Author: Truth Times News Desk

Paddy Pimblett has dismissed years of speculation that Conor McGregor once tried to lure him out during a wild night in Liverpool, as the pair prepare to share the same card at UFC 329 this weekend in what will be McGregor’s first fight in five years. Paddy Pimblett has moved to shut down a long-standing rumour that Conor McGregor once showed up at his family home during a night out in Liverpool, calling the story completely untrue. The claim dates back almost a decade to McGregor’s visit to the city for the Grand National, when the Irishman arrived bare-chested in…

Ray Cowen, an 88-year-old from Blackpool, has died two days after being pushed into a parked car during a robbery outside his holiday home in Los Cristianos, Tenerife, with three suspects now arrested and police stepping up patrols amid growing concerns from local residents. A British pensioner has died after a violent struggle with muggers outside his holiday home in Tenerife, in an attack Spanish police are now investigating as robbery with violence resulting in homicide. Ray Cowen, 88, from Blackpool, was pushed against a parked car and struck his head as he fell during a confrontation with two men…

A consultant doctor who concealed a string of stalking and death threat convictions from regulators has been erased from the UK medical register, after a tribunal found he had deliberately and repeatedly lied to secure work within the NHS. Dr Salah-ud-Din Taj, who qualified from the University of the Punjab in Pakistan in 1996, has been struck off after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel found he had “intentionally misled” the General Medical Council by concealing 14 previous convictions when applying to work in the UK. The offences, which included stalking and threatening to kill, were committed in Australia, where…

Cambridge Water has announced its first hosepipe ban in three decades, affecting 350,000 customers across Cambridgeshire, as the Met Office warns temperatures could widely exceed 30C and reach as high as 36C in parts of England this month. Cambridge Water has confirmed a temporary hosepipe ban will come into force for its 350,000 customers later this month, marking the first time in 30 years the company has introduced such restrictions. The move comes as the Met Office warns temperatures will “widely exceed 30C” across the UK, with some areas of England potentially reaching 36C. The exact start date of the…

The Reverend Dr Bernard Randall has been cleared of Church of England safeguarding concerns and reached a legal settlement with Trent College, seven years after he was reported to Prevent and barred from ministry over a sermon on gender identity delivered at the Derbyshire school’s chapel. Rev Dr Bernard Randall, 53, a former Cambridge University college chaplain, is now free to preach and work in education for the first time in seven years, after an independent review found no evidence of harm caused by a sermon he delivered as chaplain of Trent College in July 2019. Supported by the Christian…

Council Speaker Julie Menin has called on the Mamdani administration to order the immediate disinfection of cooling towers across Carnegie Hill and Yorkville, as the city’s Health Department continues investigating a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that has hospitalised 21 of the 28 people infected so far. New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin is pressing the Mamdani administration to force building owners on the Upper East Side to disinfect their cooling towers, as officials work to contain a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that has already infected at least 28 residents across two Manhattan neighbourhoods. In a letter sent Wednesday to city Health…

More than 30 people were injured, with at least one in critical condition, after a bus operated by the Maryland Transit Administration crashed into a building and several vehicles in Pikesville on Wednesday, prompting a second-alarm mass casualty response and the deployment of a medevac helicopter. A mass casualty incident was declared in Pikesville, Maryland, on Wednesday after a Maryland Transit Administration bus carrying passengers crashed into a building and multiple vehicles, injuring more than 30 people. The Baltimore County Fire Department confirmed the crash occurred in the 1500 block of Reisterstown Road, with at least one victim reported in…

In an exclusive interview with Truth Times, Albania’s opposition leader hails the youth-led demonstrations as the country’s most significant uprising since the fall of communism — as he demands Prime Minister Edi Rama’s immediate resignation and alleges the authorities tried to paint the protests as antisemitic. Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha has described his country’s youth-led demonstrations as “the most important movement of the last 35 years,” ranking them alongside the uprising that brought down the communist dictatorship in the 1990s. In an exclusive interview with Truth Times, the Democratic Party (DP) chief demanded that Prime Minister Edi Rama, whom…

Prince Harry has arrived in Britain without Meghan or their children after Buckingham Palace withdrew an offer of accommodation at the eleventh hour, plunging his week-long visit into fresh turmoil just as King Charles was pictured climbing aboard an Army tank in Dorset. Prince Harry’s spokesperson has confirmed the Duke of Sussex has arrived in the UK, though not in the circumstances his team had hoped for. The 41-year-old had been due to stay at Buckingham Palace during his visit, but was told at the weekend that the accommodation was no longer available after he took too long to accept…

Romanian prosecutors have filed a fresh indictment against Andrew and Tristan Tate alleging they made over £1.1million by trafficking a then 17-year-old girl into their webcam pornography business, adding to a growing list of criminal proceedings the brothers face in both Romania and the UK. Romania’s directorate for investigating organised crime and terrorism (DIICOT) has brought new criminal charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate, alleging the pair earned more than £1.1million by trafficking a teenage girl into their webcam sex business. The latest indictment, covering an alleged offending period stretching from 2014 to 2025, forms a separate criminal case from…