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Three women whose bodies were recovered from the sea off Brighton beach have been named for the first time as sisters Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walter, 32, and Rebecca Walter, 31, from the Uxbridge area of London. The three sisters have been described as “my joy, my strength, and the beautiful light that filled our family with happiness and love” in a tribute by their father Joseph.
Caption: BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – MAY 13: Search and rescue vehicles seen in Black Rock car park on May 13, 2026 in Brighton, England. Police say the bodies of three women have been recovered from the sea in Brighton, after emergency services received calls for their welfare around 5:45 this morning. Police are working to identify the women and investigate the circumstances of their deaths.
Emergency services were called to the beach near Black Rock car park off Madeira Drive at about 5.45am last Wednesday to a report of a person in the water. Sussex Police said: “The investigation to understand how Jane, Christina and Rebecca came to be in the water is ongoing.
At this time, there is no evidence to suggest third-party involvement or criminality, but specialist detectives are working hard to gather the full facts and circumstances of their deaths. ” Caption: BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – MAY 13: Police guard the beach after the bodies were found on May 13, 2026 in Brighton, England. Police say the bodies of three women have been recovered from the sea in Brighton, after emergency services received calls for their welfare around 5:45 this morning.
Police are working to identify the women and investigate the circumstances of their deaths. Caption: File photo dated 14/05/2026 of A fan in Camouflage. Southampton have been expelled from the Championship play-offs in relation to spying charges, the EFL has announced. Issue date: Tuesday May 19, 2026.
PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire. Southampton FC have been expelled from the Championship play-off final after admitting to spying on three opponents, including play-off rivals Middlesbrough. It denies the Saints a chance at Premier League promotion, estimated to be worth £200m – unless the club can overturn the punishment on appeal.
Southampton admitted to unauthorised filming of opponents’ training ahead of games against Oxford, Ipswich and play-off semi-final opponents Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough will now take Southampton’s place in Saturday’s Championship play-off final against Hull City. Southampton’s appeal will be heard later on Wednesday. So the date and make-up of the final could still change.
The club is said to be “shocked and flabbergasted” by the verdict and believes it can get the expulsion overturned. Middlesbrough , having made the formal complaint to the EFL, said it was now “focused” on the play-off final against Hull City. , who finished just short of the playoff places, are monitoring the situation. The club won’t make a decision on possible legal action until after the appeal.
Southampton have been kicked out of the Championship playoffs after being found guilty of spying on semi-final opponents Middlesbrough, the English Football League said on Tuesday. Middlesbrough, who lost 2-1 to Southampton in the two-legged semi-final, have been reinstated and will now face Hull City on Saturday in what is dubbed the world’s richest soccer match. Promotion to the Premier League is estimated to be worth in the region of 200 million pounds over three seasons.
Senior woman, hot and fan at house for heatwave, air conditioning and menopause symptoms. Elderly person, sweat and electric appliance for cool breeze, warm weather and relief from hormonal condition – stock photo. The Government must create maximum temperature rules for workplaces and roll out air conditioning in hospitals and care homes to protect against climate change, advisers have urged.
Ministers should also consider changing the school year so pupils are not forced to sit exams in summer heat, said the Climate Change Committee . The CCC has recommended maximum temperature regulations to protect workers from excess heat by encouraging companies to install cooling technology. The committee wants cooling measures in all hospitals and care homes by 2035 and schools by 2050 – ranging from shading to air conditioning.
The CCC pointed to Spain, where the peak legal working temp indoors is 27°C for office jobs and 25°C for light physical work. Baroness Brown, chair of the CCC’s adaptation committee, suggested changing the school year so that pupils would not have to sit exams during summer. Caption: EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23 Undated file photo of students sitting an exam.
A-levels should be reformed so pupils study a humanities subject, mathematics and a foreign language until the end of schooling to tackle a decline in humanities enrolments at universities, a report suggests. Issue date: Thursday September 23, 2021. PA Photo. Requiring maths to be studied would improve the numerical abilities of humanities graduates and boost their employment prospects, according to a paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute.
See PA story EDUCATION Humanities . Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA WireWithout adaptations, heatwaves could lead to as many as 10,000 excess deaths a year, the CCC added. Need to adaptThe beleaguered Labour leader used the first PMQs since local election losses to announce the postponement of a planned 5p increase in fuel duty.
Caption: : Sir Keir Starmer faces his first Commons grilling since the resignation of his health secretary and the by-election candidacy of potential leadership challenger Andy Burnham placed further pressure on his premiership. Badenoch also accused Starmer of “choosing to buy dirty Russian oil”. She claimed that Labour was easing sanctions on crude oil from Moscow. Starmer insisted that the sanctions remain in place and that new ones were being phased in.
Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on May 20, 2026, to take part in the weekly session of ‘Prime Minister’s Questions’ . Starmer announced that the fuel duty freeze will be extended for the rest of the year, rather than increase by 5p in September as planned.
