secretary insisted his emphasis had been on condemning the riots.
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Norman and Margaret Tebbit at the 1983 Conservative party conference. A year later, they were both badly injured in a terrorist attack
His 1982 Employment Act raised the level of compensation for workers dismissed for refusing to join a union.
It also made any closed shop agreement subject to regular ballots and removed the immunity of trade unions from civil action if they authorised illegal industrial action.
Tebbit later claimed that this was "my finest achievement in government".
In 1983, he became trade and industry secretary, following the resignation of Cecil Parkinson over an extra-marital affair.
During his tenure, he presided over the Thatcher government's privatisation programme and was instrumental in encouraging foreign investors to Britain, not least the establishment of a Nissan car plant.
But the IRA bomb which exploded in Brighton's Grand Hotel during the 1984 Conservative conference changed his life forever.
He and his wife were badly injured in the 1984 Brighton bombing
The attack killed five people and injured more than 30 others. He and his wife were trapped under tons of debris.
They laid together, holding hands, waiting for help. Tebbit gave Margaret a message to give to their children, in case he died.
He was left with a broken shoulder blade, fractured vertebrae, a cracked collar bone and needing plastic surgery - but was back at his desk within three months.
Margaret was less fortunate.
As a result of her injuries, she remained paralysed and faced months of hospital treatment. She returned home in a wheelchair and the Tebbits' domestic life had to adapt accordingly.
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Norman Tebbit celebrates the Conservative party's 1987 election victory, watched by Margaret and Denis Thatcher
Following a cabinet reshuffle in the autumn of 1985, he left the DTI to become Conservative Party chairman.
He threw himself into rebuilding a moribund organisation, launching a membership drive and preparing the party for the next election.
Tebbit used the 1986 Conservative conference to launch an election campaign in all but name, under the slogan, The Next Move Forward.
Margaret Thatcher's popularity rating was beginning to slide, and some commentators began talking about the succession.
Polls suggested that Norman Tebbit might be a popular choice in a future leadership contest, which made relations with the prime minister difficult.
In the end, the 1987 election resulted in a Conservative landslide.
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Lord Tebbit became a powerful voice of euro-scepticism from outside the House of Commons
Tebbit left the cabinet after the election to look after his wife. But his ability to create controversy had not deserted him.
In 1990, he suggested that a test of the willingness of ethic minorities in Britain to assimilate was to see if they supported the England cricket team or the side from their country of origin.
He turned down an invitation from Thatcher to return to the government as education secretary, but steadfastly supported her when her leadership was challenged and she was eventually forced from office.
He decided not to seek election in 1992, and was created a life peer as Baron Tebbit of Chingford.
He devoted many years to looking after his wife
He was not content to sit quietly in the Lords.
He embarrassed new Prime Minister John Major with a show-stopping appearance during the 1992 party conference debate on Europe, when he lambasted the decision to sign the Maastricht Treaty.
He later criticised the Conservative Party's move to a moderate, right of centre position, saying this allowed UKIP to hoover up the political right.
In 2009, he published The Game Cook which instructed readers on the best way to cook game, after his local butcher told him that none of his customers knew how to prepare a pheasant.
Having campaigned for Brexit, he grew impatient with Theresa May's negotiations with Brussels - accusing the government of "thinking of nothing but the rights of foreigners".
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Lord Tebbit calls to somebody in the crowd after Lady Thatcher's funeral in 2013
In 2020, his wife Margaret died, having suffered from Lewy Body Dementia.
Two years later, he made his final appearance in the House of Lords, after a 52-year parliamentary career.
Lord Tebbit's working-class credentials and dry Conservative ideology made him an influential figure throughout the Thatcher years and beyond.
The satirical puppet show, Spitting Image, portrayed him as a leather-clad bovver boy, the enforcer of the Iron Lady's doctrine.
He believed that homosexuals should not have senior cabinet posts, thought foreign aid fuelled corruption, and that too many immigrants fail to integrate.
He helped move the Conservative party from one-nation centrism under Sir Edward Heath, to a position where it favours a small state, controlled immigration and life outside the European Union.
One academic commented: "Although Thatcherism was the political creed of Essex Man, it was Norman Tebbit who was perhaps the public face or voice of Essex Man, and articulated his views and prejudices."
