A council orders all work on the land, which began on bank holiday weekend, to cease immediately.
UK watchdog Ofcom fined Virgin Media £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts between 2022-2024. Millions of calls were mishandled, with agents financially incentivized to delay cancellations. Virgin Media has since made changes and apologized.
Seven of the UK's largest housebuilders are being sued by an estimated 700,000 new-build homeowners for alleged sharing of commercially sensitive information. The class action seeks compensation of £3,100-£6,200 per buyer, totaling up to £4.5bn.
Drug gangs are flooding the north of England with cheap cannabis grown overseas, mimicking high-potency "Cali weed" from the US. A BBC investigation reveals smuggling from countries like Thailand, exploiting relaxed laws and targeting young users with glossy packaging. Record seizures and rising psychosis cases highlight the growing problem.
Police are searching for a suspect known to a mother and her two children who were found dead in Great Denham, UK. The suspect is believed to have fled the country.
A father-of-two, Stefan Johnson, rescued a toddler from drowning at Bryngarw Country Park in Bridgend. Two nurses, Emma Brown and Kelsey Pirie, then performed CPR, reviving the three-year-old boy just as paramedics arrived. The child is hospitalized in stable condition.
A major Telstra outage in Australia disrupted mobile and data services nationwide, cancelled train services, and affected payment systems. An investigation is underway into emergency calls that may not have connected, though the core triple-zero system is reported operational. The exact cause is unknown but not a cyber attack.
