The world-renowned city was one of 19 to be included in the list

A Cambridgeshire city has been hailed as one of the “world’s most beautiful cities” in a lifestyle magazine. The city was one of 19 to be included in a list that was compiled by Time Out.

The guide, published at the end of June, asked 24,000 city slickers if they’d describe their city as beautiful. The magazine scored Cambridge 60 percent for beauty.

The list included a range of different places including Cape Town, Sydney and Chicago. Cambridge, Edinburgh and Bath were the only three places in the UK to be included.

Cambridge is a world-renowned city celebrated for its legendary university, intriguing architecture and its science-leading history. The River Cam is also a crowd-pleaser. Not only does it offer an eye-capturing backdrop for picnics and Instagram-worthy pictures, it also accommodates locals who seek to experience punting. Punting is a quintessential British pastime that involves propelling a flat-bottomed boat (a punt) along a shallow river using a long wooden pole.

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Another classic city feature which locals either love or hate is the hustle and bustle, and the swarm of people around you. It can be fulfilling to see the world moving so quickly around you and seeing tourists stop to take pictures of important monuments but it can also be difficult to find a place to slow down, and think.

But, that’s all part of the city fun, and Cambridge offers an incredible setting to experience it in. It offers endless shops, restaurants and bars, lush parklands, a range of museums to complement its academic background and of course, the vibrant city of cyclists.

Cambridge offers an immense amount of fun, things to explore and history to learn about, especially for tourists. However, it can be on the pricey side as a place to live.

Over the last year, house prices in Cambridge had an overall average of £579,933, according to Rightmove. Semi-detached properties reached a whooping average of £655,567.

You can view the full list on Time Out here.

By CHARLOTTE DALY, MULTIMEDIA CONTENT REPORTER

Published: 08:44 BST, 5 July 2026 | Updated: 11:01 BST, 5 July 2026

England‘s security team have insisted Mexican fans’ attempts to disturb the Three Lions’ sleep ahead of their World Cup last-16 showdown have had little to no impact on the squad.

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside England’s team hotel on the eve of Monday’s clash at the Azteca Stadium in a bid to create a hostile atmosphere, chanting, singing and revving engines in scenes designed to unsettle Thomas Tuchel‘s players.

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But an England security official dismissed suggestions the squad’s preparations had been disrupted when speaking to Daily Mail Sport outside the hotel at midnight.

Instead, he insisted the players found the whole spectacle amusing rather than intimidating and suggested they were well used to it.

By Saturday evening, barriers surrounded the hotel perimeter while security personnel lined the railings keeping watch over the growing crowds outside.

Riot police and local authorities eventually intervened, moving around 200 fans approximately 300 metres away from the hotel entrance, allowing the area to calm considerably.

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Police were on guard to protect the England team hotel from disruption from Mexico fans

The police presence was high after Mexico’s previous opponents Ecuador had complained fans had tried to disrupt their team with fireworks on the eve of their match

A Mexico fan with a drum is ordered by police to move away from the England hotel

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The England security official, who spent the evening monitoring the situation from outside the hotel, said the noise could initially be heard from inside the building but stressed it was never particularly loud or problematic.

Once the supporters had been pushed further down the street, he said the players could no longer hear the commotion from their rooms.

The official praised the efforts of the Mexican authorities, saying the government, local police and security services had been ‘incredibly helpful’ throughout England’s stay and had gone out of their way to ensure the team’s preparations remained unaffected.

He also insisted the players’ mentality had not changed despite the attempts to create an intimidating atmosphere.

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‘They’re used to playing for Real Madrid, Barcelona and the biggest Premier League clubs,’ he said. ‘This isn’t their first experience of something like this.’

He added that some players regularly experience more hostile atmospheres in domestic football, joking that ‘sometimes the atmosphere at Everton is worse.’

According to the security official, England’s experienced squad have taken everything in their stride and, if anything, the reception has only sharpened their focus ahead of the knockout tie, which takes place at 1am on Monday UK time.