King Charles III and President Emmanuel Macron were seen chatting during a carriage procession to Windsor Castle
The French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte are visiting the UK on a three-day state.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are hosting the Macrons in Windsor, where crowds have cheered a carriage procession and there have been other displays of pageantry.
The French couple were earlier greeted by Prince William and Catherine as they touched down at RAF Northolt.
Later, the president will address Parliament and meet UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, with the pair expected to discuss how to stop small boats crossing the Channel.
Below are some of the best pictures from the first day of the visit.
Lorde debuted her new album Virgin with a surprise set at Glastonbury the day it was released
With her new album going straight to number one in the UK, it's difficult to imagine that just two years ago Lorde was thinking about never making music again.
"At the beginning of 2023 I was not in a great way on a lot of levels," the singer says.
"I'd never felt more disconnected from my creativity."
Speaking to Radio 1's Jack Saunders, Lorde, real name Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, says an eating disorder took over her life.
"All I was thinking about was trying to weigh as little as possible," she says.
"Going to sleep thinking about food, waking up thinking about food and exercise - that was my creative pursuit."
But after a period of recovery, she says, her creativity came flooding back.
Virgin, which the New Zealander released on 27 June, is Lorde's fourth album and her most personal to date.
"It was hard, it was scary," she says about writing it. "Some songs aren't easy."
"I made a lot of changes and really put my artistry front and centre and made that my full-time job and I got a lot of stuff out of the way."
"I hadn't been on a stage on my own like that for years," she says, adding that she was "a bag of dust" after her appearance.
The Green Light singer previously told Radio 1 how her collab with Charli XCX last year had encouraged her to be more vulnerable in her music.
As well as eating and body image, Virgin tackles her relationship with her mum, the end of a long-term relationship and gender identity.
"These subjects are not the easiest to shoehorn into a three-and-a-half minute song," says Lorde.
"The cool challenge about pop songs is you don't have time to faff – you've got to cut out all but the strongest nuggets of a story.
"You're just forced to go no filler.
"Some songs I had to keep rewriting to be brave enough to say it."
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The singer-songwriter says exploring gender identity has "really changed things" for her
On exploring her gender identity, Lorde says she felt "so trapped and so tight in this very kind of straight-ahead femininity."
Her journey "started pretty basic," she says, "just realising I can't just have women's clothes on a photo shoot – I need everything so I can choose".
"Because some days that will feel so tight and I'll feel so trapped.
"The same with my make-up. I say to people now just treat it like male grooming – don't overcook it.
"Because the same thing happens, I get all stuck and tight and I can't express myself."
Lorde previously said her Met Gala look - inspired by a cummerbund, or waistband, traditionally worn by men - was a hint to where she was "gender-wise".
While she hasn't "landed anywhere" in terms of defining her gender identity, exploring it "has really, really, changed things," she says.
"I feel a lot more expansive, a lot bigger and my definition of what's beautiful is really different now.
"I think it will just keep unfurling and I'm down for that."
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England teenager Michelle Agyemang has only played 14 minutes of senior international football - but has already made an impression.
It took her just 41 seconds to score a stunning volley on her debut in April, before being voted the best performing player by BBC Sport readers after coming on in the 86th minute in England's Euro 2025 defeat by France on Saturday.
"It's easy to look at the time and think there's not enough left. That's the beauty of the game. It only takes 10 seconds to make an impact," said Agyemang.
No England player had more touches in the opposition box (five) than Agyemang in her four-minute cameo on Saturday.
The 19-year-old was Sarina Wiegman's wildcard for Euro 2025 and despite a damaging start in that 2-1 loss to France, Agyemang has provided a spark.
"Going into any game, most players will say they get nervous and I do feel that sometimes," said Agyemang.
"But when there's not much going your way, it can actually be more beneficial. You can just take the game by the scruff of the neck.
"That's how I felt the other day and on another day it could have been three points for us.
"To be here in the first place is more than enough for me. Everyone wants to do the best they can, whether they are starting or not. As long as I'm helping the team, that's my main ambition."
When Wiegman named Agyemang in the squad, she said the Arsenal forward could "bring something different" and she hoped she could show it in Switzerland.
She impressed on loan at Brighton this season and Agyemang has been on Wiegman's radar for a few years, having progressed through England's youth teams.
Agyemang appears calm in front of the cameras and mature beyond her years - but on the pitch she causes chaos.
"I remember the first time she played because she flattened me in training. I was too slow on [the ball]," England captain Leah Williamson said last month.
