Dame Melanie said: “What we always try to avoid is being really specific about ‘you can do this and you can’t do that’, because fundamentally the responsibility is with Channel 4 and its production company, or with ITV or BBC or whoever is producing these shows, to get this right.

Motor Fuel Group is opening the bakery at Morrisons, Plumpton Park, at 6am.

The company posted online today: “The wait is finally over — Greggs opens its doors tomorrow!

“Come down and celebrate with your favourite bakes, fresh coffee, sweet treats, and more.

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“Be one of the first through the door — we can’t wait to welcome you!”

To mark the opening, Motor Fuel Group Starbeck Morrisons has also ran a raffle with a £100 (coupon) first prize, with a £50 coupon for the second prize.

The opening comes as the venue has also opened a new jetwash.

As previously reported, the opening adds to others nationally from the Motor Fuels Group.

In December a branch of Greggs opened at the Morrisons service station on the edge of Boroughbridge.

The supermarket is inviting the public to suggest locations as part of its UK-wide expansion plans.

Jonathan Neale, managing director of national real estate at Aldi UK, said: “We know how important it is for people to have access to affordable, high-quality food close to where they live, which is why we’re asking our shoppers to help us identify the communities that would benefit most from a new Aldi store.

Aldi asks for County Durham store suggestions (Image: Aldi)

“Opening new stores in these areas means we can bring great value to more customers, while also creating jobs and offering industry-leading pay.”

Aldi is investing more than £370 million in new stores this year as it works towards a long-term goal of reaching 1,500 locations across the UK.

This latest call for nominations follows last year’s campaign, which identified priority areas in London, Merseyside, and Oxfordshire.

Since then, Aldi has made progress on stores near Pendle Drive in Liverpool and in Hanworth and Willesden in London.

Members of the public can submit their suggestions by emailing NextNewStore@aldi.co.uk and stating the town they would like to put forward in the subject line.

The deadline for submissions is June 18.

Aldi expects to announce its latest list of priority locations later in the year.

Dunkin’ Donuts is set to release its viral 48-ounce cold beverage buckets across the U.S. this Friday.

In February, the chain tested its Beverage Buckets, designed with a unique lid and straw, in several Massachusetts and New Hampshire stores. At the time, customers could receive a coffee bucket starting at $8.99, or a refresher for $9.49.

Now, Dunkin’ plans to bring its largest drink size back to kick off Memorial Day Weekend, the coffee chain has confirmed to The Independent. When customers order an iced coffee or refresher May 22, they can have it served in the 48-ounce bucket for $12.99

Participating stores will only have 25 buckets each. Dunkin’ fans can customize their orders with a choice of dairy, swirls and flavor shots.

Once purchased, the collectible containers cannot be refilled at Dunkin’ locations.

Many Dunkin’ customers shared their excitement over the news, with one writing on Instagram: “YESSS YES YESSSSSS I WAS WAITING FOR THIS!!!!!!”

“I can’t wait to show up to my therapy session with this,” another quipped, while a third added: “This is incredible, looking forward to trying this.”

“Sign me up for an iced coffee bucket anxiety attack,” a fourth joked.

When the buckets rolled out in New England in February, some customers were overjoyed at the idea of the potentially monstrous caffeine intake. However, other Dunkin’ fans were frustrated by the limited release.

The massive bucket isn’t the only new offer at Dunkin’. As part of its summer menu release last month, the retailer hopped onto the dirty soda trend by launching the Dunkin’ Dirty Soda, which combines Pepsi, coffee milk and sweet cold foam.

For the summer season, Dunkin’ also introduced a line of Black Cherry refreshers and an Oreo-themed line-up of espresso, matcha and frozen drinks.

In January, the brand joined in on the viral protein craze and launched its first Protein Milk, which provides “a simple way to add protein to the drinks they already love,” according to a press release at the time. Packed with 15 grams of protein per medium-sized beverage, the special milk aims to offer a “creamy, familiar taste without a chalky texture or aftertaste.”

Dunkin’ also announced a line-up of protein-packed drinks, including a Strawberry Protein Refresher, Caramel Chocolate Iced Protein Latte, Almond Iced Protein Matcha Latte and Iced Protein Latte with Sugar-Free Vanilla.