An England security official praised the efforts of the Mexican authorities, saying the government, local police and security services had been ‘incredibly helpful’

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Once supporters were ushered away down the street, England players were no longer hear the commotion from their rooms

The official played down reports surrounding England’s arrival at the hotel earlier this week, insisting the process had been ‘very smooth’ and ‘nothing of note’ happened

The official also played down reports surrounding England’s arrival at the hotel earlier this week, which attracted large crowds of supporters and widespread attention on social media.

He described the team’s arrival as ‘very smooth’ and said there was ‘nothing of note’ from the perspective of those responsible for security as it was all a bit of ‘fun’.

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He added that members of England’s travelling party were surprised by the scale of the media coverage afterwards because they did not view the scenes as anything out of the ordinary.

Despite the noisy scenes outside on Saturday night, England remain confident their preparations have not been compromised as they look to book their place in the World Cup quarter-finals at the Azteca on Monday.

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Lena Dunham had visibly trimmed down in new photos of the designer clothes she wore to Taylor Swift‘s wedding functions at Madison Square Garden.

The Girls creator, 40, was in attendance both at the intimate rehearsal dinner for 100 on Thursday and at the 1,000-strong ceremony and reception Friday night.

Dunham, a longtime friend of the bride, delivered a raunchy speech at the first event that left some of the guests in shock, as exclusively revealed by the Daily Mail.

She then joined a cavalcade of stars including Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid, as well as Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lopez, Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Beyonce, Hugh Grant and more to see Swift exchange vows with NFL star Travis Kelce on Friday.

Now her stylist Talia Cassel has fired up her Instagram page to unveil the ensembles she curated for Dunham to wear to the events.

In both of the custom outfits – one by Christian Cowan and one by Amber Doyle – Dunham’s reduced frame was impossible to miss.

The Daily Mail has contacted Dunham’s representatives for comment.

Amber Doyle had produced a lime green skirt suit that shimmered under the lights, cut off at the knee and teamed with matching shoes thrifted from The RealReal

Meanwhile the Christian Cowan look included a magenta top with flared robe-like cuffs, garnished with a massive floral brooch done in tulle

Cowan’s more formal creation was presumably the one Dunham wore for Friday night’s ceremony, which was officiated by Adam Sandler and featured performances by Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks and Swift herself.

The newlyweds, who had their respective brothers Austin Swift and Jason Kelce as Man of Honor and Best Man, were dressed in Christian Dior Haute Couture.

For what may have been Dunham’s rehearsal dinner outfit, Amber Doyle had produced a lime green skirt suit that shimmered under the lights, cut off at the knee and teamed with matching shoes thrifted from The RealReal.

Meanwhile the Christian Cowan look included a magenta top with flared robe-like cuffs, garnished with a massive floral brooch done in tulle.

Dunham’s figure was cinched in by a slimming black floor-length skirt that featured a waistline designed to slightly resemble a cummerbund.

Last year at the height of the Ozempic era, she bewailed the decline of the body positivity movement, which she said was ‘here, and then it was gone,’ via Variety.

‘I obviously am not critical of anybody’s choice, whether it’s to use Ozempic – people should be allowed to have whatever body they feel comfortable in,’ she said.

‘But we cannot pretend that the bodies people want aren’t influenced, and we can’t claim it’s always for health reasons and not for aesthetic reasons.’

Dunham, a longtime friend of the bride, delivered a raunchy speech at the first event that left some of the guests ‘gasping’; the pair are pictured at the 2015 Golden Globes

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She then joined a cavalcade of stars to see Swift marry NFL star Travis Kelce on Friday; the pair are pictured as the groom’s team the Kansas City Chiefs won the 2024 Super Bowl

Her fluctuating size has been a lightning rod of public conversation ever since she shot to fame in 2012 on her self-created series Girls, featuring numerous sex scenes in which Dunham exposed her physique on camera. 

She attributed her weight gain in recent years both to sobriety and to her raft of medical issues, including endometriosis that led in 2017 to a total hysterectomy with ovarian removal, which in turn resulted in early menopause.

In 2019, she raved on Instagram that she was ‘the happiest I’ve ever been,’ having allowed herself to relax and ‘weigh the most I ever have.’

She has been married since late 2021 to the musician Luis Felber, whom she first met on a blind date near the beginning of that year.