"I gave her a bit of stick about it, but in my head I thought: 'You need to move the ball quicker, because she's got something about her.'
"My first impression was that she let me know she was there, which I love."
Agyemang wants to be a "unique player" and is striving for consistency, wanting to make an impact "from minute one to the end".
She takes inspiration from club-mate Alessia Russo and Chelsea forward Lauren James, who is "one of the most technically gifted players" she has seen.
But there is one trait Agyemang is already becoming known for - her strength.
"She just runs into people and bodies them because she's so strong," said Chelsea defender Lucy Bronze.
"She's so sweet and unassuming as a person, but then on the pitch she's probably one of my favourites to play against because I can run into her dead hard!
"She likes to give it back. She's been told [by Wiegman] that she needs to go a little bit easier but I said: 'No, just keep it up Micha, I prefer it, it makes it harder for us.'"
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Agyemang's rise has been so rapid she has had to adapt to increased scrutiny and settle in quickly to life as a senior international.
She is embracing media duties, learning how to "engage" but also understanding "what message I'm putting across".
Agyemang concedes the step up from youth football has been a "big shock" but she vows to be ready when called up if England need her again at Euro 2025.
"Most of the pressure comes from myself. I don't try to listen to the noise. I appreciate the support from everyone," she added.
"Just focusing on how I can improve my game and how I can help the team is my most important thing.
"All of us on the bench know that we could be called upon any time and we have gone through scenarios. It could be anyone at any time."
England may need her on Wednesday as they fight to stay in the competition when they face 2017 champions the Netherlands at 17:00 BST, live on BBC One.
The Netherlands have won two of the last three meetings with England - but the Lionesses have never lost back-to-back matches under Wiegman.
"There's fire in the belly. You can see [in training] that everyone's willing to go and get the result that we need in the next game," said Agyemang.
"We still want to win the tournament and that result doesn't necessarily change anything. There's still something that we're going after, which is the trophy."
Downing Street has said it expects to "make good progress" on tackling small boats crossing the Channel during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Britain.
The issue is a key point of discussion during Macron's state visit, and on Tuesday the government said it expects new powers allowing French police to act before boats reach open water to be "operationalised soon".
The prime minister's spokesperson refused to say if a "one in, one out" migrant returns deal would be agreed during the French president's visit.
But the spokesperson said months of negotiations between Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Macron were "bearing fruit".
"We continually talk, and remain in constant contact with the French on how our joint action can go further to end the misery that these gangs are inflicting across our borders," the spokesperson added.
The prime minister is pressing to make a "one in, one out" deal the centrepiece of a new agreement with France.
The arrangement would allow Britain to return migrants who arrive by small boat to France in exchange for accepting asylum seekers with a family connection in the UK.
The purpose would be to demonstrate to those considering the perilous crossing that they could plausibly end up straight back in France, in the hope that this would deter them.
But any such exchanges would have to happen in large enough numbers to become an effective deterrent.
Getting a deal of this sort would be a big breakthrough as it would be the first clear sign of French willingness to take back migrants who have crossed the Channel.
But the optimism on the UK side of a deal being agreed this week is heavily qualified.
Downing Street is in separate talks with the European Commission to overcome opposition to the deal from a group of five Mediterranean countries who have complained they may be forced to accept people deported from the UK.
Sir Keir has also been pushing for France to revise its rules to allow police to intervene when boats are in shallow water, rather than requiring them still to be on land.
Asked about the tactics, a Downing Street spokesman said: "The French are now looking to bring in important new tactics to stop boats that are in the water, and we're expecting that to be operationalised soon.
"We are the first government to have secured agreement from the French to review their maritime tactics so their border enforcement teams can intervene in shallow waters.
"This is operationally and legally complex, but we're working closely with the French."
Since coming to power in July last year, Labour has announced a series of measures to tackle people-smuggling, including a new criminal offence of endangering the lives of others at sea.
Legislation going through Parliament sets out plans to use counter-terror powers against people smugglers - with suspects facing travel bans, social-media blackouts and phone restrictions.
But the latest figures show 2025 has already set a new record for small boat arrivals in the first six months of the year, since the data was first collected in 2018.
Between January and June nearly 20,000 people arrived in the UK by crossing the English Channel in small boats - up 48% compared to the same period over 2024.
The UK has repeatedly pushed France to tighten patrols along its northern coast. Since 2018 the UK has pledged more than £700m to France to boost coastal patrols and buy surveillance gear.
