Labour's eco-millionaire donor Dale Vince has told Andy Burnham that approving new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea can 'save money for the country'.

The green energy tycoon revealed he has dropped his opposition to the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields and said there is 'a way that we can make sense of this North Sea puzzle'.

Explaining his surprise U-turn, Mr Vince said that if new drilling was combined with 'price control' on wholesale energy then this would help bring bills down.

Proposals for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields are now in the hands of ministers following the closure of consultations on the two projects.

Mr Burnham is under increasing pressure – including from US President Donald Trump – to ease Labour's ban on new drilling and give the go-ahead to both fields.

Rosebank is the UK's largest remaining untapped oil field and lies about 80 miles west of Shetland.

Meanwhile there have been warnings of fuel shortages this winter without the approval of the Jackdaw gas field, which is 150 miles

Shocking video captured a vicious fight that sent two women's hijabs flying off inside a Target store.

Footage of the scrap has been heavily circulating online, racking up tens of thousands of views and comments across several uploads.

The two women, who appeared to be wearing traditional Muslim attire, could be heard shrieking as their hijabs lay on the ground while they tried to rip out each other's hair.

Several bystanders attempted to break up the brawl, except for a security guard who appeared to wait a little too long before stepping in.

The asset protection associate, wearing a high-visibility green jacket, stood by watching as the women, one in a navy blue dress and the other in a black gown, rolled around striking one another in the face.

At one point, the woman in navy blue ended up on top of the other woman as she lay on the white-tiled walkway of the Target store.

While on top, the brawler threw several hammer fists while screaming: 'I'll spit on you h**, I'll spit on this b****.'

Towards the end of the footage, a man finally stepped in to separate the women, grabbing the wrists of the

Keir Starmer's decision to sack the top civil servant he hired only 14 months earlier cost taxpayers £500,000, it has emerged.

Chris Wormald was forced out as cabinet secretary in February as the then-prime minister rebuilt his No10 team in a desperate bid to save his premiership.

His departure made him the shortest-serving cabinet secretary in history and left taxpayers to pick up the bill for a hefty payout.

It had initially been suggested that Sir Chris had been handed a £260,000 payout as part of an exit package.

But several insiders briefed on the settlement have now told the Financial Times it topped £500,000, which would make it a record payout.

The severance payment had to be personally signed off by Sir Keir after Cat Little, the top official at the Cabinet Office, said she needed a 'ministerial direction' on the sum.

In a letter to Sir Keir from February, she said: 'The proposed award is greater than what Sir Chris Wormald would be contractually entitled to.

'However, I am informed that a settlement of this level is necessary given that this is a

A search has been launched for a young soldier who disappeared after a bar fight and an alleged car ramming incident which left two people seriously injured. 

Liam Potts, 22, a soldier with the Coldstream Guards who had a ceremonial role in Queen Elizabeth II's funeral in 2022, vanished at around 12.20am on Saturday morning following a series of incidents in the village of Wylam, Northumberland.

Locals said a disturbance broke out at a pub close to the River Tyne, minutes before two people were struck by a vehicle on Wylam Bridge.  

Liam was not one of those struck by the car, nor was he in the vehicle, but he was seen walking away in the aftermath of the collision. 

Police said they understand he entered the water, but it remains unknown whether he managed to make it out again. 

Northumbria Police received a report later on Saturday afternoon concerning the welfare of Liam. He was last spotted heading towards the centre of Wylam village from Wylam Bridge in the early hours. 

A man and woman - each aged in their 20s - both sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries when struck by

Hayden Panettiere's heartbroken 'second mom' has revealed her devastation over the actress's sudden death at just 36 - and told how the troubled star 'tried and tried' to overcome the demons that plagued her adult life.

The Heroes and Nashville star was found unresponsive at her home in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday afternoon after an acquaintance called 911 to report that she was in cardiac arrest.

Panettiere was pronounced dead at the scene despite efforts to save her. 

Police said their preliminary investigation found 'no signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances,' while a post-mortem examination found no signs of trauma that would have contributed to her death.

Her cause and manner of death have not yet been determined.

Now Lynsey Lonberg, 73, a longtime family friend whom Panettiere described in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, as her 'second mother,' has spoken of her anguish at losing the little girl she watched grow into a Hollywood star.

Sitting at the bar of a restaurant in Piermont, New York, on Monday afternoon, Lonberg remembered the animal-loving child who played at her home, the fiercely focused actress she became - and the painful struggles she believes

An architect accused of threatening to kill an oral surgeon and beautician's daughter after messing up building plans for their new clinic has been struck off. 

Joan Beltri launched a 'campaign of harassment, abuse and threats' via email and voicemail towards his clients over work in Winchester, Hampshire, a tribunal heard.

He also threatened married couple Dr James Escoda-Francoli, 45, and 36-year-old Carolina Sampietro – saying he would 'kill them all'.

Dr Escoda-Francoli, a specialist oral surgeon, and Mrs Sampietro, an aesthetics practitioner, hired Mr Beltri to work on the beauty clinic they were building.

But the relationship soured after a series of blunders, including the cutting through of a gas pipe while Mr Beltri, 50, carried out work for which he was not qualified.

Mr Beltri – who describes himself as a structural engineer and an artificial intelligence engineer – failed to secure permission from the local council to work on the Grade II listed building in Winchester.

It led to Mr Beltri, a Spanish compatriot of his clients, insulting Dr Escoda-Francoli – claiming his wife was sleeping with other men and saying: 'If

Labour came under fire today for pouring millions of pounds into a 'daft' Net Zero scheme which aims to stop passenger planes from leaving vapour trails in the sky.

