A serving Police Scotland officer has been handed a six-month community payback order for indecent communications with a child. Cameron Fraser, 28, was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in Fife last month. The force’s professional standards department will now begin proceedings for gross misconduct. Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison said: “Fraser’s
Since 1992 the Premier League has been funnelling previously unimagined wealth to the elite players, coaches and clubs of English football. For almost as long as it has existed, however, those running the league have battled to maintain the commercial and competitive balance on which its success is based. Competition is its essence, predictability a
A man has been arrested on suspicion of a sexual offence after a flight to Ibiza had to be diverted. The Jet2 Edinburgh to Ibiza flight was diverted to Bristol Airport on Tuesday morning after the crew raised concerns about a passenger, who subsequently received medical treatment upon landing. Avon and Somerset Police said information
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. Apu Gomes | Getty Images Australia on Wednesday announced it had dropped its legal battle against Elon Musk’s X to have graphic footage
Manchester City are taking legal action against the Premier League over its financial rules. The legal challenge, in the form of arbitration, will be heard on Monday, according to The Times. Sky News reported in February the competition was facing legal battles and had been warned by a club that changes to rules governing commercial
A World Cup skier and his girlfriend died when they fell about 2,300ft in a mountain accident in Italy, according to local media. Jean Daniel Pession, a 28-year-old member of the Italian national speed skiing team, and Elisa Arlian, a 26-year-old ski instructor and school teacher, died “in a tragic mountain accident,” a news release
Intel wants to regain its position as the world’s leading chipmaker, CEO Pat Gelsinger said, after being overtaken by rivals TSMC and Samsung in recent years. “We want to build everybody’s chips, everybody’s AI chips. We want them to be built leveraging the U.S. factories,” Gelsinger told CNBC on the sidelines of the Computex tech
Donald Trump has claimed “it’s very possible” that his political opponents may face prosecution after he became the first former US president to be criminally convicted. Trump seemed to raise the prospect of it happening if he became president again during an interview with conservative US outlet Newsmax. The 77-year-old said: “It’s a terrible precedent
Wales’s first minister Vaughan Gething is set to face a motion of no confidence on Wednesday. After serving as both health and economy minister, Mr Gething made history in March after he was elected the first black leader of a European nation. He has faced a turbulent first couple of months in office and a
Amid the roar of gunfire and the shouts and screams of soldiers as they ran up the beaches of Normandy, there was another sound: the keening cry of bagpipes. The noise of war was everywhere. Explosions rent the air at every moment, the rattle of machine guns firing down at Allied troops rang out along
As dawn breaks on a new era in American immigration policy, a young boy peels and eats a clementine in the gap between the border fence that separates the United States and Mexico. A teenage girl wraps herself in a silver thermal blanket and a man passes his mobile phone through the metal slats in
The King, Queen and Prince of Wales will join veterans in Portsmouth today as major events begin in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with the 1944 battle laying the foundation for an Allied victory. Allied troops departed from Portsmouth
Eli Lederman Jun 4, 2024, 06:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Alabama‘s future at the quarterback position became clearer Tuesday when dual-threat Keelon Russell, ESPN’s No. 81 recruit in the 2025 class and the No. 15 prospect from Texas, flipped from SMU and announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. Russell’s commitment marks Alabama’s first
Image: SPAN Tesla Energy and smart electrical panel maker SPAN have launched the SPAN + Tesla Powerwall 3 bundle, a smart home battery backup system. SPAN announced the partnership on LinkedIn and described the bundle as unlocking “special bundled pricing and next-level functionality for the most advanced home energy management technology on the market, including
Both the Starmer and Sunak campaigns agree: the first head-to-head of the election campaign was – in many ways – a difficult watch. The two men have spent a fortnight on the campaign trail attacking one another from hundreds of miles apart. It was undoubtedly snippy. Suddenly they were together in a room, able to
If you’ve been eyeing Porsche’s all-electric Taycan, now may be your chance to start shopping. Porsche is offering up to $4,500 off the Taycan EV for those financing or leasing a competitive vehicle, including Tesla. After launching the Taycan in 2019, Porsche’s first all-electric sports car is already five years old. Porsche introduced the new
Mercedes and Stellantis have stopped work on their joint European EV battery factory projects, and are reassessing which direction to move forward with the possibility of shifting to cheaper lithium iron phosphate cells. Mercedes and Stellantis first partnered to form a battery cell joint venture in 2021, calling the venture the Automotive Cells Company (ACC).
Open Extended Reactions The 2024 NBA Finals get underway Thursday with the Boston Celtics hosting the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of what’s expected to be a close, hard-fought series. Which bets stand out in the Finals? Here are the series and prop bets our experts Andre Snellings, Eric Moody, Tyler Fulghum, Steve Alexander and
Tesla has hired a long-time GEICO executive to help lower the insurance costs for its electric vehicles. For years, Tesla has tried to deploy its own and partnered insurance products in order to address the generally high insurance costs that its owners have to pay. The automaker has managed to reduce the cost of its
Joe Biden is set to close the border with Mexico under a new executive order clamping down on asylum seekers. Signed on Tuesday, the order allows the US to suspend entry of non-citizens crossing from Mexico once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between official ports of entry. A senior administration official said