The majority of this came from a 2023 deal struck under the previous Conservative government to give France almost £500m over three years to go towards extra officers to help stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
Asked whether the UK, as the Conservatives have suggested, should demand a refund, a Downing Street spokesperson said "under this government, we've secured a significant ramping up of the operational capabilities from French law enforcement".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel handed a letter to President Trump nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. But it’s not clear whether stroking the president’s ego has long-lasting effects.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents President Donald Trump a letter nominating him for Nobel Peace Prize as they meet for dinner at the White House on Monday.
The incident occurred a day after Houthi militants in Yemen targeted another vessel, their first assault on shipping since President Trump announced a truce with them.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, has vowed to loosen F.D.A. standards to allow consumers to access more — often unproven and even harmful — alternative therapies.
Three people in a French town remain in a "critical but stable condition" following an unusual bee attack at the weekend which left 24 passersby injured, the mayor of Aurillac said on Monday.
Twenty-four people were hurt and three were rushed to hospital in critical condition when hundreds of bees suddenly attacked people in the central-southern town on Sunday morning.
According to local media, one of them was a 78-year-old woman who was stung 25 times and had to be resuscitated after a cardiorespiratory arrest.
Police and firefighters fenced off the area and a beekeeper was called in to smoke out the bees - a safe way to calm the insects.
A local man called Andrée said he witnessed "very panicked people" trying to bat off the bees. "I could tell they were being attacked by something but I couldn't figure out what," he told French media.
The mayor of Aurillac, Pierre Mathonier, was reported as saying that Asian hornets threatening a beehive may have been the catalyst for the attack.
But Christian Carrier, the president of the regional beekeepers' union, was sceptical.
He told France Info that bees generally avoid leaving their colonies altogether in the presence of Asian hornets.
Instead, he said that the unusual incident may have been due to the bee colony becoming too large for its beehive and becoming "overactive" when the beekeeper handled it.
"It may be that [the bees] didn't have enough space and that their colony had no intention of swarming. This can trigger strong aggression," Mr Carrier said.
After President Trump’s announcement that the United States would send more military aid, some were grateful, others were skeptical, mindful of his seesawing policy.
Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to strengthen their defenses against any Russian attack.
A demining team clearing a field in 2023 in Makariv, Ukraine, an area near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces during the early months of the war.
Court proceedings revealed how a criminal gang in Britain were directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who owns Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair.
Damage caused by a fire at an industrial unit in Leyton
Three men have been found guilty of an arson attack on a London warehouse linked to Ukraine on behalf of Russian mercenary group Wagner.
Jakeem Rose, 23, Ugnius Asmena, 20, Nii Mensah, 23, were found guilty at the Old Bailey of being recruited to set fire to the industrial unit which sent aid and internet satellite equipment.
The attack was orchestrated by Dylan Earl, 20, and Jake Reeves, 23, who had already admitted aggravated arson on behalf of the Wagner Group - which the UK government named as a proscribed terrorist group.
Around £1 million-worth of damage was caused in the arson attack on the warehouse in in Leyton, east London, on 20 March last year, the trial at the Old Bailey heard.
A fourth man, Paul English, 61, was found not guilty of being recruited to set fire to the warehouse and obtaining money from a foreign intelligence service.
Mensah and Rose were captured on CCTV and the livestreamed video as they set the warehouse on fire before they made off.
Eight fire engines were called to the Cromwell Industrial Estate after it broke out shortly before midnight on 20 March 2024.
On the night of the attack, the jury heard a lorry driver parked nearby had bravely but unsuccessfully attempted to put out the fire.
Earl is the first person to be convicted under the National Security Act, passed by parliament in 2023, to deal with the increased risk of hostile state activity.
The court heard he used the messaging app Telegram to communicate with the Wagner Group.
A fifth man, Ashton Evans was found guilty on Tuesday of one count of failing to disclose information about terrorist acts, but cleared on another.
A sixth man, Dmitrijus Paulauskas was found not guilty of failing to disclose information about terrorist acts.
Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Aguiar and were murdered in the attack on 29 July 2024
The Southport murders were "one of the most egregious crimes in our country's history" the chairman of the public inquiry into the atrocity has said.
The inquiry will examine how the "deteriorating and deeply troubling behaviour" of Axel Rudakubana, who went on to "cause such devastation" on 29 July 2024, was dealt with by public bodies.
