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Twitter has applied temporary daily reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk has said. In a tweet, Musk said verified accounts have been temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day. Unverified Twitter accounts have been limited to reading 600 posts a day, while new unverified accounts can

One of Britain’s most senior boardroom figures is to replace John Allan at the helm of Tesco. Sky News can exclusively reveal that Gerry Murphy, the chairman of Burberry and Tate & Lyle, has been chosen to replace Mr Allan, whose recent departure was hastened by a series of personal misconduct allegations. Sources said Dr

Households will pay less for their gas and electricity from today but bills will still be almost double what they were before the energy crisis. The average household energy bill will fall by £426 a year from 1 July after Ofgem dropped its price cap following tumbling wholesale prices. People had been advised to submit

A hospital patient who murdered a great-grandmother being treated on the same ward has been jailed. Philomena Wilson, also known as Brenda, 56, launched an unprovoked attack on great-grandmother Vidya Kaur, 83, at Birmingham’s City Hospital on the morning of 21 January 2021. Wilson repeatedly punched Mrs Kaur and banged her head on the floor,

Love Island winners Ekin-Su Culculoglu and Davide Sanclimenti have broken up – after less than a year together. The couple won the popular ITV reality dating show in August 2022 and became fan favourites after securing nearly two-thirds of the public vote. Sanclimenti shared the news of the split on Thursday on his Instagram story

King Charles will be presented with a new sword named after the late Queen when he receives Scotland’s crown jewels at a special ceremony next week. The Elizabeth Sword will officially be given to the King along with the Honours of Scotland at a National Service of Thanksgiving at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on

Millions of Britons are being given a chance to work down under after Australia extended its working holiday visa age limit. A long-awaited amendment coming into force on Saturday, 1 July, will see the work visa offered to people aged 18-35 – a five-year increase on the original limit of 30. It is the first

Shorter medical degrees, apprenticeships, and £2.4bn in funding are among the radical plans being put forward to solve NHS England’s severe staffing crisis. The long-awaited NHS workforce plan is due to be published in full on Friday, outlining how the service will address existing vacancies and meet the challenges of a growing and ageing population.

England cricket stars lit up day two of the Ashes as they wore “Red for Ruth” – in support of the cancer charity set up by former England captain Sir Andrew Strauss to honour his late wife. Sir Andrew was dressed head to toe in the colour at the Lord’s cricket ground for the annual

An inquiry into undercover police operations into activist groups has concluded the deployments were unjustified and would have been “brought to a rapid end” if the public had known what was going on. Retired judge Sir John Mitting, the inquiry’s chair, is examining the conduct of 139 undercover officers who spied on more than 1,000

Campaigners and asylum seekers have won a Court of Appeal challenge over the government’s planned Rwanda deportation scheme. Three judges have overturned a High Court ruling that previously said the east African nation could be considered a “safe third country” for migrants to be sent to. It is the latest court verdict in a long-running

The second Ashes Test between England and Australia at Lord’s has been disrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters. Two protesters ran on to the pitch and threw orange powder, before England cricketer Jonny Bairstow picked one of them up and carried him off the pitch. The protesters were wearing Just Stop Oil t-shirts. Another protester

Struggling households are being preyed on by loan sharks, new research has found. One in 14 people (7%) said they – or someone else in their household – has borrowed from an unlicensed or unauthorised informal money lender who charges interest in the past three years, according to a survey for non-profit organisation Fair4All Finance.

We could be eating “hyper-personalised” diets which are “fully bespoke to your individual nutritional needs” within the next 20 years, a report is predicting. Breathing on a smartphone could help to determine what is healthy, and a takeaways might be tasted virtually prior to ordering, it is being suggested. Something dubbed BreathTech could be developed,

Police are appealing for information after a sheep was shot with an arrow in South Wales. The animal was discovered with the arrow in its chest on a mountain road at around 11am on Sunday, between Markham in Caerphilly county and Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent. The injured sheep is now recovering after the arrow was

A police station has been closed and cordoned off after a suspected Second World War hand grenade was handed in at the front desk. Malinsgate police station in Telford, Shropshire, and the road outside remains closed on Tuesday, with a 50-metre cordon in place around the building. West Mercia Police said the device was handed

Police have launched an investigation into the “unexplained” death of a man in Glasgow. Officers were called to a flat in the city’s Glenisla Street shortly after 5pm on Sunday following a report about a seriously injured man. A 50-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The man has been named locally as Stuart

Manchester United have raised their forecasts for annual revenue and profit, weeks after the club secured its place in next season’s Champions League. The club, which is seven months into a sale process, said stronger commercial and matchday revenue over the last season was tipped to push total revenue to a record between £630m-£640m in

Nurses’ strikes are set to end in England after the profession’s largest union failed to secure enough votes to carry out further action. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) had planned to stage more walk-outs after its members rejected a pay offer from the government last month. However, unions have to hold ballots every six

A body has been found in the search for missing 31-year-old Sarah Henshaw in Derbyshire. It was discovered just after midnight in a layby off the A617, close to junction 29 of the M1, and police say they believe it is Sarah. Her family has been told and is being supported by specialist officers. Ms