Ministers said they were handing over nearly £3million of taxpayers' cash for the trial, under which pilots flying Transatlantic routes will be told to avoid areas of sky where there's a greater risk of forming trails because of atmospheric conditions.

Experts claim the trails can form clouds which trap heat and contribute to climate change.

But critics dubbed the scheme 'pie in the sky' and a 'waste' of taxpayers' cash which threatens to push up ticket prices, as changing flight paths can use up more jet fuel.

Under the scheme, UK transport officials and air traffic controllers will team up with the Met Office and tech giant Google to identify where planes are at risk of forming vapour trails and tell them to change altitude.

Aviation minister Keir Mather hailed the 'world first' trial as he unveiled it this morning, adding: 'By testing small tweaks to flight paths

The president's son-in-law and political advisor Jared Kushner admitted that a peace deal with Iran is 'not there yet' and warned Trump not to rush amid 'good dialogue.'

Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump, laid bare that negotiations with Iran weren't nearing a close and said the president will 'be very patient' in making a deal. 

'There's really not a lot of trust between American and Iran after all these years of not having these relations and dialogues,' he told Fox News on Monday.

'But obviously, they're engaging in a very strong way and that's quite positive, but we're not there yet on understanding.'

Kushner championed the conversations between the US government and Iran as 'probably more robust than it's maybe ever been.' 

'There's been a lot of good dialogue which I think is very, very helpful, right? You can't make deals with each other if you don't understand each other. You have to exchange views,' he continued.  

'President Trump is gonna be very patient. He doesn't like to - he doesn't wanna rush to

Footage shows how a helicopter carrying a British couple on their honeymoon spun out of control seconds before crashing on a Greek island, killing the newlyweds.

The private air taxi reportedly suffered a mechanical failure before smashing into the ground near a heliport in Sifnos last night, killing Alexander Cromie, Marie Ebert, and pilot Giorgos Raikos.

CCTV footage shows the Bell 206 aircraft rotate erratically in the air as it quickly lost altitude, before descending to the ground. 

After taking off from the wider area of ​​Markopoulo, the pilot informed the competent service that he was preparing to land, but his message was followed by a mysterious radio silence, reported Athens daily newspaper Ta Nea.

Residents near the helipad reported hearing an unusual noise from the helicopter before the tragic crash in the Tholos area.

The newlyweds, believed to have been in their early 30s and living in London, were thought to be on their honeymoon at the time of the accident. The 55-year-old pilot is said to have been a retired Greek Air Force officer.

Footage shows how aircraft was immediately engulfed in a fireball, with smoke seen billowing into the sky from

This is the moment a pair of violent thugs pull up in a BMW brandishing 'zombie knives' and attack four people, leaving one man stabbed and a woman brutally assaulted.

Getaway drivers Agandy Anderson, 30, and Kayne Stewart, 27, were jailed for working with the knife men in two separate robberies which happened just five minutes apart.

The two robberies saw three watches worth £1,000 stolen in the City of London just before 3am on September 8, 2024. The attacks left their victims to 'fear' for their 'safety in life', one said in an impact statement.

CCTV captured the first attack on Appold Street.

Two armed thugs leapt out of the BMW at a set of traffic lights and seized upon a group of pedestrians - two men and a woman walking together after a night out.

The gangsters threatened them with what victims described as 'zombie knives' and demanded their watches.

A scuffle ensued which ended with one man being stabbed twice in the buttocks and receiving a wound to the head which bled heavily. The thieves then stole his £400 Citizen watch.

The woman was kicked in the head in the

Seattle's embattled socialist mayor Katie Wilson was condemned by her own state's Democrat governor as he re-shared a scathing social media post about her handling of a mass shooting. 

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson shared a post from journalist Ari Hoffman this week which criticized Wilson's response to a shooting at a food festival on July 27 that left three people dead. 

Hoffman reported that when a Zoom call was hastily convened for Washington leaders in the aftermath of the tragedy, Wilson refused to turn on her camera or speak. 

He said when he made a Freedom of Information Act request for records of the call, Ferguson's office claimed that it does not have a recording. Ferguson's own account then re-shared the post that criticized Wilson's antics. 

Hoffman responded on X that the Democrat governor's move 'wasn't on my bingo card for today.'

'He seems to really be trying to throw Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson under the bus,' wrote Hoffman, an editor at conservative news outlet Post Millennial, adding: 'Interesting that the governor follows me on social media.'

Ferguson's account appeared to go

Two fraternities at Penn State University have been accused of being involved in a cocaine trafficking ring after investigators discovered that pledges were allegedly made to package drugs during their initiation. 

More than a dozen students in two off-campus organizations, Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi, face charges after members and pledges allegedly cut and packaged cocaine and distributed it to other students. 

'This was a coordinated and highly profitable drug-trafficking crew revolving around two senior members of the fraternities, other fraternity brothers and pledges,' Attorney General Dave Sunday said on Sunday. 

'In fact, according to the evidence uncovered, cutting and packaging cocaine was, for some pledges, an indoctrination into the fraternities.'

Agostino Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson, two members of the organization, were believed to have been the main suppliers for the frats, according to the investigation. 

Both allegedly made regular trips to Philadelphia and New York for 'large quantities of cocaine,' the Attorney General said. 

Abbatiello and Robinson were two of four charged; Mohammed Hurabi and Lars Zeepvat were also charged with felony corrupt organizations, conspiracy, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity and other offenses. 

A fifth person, Robert Zanolla, was charged with felony conspiracy and criminal