Andy Burnham has insisted he's not embarrassed after falling victim to a hoaxer pretending to be Donald Trump's chief of staff.
The Prime Minister was duped by an unknown individual who posed as top White House aide Susie Wiles.
He sent several messages in exchanges that began before he became PM and continued after he took office on July 20.
But when asked by broadcasters today if he was embarrassed about the contact, Mr Burnham said: 'No, I'm not.
'Because there was a minimal exchange, nothing of consequence, and actually, quickly I realised that this needed to be reported, and I did so.'
Speaking from Wolverhampton bus station, the PM added: 'So I handled it in the right way. All politicians are receiving these pressures and these challenges, but I did everything right.
'There was a minimal exchange of information of zero consequence, and it was quickly reported.'
Asked what action had been taken to find out who had impersonated Ms Wiles, Mr Burnham replied: 'The correct action has been taken here and in the US.'
The NHS scrapped plans to train staff on how to use technology made by Palantir over fears of a backlash.
The Florida-based firm has helped develop a new data platform for the NHS to bring together information from across the service.
Official figures show that an extra 110,000 operations have gone ahead since the Federated Data Platform (FDP) was introduced.
But plans to train more staff on how to use the technology have been ditched following negative publicity.
Tom Bartlett, former deputy director of data engineering at NHS England, was asked to hold a national webinar by a senior member of the NHS Information Skills Development Network (ISDN).
Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by libertarian billionaire and PayPal founder Peter Thiel (pictured), an outspoken critic of the NHS who gave more than $1million to the 2016 Trump presidential campaign
But he was later told that the network's leaders had blocked the session because they did not want to be 'associated with it'.
Palantir has come under fire from some MPs, particularly those on the hard-Left, as well as pro-Palestine protestors, for
Disney has sued Donald Trump's FCC over a 'retaliatory campaign' against ABC that includes a license review of its stations and a probe into The View.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in DC District Court alleges the administration is trying to punish ABC for speech it dislikes and is violating its First Amendment rights.
'Acting through the Federal Communications Commission, the Administration has waged a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts,' the suit states.
The action seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to halt the FCC's license-renewal process for ABC's eight owned stations.
Those stations were ordered to file early renewal applications in April, years ahead of schedule, after Jimmy Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had 'a glow like an expectant widow' and the president demanded the late-night host be fired.
The White House and Melania condemned the bit as 'hateful and violent' - coming two days before a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner - while Kimmel
An Australian tradesman critically injured when a robot vacuum cleaner exploded inside his home will soon leave hospital after five successful surgeries.
Lachie Perrem, 25, had his vacuum running when the device suddenly erupted into flames inside his home on Airgate Close in Brabham, in Perth's north-east, on July 2.
He was rushed to Fiona Stanley Hospital with burns to 75 per cent of his body and has since undergone multiple surgeries.
In an update to his GoFundMe page on Sunday, his mother said Mr Perrem was 'healing really well'.
'If everything continues to go well, Lachie could be out of hospital by September 9!' Fiona Perrem wrote.
Mr Perrem underwent skin grafting for his legs last Tuesday and has seen 'amazing progress' with the recovery to his hands.
'Every little bit of movement feels like such a huge milestone after everything he has been through,' Ms Perrem wrote.
Mr Perrem's fiancée, Bri Thompson, recently adopted him a kitten to 'keep him company and give him something to play with when he gets home'.
This is the British newlywed couple who were killed in a helicopter crash during their honeymoon on a Greek island.
Alexander Cromie and Marie Ebert, believed to have been in their early 30s, were travelling in a private air taxi before it reportedly suffered a mechanical failure and smashed into the ground near a heliport in Sifnos last night.
The tragic crash in the Tholos area also killed Greek pilot Giorgos Raikos, 55, who is understood to be a married father of three.
After taking off from the village of Markopoulo, the pilot had transmitted the message that he was preparing to land, but this was followed by a mysterious radio silence, according to Athens daily newspaper Ta Nea.
CCTV footage shows the Bell 206 aircraft rotate erratically in the air as it quickly lost altitude, before falling to the ground. Further footage shows the helicopter immediately engulfed in a fireball, with smoke seen billowing into the sky from the blackened wreckage.
Mr Cromie was the vice president of private wealth solutions at asset manager Blackstone's London office.
In a tribute sent to the Daily Mail, the company said: 'We are shocked by
Donald Trump's Navy is facing renewed scrutiny after a warship lost all power while deployed in the South China Sea, stranding sailors without drinkable water, food, air conditioning or working toilets for four days.
A generator failure aboard the USS Benfold on July 24 left the destroyer without power.
Other Navy ships were called in to provide meals to the crew as the Benfold was towed to port in the Philippines, where sailors were put up in shore housing.
Full power was not restored until July 30 and no injuries have been reported.
The Navy did not disclose the incident for nearly a month, according to The Washington Post.
The outage comes as the Trump administration faces criticism over extended carrier deployments in the Middle East, including that of the USS Abraham Lincoln, where reports of desperate sailors throwing themselves aboard have angered military families.
Navy families have described collapsing morale and suicidal ideation on the ship, with one sailor's wife telling Navy Times her severely burned-out husband attempted to jump overboard.
The Benfold was part of the USS George Washington's strike group, which is currently en
The estranged wife of a billionaire hedge fund manager who rejected his $633 million settlement has been barred from taking the stand in her divorce trial after she was caught hacking her husband's emails.
