AS venues go, The Arts Barge offers something refreshingly different.

Moored in York’s Foss Basin, the venue provides an intimacy that few traditional spaces can match, and for a band like The Ocelots, whose music thrives on closeness, subtlety and connection, it proved to be an ideal setting.

Wexford, Ireland twin brothers Ashley and Brandon Watson arrived in York carrying the quiet momentum of their growing reputation on the UK, European and Australian folk circuit with a sound and style reminiscent of Keane, Turin Breaks and The Dunwells.

Their music is built on what might best be described as blood harmony, that unmistakable sibling vocal blend that feels both instinctive and deeply personal, and it was clear from the outset that the audience understood they were in for something special.

Opening with a cover of the Tom Waites classic Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night with a stripped-back arrangement of acoustic guitar, flute and vocal, The Ocelots immediately drew the audience in.

There was an honesty to their performance that resists theatrics as the duo leaned into their material with a sincerity that allows the songs to unfold.

Tonight’s setlist included Landlords, The Good of a Bad Year, Addlepated and Pulling at the Stops, songs that move between reflective, melancholic and quiet optimism, their songwriting rooted in themes of mental health, childhood Catholicism and relationships.

The Ocelots at The Arts Barge in York. Photo by Gareth John

The Ocelots deliver a rich literary quality and, on the Arts Barge, where the audience sits almost within touching distance, every lyric landed with clarity. There was a charming interplay between the brothers throughout and a looseness to their performance with a willingness to embrace imperfections in timing and delivery to create a lived-in feel.

Tracks Frank Sinatra, Side of Yourself, Front Door Key and Can’t Even Say Your Name were all excellent, delivered in a set where the charm lay in a sense of spontaneity of songs unfolding in real time. Instrumentally, the duo added subtle layers to their sound, incorporating harmonica and variations in guitar and banjo tuning that gave texture to their arrangements.

The Arts Barge itself played a key part in the evening’s success and as the evening air cooled the room, the setting amplified the band’s introspective mood. Between songs, the brothers engaged the audience with an easy warmth, their understated humour reinforcing the sense of intimacy.

The Ocelots at The Arts Barge in York. Photo by Gareth John

The flow of the performance felt deliberate, guiding the audience through a series of reflective spaces before building towards a more assured conclusion.

By the time the final song arrived, a cover of Keane’s Everybody’s Changing, there was a quiet sense of collective appreciation in the room. This was not a night of grand gestures or explosive climaxes but something more rewarding with a reminder of the power of simplicity and of well-crafted songs delivered with authenticity. This evening’s performances stood out for its restraint and emotional clarity and in a setting as unique as The Arts Barge, The Ocelots delivered a performance that felt entirely at home, unforced, engaging and quietly memorable.

A man suffered an arm injury consistent with a firearm being used

A scene was put in place after a man was shot in a horror incident in Liverpool on Wednesday night (June 3). Police and paramedics attended the scene in Toxteth at around 8.40pm.

Officers were called to Carlingford Close following reports that a 19-year-old man had suffered an injury to his arm consistent with a firearm being used, Merseyside Police said.

The incident is thought to have happened in the Upper Parliament Street area. The victim was rushed to hospital from the scene to be treated.

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An investigation is now underway into the incident, with house-to-house and CCTV enquiries being carried out by detectives. Anyone with information is being urged to contact police immediately.

Detective Inspector Jay Boardman said: “We are in the very early stages of this investigation and we are seeking witnesses and CCTV and Ring doorbell footage to piece together what has happened.

“Firearms and the reckless people who choose to carry and use them have no place on the streets of Merseyside and we would ask for the public’s help to locate who is responsible and bring them to justice.”

Anyone with information should contact Merseyside Police social media desk via X or Facebook @MerPolCC or call 101 quoting incident reference 1010 of 3 June. Alternatively, contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury have welcomed their second child together

Love Island stars Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury have announced the arrival of their second child together, sharing the joyful news with fans via an Instagram post.

Molly wrote: “….and then there were 4,” with a white love heart. The post was met with huge congratulations in the comments section.

The couple’s announcement was met with an outpouring of well-wishes from fans, with one commenting: “Congratulations to yous this is amazing,” while another enthused: “Ahhhhh congratulations.”

