Lexi Crosbie was five days old when she went to her first ever banger race. “I grew up around the track,” the 14-year-old says. At nine, her racer dad gave her a chance at the Micro F2s, the junior league, and Crosbie has been racing ever since. “You’re so filled with adrenaline,” she says of…
Jul 14, 2026, 09:00 AM ET After a long, accomplished ride, Justin Verlander’s career is finally coming to a close. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Last Wednesday, Verlander announced that this current season, his 21st in the major leagues, would be his final campaign. The three-time Cy Young winner and 2011 American League MVP will play…
The scramble to buy PPE during the pandemic saw the UK waste almost £10 billion of taxpayers’ money, the inquiry says, with tens of millions of pounds more spent on other equipment that simply could not be used. The chair Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the “vast” waste in pandemic procurement, amounting to two-thirds of the…
Astronomers have described their discovery of four new hidden white dwarf stars “local” to Earth as a “surprise”. The University of Warwick team used the Hubble Space Telescope to pinpoint the small, dim stars orbiting in double systems within 65 light years of Earth. The four white dwarf stars in this “nearby region” of space…
The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayers’ money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said. The chair Baroness Hallett criticised the “vast” waste in procurement, put at £9.9bn…
The mother of a 16-year-old girl who died at an Essex mental health unit has made a direct appeal to the chair of a public inquiry, saying: “Don’t let the blood be on your hands – you can change things.” Victoria Sebastian was giving evidence to the Lampard Inquiry in London, which is examining the…
Parents are being encouraged to donate unwanted school uniforms and prom outfits and swap them for something else, or take what they need for free, at a new pop-up event. Peterborough City Council said the pop-up shop would be open on 31 July on Bridge Street, next to the Town Hall. It said the event…
Phone alarms are what get teaching assistant Layla through her day. She has four alarms to wake up, one to get dressed, another to pack her work bag, and so on. “There’s a million different ones. Different times of the day,” says the 30-year-old as she scrolls through the alerts on her phone. “It feels…
A crowd of more than 100,000, an open-top bus parade and a royal reception welcomed back the Norwegian World Cup squad. Published On 13 Jul 202613 Jul 2026 More than 100,000 fans flooded the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, to give their football team a heroes’ welcome, turning the heartbreak of their FIFA World…
The charity said figures from the Baby Bank Alliance showed baby banks in the UK supported more than 400,000 children in 2025. In the same year, Faces BabyBank handed out 36,400 items of children’s clothing, 54,080 nappies, 536 tubs of formula milk, 298 newborn starter packs and 3,768 books and toys. It has also given…
