Investigation under way in to death of Cpl Lucy Wilde, 25, who prince said ‘served with courage and distinction’
Prince William has paid tribute to a young army medic found dead in her barracks who “served with courage and distinction”.
Cpl Lucy Wilde, 25, who posted videos on TikTok documenting her daily life in the army, was found dead in her barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, on 5 February. An investigation is under way, the Ministry of Defence said.
The Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelago
Nigel Farage has been accused of “performing Maga stunts” after claiming the British government stopped him from travelling to the Chagos Islands on a humanitarian mission.
East coast scrambles to prepare for storm forecast to bring major disruption to more than 35 million people
Blizzard conditions were forecast to bring major disruption across the north-eastern United States on Sunday and well into Monday, with a dangerous combination of heavy, wet snow and ferocious winds gusting up to 70mph.
Residents along the east coast scrambled to prepare for the late-winter storm that spurred blizzard warnings from Maryland to Massachusetts, affecting more than 35 million people.
Jamieson Greer also said US won’t pull out of deals with UK, EU and others after court declared Trump tariffs illegal
Top US trade negotiator Jamieson Greer insisted on Sunday that US policy on tariffs “hasn’t changed”, two days after the supreme courtdeclared many of Donald Trump’s tariffs illegal.
The ruling issued on Friday by the highest US court was a sharp rebuke to the Republican president that toppled a key pillar of his aggressive economic agenda – even as it prompted Trump to announce a new global tariff using different statutes, albeit temporary.
After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest, officials said ‘nobody is above the law’. Sadly that doesn’t seem true
Schadenfreude isn’t a particularly noble sentiment. But who cares, eh? These days bad things never seem to happen to bad people; accountability is fleetingly rare. So I think we should all take a moment to really appreciate how glorious the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Thursday was. Not only was the disgraced royal dragged in for questioning like a mere commoner; the arrest happened on his 66th birthday. Instead of birthday cake, he got his just deserts. And, to top things off, the occasion was immortalized with a photo – an instant classic – of Andrew leaving the police station looking shell shocked and decrepit.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was one of world’s most wanted drug traffickers
One of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers – the Mexican cartel boss known as “El Mencho” – has reportedly been killed by his country’s security forces.
The drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, was killed on Sunday in the western state of Jalisco, Mexican newspapers reported, citing government sources.
France pulled clear at the top of the Six Nations table and kept their grand slam ambitions on track with a hard-fought victory against Italy on Sunday.
The Azzurri had unfinished business in Lille. It was two years ago in the northern city that Les Bleus, still in the midst of a post-World Cup hangover, miraculously escaped with a draw after being outplayed by the visitors. For the French, that quasi-defeat prompted a complete rejuvenation of the team which yielded immediate results.
Barcelona returned to the top of La Liga with a 3-0 victory over relegation-threatened Levante as Marc Bernal, Frenkie de Jong and substitute Fermín López struck at Camp Nou.
Last season’s champions moved to 61 points from 25 games, one ahead of Real Madrid after their rivals’ defeat by Osasuna on Saturday. Barça had slipped to second following last week’s 2-1 loss to Girona but rarely looked troubled by a Levante side second from bottom on 18 points.
George Ford: ‘We want to get to root of the problems’
Second straight loss destroyed championship hopes
George Ford has vowed that England will conduct a “properly honest” and “uncomfortable” review of their Six Nations humiliation against Ireland on Saturday.
The hosts collapsed spectacularly in the face of an Irish onslaught at Twickenham, falling 22-0 behind after half an hour, with Ford’s surprising inaccuracy at fly-half exemplifying an error-strewn team display. The Sale No 10 missed two kicks for touch which proved terminal to England’s hopes of applying pressure in the decisive early stages.
Tom Harper reportedly made inquiries as recently as last week about Henry Dyer, who has been reporting on row
A lobbyist who examined journalists on behalf of an influential thinktank has now been accused of recently investigating a Guardian reporter.
Tom Harper, a senior director at the US public affairs company Apco, was the author of a 58-page report examining the journalists behind a 2023 Sunday Times story about undisclosed donations to Labour Together, the thinktank that was instrumental in Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership victory.
Lindsey Vonn has hit back at the “haters” who were critical of her decision to take part at this year’s Winter Olympics.
The American crashed out early in her run during the women’s downhill competition during the opening weekend of this month’s Games. She suffered a complex tibia fracture and underwent multiple surgeries in Italy before being flown back to the US for further treatment earlier this week.
A 99th-minute winner from Naomi Girma sent holders Chelsea through to the Women’s FA Cup quarter-finals as they saw off a stubborn Manchester United 2-1. In a competitive encounter at Kingsmeadow, Sonia Bompastor’s side needed extra time to keep their Cup defence alive after Simi Awujo had cancelled out Sam Kerr’s opener in normal time.
“I am really pleased because this competition is really special for us,” Bompastor said. “We want to go as far as possible. It was a tight game because Man United are a great team. I am really pleased with the result and the performance.”
DiCaprio and Del Toro prepare for another awards battle, as nominees walk the red carpet and relationships get hard launched – here’s a minute-by-minute rundown of all the glitz and gossip
The Hamnet star Jessie Buckley, who is hotly tipped to win best leading actress at this evening’s ceremony, has just arrived and is wearing a striking blue velvet dress. The Irish actor recently started working with the Hollywood stylist Danielle Goldberg. Goldberg also works with Ayo Edebiri and Greta Lee, and over the past couple of months she has been honing Buckley’s red carpet approach. They have been sticking to a pared-back colour palette, including black-and-white looks from McQueen and Valentino. This evening’s marine blue look is a surprise, but we do love a celebrity who keeps us on our toes.
