Mick Ferris was crushed to death when the 130kg pane fell 26 storeys from the Corniche housing development

Two companies have been fined a total of £1.3m over health and safety breaches after a coach driver was killed by a falling window pane.

Mick Ferris, 53, was crushed when a window fell 26 storeys from the Corniche, a luxury development in Vauxhall, London, on 2 October 2018.

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Considering he is a lifelong Everton fan, it’s no surprise that Andy Burnham seems to be in favour of allowing fans to drink Tin at football matches. Bouts of boardroom turmoil, points deductions and assorted relegation battles mean the lot of an Evertonian is not always a happy one. The Prime Minister believes that if he and other fans fancy a sip or two to help ease the pain of watching Thierno Barry head wide of an open goal, then that ought to be their constitutional right as proud Englishmen. Sadly, no such right currently exists, as alcohol consumption within view of the pitch has been outlawed in the top five divisions of English football since the troubled times of the 1980s. Instead, thirsty match-goers are forced to endure an agonising wait of 45 whole minutes before rushing to the bar, joining long queues of fellow fans eager to buy pints of foaming shaft they must subsequently chug back, yard-of-ale style, in enough time to return to their seats for the start of the second half.

Like anyone with a sense of football heritage, as soon as I read in yesterday’s Football Daily that Javier Aguirre had joined Valencia, I scrambled to see when they would play Anthony Gordon’s Barcelona. Sadly, it seems we’ll have to wait until the end of January for that particular reunion. Hey, fixture list, beep you” – Jim Hearson.

If Thomas Tuchel believes that 99.9% of supporters he bumps into do not talk to him about his substitutions during the Argentina game (Football Daily Tuesday), has he noticed a significant percentage of fans turning on their heels and walking in the opposite direction muttering furiously to themselves when they spot him? I would estimate that this could encompass approximately 51.8% of England supporters in his orbit. Another cohort, which I would put at around 37.6%, may break down weeping and gnashing their teeth uncontrollably at a missed opportunity to beat a limited and cynical Argentinian team, thereby missing their opportunity to congratulate Thomas effusively on England’s knockout win over Democratic Republic of Congo” – Dexter O’ Riordan.

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Video app was punished by UK watchdog for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage users

TikTok will pay a £12.7m fine to the UK’s data watchdog after dropping an appeal against a ruling that it did not do enough to keep children below the age of 13 off the platform.

The video app was punished by the Information Commissioner’s Office in 2023 for inadequate checks of who was using the platform and failing to remove underage users.

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The Australian musician’s fourth album blends mystery and intimacy with luscious pop-rock, bright, upbeat jangle and stripped-back acoustics

Julia Jacklin is an artist of dualities. Over her decade-plus career, the Melbourne singer-songwriter has examined the question of how to be both vulnerable but protected, spiritual but grounded.

Her second studio album and commercial breakthrough, 2019’s Crushing, introduced her to an international audience as an introspective storyteller. Rich in detail, Crushing delivered tales of heartbreak and betrayal with a kind of quiet impassivity, setting the scene for her own duality as an artist – at once open and reserved.

At 400-plus pages, Moriarty’s follow-up is too long and offers too little reward, with menopause, vaping teens and even a stalker failing to raise the stakes

Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies was such a runaway success – debuting at No 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and adapted for a television miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Zoë Kravitz – that she always had her work cut out for her if she was to return the fluctuating narrative back to the page. Recognising this hurdle, Moriarty opens the sequel (her first) with a note to readers that details the way the new novel both responds to its TV adaptation – by making Laura Dern’s Renata and Meryl Streep’s Mary-Louise more central characters – and returns readers to the original landscape, the fictional Pirriwee Peninsula along Sydney’s northern beaches.

Moriarty immediately situates the reader back in Australia: a magpie swoops “like a missile” at an unsuspecting cyclist against a backdrop of “bright yellow native wattle” and “lush-purple” jacarandas. Time has passed, in both the real and fictional world. It has been 12 years since the 2014 publication of Big Little Lies, and the sweet kindergarteners at the heart of the original are teenagers now, with mothers in the midst of menopause. The idyllic setting is shattered when a severed human finger is posted to the local high school, setting the scene for a sequel packed with all the intrigue, drama and suspense of the first.

You are not the only one, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. It will help to ask whether you have a time problem or a bandwidth problem

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I love my life in so many ways. I have a rewarding job, I’m making stellar progress towards a graduate degree, I have incredible friends and community, plus I’m even reconnecting with estranged family. My cup is very full but I still feel grief and shame for how much falls to the wayside.

I have missed countless doctors’ appointments. My vehicle’s license plates have been expired for almost a year. I often apologise to angry friends and acquaintances after they confront me for not seeing them in months. My significant other says she doesn’t see me enough. So do my parents. I clock out of work and shudder at the thought of facing my growing avalanche of text messages. I panic whenever I receive an email that demands I arrange yet another appointment or submit to a lengthy phone call. The stack of forms I’m overdue to submit makes me feel so irresponsible, as if I’m the only adult alive who can’t seem to take care of business.

The mid-autumn festival, also known as the moon festival, is a celebration of harvest and family in Chinese culture – a time to gather with relatives and friends under a full moon. During the festival, people eat mooncakes – a rich round pastry that symbolises wholeness – and display lanterns: beacons that light the path towards prosperity and good luck.