Swift’s wedding presented the risk Dunham might have an awkward run-in with her ex Jack Antonoff, a longstanding friend and co-writer of the bride.

The discomfiture of the potential encounter might have been amplified by the fact Dunham had just presented a scathing account of their romance in her new memoir Famesick, which soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

Rachael Norton-Voysey, 33, from Erdington, Birmingham, was stopped from boarding her Ryanair flight from Birmingham Airport to Lanzarote on June 4 because of a small 1.5cm rip in her passport.

She described the experience as “gutting,” stating the damage did not affect any of the passport’s details or photograph.

Ms Norton-Voysey said: “It was gutting for us both.

Holidaymaker’s passport warning as Ryanair refuse flight over ‘tiny’ rip (Image: Kennedy News and Media)

“We got to the gate and handed in my passport at that point to get onto the plane and he said it was ripped and they wouldn’t let us through.

“It was horrible.

“That feeling where your stomach just drops knowing we wouldn’t be going on holiday at that point.

“There’s no arguing with them once they do that.”

Despite the fact her friend could have boarded the flight alone, she chose not to travel without Ms Norton-Voysey, and the pair instead returned home together.

Ms Norton-Voysey said: “We had to sit there and wait for them to finish boarding and then they escorted us out.

“We had to watch everyone get onto the flight.

“I was completely shocked as I’ve travelled on [this passport] for ages.

“It’s a tiny rip really.

“It’s not on any of the details and it doesn’t obscure anything.”

The rip was along the right side of the photo page, but did not pass through any personal information.

She said: “I understand where they’re coming from but it is really petty in my opinion.

“Even when they took us back through immigration to the airport, even the immigration [staff member] said it was harsh.”

According to the UK government, passports with rips or tears are considered “damaged” and should be replaced, as they may not be accepted by airlines or border control.

The UK Government website warns: “If your passport is damaged you must replace it.

“You may not be able to travel with it.”

A Ryanair spokesperson said: “This passenger was correctly refused travel from Birmingham to Lanzarote (4 Jun) as her passport was damaged and therefore not valid for travel.”

Ms Norton-Voysey said she has used the same passport for previous trips without issue and believes the damage may have occurred during a past holiday.

She said: “I’ve had the passport for eight years and don’t know when the rip happened.

“I think it might’ve happened when I was abroad before, hence why I just never thought of it because I managed to get home fine and I didn’t think about it until I went abroad again.

“I should’ve thought about it but I never did.”

The 33-year-old hopes her story serves as a warning to other travellers about the importance of checking their travel documents well in advance.

She said: “When I get my new passport I’m going to be locking it away and getting one of those new passport holders.

“Everyone should get a passport holder.

“Check your passport well before you’re going to travel, put it in a case and get travel insurance because we also didn’t have travel insurance which could’ve saved us a bit.

“Everyone should check their passports because it might be fine nine times out of 10 but that one time might ruin a holiday.”

Despite the disappointment, Ms Norton-Voysey and her friend are hoping to finally fly to Lanzarote in September after they managed to rearrange their AirBnB stay.

She has since filed a complaint with Ryanair, describing the refusal as “a little bit mean” and calling for greater consistency in how damaged passports are assessed.

Her experience is a reminder to travellers to carefully inspect their passports before travel, as even minor damage can lead to denied boarding and ruined plans.

I’m not sure how often John Major visited Wigan or Leigh or the other parts of Andy Burnham’s new Makerfield constituency during his time as Prime Minister. But from the sound of it, he doesn’t exactly think much of the place. ‘He [Burnham] suggested in a speech the other day, in a rather curious phrase, that if things didn’t meet the “Makerfield Test” they wouldn’t happen,’ Sir John icily observed in an interview last week.

‘Well, I’m not sure how widely he spreads that, but if he really thinks he’s going to put his discussions with Mr Xi or Mr Trump through Makerfield before he goes to meet them – in terms of discovering whether they satisfy the good citizens of that constituency – he’s going to find himself in grave trouble.’

Similar criticism – and condescension – has greeted Burnham’s proposal for the establishment of a No10 North. One prominent commentator claimed the plan was actually hatched because ‘Andy’s missus wasn’t keen on moving to London, so he’s basically arranged to work from home, as every civil servant does’.

