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Chloe Hayward & Hugh PymBBC NewsAmyAmy has had multiple emergency ambulance callouts this yearAs a child, Amy was often violently attacked. At 15, she was threatened with a knife. Now diagnosed with complex PTSD, she’s spent over a decade isolated at home with her mum, desperately seeking help. She has seen a psychiatrist only once.”I was self harming and felt suicidal and didn’t want to be alive anymore,” says Amy, who’s stuck on the long waiting list for NHS mental health treatment.She has bounced up and down the list for years despite being known by crisis teams at her local…

The Slovenia striker was also a target for Newcastle United, having scored 39 times in two years for RB Leipzig.Manchester United have signed Slovenia striker Benjamin Sesko from Germany’s RB Leipzig on a contract until 2030, the Premier League club have announced.The transfer fee is 76.5 million euros ($89m) with 8.5 million euros ($9.9m) in bonuses.The 22-year-old, who joined Leipzig from the Austrian club RB Salzburg in 2023, scored 39 goals in 87 appearances across all competitions for the German side.“The history of Manchester United is obviously very special, but what really excites me is the future,” Sesko said, upon…

Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot of fuss. Microsoft Lens was that type of app: a mobile document scanner that turned paper documents, business cards, receipts, and anything else into easily readable digital files. Now that app is being discontinued, Microsoft says, as it directs its users to its Copilot AI chat app instead. According to a new support document, Lens will be retired from iOS and Android devices starting on September 15, 2025, then removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play on November 15, 2025. Existing users…

With US and Russian leaders set to meet in Alaska next week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns deals without his country will not bring peace.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out Ukraine ceding land to Russia and demanded his country take part in negotiations in comments made before planned talks between the leaders of Russia and the United States.In a video shared on social media on Saturday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready for “real decisions” that could bring a “dignified peace” but stressed there could be no violation of the constitution on territorial issues.“Ukrainians will not gift their land to the…

A bus carrying mourners from a funeral has crashed in western Kenya, killing 25 people, local authorities say. The driver lost control, veered off the road and overturned into a ditch along the Kisumu-Kakamega Highway on Friday afternoon, a police report seen by the BBC says. This area is notorious for many deadly accidents.Police said 10 women, 10 men and one girl died at the scene, with 20 passengers injured, five of them seriously. Four people later died in hospital, officials said.The passengers were returning from a burial ground and are all believed to be from one family.The cause of…

241 Kericho County’s political tensions have escalated after Members of County Assembly (MCAs) accused Governor Erick Mutai of using calls to dissolve the county government as a ploy to dodge accountability over alleged corruption. Majority Leader Philip Rono said at least 35 MCAs had signed an impeachment notice against the governor, well above the number needed to initiate proceedings. He urged Mutai to prepare his defense instead of “engaging in political theatrics” ahead of next week’s impeachment debate. Deputy Speaker Cheruiyot Bett insisted the Assembly would not be swayed by threats, accusing the governor of overseeing the irregular payment of…

Striker Nicolas Jackson was left out of Chelsea’s squad to face Bayer Leverkusen on Friday after agreeing with the club that he can leave this summer.The 24-year-old trained alone on Friday amid reported transfer interest from Newcastle after they missed out on signing Manchester United-bound Benjamin Sesko. A move suits Jackson and Chelsea, with the Blues having signed two strikers this summer – Joao Pedro from Brighton and Liam Delap from Ipswich Town. Chelsea hope to receive at least double the £32m they spent to sign the Senegal forward in 2023 from Villarreal. The club believe he is worth more…

A woman has successfully sued former phone manufacturer LG for nearly £150,000 after one of its devices sparked a fire in her home in North Lanarkshire.Denise Parks and her husband Robert were in bed at their house in Coatbridge when a fire broke out in the living room at about 03:00 on 31 October 2018.At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, a judge ruled that an LG phone, supplied to Ms Parks by her employer North Lanarkshire Council, was the source of the fire.More than £140,000 of the award was allocated to her insurance company, which had already paid Ms Parks for a…

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this fall, prompting Moderna to fill possible gaps in supply, according to an email obtained by the Guardian.The move would pull the only remaining Covid vaccine for all children under five from the market.The Moderna vaccine is only approved for children with one or more health conditions, and the pediatric Covid vaccine from Novavax is only available for children aged 12 and up with health conditions.“It certainly would create a hole in the availability of vaccines,” said Georges Benjamin, executive director of…

From Cardiff, WalesRecommended if you like Lambrini Girls, Amyl and the Sniffers, Kleenex/Lilliput Up next Playing Beautiful Days festival, Fairmile, Devon, 14 August and touring the UK in OctoberAcross seven years, cheekily raucous quartet Panic Shack have gone from the Cardiff underground to the fringes of the mainstream. After forming as a raised middle finger to snooty blokey indie bands “fiddling with their pedals with a face like a slapped arse”, their self-titled debut crashed into the Top 40 last month and topped the UK rock and metal albums chart.With inspirations ranging from the Clash, Bikini Kill and Amy Winehouse…