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Victorious Wolverhampton Wanderers captain Mike Bailey holds the League Cup aloft in 1974

Wolves legend laid to rest in 'very sad, but lovely' ceremony

Palestine Action court case

Video footage shows Palestine Action raid on factory, court hears

Palestine Action court case

Security guard ‘sprayed with fire extinguisher by Palestine Action intruders’

The aurora borealis lighting up skies over the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle

Northern Lights display seen across UK may be visible again on Sunday night

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Two men dead after attempting small boat English Channel crossing

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Migrants head to Kent for processing after protesters gathered in Gosport

Border Security Command vessel HMC Vigilant returns to the Border Security Command compound in Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel

Failure to stop two migrant boats in two days ‘not acceptable’ – Home Secretary

A small boat hugs the coastline near Ault in France

Review ordered as second small boat in two days evades Border Force to reach UK

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

UK borders are secure, minister says after migrant boat reaches coast undetected

Danny Dyer speaking to campaigners at the protest

Danny Dyer, his daughter Dani and Becky Hill join stop the sewage protest

Pod of dolphins sighted swimming in the River Thames near Gravesend, Kent,

Pod of dolphins spotted in UK river around 20 miles inland

Nyetimber’s vineyard in Amberley

Earliest ever harvest for English wine maker after record hot weather

The Stanwell hotel stabbing

Fact check: Fake Portsmouth protest images and asylum hotels pledge

Medway Magistrates Court, Chatham, Medway, Kent, England, UK Nov 2025

Man charged with driving and drug offences after two cyclists killed in crash

The scene in 1995 at Singleton Lake Ashford where Baby April was found

Appeal to trace mystery visitor to grave of baby unidentified for 30 years

Protest at Portsmouth as small boat lands

Hundreds of protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival

Protesters at Dover Priory train station after black-clad and masked anti-illegal migrant demonstrators blocked roads in the port

Black-clad masked ‘stop the boats’ protesters block roads in Dover
Footage showed the group, appearing largely to be men, dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, gathered at the port on Saturday.
Press Association Reporters

Moses Itauma v Filip Hrgovic – The O2 Arena

Filip Hrgovic claims heavyweight title as Moses Itauma taken to hospital

People brought ashore

Hundreds of migrants cross Channel after hiatus

Water supply

South East Water told to improve as villagers brand outage issues ‘shocking’

Water supplies

‘Simply not good enough’ says Defra as South East Water customers face outage

Second World War veteran Ivan Staines, 99, with his great-grandson Alfie Rose, five

Second World War veterans with combined age of 300 take off in Spitfires

Two people walk along a path through a parched park

Almost three-quarters of England in drought as conditions worsen in dry August

People sitting in a parched park

Temperatures rise above 30C while Scotland hit by half month’s rain in two days

Emma Raducanu during a practice session at Wimbledon

Emma Raducanu to miss US Open due to stress fracture

A rope blocks the entrance to the toilets at Gatwick airport

Water supply outage leaves Gatwick passengers with no working toilets

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Migrants arrive after rowing tiny dinghy across the Channel

A worker hands out bottled water at the Tunbridge Wells Sports Centre

South East Water raises doubts over future survival without fresh financing
The water supplier said it was in discussions with lenders to agree a new loan facility.
Anna Wise, Press Association Business Reporter

Peter Firmin in the press room at the British Academy Children’s Awards

‘Treasure trove’ of 500 artworks by Bagpuss creator Peter Firmin up for auction

Dry cracked earth at Baitings Reservoir in Ripponden, West Yorkshire

Hosepipe ban brought in for 2.4m people amid ongoing hot weather

A sign at Margate Main Sands, informing people not to use the beach

Southern Water fined £7m over sewage pollution in Kent

Canterbury meningitis and septicaemia outbreak

Teenagers should be offered meningitis B jab on NHS, Government advisers say

A view of Dover in Kent

Port of Dover has done ‘absolutely everything’ to avoid summer EES chaos

South East Water

South East Water to pay £30.5m after repeated supply failures

Labour accuses Nigel Farage of trying to hide ‘property empire’

England captain Ben Stokes (left) with head coach Brendon McCullum during a nets session at Trent Bridge on Tuesday

Brendon McCullum hails Ben Stokes after international retirement

A woman walks across paving in the sunshine sheltering under a black umbrella

Heatwave brings more disruption as temperature records look likely to tumble

South east water staff hand out bottled water at a water collection point near Herne Bay in Kent

Troubled South East Water names incoming chief executive

Summer weather June 21st 2026

‘Growing confidence’ June temperature record set in 1976 could be broken

A woman throwing a custard pie

Hundreds of spectators watch World Custard Pie Championships

People on a beach

Temperatures could soar to 30C next week, forecasters say

Zak Crawley has been rested for Kent's Championship matches against Lancashire and Middlesex

Zak Crawley rested for Kent matches to ‘recharge’ after losing England place

A bison faces the camera with woodland in the background

Bison settle into new home in Cumbria in scheme to create wildlife-rich habitat

Stephen Holt

Collector of 1966 World Cup memorabilia says fans being ‘priced out of game’

A man collects bottled water at a water collection point at a Sainsbury’s near Whitstable, Kent

Thousands to face water supply issues over weekend

Water bottles being handed out at a water collection point at a Sainsbury’s near Whitstable, Kent

Thousands without water supply after reservoirs ‘reach critical level’

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

More than 1,000 migrants cross Channel amid hot weather

Swimmer in sky pool

Sizzling temperatures could mean hottest bank holiday on record

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

First migrants cross English Channel in nearly two weeks

Sumatran tiger cubs at Howletts Wild Animal Park

‘Conservation milestone’ as four endangered tigers born at animal park

Students receiving vaccines and antibiotics from medical staff in the sports hall at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury

Schools at centre of meningitis outbreak in Reading named

Canterbury meningitis and septicaemia outbreak

Student dies in Reading meningitis outbreak as contacts offered antibiotics

The student who died went to Henley College in Oxfordshire (Alamy/PA)

Student dies and two people being treated after meningitis outbreak in Reading

Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon

Emma Raducanu ready to return from illness in Strasbourg

Screen grab of David Hinton, Chief Executive, South East Water appearing before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee,

South East Water boss to step down after damning report by MPs

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to the Border Security Command compound in Dover

Number of people crossing Channel since 2018 believed to have hit 200,000

Chris Train appearing before the committee (UK Parliament)

Chair of South East Water resigns as MPs warn ‘no confidence’ in leadership

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