Former Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill warned the scheme risked becoming nothing more than a ‘Manc-a-Lago’ gimmick – a reference to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago retreat.

We are still almost three weeks away from Andy Burnham setting foot inside Downing Street. But elements of the Westminster establishment have already made up their minds. This ignorant oik shouldn’t be allowed to get his grubby Northern mitts anywhere near the seals of office.

‘We knew we’d face attacks right from the beginning,’ one Burnham ally observed, ‘and that’s OK. That’s the game. But I’ve got to be honest, the nature of the criticism has surprised me.

‘There’s a real class snobbery at the heart of it. It’s like, “Who does this guy think he is? He’s from Manchester and thinks he knows how to run a government?”’

Based on snobbery or not, there has certainly been a surreal hypocrisy surrounding much of the reaction to Burnham’s modest proposal to transfer some of the functions of the Prime Minister’s office out of London, and to spend a couple of days a week beyond the capital.

‘If he really thinks he’s going to put his discussions with Mr Xi or Mr Trump through Makerfield before he goes to meet them… he’s going to find himself in grave trouble,’ Sir John Major said

For years, the cry has been for politicians of all persuasions to ‘get out of their Westminster bubble and start to listen to real people’. Now that has become, ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing! Get back to SW1 and don’t you dare try to set foot outside!’

To John Major, and a fair few of his contemporaries, the idea of a Prime Minister taking into account the views of the ordinary voters of places like Makerfield – especially on an issue as rarefied as foreign affairs – is clearly anathema.

Though if Major had paid a little more attention to their opinions it might have spared him from the Maastricht debacle, which ended up fracturing his party, destroying his government and handing Tony Blair a decade in power. Similarly, if Blair had bothered to consult the British people, he may have managed to avoid the catastrophe of Iraq.

Either way, the Missionary Model of politics – in which Britain’s rulers decided what they feel is in the interests of their people, and dispense wisdom and laws on that basis with scant regard for their actual views – is what has led to our current political fracture. And it’s an error Andy Burnham is determined not to repeat.

‘People may not like it but this is Andy’s vision,’ one adviser told me. ‘He’s not going to back away from his commitment to ensuring power is finally transferred to those parts of the country that have never held it. The reality is Westminster has left a lot of places behind. And he’s going to keep reminding people of that.’

There are legitimate criticisms to be levelled at Burnham’s devolution proposals. One of which is that they are not entirely new. ‘When he was Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak spent almost every Friday working up at the new Treasury office in Darlington,’ a former Cabinet minister revealed to me. ‘The problem was he couldn’t really talk about it for security reasons.

Suddenly our national discourse is being deluged with references to Coronation Street. Our next Prime Minister is, apparently, fond of using phrases such as ‘eck as like!’ and ‘ooop North’

‘Burnham’s going to have the same problem. It sounds great when you announce it but in reality it’s hard to get people to focus on.’

A former Downing Street adviser questioned how the fragmentation of No10 would operate in practice.

‘The reality is that whatever you think you’re going to be spending the day working on when you start at seven in the morning, by noon you’ll be dealing with something completely different. I’m not sure they’ve properly thought this through.’

Nor are the concerns restricted to Burnham’s political opponents. Mutterings of disquiet from Labour MPs defending seats outside of the King of the North’s former fiefdom are starting to grow louder.

Last week Gillingham and Rainham MP Naushabah Khan spoke for a number of her Southern colleagues when she said: ‘I’d be really keen to see how Andy, in the next few weeks, sets out his stall for the wider country.’

Asked if he was too heavily focused on the North, she replied: ‘It’s certainly something that’s said about him, isn’t it?’

But the reality is that much, if not most, of the initial criticism has been underpinned by thinly veiled arrogance and pomposity.

Burnham’s proposal to try to incrementally recalibrate the balance of power between North and South has generated a backlash that goes beyond the political. Suddenly our national discourse is being deluged with references to Coronation Street, stout and Vera Duckworth. Our next Prime Minister is, apparently, fond of using phrases such as ‘eck as like!’ and ‘ooop North’.

