Tesco has apologised after a promotional stand advertising a chance to meet the England women’s football team was put up at a store in Cardiff. Customers were shocked to see a Lucozade display featuring the Lionesses front and centre of the store’s entrance at Western Avenue, just weeks before Wales face England at Euro 2025...
Sabalenka, a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, has lost both of the major finals she has reached this year. She lost to Madison Keys in the Australian Open final, where she was two-time defending champion, before the defeat by Gauff. She committed 70 unforced errors against Gauff, one of the best defenders on the women’s...
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Getty Images NatWest has apologised after customers were left unable to use its mobile banking app in the UK, preventing some from accessing their bank accounts. More than 3,000 people have reported problems on outage-checking site Downdetector since the issues first emerged at 0910 GMT. The firm said on its service...
Khelif had been set to make a competitive comeback in Eindhoven from 5-10 June. But on Friday, World Boxing said mandatory sex testing would be introduced next month “to ensure the safety of all participants and deliver a competitive level playing field for men and women.” It added: “In light of plans to introduce this...
Home Office Minister Jess Phillips has apologised to MPs for a delay to the publication of a report on grooming gangs. In January, the government asked Baroness Louise Casey to lead a “rapid” three-month audit into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse. Speaking in the House of...
Elliot Ball BBC News, South West Victoria Graham BBC Spotlight presenter BBC Susan Davy said she had sleepless nights during Brixham’s cryptosporidium outbreak The boss of South West Water (SWW) has said she unreservedly apologises for a parasite outbreak in south Devon a year ago. In an interview with the BBC, Pennon Group CEO Susan...
Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent Reuters France’s former interior minister has apologised for the first time for the 2022 fiasco at the Stade de France which saw Liverpool football supporters wrongly blamed for a riot. Gérald Darmanin admitted that security arrangements for the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid were wrong, and that his...
Three successive wins against Derby County, Bristol City and Coventry City in the second half of April had revived Luton’s hopes of staying up. Before that run they were second bottom. Coming out of it they were outside of the relegation zone by a point with their fate in their hands on the season’s last...
Harvard University President Alan Garber has apologised following the release of internal reports into antisemitic and anti-Muslim prejudice at America’s oldest university. The reports included testimony from students who described feeling alienated and pressured to conceal their identity from their peers and educators. In response to the findings, Harvard pledged to review its academic offerings...
Ian Youngs Culture reporter EPA Kary Perry bore the brunt of the ridicule after the flight Lily Allen has apologised to Katy Perry for “being mean” about her when she joined in the backlash against the recent space flight carrying the US singer. “There was actually no need for me to bring her name into...
Former England striker Eni Aluko has apologised to Ian Wright for suggesting he risked blocking female pundits from getting opportunities in broadcasting. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Aluko said there are only a “finite amount of opportunities” for women and that Wright needs to take notice of how much work he...
Leicester City captain Jamie Vardy has described his club’s season as “miserable” and a “total embarrassment” after their relegation from the Premier League. Leicester’s 1-0 defeat by Liverpool on Sunday confirmed an immediate return to the Championship, meaning they have been relegated from the top flight in two of the past three seasons. “No words...
Ocado has apologised “unreservedly” to Mumsnet for citing “hateful political views” when it pulled out of a commercial partnership over the parenting forum’s stance on the definition of sex in the Equality Act. Founder Justine Roberts said Ocado “abruptly pulled out” of the partnership after Mumsnet called at the last election for the act to...
YouTuber MrBeast has issued an apology after his ‘MrBeast Experience’ at a Las Vegas resort did not live up to the billing. MrBeast, with more than 385 million subscribers, said the event “definitely isn’t the experience we hoped they’d deliver” and promised to make it up by inviting everyone affected to his studio. The event...
Duncan Cook BBC News, Gloucestershire Tess de la Mare BBC News, West of England Getty/Bloomberg The Nippy Chippy in Gloucestershire explained price rises were down to a increase in fish costs A chip shop has apologised to customers for putting up prices after seeing the cost of fish surge by more than 60% in just...