Rachel Reeves has announced a cut in the rate of VAT on tickets for theme parks, zoos and museums from 20% to 5% over the summer holidays.

The Chancellor set out the measure as part of a package aimed at easing the impact on the cost of living from the Iran war.

Sir Keir Starmer said the support would give families concerned about the months ahead “a bit of breathing room” to “enjoy moments that matter without the same level of financial strain”.

Ms Reeves told the Commons in a statement on Thursday: “This will apply to ticket prices for both adults and children, covering attractions such as fairs, theme parks, zoos and museums.

“It will include children’s tickets for cinemas, concerts, soft play, and the theatre, and it will cut the cost of children’s meals in restaurants and cafes from 20% VAT to 5% as well.”

She said the changes will apply across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from June 25 until September 1.

The Government expects businesses to pass on VAT savings to customers.

Her “Great British Summer Savings” scheme, which the Treasury estimated would cost around £300 million, also includes free bus travel for children aged between five and 15 in England during the school holidays in August.

Other measures announced by Ms Reeves include a 10p per mile increase in tax-free mileage rates backdated to April, a £350 million critical chemicals resilience fund and a £120 million fund to help the ceramics sector, and the cutting of import tariffs on more than 100 types of food products.

The full package of measures comes at an estimated cost of £1.8 billion over six years, while the Treasury expects to raise hundreds of millions in revenue by changing the way oil and gas companies with overseas operations are taxed.

This would put an end to the practice of some firms structuring their tax affairs “in a way which ensures they pay little or no corporation tax on their UK energy trading profits” and “raise hundreds of millions of pounds a year”, Ms Reeves said.

As expected, Ms Reeves did not announce immediate help with energy bills driven up by Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East.

The household energy price cap is predicted to rise by £209 a year from July after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz pushed up global oil and gas prices.

Ms Reeves told MPs: “Because of the decision that I made at the budget last year to cut £150 from energy bills, we have lessened the impact of rising prices and current external forecasts suggest that the cap from July will be at a similar level to the cap in April last year.

“We stand ready to act if market conditions worsen significantly later this year and I have been leading cross-Government contingency work on design of potential future targeted and temporary support for businesses.”

Final costings for all the measures will be detailed at the next budget following scoring from the Office for Budget Responsibility, according to the Treasury.

Sir Keir, who was seeking to regain control of the political agenda with the announcements after his premiership came under pressure, said it was “not right” that “for too many families those things – a trip to the seaside, a visit to the zoo, a bus ride into town for a day out, even a simple treat at the end of the week – are starting to feel out of reach”.

The Government was providing “a serious response” to the “concerns people have about the months ahead” due to global instability, the Prime Minister wrote on Substack.

“This summer, we are making it easier and more affordable for families to get out, spend time together, and make memories they will cherish for life.”

Theme parks and cinemas welcomed the the slashing of VAT, with British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions chief executive Paul Kelly saying it was “a very welcome and timely boost for the UK’s visitor attraction sector”.

“Our members stand ready to pass on this benefit and deliver brilliant, memorable experiences for visitors of all ages.”

UK Hospitality chairwoman Kate Nicholls said a lower rate of VAT for hospitality was “the quickest and simplest way to lower prices and boost consumer confidence”.

Wrestling star Ludwig Kaiser has reportedly been arrested days before one of WWE’s most anticipated matches.

The 35-year-old wrestler, whose real name is Marcel Barthel, has been portraying El Grande Americano on TV since June 2025 and is due to face Original El Grande Americano (Chad Gable) at AAA Noche de los Grande on May 30.

However, on May 20, Barthel was arrested and charged with misdemeanour battery, casting doubt over the Mask versus Mask bout.

According to an Affidavit for Arrest Warrant seen by Metro on the Orange County Clerk’s office website, Barthel, who has pleaded not guilty, has been accused of battery by another male resident in his Orlando apartment block.

In the documents, it’s alleged that in April 2026, the man had asked Barthel and his partner to ‘please have some manners’ after they started ‘acting in an “uncontrollably intimate” manner, which he described as aggressively kissing’.

It’s alleged that immediately after his comment, he was punched by ‘multiple times’ and pushed to the ground, before the defendant ‘made threats of additional violence toward him’.