It is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, when the moon is believed to be at its fullest and brightest, coinciding with the harvest in the middle of autumn. In 2026, it will be held on Friday 25 September

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@mbootsman that's the spirit!
Kijk vroeger had ik een citroen MET hoogtemeter op het dashboard. En dat mist mijn huidige auto. En google maps heeft geen hoogtemeter. Peakping in overlay geeft me het beste feature van de Cittroen terug!
Nu nog kijken hoe dat op de batterij effect heeft

@mbootsman Aha! Overlaymode. Nooit gezocht of dit er was, wel bedacht dat ik dat zou willen hebben. Voor als ik in de heuvels en berg met de waggie scheur.
Zit het er al gewoon in! Nice

Kamagurka laat elke week zien hoe Bert Vanderslagmulders vordert met het schrijven van een boek.

Kees Stavenuiter (73) fietste al 1.381 keer rond het IJsselmeer, een route van 200 kilometer waar vakantiegangers vaak een week over doen. Kees rijdt het in een dag, weer of geen weer. „Bij het duizendste rondje hadden ze me opgewacht met gebak.”

Met de sluiting van drie van de zes cellencomplexen van de Rotterdamse politie gaan de aanrijtijden voor het vervoeren van verdachten omhoog. De politiechef zegt daar meer ‘blauw’ op straat voor terug te krijgen. „Een dronken iemand hoef je niet meteen aan te houden.”

BAKOE (ANP) - Max Verstappen was goed te spreken na de vrije trainingen voor de Grote Prijs van Azerbeidzjan. "Eigenlijk was het best een goede dag, ik ben blij met de auto", liet hij kort na de tweede sessie op het stratencircuit van Bakoe weten op zijn website.

De viervoudig wereldkampioen in de Formule 1 noteerde in de eerste training de tweede tijd en in de tweede zette hij de derde tijd neer in zijn Red Bull. George Russell was beide keren de snelste in zijn Mercedes. Kampioenschapsleider Kimi Antonelli van Mercedes was in de tweede training ook sneller dan de Nederlander.

Verstappen was dit seizoen nog niet vaak positief over zijn auto. Doorgaans moppert hij over het gebrek aan balans en grip. In Bakoe klonk voor de verandering een opgewekte coureur. "We konden een paar dingen finetunen om nog wat meer tijd te winnen. De updates aan de auto werken zoals verwacht en al met al was het best een goede start voor ons", aldus de coureur, die vorig jaar de race in Azerbeidzjan won.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Staatssecretaris Jo-Annes de Bat (Klimaat en Groene Groei, CDA) vindt dat flexibel gebruik van stroomaansluitingen het nieuwe normaal moet worden voor burgers en bedrijven in Nederland vanwege het volle stroomnet. Dat zei hij donderdag tijdens een symposium van de Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) in Madurodam over de toekomst van het Europese energiesysteem.

Doordat het elektriciteitsnet in Nederland op veel plekken overvol is, moeten bijvoorbeeld nieuwe huizen wachten op een aansluiting. Netbeheer Nederland meldde vorige week dat voor honderdduizenden nieuwbouwwoningen geen ruimte is. "Het netwerk kan heel veel aan, maar we benutten het verkeerd met zijn allen", zei De Bat.

Met flexibel stroomgebruik gebruiken klanten meer energie op rustige momenten om overbelasting van het stroomnet te voorkomen. Daarmee kunnen huishoudens en bedrijven goedkoper uit zijn, omdat elektriciteit gebruiken op piekmomenten met flexibele contracten duurder is dan tijdens de daluren.

Prijsprikkels

"Je ziet dat iedereen pas in beweging komt als de belofte van meerwaarde er ook echt is", aldus De Bat. Daarom zou Nederland meer moeten inzetten op prijsprikkels. Wat hem betreft wordt flexibel gebruik "het nieuwe normaal", maar dat leidt wel tot minder zekerheid, stipte hij aan. Dat moet Nederland volgens hem zien te accepteren. "Het kan zijn dat je dan even geen stroom hebt en dat waren we niet gewend met zijn allen."

Met het symposium wil de ACM het gesprek aanjagen over hoe Europa energie betaalbaar houdt tijdens de overgang naar een klimaatneutraal en meer soeverein energiesysteem. ACM-bestuurslid Manon Leijten zei dat de toezichthouder meer wil meedenken over hoe dat systeem eruit moet gaan zien.

Delicate waves, mysterious fissures, and diffused lightning set some of the scenes in Sarah Lee’s dreamy landscape paintings. Moons with strangely direct beams of light and supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism. Most of the works seen here are part of Lee’s current solo exhibition titled Deeper at Albertz Benda, in which the artist highlights different ecosystems and the nature of clarity and concealment. She often titles her works in reference to the colors she employs, such as “Emerald Sky” and “Red Meadow in Mist.”

These apparently “empty” landscapes nod to the romantic Western tradition of seascapes and broad, open expanses that pandered to a problematic colonialist mindset, such as that of Manifest Destiny. John O’Sullivan, who coined the term, wrote that Americans possessed the fundamental right to “to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us…” In Lee’s oil paintings, a gallery statement says, “the landscape pushes back.”

In the misty, fuzzy edges of glaciers, glowing skies, and mountain peaks, the artist imbues a nuanced sense of the uncanny. “There is a distinct feeling that more is hidden in the scene than what meets the eye: in the recesses of the water, underneath the ice, obscured by an outcropping of coral,” the gallery says. The light perhaps shines a little too brightly or a gap opens up ominously in a field of ice. “Before Dark” draws our attention to the serene surface of a lake, and what we can see is beautiful, yet one wonders if we’re witnessing the calm before the storm.

Lee harnesses the power of the unknown, examining the way nature both nourishes us and is the ultimate authority. Humans need clean water, food, and fresh air, and we rely on these things even as our collective actions cause the environment harm along with, paradoxically, ourselves. The artist’s paintings provide a kind of filter through which to see this contradiction, as the land and water are elements we fundamentally rely on but cannot control.

Deeper continues through October 10 in New York. See more on the artist’s Instagram.

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