Millions of people across the UK saw the most significant solar eclipse in 27 years today, August 12 2026. It was the most complete eclipse of the Sun by the Moon in UK skies since the total eclipse of 1999, with some across Europe witnessing full darkness of a total eclipse. At about 5:50pm BST, the first images of the solar eclipse came in from Iceland, where about an hour before the country would it experienced complete darkness of totality. In the UK the first glimpse cam

THE driver of a Ferrari Monza worth £3.7 million had the super car seized the first day it arrived in the UK during a Met Police crackdown on antisocial and driving across some of the wealthiest areas of London. More than £8million worth of expensive vehicles in total were seized over just three days. Officers from the Met, supported by Motor Insurers’ Bureau, seized a total of 90 vehicles between Friday, 7 August and Sunday, 9 August 2026 in the operation targeting uninsured

A MOTHER has admitted smuggling more than 50 kilos of cannabis worth over half a million pounds from Thailand into the UK stuffed into four suitcases. Amy Jayne Durban, 45, was told she faces a significant jail term after she admitted to one count of smuggling Class B drugs at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday, August 6 2026. The court heard she was arrested at Heathrow Airport by Border Force officers on July 6 this year after the drugs were found in the bags after she flew

THE Home Office has finally issued a statement after four illegal migrants were filmed clambering off a lorry at the side of a busy Maldon road in broad daylight before disappearing. The four men were recorded emerging onto the roof of a removals lorry that is understood to have travelled from Portugal to Essex before jumping off and heading towards bushes. It is believed they cut a hole through the soft top of the lorry to gain access. The remarkable scene was filmed by a co

POLICE stopped searching for four migrants filmed leaping from the top of a removals lorry after less than 48 hours and have admitted they are unlikely to be found. The four men were recorded emerging onto the roof of a removals lorry that is understood to have travelled from Portugal to Essex before jumping off and heading towards bushes. It is believed they cut a hole through the soft top of the lorry to gain access at Rouen in France, before border security in Calais faile

THE lawyer for Andrew Tate and brother Tristan has claimed they are innocent following their arrest on an international arrest warrant for extradition to the UK. The suspects were arrested by the US Marshal Service in the United States of America on July 18, 2026, following an investigation by British police into a number of sexual offences. The brothers' lawyer, Joseph McBride, said his clients were "innocent" and claimed the new charges were designed to counter defamation c

A man who encouraged child sexual abuse facilitators to make their victims ‘cry’ has been sentenced, to just 32 months in prison following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. The NCA launched an investigation into Christopher Sanders, 50, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, after receiving intelligence from international partners in July 2023 about a UK individual who was a prolific purchaser of live-streaming content. From August 2017 to February 2019 Sanders used online

AN Indian national has been charged with a sanctions offence by the Crown Prosecution Service following an arrest by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers after Royal Marines boarded a ship in the English Channel. Ajay Pant, 38, has been charged with directly or indirectly supplying or delivering by ship prohibited oil / oil products from Russia to a third country during the period of June 2026 in contravention of Reg 46Z9B Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. The ve

THE Common Travel Area (CTA) is being exploited by huge numbers of illegal migrants, with 70 percent of immigration enforcement's work in Northern Ireland now having to be spent targeting abuse of it, a Government source has admitted. The stark admission comes in the wake of the barbaric attempted beheading of a man in Northern Ireland allegedly by a Sundanese asylum seeker. The CTA is a long-standing open borders zone comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man,

POLICE have continued to carry out drug operations across Benidorm's party strip. Raids were undertaken on Thursday, May 7, with two venues on Calle Gerona visited by the Policia Nacional. The visits resulted in reports concerning drugs, weapons and safety deficiencies, including the serving of a sanction to one establishment that allegedly did not have civil liability insurance. The Policia Nacional said the latest inspections were welcomed by customers and residents in the