Alice Aguiar, nine; Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven and six-year-old Bebe King died while eight other children and two adults were seriously wounded during the attacks at a dance studio in the Merseyside town.
The first live hearings have now begun at Liverpool Town Hall, chaired by retired senior judge Sir Adrian Fulford.
Sir Adrian said he was committed to delivering "sensible and achievable" recommendations.
He told a council chamber packed with legal representatives, lawyers, the media and the public that "ordinary language simply fails to reflect the enormity of what [Rudakubana] did.
"None of the most powerful adjectives even begin to suffice.
"There are no words that adequately describe what occurred and I am not going to try, and then fail, to find them."
'Risk posed'
Sir Adrian said the inquiry, announced by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in April, would involve two stages.
The first will analyse "the perpetrator's history and his dealings with all of the relevant agencies".
He continued: "We will identify the decisions that were made or not made, how information was shared and extent to which the risk he posed was addressed, along with any missed opportunities to prevent what occurred."
The second phase would involve looking at the "wider phenomenon of children and young people who are being drawn into extreme violence".
A few minutes after Sir Adrian began addressing the chamber, he asked all present to stand for a minute's silence in memory of Alice, Elsie and Bebe.
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The cost of the state pension triple lock is forecast to be three times' higher by the end of the decade than its original estimate, according to the government's official forecaster.
The triple lock, which came into force in 2011, means that the state pension rises each year in line with either inflation, wage increases or 2.5% - whichever is highest.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said the annual cost is estimated to reach £15.5bn by 2030.
Overall, the OBR said the UK's public finances were in a "relatively vulnerable position" owing to pressure from recent government U-turns on planned spending cuts.
The recent reversal of proposed the welfare bill, on top of restoring winter fuel payments for most claimants, have contributed to a continued rise in government debt, according to the report.
It said: "Efforts to put the UK's public finances on a more sustainable footing have met with only limited and temporary success in recent years in the aftermath of the shocks, debt has also continued to rise and borrowing remained elevated because governments have reversed plans to consolidate the public finances.
"Planned tax rises have been reversed, and, more significantly, planned spending reductions have been abandoned."
Spending on the state pension has steadily risen, the OBR said, because the triple lock and a growing number of people above the state pension age was contributing to costs.
It added: "Due to inflation and earnings volatility over its first two decades in operation, the triple lock has cost around three times more than initial expectations."
Pensioner protection
The UK's state pension is the second-largest item in the government budget after health.
In 2011, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition brought in the triple lock to ensure the value of the state pension was not overtaken by the increase in the cost of living or the incomes of working people.
Since then, the non-earnings-linked element of the lock has been triggered "in eight of the 13 years to date", the OBR pointed out.
That was because inflation "has turned out to be significantly more volatile" than expected.
In April 2025, the earnings link meant the state pension increased by 4.1%, making it worth:
£230.25 a week for the full, new flat-rate state pension (for those who reached state pension age after April 2016) - a rise of £472 a year
£176.45 a week for the full, old basic state pension (for those who reached state pension age before April 2016) - a rise of £363 a year
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the Labour government will keep the triple lock until the end of the current Parliament.
However, before and since that manifesto promise, there has been intense debate over the cost of the triple lock and whether it is justified.
Last week, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent economic think-tank, suggested the triple lock be scrapped as part of a wider overhaul of pensions.
It argued that it should rise in line with prices, but the cost should be linked to a target level of economy-wide average earnings.
Pensioner groups say many older people face high living costs and need the protection of the triple lock to avoid them falling further into financial difficulty, especially because the amount actually paid was far from the most generous state pension in Europe.
Monzo did not check the "implausible" addresses of applications
Digital bank Monzo accepted customers claiming to live at 10 Downing Street, Buckingham Palace and even its own premises, an investigation has found.
A lack of address verification meant it failed to spot the "implausible" use of London landmarks on applications to open accounts.
Monzo was fined £21m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its failures regarding anti-financial crime measures.
The bank said the regulator's findings related to problems of more than three years ago and vast improvements had since been made to its systems.
The FCA's investigation, which has taken a number of years, found Monzo took on customers using using PO boxes, foreign addresses with UK postcodes or "obviously implausible UK addresses, such as well-known London landmarks".
They included home of the UK Prime Minister 10 Downing Street, the Royal residence Buckingham Palace and its own business premises.