John and Laura Overdeck, both 56, appeared before New Jersey Family Court last week to begin proceedings in the largest contested divorce in the state's history.
The hedge fund tycoon, who according to Forbes is worth $8 billion, is set to testify today after the judge ruled that Laura 'engaged in multiple discovery abuses,' the New York Post reported.
Laura accessed John's private computer and took photos on her phone of confidential emails between the billionaire and his lawyers, the court heard.
A court order required her to turn the device over, but Laura neglected to do so for 'at least 13 months,' Judge Bruce Buechler said.
When she finally did, the photographs of the correspondence between John and his legal team had been deleted. Laura allegedly claimed to have deleted images because her phone was low on storage.
She also convinced post office staff to provide her with an
Earl Spencer has written a sensational memoir about his sister Princess Diana and the tumultuous aftermath of her tragic death, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The book, described as 'historic' and 'extraordinarily moving', is expected to cover Diana's childhood, her deeply unhappy 15-year marriage to the then-Prince of Wales, and the febrile days following her shocking death in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.
Announcing the news today, Earl Spencer, 62, said: 'With the 30th anniversary of Diana's tragic death on the skyline, I've been inundated yet again with requests for interviews about my sister.
'This has convinced me to write down my own thoughts and memories, once and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths that have become accepted over time.'
Swan Song, which will be published around the world and translated into 12 languages, is expected to provide an unprecedented inside account of a seismic week during which the House of Windsor was rocked by a global wave of public grief and anger.
Earl Spencer famously delivered a
A man has been jailed for coercively controlling and intimidating his girlfriend for more than a year, dictating what she could wear, how she should behave and imposing a sinister list of rules while she was overseas.
Joshua James Hughes, 21, was sentenced to three years and two months in jail last week in Taree Local Court. He will not be eligible for parole until April 2028.
When his 19-year-old girlfriend travelled overseas on a year-long gymnastics scholarship, Hughes sent her a disturbing list of 'rules' dictating how she was expected to behave.
The rules included no drinking with boys, no physical contact with boys, no boys on social media, no walking around without a bra, keeping her phone available at all times and avoiding tops that would 'attract attention'.
After criticising one of her outfits, he messaged her, 'I don't want my girlfriend dressing like a whore.'
Court documents reveal the full extent of the coercive control, which took place between July 2024 and April 2025.
His demands escalated to the point where she was ordered to video herself to prove she was not near any male teammates in communal accommodation.
In another incident, he told
Five teenagers who died after their car ploughed into a family on an Irish motorway had posted clips of themselves driving dangerously and evading police in the days before the crash.
The boys who died after their stolen BMW smashed into a Hyundai carrying two women in their 30s, one in their 20s and a seven-year-old child on Sunday had been 'terrorising' several communities with break-ins and car robberies over the previous fortnight.
The teenagers, aged between 15 and 18, have been named as Joey Carthy, Alex McCarthy, Jeremy O'Brien, Jack Kennedy and Kamil Pustkowski.
They died in the two-car collision on the M9, in County Kildare, on Sunday morning.
The group were suspected of multiple car thefts and burglaries, as well as other serious anti-social activities across the Kildare and Carlow regions for at least the past two weeks.
They often posted videos of themselves being chased by gardaí. One video shared before their deaths filmed the rearview mirror of a car and was captioned with the words, 'wrong way'.
In a clip posted on TikTok, Kamil Pustkowski can be seen playing loud music and shouting as he films the reflection
Gardener's World presenter Monty Don is managing to maintain lushly green surroundings at his home despite the UK facing a record-breaking drought.
As might be expected of the veteran horticulturalist, the grounds at his Herefordshire home – familiar to viewers of the long-running BBC show – are still looking healthy.
While hosepipe bans have been imposed in various parts of the country, Severn Trent Water which covers parts of Herefordshire have not done so.
Welsh Water, serving other territory in the region, has only done so in areas in Wales.
Broadcaster and writer Don, 71, has owned his property named Longmeadow, outside the market town of Leominster, with his wife Sarah since 1991 – and has lovingly curated an array of differently themed areas across the estate.
He is among the celebrities who have managed to keep their gardens looking healthily green in contrast to sprawls of parched and yellow neighbouring fields.
Rock legend Sir Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster's Essex home has appeared lush in defiance of this summer's
Reform UK has suspended prominent supporter Tim Montgomerie as a party member after he labelled Zia Yusuf a 'child'.
Sources confirmed the action was taken against the political commentator prior to the publication of a podcast episode.
Mr Montgomerie, 56, used his appearance on The Spectator's Coffee House Shots to continue his recent criticism of Mr Yusuf, saying that he 'cannot behave like a child in politics'.
He revealed that Mr Yusuf, who is Reform's home affair spokesman, did not talk to him for three months when he discovered he was involved in former Tory minister Robert Jenrick's defection to Reform.
Mr Montgomerie also agreed with recent claims that Reform leader Nigel Farage has 'fallen out of love' with Mr Yusuf.
It comes after Mr Montgomerie last week rebuked Mr Yusuf over his 'intemperate' use of social media.
He also criticised Mr Farage for skipping the formal declaration of the Clacton by-election result, which saw him re-elected to the Essex constituency.