In further court documents, Barthel’s attorney has confirmed his client’s ‘intent to participate in discovery’ regarding the allegation, and has ‘requested a trial of the said charges’.

In a motion filed on May 21, Barthel entered a request to be allowed to travel ‘throughout the United States and around the world’. In the motion, it’s noted that Barthel ‘became aware of a warrant for his arrest’ on May 19, while he was ‘in Mexico for work purposes’.

It’s said he returned to Orlando on May 20 and ‘turned himself in to the Orange County Jail’, and was released ‘after posting a $1,000 bond’. The motion notes that he has ‘no prior criminal history anywhere in the world and is not a danger to others’, while he ‘maintains his innocence and has retained undersigned counsel to assist him in this matter’.

In light of that, he has filed a motion to be allowed to continue to work, which would include his upcoming match for AAA.

Neither WWE nor the wrestler have made a public statement on the arrest or charges.

As El Grande Americano, the German star has become a fan favourite in Mexico as part of WWE’s Lucha Libre AAA brand, which is run by Hall of Famer The Undertaker.

He took over the Americano mask and character after Chad Gable suffered a torn rotator cuff injury in last summer, and over the past few months the pair have been locked in an intense storyline rivalry.

The feud has also spilled over to Monday Night Raw with the Creed Brothers and Los Americanos (Rayo and Bravo) getting involved. On May 30, both El Grande Americanos are due to face off in a bitter grudge match, with the loser being forced to unmask, which is seen as a mark of disrespect in lucha libre culture.

Back in 2024, Barthel opened up about his influences as a wrestling fan his his teens, and how he was drawn to ‘larger than life characters’ despite spending much of his career adopting a more serious persona.

‘I think Randy Orton is one of the best to ever do it. I loved The Rock back in the day, I loved Kurt Angle back in the day, Triple H, Shawn Michaels,’ he exclusively told Metro.

‘Obviously when you watch them as a teenager that does something with you, right? I can’t really pinpoint it to “I took this from from [Triple H], and I took this from Kurt Angle”, but definitely that shapes you one way or the other…

‘Those guys were definitely influences when it comes to wrestling in general.’

Metro has contacted WWE and the Orlando Police Department for comment.

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The companies were convicted over the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009, which killed all 228 people on board

Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter following a devastating plane crash in 2009 which resulted in the deaths of 228 individuals.

Both the carrier and the plane maker were convicted of corporate manslaughter in connection with the tragedy. The aircraft, Air France flight 447, was en route from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.

Within five days of the disaster, the Brazilian Navy retrieved the first two victims’ remains along with debris from the aircraft. It is believed the passenger jet went into a stall during a storm, resulting in the loss of everyone on board.

Among the deceased were three young Irish women. Jane Deasy, Eithne Walls, and Aisling Butler from Ireland were all passengers on the flight. The women, all medical professionals, were returning home following a holiday in Brazil.

Family members of some of those who perished, including French, Brazilian and German citizens, assembled as the appeals court ruling was delivered on Wednesday, reports Belfast Live.

Air France chief executive Anne Rigail had previously stated the tragedy is “forever engraved in our memories”, while Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury informed judges that “any accident is a failure”.

Both corporations have been instructed to pay the maximum penalty of €225,000 ($261,720; £194,500) each. Nevertheless, certain families of the victims described the sum as a symbolic sanction.

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The ruling marks the latest development in a 17-year legal battle between two of France’s most prominent companies, with the case leaving an indelible mark on the aviation industry.

In its wake, regulations governing airspeed sensors and pilot training procedures were overhauled. An official inquiry concluded that a combination of factors contributed to the catastrophic crash.

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Ice had rendered the aircraft’s pitot tubes inoperable, cutting off vital speed and altitude data. With the autopilot disengaged, the crew assumed manual control, but were working with faulty navigational information, according to The Mirror.

This caused the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall, its nose tilting upwards before it plummeted into the ocean. The wreckage and the flight’s black box recorders, lying at depths exceeding 13,000 feet (approximately 4,000 metres) beneath the ocean’s surface, took nearly two years to locate.

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The tours conclude in the sitting room where the late Queen would work, reviewing the papers and documents presented in the Government red dispatch boxes, as well as using the room for private audiences or resting between engagements, often while watching horseracing on television.