All of which is instructive. It is not yet clear whether Andy Burnham genuinely has what it takes to reconfigure Britain’s crumbling, dysfunctional structures of governance.

But one thing is already certain. The traditional gatekeepers of those structures are not planning to relinquish them without a fight. And over their dead bodies will they let them fall to someone who was born in Aintree, grew up in Warrington and represents the ‘good citizens’ of Makerfield.

I don’t know how Prime Minister Burnham will perform when he first sits down opposite Xi or Trump or Putin. But if he actually takes a moment to consider the hopes, fears and wishes of the British people when he does, then that would already represent an improvement on John Major and some of his other elitist and out-of-touch predecessors.

By JAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITOR

Published: 09:21 BST, 5 July 2026 | Updated: 10:09 BST, 5 July 2026

Andy Burnham has backed calls for football fans to be allowed to booze in the stands at matches.

The PM-in-waiting criticised the ban, which has been in place for England’s top five leagues for more than forty years in a bid to curb hooliganism.

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Mr Burnham makes great play of his fondness for football. An Everton fan, he was a member of the notorious New Labour ‘Demon Eyes’ team alongside the likes of Ed Balls and James Purnell – both now tipped to be part of his Government.

The former Greater Manchester Mayor is expected to stay up tonight to watch England take on Mexico. 

Mr Burnham said in a video ahead of the match: ‘What a golden chance to be in the pub together at 1am on a school night… make the most of it everybody, but mainly let’s hope that England do the job – come on England.’ 

In contrast, Downing Street has suggested Arsenal fan Keir Starmer‘s schedule tomorrow is too busy.    

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Legislation from 1985 means that alcohol cannot be consumed within view of the pitch at most professional men’s football matches. 

But Mr Burnham raised the prospect of that being overturned in a social media post from a rugby league match at the Hill Dickinson Stadium – also the home of Everton FC – yesterday.  

Andy Burnham raised the prospect of the football alcohol ban being overturned in a video posted from a rugby league match at the Hill Dickinson Stadium

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Mr Burnham said there was ‘something wrong’ in fans of other sports being allowed to drink while football fans were not 

Turning the camera to show Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram holding a pint of lager, Mr Burnham said: ‘I’ve only got one question though about this day today… how come these lads can do that in my seat here when we can’t do that at an Everton home game? 

‘There’s something wrong there, we need to take a look at that.’ 

Labour MP for York Outer Luke Charters – a close ally of Mr Burnham – previously called for trials on lifting the restrictions.

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He made a similar argument that spectators at other sports are free to drink, urging a ‘modern approach to a modern game’.

‘You look at fans in Germany and in Italy, they are still able to have a beer while they are cheering on their team,’ he told the Commons last year. 

However, he stressed that family zones should be kept alcohol-free.

Trials of allowing alcohol in view of the pitch have taken place in the women’s game, which is not covered by the ban.

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By ALEX DOYLE – SENIOR SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER

Published: 23:11 BST, 4 July 2026 | Updated: 10:18 BST, 5 July 2026

“You always think these tragedies happen to someone else until they happen to you.”

Next week marks one year since Co Down teenager Jaidyn Rice lost her life in a road traffic accident.

Jaidyn died after being hit by a car in Bangor on the night of July 8 2025. The 16-year-old passed away at the scene on the West Circular Road in the Co Down city at about 10:55pm.

Road traffic collisions do not end at the scene. They leave behind shattered families, broken hearts, trauma, unanswered questions and communities forever changed.

For Jaidyn’s loved ones, she was not just another statistic. She was a daughter, step-daughter, sister, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, niece, cousin and friend who was deeply loved.

Since then, her family have been passionately campaigning for safer roads in her memory. ‘Jaidyn’s Law’, which has received unanimous support at Stormont, aims to make drug testing compulsory following serious crashes.

Speaking to Belfast Live ahead of her daughter’s anniversary, her mum Elaine Clarke recalled the events of that fateful night last year when Jaidyn left her home to walk a friend part of the way to her home but never returned.