On the red carpet, Glenn Close is telling Dazed magazine that the line “I’m not going to be ignored, Dan” from her role in Fatal Attraction is still stuck in her head. Close, who is presenting an award later, definitely isn’t being overlooked in this beautiful black coat with shimmering silver embroidery detailing. The 78-year-old has hot-footed it from the Erdem show at London fashion week, where she sat front row next to Helen Mirren.
Two men aged 31 and 48 and woman, 23, pronounced dead at scene of crash involving three vehicles near Moy
Three people died and four others have been injured in a multi-car collision in County Armagh.
Emergency services dispatched three rapid response paramedics, seven emergency crews and one hazardous area response team after the crash was reported on the Armagh Road near the village of Moy on Saturday night.
As this game ticked into the 97th minute, Liverpool snatched victory as Alexis Mac Allister feasted on a loose ball in the Nottingham Forest penalty area. Just before stoppage time, Arne Slot was apoplectic as Mac Allister saw an effort disallowed for handball, though in reality the Forest defender Ola Aina had smashed his clearance into the Liverpool midfielder’s back and it flew in past Stefan Ortega, who initially saved Hugo Ekitiké’s header. Mac Allister’s goal flattened Forest in Vítor Pereira’s first league game in charge and got Liverpool out of jail.
Slot’s side were abysmal in the first half, registering two shots, one of which was blocked and the other off target, while they had just three touches in the opposition box. Mac Allister ultimately made his count at the death as Liverpool moved level with Chelsea, who were held on Saturday, and Manchester United, who are not in action until Monday’s trip to Everton. Liverpool were stodgy for long periods but did improve and at the end they snaffled a precious three points.
US win third Olympic gold, first since Miracle on Ice
Jack Hughes’ golden goal ends 46-year wait in Milan
The United States claimed their third Olympic men’s hockey title – and first since the Miracle on Ice team of 1980 – with a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over Canada in Sunday’s gold medal game at the Milano Cortina Games. In the third Olympic final meeting between the border rivals and the first since Sidney Crosby’s epochal golden goal in 2010, the Americans seized their moment to end a 46-year wait and dethrone the sport’s most decorated nation on its grandest stage.
Canada had been chasing a record-extending 10th gold medal in men’s ice hockey, but it was the United States who delivered when it mattered most through Jack Hughes’ winner less than two minutes into the extra period and a superhuman effort from goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, capping an unbeaten run through the first Olympic tournament to feature National Hockey League players in 12 years.
‘Moscow continues to invest in strikes more than diplomacy,’ says Zelenskyy, as logistics and energy facilities targeted
Russia has fired scores of missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine, flattening a residential house in the capital, two days before the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Kremlin had launched 297 drones and nearly 50 missiles on Sunday, in the latest in a wave of overnight strikes. He said “a significant proportion” had been shot down as he called on allies to strengthen the country’s air defences against enemy attacks.
Wigmore Hall, London Marking 25 years since their formation, Dances, Songs & Hymns for Friendship was informed by the composer’s observations of the four musicians in and out of rehearsal
Founded at the Royal College of Music in 2001, the Sacconi Quartet celebrated their silver jubilee by looking forward as well as back. If Haydn and Beethoven represented the bedrock upon which their musical sensibilities were grounded, it was a newly commissioned work by Freya Waley-Cohen that revealed them at their finest.
Impeccably crafted and full of rhythmic and harmonic invention, Dances, Songs & Hymns for Friendship is a six-movement string quartet informed by the composer’s observations of the four musicians both in and out of rehearsal – she even watched them making tea! It opened with Spin, in which bold unison passages dissolved into fragmentary solos. Waley-Cohen’s musical fingerprints here were spicy, but rarely ventured beyond a world that Bartók, for example, would have recognised. It suited the Sacconi’s tightness of ensemble and muscular tone, especially in the lower instruments.
Calls mount for Mountbatten-Windsor to be dropped from royal line of succession
Police searches of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home on the Windsor estate in Berkshire continued on Sunday as a government minister did not rule out having a judge-led inquiry into the former prince’s links with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, representing the government, did not rule out such an inquiry but said it was premature because of the police investigation.
Eddie Hill, 20, and Jayden Long, 19, found dead on Yr Wyddfa in north Wales after a huge search operation
Tributes have been paid to two young men who died on a hiking expedition on Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon, in north Wales.
Eddie Hill, 20, and Jayden Long, 19, both from Norfolk, were found dead in Eryri national park on Thursday after a huge search operation in severe winter conditions.
Letter to Shabana Mahmood describes controls that could block British dual citizens’ entry to UK as ‘unacceptable’
The Liberal Democrats have called on the home secretary to “move at speed” to delay the rollout of new border controls that could result in British dual nationals being blocked from entering the country.
A letter sent by the party to Shabana Mahmood echoes one sent by the former Conservative cabinet minister David Davis on Friday asking for a grace period to be implemented urgently after one of his constituents living in the Netherlands told how she could no longer visit her dying mother in a care home in Yorkshire.
These harnesses are increasingly popular, but experts are divided on how useful they are. I decided to give one a try
When I sat at my desk this morning, I couldn’t slouch over the keyboard like I usually do. As much as I tried to hunch over, my back was held straight, shoulders pulled back. My trick? I was wearing a corset-like device with straps over my shoulders that forced me into an upright position.
Posture correctors claim to provide instant improvement in posture and relieve the back, shoulder and chest pain often associated with poor posture, if worn long term. The one I have on, Vicorrect (£29.99), is one of many on the market – Lidl’s budget posture trainer (£7.99) is now sold out; Taylor Swift has been spotted wearing a sports-bra version by Forme (£140).
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