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Buckingham Palace was one address used in an application
The lack of verification meant it took on risky customers who were based outside of the UK, and illustrated "how lacking Monzo's financial crime controls were", the regulator said.
It was one of a number of areas in which it failed to mitigate the risk of financial crime.
Monzo had grown rapidly, with the number of customers increasing almost tenfold from around 600,000 in 2018 to over 5.8 million in 2022. Many were attracted by its claims to be a digital pioneer. It has no physical branches.
However, the FCA said that Monzo's financial crime controls failed to keep pace with its customer and product growth.
Therese Chambers, FCA joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, said that banks were a vital line of defence in the fight against financial crime.
"They must have the systems in place to prevent the flow of ill-gotten gains into the financial system," she said.
"Monzo fell far short of what we, and society, expect."
'In the past'
TS Anil, chief executive of Monzo, said the FCA's findings "draw a line under issues that have been resolved and are firmly in the past" as improvements had now been made.
The bank was fined for its inadequate anti-financial crime systems and controls between October 2018 and August 2020.
The FCA said it also repeatedly breached a requirement preventing it from opening accounts for high-risk customers between August 2020 and June 2022.
Mr Anil said that financial crime was an issue that affected the whole banking sector, but Monzo was "doing all that we can to stop it in its tracks".
This picture of Renee Smajstrla was clicked at Camp Mystic on Thursday, her uncle wrote on Facebook
An eight-year-old girl and the director of an all-girls' summer camp are among the victims of flash floods in Texas that have claimed at least 43 lives, including 15 children.
Officials say most of the victims have been identified, though the identities of six adults and a child remain unknown. Authorities have not yet released any names publicly.
Here's what we know so far about the victims.
Renee Smajstrla
Eight-year-old Renee Smajstrla was at Camp Mystic when flooding swept through the summer camp for girls, her uncle said in a Facebook post.
"Renee has been found and while not the outcome we prayed for, the social media outreach likely assisted the first responders in helping to identify her so quickly," wrote Shawn Salta, of Maryland.
"We are thankful she was with her friends and having the time of her life, as evidenced by this picture from yesterday," he wrote. "She will forever be living her best life at Camp Mystic."
Camp Mystic, where 27 children are missing, is a nearly century-old Christian summer camp for girls on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas.
Operated by generations of the same family since the 1930s, the camp's website bills itself as a place for girls to grow "spiritually" in a "wholesome" Christian atmosphere "to develop outstanding personal qualities and self-esteem".
Jane Ragsdale
Heart O' the Hills
Jane Ragsdale was described as the "heart and soul" of Heart O' the Hills camp
Heart O' the Hills is another all-girls' camp that sits along the Guadalupe River, and it was right in the path of Friday's flood.
Jane Ragsdale, described as the "heart and soul" of Heart O'Hills, "did not make it", a post shared on the camp's official website said on Saturday.
Ragsdale, who started off as a camper then a counsellor, became the director and co-owner of the camp in 1976.
"We are mourning the loss of a woman who influenced countless lives and was the definition of strong and powerful," the camp website post said.
Heart O' the Hills wasn't in session and "most of those who were on camp at the time have been accounted for and are on high ground", the statement said.
"Access to the site is difficult, and authorities are primarily focused on locating the missing and preventing further loss of life and property".
Sarah Marsh
Camp Mystic
Sarah Marsh, a student at Cherokee Bend Elementary School in Texas, would have entered third grade in August.
She, too, was attending Camp Mystic when the floods struck, and reported as missing along with about two dozen other campers.
Her grandmother, Debbie Ford Marsh, took to Facebook on Friday asking for prayers. Just hours later she shared online that her granddaughter was among the girls killed.
"We will always feel blessed to have had this beautiful spunky ray of light in our lives. She will live on in our hearts forever!" Ms Ford Marsh wrote on Facebook.
In a post on Facebook, Alabama Senator Katie Britt said she's "heartbroken over the loss of Sarah Marsh, and we are keeping her family in our thoughts and prayers during this unimaginable time".
Lila Bonner
Nine-year-old Lila Bonner, a Dallas native was found dead after flooding near Camp Mystic, according to NBC News.
"In the midst of our unimaginable grief, we ask for privacy and are unable to confirm any details at this time," her family said in a statement to the news outlet.
"We ache with all who loved her and are praying endlessly."
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