Elaine told us: “Jaidyn and her friend Poppy had been at the gym, and then they came back and were in my house for a couple of hours. She came down about 10:45 to say that she was walking Poppy halfway home. She left and I had started to get ready for bed. I texted her to say, ‘when you come back in, lock the door behind you’.

“About 15-20 minutes had passed and she hadn’t come back, I thought it was weird because she should be home. I checked her location and she was at Screwfix down the road but her location had stayed there. I assumed that she was standing there talking to her friend. I was ringing and ringing her and she didn’t answer. I texted her and she didn’t answer.

“I got up and was getting ready to go and find her when her friend’s mum called me to say that Poppy had left Jaidyn and headed on home. She had heard a bang and lots of sirens and wanted to let me know because she couldn’t get a hold of Jaidyn. I flew down to where her location was and there were police everywhere.”

Jaidyn’s grandmother, Judith Rice, recalled the moment she discovered what had happened: “I was in bed and I noticed a missed call from Elaine. Next thing she rang again and was hysterical down the phone and I couldn’t make her out.

“A policeman came on the phone and he just asked if I could make my way as quickly as possible, but safely to where they were. I just remember the whole way down the road, I kept praying ‘please make my family be OK, make my family be OK’.

“At first, I thought something really bad had happened to Elaine and that she was hurt. When I got down there, the police took me to where Elaine was, and that’s when I found out it was Jaidyn.”

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Like thousands across Northern Ireland, Jaidyn had been awaiting her GCSE results at the time of her death but tragically it was left for her family to open them instead when they came out a month later. The Year 12 student at Priory College was planning to continue her studies with hopes of going into the army, having been a keen member of the cadets.

Sharing memories of her daughter, Elaine said: “She was very naturally funny and witty.” Judith added: “You used to think sometimes ‘is she being serious?’ because she could keep such a straight face.”

Elaine added: “She loved her eyelashes, her fake tan, make-up and just really girly stuff. Although she was into her cadets and that kind of thing, she was very girly too. She wanted to do her A levels and then go into The Royal Irish Guards as an officer. Once she served her time, she wanted to go into the community youth work.”

Judith says her Jaidyn died, her friends discovered how much faith had played a role in her life: “Some of her friends didn’t realise that she had her Bible from her great nanny Sheila. She always would have highlighted some of the specific paragraphs in her Bible. Of course, Jaidyn had to have a pink Bible!

“I think everybody who truly got the opportunity to be privileged to know Jaidyn saw who she was from the beginning. There was no covers, there was no falseness. You very much took her as you found her. She wouldn’t have put any airs and graces on for you.

“She was such a big prankster too and we always would have turned the pranks onto her. But when you listen to her, she was so well spoken, so polite and so respectful. That will always stand out, she was just so special.

“Something that Jaidyn was good at doing was helping and supporting people. She helped people she didn’t even know. She gave an 80-year-old gentleman CPR at the side of the road. She helped people who were bullied until she got bullied because she was helping and then she took the grief for that.”

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Judith added: “At first, as a family we really struggled (after her death) but it also connected us to people we didn’t know, people we’d never met before in our life. All of a sudden, people were contacting us, they were sharing their stories and being their loved one’s voice in a way.

“All too often we’ve seen things on the news and thought you can really feel for that family but until you’re actually in it, you can’t understand the gravity of it. Never in our lives did we ever expect to be on this path.

“We were never prepared to face what we were facing and for some reason people were reaching out to us and we thought they’re coming to us for a reason. We all have one thing in common, and that was tragedy through a road traffic collision. It became apparent some people felt that their case wasn’t dealt with the same as others – like one rule for one and one rule for another.”

After meeting a number of families who have suffered similar losses and highlighting the need for change, Judith and Elaine have worked tirelessly to establish ‘Jaidyn’s Law’ and bring about a major change to the current legislation around road traffic collisions.

They have called on Stormont to consider making drug testing automatic in collisions involving death or life-changing injuries in memory of the much-loved teenager.

‘Jaidyn’s Law’ seeks to ensure that in the most serious road traffic incidents, no family is ever left questioning the effectiveness of the law. Her legacy is a call for clarity, consistency and protection for every family across Northern Ireland.

