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The funeral industry in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is self-regulating, relying on voluntary codes and inspections by trade associations. Anyone can set up as a funeral director without formal training, registration or mandatory oversight. Bush himself highlighted the lack of regulation during his interviews with Humberside Police. In footage …

Bev Craig succeeds Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester’s mayor, but what do we know about her? Source link

The crossing of 60,000 migrants into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco is featured prominently across Saturday’s papers. Source link

Labour’s Bev Craig will succeed Andy Burnham as the new Mayor of Greater Manchester. After no candidate secured outright victory in the first round by winning more than half of the vote, Craig beat Reform UK’s Sian Astley by 309,525 to 157,178 after second-preference votes were added. The by-election for …

The prime minister can wax lyrical about this system all he likes, but devolution means he only oversees this area of policy in England. And the Scottish government doesn’t want to shake up councils north of the border. This week Burnham announced plans to give English mayors a share of …

The Hundred men’s competition, Old Trafford Manchester Super Giants 137-3 (100 balls): Buttler 55* (37); Overton 3-23 Trent Rockets 140-4 (87 balls): Allen 72 (35); Atkinson 2-27 Trent Rockets won by six wickets Scorecard. Table Finn Allen struck an unbeaten 72 as Trent Rockets beat Manchester Super Giants by six …

A controlling and abusive husband who stabbed his wife 40 times after she told him she wanted a divorce has been jailed for life. Syed Rafay Ahmad, 45, attacked Anam Rafay, 36, with a kitchen knife in their home in Lulworth Gardens in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester on the …

Mathieson added the force has also received calls from people asking for help removing injured birds and small mammals from their gardens. “We’ve had some calls where people want assistance in moving large items such as furniture, complaints about poor services, such as cold food at a restaurant,” he said. …

A chartered engineer for decades, Halsall has laid out the three main points on which he wanted to focus. “I’ve spoken to loads of customers and the plan is clear – when they turn on their taps we need to make sure water comes out. “We also need to make …

The council said flags had been placed on or near public roads without permission for months, despite a formal legal notice in March and pre-action legal letters sent to individuals in May. Following the hearing in June, three people associated with the Raise The Colours group – Ben Cullen, Trudy …

Two men who piloted overcrowded small boats have been jailed for endangering others while crossing the Channel. Omar Heidari, a 34-year-old Afghan national who steered a dinghy carrying 95 people to the UK in June, has been jailed for two years. Manas Yuk, an 18-year-old Sudanese national, was sentenced to …

Liverpool city council has asked BT to pause plans to move 600 jobs out of the city. The telecom firm said part of the reason for the decision was an increase in lease renewal costs at its offices on Old Hall Street and added that it was part of a …

A pair of metal detectorists have been hailed as “heroes” after helping a newly-married couple find their lost rings on a beach. Sarah Stone and Logan Mills thought the rings, which were family heirlooms, were “gone forever” after they lost them at Embleton Bay in Northumberland while swimming on their …

A former boxer has been jailed after killing a grandfather with one punch during a “chance encounter” at a park in Leicester. Joshua Moore was riding a quad bike with a young child when he confronted 62-year-old James McKeown as he walked home from a pub through Beaumont Leys Park …

Senior district prosecutor, Rachael Scott, said the attack was “truly horrific”. “Danny suffered the most horrific injuries having endured 10 operations and losing the sight in his eye,” she said. “It was a orchestrated, you could almost say, an execution of Danny because of this outstanding drug debt.” Norton said …

A landmark review into young people’s gender care, written by Baroness Hilary Cass, was published in 2024. The government then banned the use of puberty blocking drugs in children’s gender care across the UK. The drugs can pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast development and voice deepening. …

Ron Marsh said he had contacted Legacy Independent Funeral Directors when his mother Joyce Moulton died in September 2023, aged 98. He said Bush was professional and the service he organised was “excellent”, but the family never received her ashes, with attempts to contact Legacy going unanswered. In March 2024, …

July looks like it will be one of the warmest on record for much of the UK. The Met Office’s provisional statistics up to 30 July show Wales on course for it warmest July for mean temperature, which is the average across each 24-hour period. By the same measure, England …

A figure of a football-pitch streaker has been removed from a model village after complaints it was inappropriate. The streaker – a figure of a shirtless woman in jeans dashing onto a pitch and interrupting a football match – was part of Godshill Model Village, on the Isle of Wight, …

A man who died after an alleged assault in Turkey was a “devoted” father who “touched countless lives”, his family said. Scot James, 34, from Maesteg, Bridgend county, died in hospital on Sunday after the incident earlier in July. Turkish authorities are investigating, with support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and …