Tourists and visitors will be unable to walk among the green benches “until further notice” while an investigation takes place, parliamentary authorities have said. The ban also applies to the House of Lords chamber, but other areas of Parliament will remain open. Scotland Yard has launched a probe and said it believes the phone was “purposely” placed there “with the aim of causing disruption to business in the House”. “Public access to the rest of Parliament is unaffected and remains open as usual. “We have robust and proactive security measures in place in Parliament and the safety and security of everyone who works or visits here remains our top priority.”

Rarely has Britain’s new political landscape come into sharper relief than during the rapid-fire events that unfolded over a hectic lunchtime on Friday. An hour later, Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing anti-immigrant party Reform U.K., hurried to the stage at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham, England, to exult in Labour’s misfortune. Ms. Rayner’s resignation was not a major shock after two weeks of questions about her tax problems. But its timing, on the opening day of the Reform conference, gave Mr. Farage a ready-made moment to press his populist case: that the Labour Party and its prime minister, Keir Starmer, are aimless, incompetent and unfit to govern. “We are the party on the rise,” Mr. Farage, an ally of President Trump, said to a cheering crowd in a cavernous convention center, with pulsating lights and flashy pyrotechnics.

A 2019 mission in North Korea, which intended to have Navy SEALs plant an electronic device to intercept communications of the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, resulted in an unsuccessful operation that left unarmed North Koreans dead, according to a report from the New York Times on Friday. The mission, which took place during President Donald Trump’s first term, required the president’s direct approval, the Times reports, and came amid high-level nuclear talks between the US and North Korea. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementTrump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, said he knows “nothing” about the 2019 mission reported by the Times. The relationship between the United States and North Korea, a country that is highly isolated, has been rocky over the years. In 2019, Trump would make history as the first sitting US leader to set foot in the hermit kingdom, when he shook hands with Kim and took 20 steps into North Korea.

The Metropolitan Police was alerted to reports of violence in Woodstock Road at 3.05pm on September 5. Officers joined London Ambulance Service colleagues at the scene near Mount Pleasant, where a man had been located with serious injuries. A Met spokesperson said: "Police were called at 15:05hrs on Friday, 5 September to reports of violence in Wembley. "Officers were joined by London Ambulance Service at Woodstock Road, near Mount Pleasant, where a man was found with serious injuries. READ MORE: New footage released one year after Queen’s Park man killed in Kilburn shooting"The 45-year-old man was taken to hospital where his injuries have been said to be life-threatening and life-changing."

Katharine, the Duchess of Kent, a member of the British royal family who was a longtime patron of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, died on Thursday in London. She was 92. Buckingham Palace announced her death but did not provide additional details. The duchess kept a low profile for a member of the royal family, fulfilling less visible duties and steering clear of scandal at a time when more prominent royals were sometimes embroiled in it. To those who were not regular royal watchers, she was best known for comforting the losing finalist Jana Novotna in 1993 at Wimbledon, where the duchess was a regular.

Jeremy Clarkson opens his pub The Farmer's Dog in 2024Jeremy Clarkson has shared some more devastating news as he revealed his Farmer's Dog computer system had been hacked.The Clarkson's Farm star has two successful businesses, the pub and Diddly Squat Farm, which both feature on his Amazon Prime show. And we are told similar attacks were launched in recent months on both M&S and the Co-op. But no one thought to mention that my pub, the Farmer’s Dog, has been hit too. Clarkson has faced a tough year, as he penned about the harvest on X: "It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. He then put in his column for The Times: ""It used to be reasonably predictable, but it just isn't anymore.

As news broke of the latest setback for Britain’s beleaguered Labour government, there was jubilation 120 miles north of London, where the anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage was on Friday gathering for its annual conference. So with less than a half-hour’s notice, Mr. Farage advanced the time of his big set-piece speech by three hours — calculating, perhaps, that he should to try to exploit the turmoil in London, where the deputy prime minister had just announced her resignation. Welcomed to the stage in Birmingham, England, to the heavy beat of a dance track and fireworks, Mr. Farage claimed that the government was in “deep crisis,” adding that the cabinet was made up of “wholly unqualified people to run our country.”Mr. Farage, a veteran political disrupter who gained international prominence campaigning for Brexit, is probably the biggest beneficiary of the latest government crisis because his upstart party is well ahead in opinion polls.

The stony land of Dungeness is best known for being the base of a now disused Nuclear Power Station. The disused Nuclear Power Station in the distance. (Image: Emilia Kettle/Newsquest)Instead, Dungeness was brisk with hot wind, surely to cause some unprepared visitors with wind burn that they’ll be moaning about for days. With a mix of green and brown hues, small cottages, two giant lighthouses and the unmissable power station, Dungeness' unique landscape is unlike any other. Recommended ReadingThe UK’s only desert is an oasis I don’t want to shareIf I could keep Dungeness to myself, I would.

Verstappen grabs Monza pole with fastest F1 lapAndrew BensonBBC F1 correspondent at MonzaImage source, Getty ImagesRed Bull's Max Verstappen snatched pole position for the Italian Grand Prix from Lando Norris with the fastest lap in Formula 1 history. The Dutchman's time of one minute 18.792 seconds beat the lap set by Lewis Hamilton at Monza in 2020 for Mercedes by 0.095secs - at an average speed of 164.484mph. Norris had just leapt to the top of the times after a difficult first run left him seventh, but Verstappen pipped him by 0.077 seconds for his first pole since the British Grand Prix in July. McLaren's Oscar Piastri, leading Norris by 34 points in their championship battle, was third fastest, ahead of the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. But the seven-time champion has a five-place penalty and will start the grand prix at Monza 10th.

During rehab, she was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder caused by witnessing violent domestic abuse between her mother and father as a child, she told the newspaper. Lulu, whose real name is Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, said: “I’ve never spoken about the alcohol before. At the age of 15, she moved to London and scored her first hit – a cover of the Isley Brothers’s Shout. From the beginning of her career in 1964, Lulu has achieved 10 UK top 10 singles and a UK top 10 album. She told the Times: “‘Lulu’ would help me feel light and cheerful when really I was a bit of a tortured soul because of my character.

He arrived at the house with bleach and white spirit intending to murder his victimMURDER KIT ‘Smirking’ Dad, 53, stabbed his wife 15 times, hit her with a hammer and tried to strangle her with an exercise bandA MAN tried to kill his wife using a "murder kit" in a "brutal and ferocious attack". Muhammad Khan, 53, slashed his estranged wife's neck with a Stanley knife, repeatedly stabbed her, and beat her with a hammer on January 18 this year. But instead he took with him weapons, bleach and white spirit, with the plan to murder his victim. He restrained Khan, who was "smirking", as his wife lay fighting for her life. He will spend an extra five years on licence and made the subject of a life-long restraining order for life.

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This is what your gold is for. It’s up 38% in the last year and passed $3,500 for the first time this week. The gold miners have been storming along too— up 90% this year alone. If you hold gold you’ll be feeling pretty happy. That makes it the perfect time to remind yourself why you hold gold.

The resignation of Angela Rayner, and the resulting reshuffle, is the main story on all the front pages. The Daily Mail calls it a "Nightmare on Downing Street", external, saying Labour is in "meltdown". The Financial Times, external calls the reshuffle a "big gamble" - because many ministers have simply been moved to new jobs rather than been sacked, raising questions about whether their performance will actually improve. The Daily Mirror describes the loss of Rayner as a "serious blow" for Sir Keir Starmer, external. The Daily Telegraph says Downing Street hopes the reshaped top team can counter the threat from Reform UK, external, and even "take the fight" to Nigel Farage.