Judith explained: “Article 17 under the Road Traffic Act of Northern Ireland at the moment is seen as a grey area and it’s down to an individual police officer to decide at the time and their opinion as to whether to implement that law or not. Jaidyn Law will remove the grey area and it will take it out of one person’s personal decision.

“Behind every single road traffic collision whether it’s a victim who has survived or a family who are grieving their loved ones, their life has no value. Something has to change.”

A 30-year-old man has previously appeared in court charged with causing the death of Jaidyn by dangerous driving. Jamie McCartney also faces charges of driving without a licence or insurance.

Over the past year, Elaine and Judith have attended regular court sittings alongside other family members and Jaidyn’s close friends. But Elaine says their experience to date of the criminal justice system has offered little comfort in the midst of their grief.

“There should have been a lot of things done that weren’t done. Families are having to fight for their rights and you shouldn’t have to do that. But unless the victims or the families take the fight, you’re pushed aside and forgot about,” she added.

Next Wednesday evening, July 8, family and friends will gather one year on at the spot where Jaidyn died for a vigil, filling the roadside with pink flags carrying personal messages to ‘remember her sparkle, look to the stars, and ensure that she is never forgotten’.

One year later, despite the unimaginable heartbreak her family lives with every day, they say very little has changed.

Judith says: “Vehicles continue to speed along this road as though it is a race track. Four schools use this junction daily, and children, families and members of our community remain at risk every single day. The event is not only about remembering Jaidyn but also standing together and saying that enough is enough.

“As a family, we have tried to create a memorial that reflects who Jaidyn was and the things she loved most. This evening is about celebrating her life, honouring her memory, and ensuring that her legacy continues to make a difference.”

Bangor Protestant Boys Flute Band will leave the top of the Clandeboye Road at approximately 7:45pm and make their way to Jaidyn’s memorial site, where they will play a selection of songs in her honour. Throughout the evening there will be tributes from Jaidyn’s family, sharing memories of the beautiful person she was and the impact she continues to have on all who knew and loved her.

Every person attending will be given a small pink or white flag on which they can write a personal message, memory, prayer or tribute to Jaidyn before placing it into the ground.

Judith said: “We never imagined that we would find ourselves walking this path. You always think these tragedies happen to someone else until they happen to you. Whilst we cannot change what happened to Jaidyn, we’re determined that her death will not be in vain.”

Elaine added: “She continues to make us proud, even in death. She fought for honesty, justice and fairness. She believed in people being treated fairly and equally. She could teach a lot of adults a thing or two.”

More details of the ‘Memorial Vigil for Jaidyn Rice – One Year On’ this coming Wednesday, July 8 are available here.

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The incident was reported at Eccles Youth Centre on Gladstone Road on the afternoon of June 20, with police officers now appealing to the public for help.

Officers have released an image of a man they want to speak to in connection with their investigation into the incident.

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: “We would like to speak to this man as we believe he can help with our investigation into a suspected religiously aggravated harassment at Eccles Youth Centre on 20 June 2026 at around 2.11pm.”

The incident was reported at Eccles Youth Centre (Image: GMP)

The image they have released shows a man in glasses wearing a dark blue top and light blue trousers, with black shoes carrying a large bag.

No further details have been released about the alleged incident at Eccles Youth Centre last month at this stage, but officers have urged anyone who may know anything to come forward.

Anyone with any information can contact the police by calling 101 or via the Live Chat function on GMP’s website, quoting log 2850 of 22/06/2026.

Alternatively, members of the public can call independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce had camera crews following them around their spectacular wedding to film a documentary, insiders have claimed.

The superstar couple, both 36, tied the knot in front of around 1,000 family members, friends and A-list celebrities during an extravagant celebration at Madison Square Garden on Friday.

The couple are yet to release any photos or footage of their big day, whilst details from guests have been trickling through amid the NDAs and tight security surrounding the event.

But it’s thought the bride was keen to capture every moment of her dream day.   

According to sources, there will be a documentary about the wedding, with the rumours intensifying after signs reading ‘No parking’ for a ‘film shoot’ were spotted around MSG from Wednesday. 