The Prime Minister refused to rule out further aid budget cuts amid the Ebola outbreak following a question from Lib Dem leader Ed Davey. The Labour leader, a big Arsenal FC fan, congratulated the Gunners on becoming the Premier League champions. He also joked about “one of Manchester’s great heroes moving on” – an apparent reference to Mayor Andy Burnham, who will be running for Parliament.
But Starmer added: “So let me congratulate Pep Guardiola on all his success at Manchester City”, after his reported departure. A chicken has been born using an artificial egg for the first time. The US firm behind the breakthrough says it will help them resurrect an extinct New Zealand bird. Caption: This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows the embryo of a chick developing inside an artificial environment.
Caption: This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a chick hatched from an artificial environment. Colossal Biosciences was able to remove a chicken embryo from a real egg. Scientists were then able to incubate the embryo in an artificial egg until it hatched. Colossal Biosciences aims to use the breakthrough to resurrect the New Zealand moa bird – a species with giant eggs made extinct between 1380 and 1445AD.
Caption: This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows Romulus and Remus, both 3-months old and genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. The first Homo sapiens in Europe hunted woolly mammoths – and used their tusk and bone for decorative purposes The artificial chicken egg is a “major milestone” in efforts to develop a “de-extinction toolkit,” claimed CEO Ben Lamm.
The biotech billionaire claims to have already “de-extincted” dire wolves, and says he wants to bring back the woolly mammoth. Some scientists are impressed by the breakthrough. Dr Megan Davey at The Roslin Institute called it a “major step” and could protect “egg-laying endangered species”. But some scientists are sceptical.
Dr Louise Johnson, genetics expert at Reading University, said until there was a peer-reviewed paper, she “might as well give expert commentary on a YouTube ad”. One third of us are deficient in Vitamin D over winter, when British sunshine is too weak for our skin to manufacture it, say health experts. Even in summer, many people spend too much time indoors for the vital nutrients to reach adequate levels in the body.
“It’s shocking what the average vitamin D level is,” said nutrition expert Professor Cathie Martin on low levels in the UK. GPs offer a blood test for vitamin D levels if people have symptoms like bone pain or muscle weakness, or if they are in high-risk groups. But excessive levels of vitamin D can also be dangerous, leading to high blood calcium levels. So people should follow GPs’ advice.
Pregnant woman huging her son boy in arms in kitchen at home – stock photo. A study published this week in JAMA Network Open suggests that if pregnant women take high-dose Vitamin D supplements, their children could turn out smarter. Another new study, published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, has found that Vitamin D may help reduce post-operative pain.
Vitamin D receptors are found in immune cells, and research indicates that it helps us fight infections. It may also help ward off dementia. People with lower levels of Vitamin D in the blood have a higher risk of dementia. One trial found that taking Vitamin D cut people’s chances of developing autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Vladimir Putin is hoping to boost Russia’s energy ties with China as he attends talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The leaders are also set to discuss the Iran crisis. Russian President Vladimir Putin walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Beijing is already the single biggest buyer of Russian oil.
A 2,600 km pipeline would deliver 50 billion cubic meters of gas each year from Russia’s Yamal fields to China. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that an “understanding” had been reached, though details need to be finalised, according to state media outlet RIA Novosti. Caption: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China May 20, 2026.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/PoolPutin called Jinping a “dear friend” as the two leaders met at the start of the summit on Wednesday, according to state media outlet TASS.
‘President Xi Jinping appears to have been studying King Charles’s royal playbook when dealing with Donald Trump’ In an apparent criticism of Donald Trump over Iran, Jinping said “unilateral hegemony” was “running rampant”. It follows his meeting with Trump in Beijing last week. Donald Trump says relations with China will be “better than ever before” as he meets Xi Jinping in Beijing.
The summit is focused on trade deals and maintaining a fragile truce between the world’s two biggest economies during Trump’s first China visit since 2017. Caption: Customers prepare to load their shopping in to a car outside a supermarket in Chelmsford, UK, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. UK??inflation??held at an 11-month low before the war in Iran sent petrol costs soaring and threatened to deliver another shock to household finances.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Government “must focus on how it will reduce the public policy costs which are pushing up food prices”, the British Retail Consortium has said after reports that the Treasury asked supermarkets to limit food prices in return for the lifting of some regulations. The proposals would see shops voluntarily cap the prices of essential groceries such as eggs, bread and milk, according toThe Treasury has said it would, in return, offer supermarkets “incentives” that may include easing packaging policies and delaying potentially costly changes to healthy food rules, the newspaper said.
Rather than introduce 1970s style price controls and trying to force retailers to sell goods at a loss, the Government must focus on how it will reduce the public policy costs which are pushing up food prices in the first place. A spokesperson for the Treasury said: “The Chancellor has been clear we want to do more to help keep costs down for families, and will set out more detail in due course.
”The Government has also recommended supermarkets reinvest the savings from the regulation changes to freeze grocery prices, it added. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Tuesday told an aid summit of the risk of “sleepwalking into a global food crisis” as a result of Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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