By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 20:20 BST, 17 May 2026 | Updated: 03:22 BST, 18 May 2026 The Church of Scotland has issued a formal apology for its historical role in slavery. The apology was adopted at its General Assembly in Edinburgh on Saturday. Before the abolition of slavery in…
ROGER MOSEY: Dear Matt Brittin, read the riot act on impartiality and make sure your BBC listens to people from Wrexham to Whitehaven
Dear Matt, Welcome to the BBC. Director general should be one of the best jobs in the world and plenty of people will be rooting for you to prove that it is. But there’s no use pretending that your inheritance is not one of the most difficult facing any new director…
Heartbreak for villagers and Ryan Gosling as Gandalf the goose ‘is taken by low-lives’
A popular goose named after Ian McKellen’s Lord of the Rings character has been stolen from a Kent village pond. Gandalf had lived with his companion, named Ryan after the actor Gosling, in Basted Millpond near Borough Green for two years. But last Tuesday the goose was bundled into the…
Cuba gets 300 military drones for possible attacks on Florida and Guantanamo Bay amid turmoil with US
Cuba has reportedly acquired over 300 military drones for potential attacks on Guantanamo Bay and parts of Florida. Classified intelligence shared with Axios said that officials in the country discussed hitting the US base in Cuba and Florida’s Key West, just 90 miles north of Havana. A US official told the…
Backlash over Brexit ‘betrayal’: Lord Gove blasts Streeting and Burnham as Kemi says ‘Labour clowns couldn’t negotiate with the EU’
Fears of a Brexit betrayal were mounting last night after Labour’s two main leadership hopefuls called for Britain to rejoin the EU. Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting – the frontrunners to take over from Keir Starmer – said Britain’s future was as part of the bloc. The comments prompted a…
Treatment hope for a Scottish woman who suffered ‘broken heart’ after the death of her mother
By CLAIRE ELLIOT, SCOTTISH GENERAL NEWS REPORTER Published: 00:43 BST, 18 May 2026 | Updated: 00:43 BST, 18 May 2026 She was initially feared to have suffered a heart attack just minutes after saying her final goodbyes to her ill mother. But Brenda Young was quite literally struck down with…
See trans killer’s calm confession after she shot both parents dead over gender transition fight
A newly released police interrogation video opens with a chilling confession from convicted Utah killer Mia Bailey just hours after she executed both her parents. Mia allegedly murdered the parents inside their family home during a bitter dispute tied to gender transition surgery and severe mental illness. ‘I don’t regret it. I…
The Morning Poll: What’s behind the UK’s Eurovision failure?
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 23:30 BST, 17 May 2026 | Updated: 23:30 BST, 17 May 2026 The UK came last in Eurovision on Saturday with its entry, electronics performer Look Mum No Computer – real name Sam Battle – and his song Eins, Zwei, Drei. He came a whopping 515 points…
Footage shows teens hanging from stolen ute moments before horror crash killed notorious 14-year-old offender
By MATT JONES, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 23:00 BST, 17 May 2026 | Updated: 23:06 BST, 17 May 2026 Shocking footage has emerged of a group of teenagers hanging outside a swerving stolen ute moments before it hit a tree, killing one passenger. A teen named Conroy, 14, from…
Texas police issue shelter in place over active shooters ‘linked to ten random attacks which injured four people’
By BETHAN SEXTON, US ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR and MELISSA KOENIG, US REPORTER Published: 22:09 BST, 17 May 2026 | Updated: 22:33 BST, 17 May 2026 Two shooters believed to be linked to 10 random attacks are on the loose in Austin, Texas sparking a shelter in place warning. Police are hunting…