The film will cover everything from the planning stage to the day itself, it’s claimed, with the insider adding to The Sun US that the finished film will be sent to guests as part of a ‘thank you for coming’ present package. 

In another clue, Taylor invited Disney execs Bob Iger, Dana Walden, and David Greenbaum to the wedding. The star has an existing relationship with Disney as the studio’s streaming service, Disney+, released her documentary projects The End of an Era and Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.

Another major media figure in attendance was AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron, who worked with Taylor to release her 2023 concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which took £195 million worldwide. 

Some Swifties have speculated though that pop superstar Taylor was more likely to have captured footage for a future music video, rather than reveal all in a documentary. 

On Reddit one top comment pointed out: ‘Taylor has used family photos and clips over the years so may have put up the notice so that she could choose to use photos or video clips down the line if she wants to.’

‘Maybe a short clip makes it into a YouTube short or maybe one day she writes a song about this time in her life and she wants to include footage from the wedding.’

AMC boss Aron was among the first to spill some details about the wedding. Just hours after the lavish festivities wrapped, he shared an unusually detailed account of the ceremony in a since-deleted post on X. 

According to Aron, the couple exchanged vows that were ‘long, entertaining, personal, charming, emotional, irreverent and endearing.’

‘Then the vows. Long, entertaining, personal, charming, emotional, irreverent and endearing explorations by each as to how they met, why they want to be with each other for all eternity, the promises they made in joining their much-beloved two whole families (Kelce’s and Swift’s) as one, and committing to their new mutual life together,’ he wrote.

The superstar couple tied the knot in front of around 1,000 family members, friends and A-list celebrities during an extravagant celebration at Madison Square Garden on Friday 

AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron, who worked with Taylor to release her 2023 concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, was a guest

Aron said the ceremony took place inside a transformed Madison Square Garden that ‘did not look like Madison Square Garden,’ with the venue draped in ‘peach and white’ and decorated with oversized photos of the bride and groom from childhood through their teenage years.

According to Aron, Kelce looked ‘handsome’ in a white tuxedo while Swift stunned in a white wedding gown with a long veiled train before an officiant who was ‘warm and welcoming, funny and eloquent’ led the ceremony.

After the couple sealed their marriage with what Aron described as a ‘sweep you off your feet kiss,’ guests moved into an elaborate ‘Secret Garden’-themed reception featuring five-story illuminated trees, an A-list crowd, lavish food and drink and plenty of music.

He ended his post by calling the ceremony ‘real, pure, true joy’ and declaring that, in a world filled with conflict and division, the couple’s wedding proved ‘that love conquers all.’

Aron wasn’t the only guest to let slip some wedding details in the hours after the event.

The morning after the lavish bash, country star Maren Morris gave fans a peek inside the festivities by sharing a series of glamorous Instagram snaps from the wedding, including one unexpected keepsake.

Tucked at the end of the carousel was a custom handkerchief gifted to guests as a wedding favor – and Swifties were quick to spot a subtle nod to the singer’s music.

The personalized memento featured the couple’s bespoke wedding logo, made up of two intertwined Ts framed by hearts, alongside the wedding date, July 3, 2026, and the location, New York City.

The morning after the lavish bash, country star Maren Morris gave fans a peek inside the festivities by sharing a series of glamorous Instagram snaps from the wedding, including one unexpected keepsake

But the sweetest touch was embroidered in one corner: the opening lyric from Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space – ‘So it’s gonna be forever…’

Morris even nodded to the newlyweds in her caption, borrowing a famous line from Swift’s 2008 hit Love Story as she wrote: ‘Baby just say yes.’

But the custom handkerchief wasn’t the only lavish keepsake guests received during the wedding weekend.

Those invited to Thursday night’s intimate rehearsal dinner – attended by around 100 of the couple’s closest family members and friends – also left with an extravagant gift.

Guests were spotted carrying mysterious velvet boxes embossed with the couple’s intertwined ‘TT’ monogram wrapped in two hearts – the same logo featured on the handkerchief.

Inside, according to Page Six, was a champagne flute adorned with real diamonds.

The outlet also reported that each box included a frayed fabric card printed with what appeared to be the garden from Swift and Kelce’s now-famous engagement photos.