Author: Truth Times News Desk

Leicester starlet, 16, set for £12.5m switch after Maresca reunion turns his head at the last minute Manchester City have beaten Arsenal to the signing of highly-rated Leicester teenager Jeremy Monga, hijacking a deal the Gunners had believed was close to completion. Arsenal had been in talks over a move for the 16-year-old and had expressed confidence last month that a transfer to north London was on track. However, City entered the race this week, ultimately winning over the player before agreeing terms with Leicester for his transfer, according to the Standard. The Athletic reports that the deal is worth…

PM-in-waiting tells Scottish Labour MPs another referendum is ‘not something’ he will consider, despite backing more devolution.Andy Burnham has told Scottish Labour MPs that he will not consider granting a second referendum on Scottish independence, according to the Mail on Sunday. The prime minister-in-waiting, who is widely tipped to succeed Sir Keir Starmer, made his position clear during a meeting with around 25 of Labour’s 36 Scottish MPs in Westminster on Wednesday afternoon. Sources present told the Mail on Sunday that Burnham was firm in ruling out another constitutional vote, despite his recent public support for extending devolution elsewhere in…

Knee problem ends comeback bid alongside sister Venus after days of confusion over scheduling.Serena Williams has withdrawn from the Wimbledon women’s doubles alongside her sister Venus, after being unable to recover from a knee injury sustained during her first-round singles defeat. The 44-year-old had been due to compete in both singles and doubles at the tournament, marking her first appearance at Wimbledon in four years. However, her participation was thrown into doubt after she lost her first-round singles match to Maya Joint 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 on Centre Court, and then failed to appear at her scheduled post-match press conference. The…

Duke of Sussex decides it is not safe to bring family after police protection request is turned down Meghan Markle will not accompany Prince Harry to London next week, along with their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, after a request for police protection during the visit was refused, Truth Times understands. The decision comes despite hopes that the trip might have provided an opportunity for the children to reunite with their grandfather, King Charles III, who has not seen them in person since 2022. The King is understood to have been keen for the visit to go ahead. According…

Hit-and-run mars historic World Cup night as Edgware Road erupts into scenes of disorder.A driver failed to stop after their car struck a pedestrian on Edgware Road in London on Friday night, during scenes of mass celebration following Egypt’s historic World Cup victory over Australia. Footage from the scene showed a grey 4×4 driving through a crowd of fans, many wearing Egypt shirts, before colliding with a man carrying a backpack as he crossed the road. He was left sitting motionless in the street. Rather than stopping, the car continued on its way, prompting bystanders to run to the injured…

Banned substance found in players’ samples linked to contaminated Mexican meat, as England fly in own chefs for last-16 tie Eight Tunisia players returned positive doping tests during a turbulent World Cup campaign, though officials believe contaminated meat eaten by the squad in Mexico is the likely cause rather than deliberate doping, according to Truth Times. The North African side, whose tournament had already been marked by chaos on and off the pitch, saw the players — including some based in the UK — return so-called atypical findings for clenbuterol, a substance that relaxes the airways and features on the…

French police investigate after viral listings raise fears — but platform insists no evidence of trafficking has been found A wave of unsettling listings on the second-hand marketplace Vinted has prompted French police to investigate whether the platform is being exploited by child traffickers, though the company itself says it has found no credible evidence to support the claim. The question has gripped social media in recent weeks, after users began noticing resale adverts for children’s toys priced at extraordinary sums and worded in ways many interpreted as sexually coded. Screenshots of the listings were compiled into videos by content…

CCTV footage of Kaushambi blaze goes viral days after driver and toll workers killed.Four people have died after a liquefied petroleum gas tanker crashed and burst into flames near a toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district, according to Indian media reports. The accident happened on the morning of 26 June, when the tanker, travelling from Kanpur towards Varanasi, is reported to have lost control and struck a road divider. The impact caused a gas leak, which quickly ignited into a large fire that engulfed the surrounding toll plaza area, reports said. The tanker driver, named as Dharmendra Dwivedi and…

Britain’s elite Special Boat Service has barred Chinese-made electric vehicles from its headquarters in Poole, Dorset, in what is believed to be the first confirmed case of a special forces base blocking such vehicles on security grounds — as it emerges the ban is part of a far wider pattern of restrictions across UK military sites. The decision reflects growing alarm within the defence establishment that the sophisticated sensor arrays fitted to modern electric vehicles — including high-definition cameras, radar systems, ultrasonic detectors and laser-based mapping technology — could be exploited by Beijing to gather intelligence on sensitive installations. Under…

Two Metropolitan Police officers tracked down a local photographer to a pub in Chiswick and warned him he was close to committing a criminal offence over tweets criticising a Green Party councillor — despite repeatedly acknowledging throughout the confrontation that no crime had actually been committed. Alastair Hilton was celebrating with a friend at The Bell and Crown in Strand-on-the-Green on Thursday evening, marking a community victory after Hounslow Council backed down from ordering three historic Thames-side pubs to remove all outdoor seating, when uniformed officers approached him and asked him to step outside. What followed was a 12-minute exchange…