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What might a sixth-century monastic rulebook have to say about how we live today? Living by the Rule: Contemporary Meets Medieval, the centrepiece of this summer’s exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, takes up that question. As curators, we bring present-day habits and assumptions into dialogue with a seemingly distant counterpoint: medieval monasticism, and in particular the Rule of St Benedict, written in sixth-century Italy.

Benedict was born into a noble Roman family around 480, shortly after the fall of the Roman empire. It was a period in which the political and economic certainties that had structured society for centuries were rapidly unravelling.

As a young man, he abandoned his studies and set out to live differently. He experimented with forms of withdrawal from society, including years of living as a cave-dwelling hermit, before eventually founding a large religious community at Monte Cassino, halfway between Rome and Naples.

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The Rule was written towards the end of his life, a direct product of his reflections and experiences. It offered a framework for a radically different kind of life, explicitly set apart from the social hierarchies and economic imperatives of the wider world. Benedict imagined a life of stability, community and measure; one devoted to the care for souls and, ultimately, to spiritual salvation.

Many of Benedict’s rules were pragmatic rather than ideological: who should be served their dinner first, how to make sure everyone wakes up on time for night prayers, when to schedule toilet breaks. His Rule is preoccupied with all the gritty detail of creaturely routines, because these habitual concerns were fundamental to the smooth running of a community. Benedict believed that if a community functioned well, it made space for its members to engage with the meaning of life beyond the everyday.

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Curating Living by the Rule: Contemporary Meets Medieval, we were aware that the idea of “living by the rule” might sound off-putting to some visitors – too close to simply doing what you’re told. It also sits uneasily with the individualism of our age, in which meaning is often framed in terms of personal fulfilment or even “optimisation”. Rules, by contrast, point to our dependence on others and the obligations that come with it.

It is important, though, not to confuse Benedict’s “Rule” with modern laws or regulations. The term comes from the Greek kanon, via the Latin regula, meaning a pattern, model or yardstick: something to guide judgment rather than dictate behaviour. Unlike modern faith in impersonal rules, Benedict’s approach is strikingly flexible. Nothing is so fixed that it cannot be adapted, or even set aside, in light of different people and circumstances.

Translating these ideas into an exhibition was far from straightforward.

At the heart of our work was the conviction that something fascinating emerges when medieval objects are brought into dialogue with contemporary artworks. Rather than organising the exhibition around a single theme or subject, we were interested in something more fundamental: art’s relationship to lived experience and how it shapes, and is shaped by, the forms of life around it.

This also required taking the radical break between the medieval and the modern seriously. There are, of course, points of deep resonance between monastic life and today’s world – in the shaping of institutions, for example, or in how we structure time. Yet the rise of modern mass societies also introduced conditions that make any straightforward translation of Benedict’s Rule into contemporary social life far from simple.

Importantly, the monks were experimenting with a different way of living – and of living together. As Benedict puts it, this way has to differ from the world’s way.

Modern artists, too, have often tried to operate at a distance from the world – its priorities, habits and ways of seeing. For a long time, art has not been tied to any clearly shared social function or agreed purpose. Instead, it has come to exist at a remove from everyday life, a shift that brings both losses (in stable purpose and patronage) and gains (in new creative and entrepreneurial freedoms). Modern art, in this sense, becomes an experiment in another way of doing things – though one that remains entangled with the very world it seems to resist.

So what happens when the medieval monastery meets contemporary art? The sections of the exhibition and its accompanying book explore principles that are both attractive and repulsive to us now.

These include stabilitas – the expectation that monks remain within their monastery for life; obedience, expressed in submission to the authority of the abbot; the renunciation of private property in favour of shared ownership based on use and need; and a life oriented above all towards prayer. Together, these demanding and remarkably enduring principles offer a striking way to view the present, unsettling some of our basic assumptions about how life is organised and what it is for.

We invite visitors to leap from the medieval to contemporary and back again, without knowing exactly what they will find. We hope the results are vivid and unexpected, throwing up questions and offering plenty of food for thought – unfamiliar ideas and experiences to be chewed over and digested.

The rules we live by today – whether chosen or inherited – are the product of historical forces. Art reminds us that life is never fixed, and that it can always be organised differently.

Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval is at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich until October 4 2026.