Although the pair kept the gender of their newborn under wraps, one eager fan speculated: “Am going to guess BOY xx”

Molly-Mae had initially surprised followers in February when she announced her pregnancy, having already quietly shared the news with close family and friends. At the time she disclosed she was already six months along, posting a throwback snap from her L’Oreal catwalk appearance the previous September, reports the Mirror.

And Molly-Mae captioned her post: “Little baby with me in this moment… and I didn’t even know.” Resharing her pregnancy announcement, she added: “Nearly 6 months on… and it still hasn’t sunk in.”

The couple’s three year old daughter Bambi featured prominently in the announcement, appearing in a touching black and white family photograph shared by Molly-Mae.

The pair have been an item since their appearance on Love Island back in 2019, aside from a brief period apart in 2024.

City have long been admirers of Newcastle academy graduate Anderson. The player is currently preparing for the tournament in the US, Canada and Mexico, but club-to-club talks can continue to take place.

Captain Bernardo Silva’s exit means City are looking to bolster their midfield and Anderson tops the list of potential targets.

Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali is another player understood to be highly rated by City, with reports, external suggesting the Italy international has been monitored as a long-term target.

Nico Gonzalez, who missed out on a place in the Spain squad for the World Cup and also fell out of favour under Pep Guardiola last season, may depart if the right offer comes in.

Sources indicate City are also looking to sign a right-back to supplement Matheus Nunes, 28, who excelled in the position this season after being converted from midfield.

City are eyeing the profile of a young full-back and one who is a natural in that position that can grow into the role in the future.

Tata carried out a controlled demolition of a gas holder earlier on Wednesday evening. There is no suggestion that the earlier demolition of the gas holder, which the company said was done safely, is linked to the ongoing incident at the site.

Earlier on Wednesday local residents said their homes “shook” as a result of the demolition of the gas holder. The company apologised for any inconvenience caused.

They said: “People working and living in the Port Talbot area may have just heard a loud noise emanating from the Port Talbot steelworks.

“This was the result of the planned demolition of the empty, redundant coke ovens gas holder, which has been completed safely as part of the ongoing engineering works on the site. The gas holder ceased operation with the closure of the site’s heavy-end in September 2024.

“This demolition was required to make space for future raw materials handling areas for the new three million tonne per year capacity electric arc furnace.

“Our thanks goes to the whole team involved from Tata Steel and our contractor partners Thompson of Prudhoe and PDC, in what was a complex programme of work. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

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The new Call of Duty season adds a multiplayer map inspired by the Backrooms.

It’s shaping up to be a big week for Call of Duty fans, as Activision releases a brand new season of content on PlayStation, Xbox and PC.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 4 adds a ton of new content in both games, including new maps, new modes, new Endgame content, new weapons, new gameplay features and a new Battle Pass with a variety of rewards.

If you’ve been itching for some new content to enjoy in Black Ops 7, Warzone, or both, then the good news is that you don’t have long to wait before Season 4 makes its debut.

Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 4 has a June 4 release date on consoles and PC. The new content will officially go live at 5pm BST UK time.

That’s 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on June 4 for fans living in the US, or 6pm CET for European players.

To make sure you don’t miss a second of the action, fans can actually download and install the update ahead of schedule.

Pre-loading the update is most certainly worth doing, because the update weighs in at a whopping 45GB.

Leipzig Zoo in central Germany is a world-leading centre of great ape research. Recent studies have seen chimpanzees there using touchscreen controls to navigate virtual forests and locate food rewards – applying similar techniques to what they would use in the wild.

Other research (of which I was part) has investigated chimpanzees’ social curiosity. We discovered they actively seek out information about others’ interactions, even if it means forgoing food rewards. Keeping track of their peers’ latest social developments appears central to these great apes’ social wellbeing.

But in my decade working with Leipzig Zoo’s chimpanzees and bonobos, one question came up repeatedly. Were differences in how each great ape would cooperate and resolve conflicts simply down to its mood on a particular day? Or were there longer-term explanations – deep-rooted personality traits, for example, or their relationship history with other apes?

Long-term questions like this are very difficult to tackle in single studies, which often draw on just a handful of participants. So, my colleagues and I have developed EVApeCognition: a standardised database of 18 years’ worth of great ape experiences, decisions and relationships.

This lays the groundwork for answering many more questions about these extraordinary creatures’ cognition, intelligence and social behaviour. If a bonobo showed striking generosity towards a partner in 2008, for example, we can piece together whether that behaviour was linked with their stable disposition, a particular relationship, or some other factor.

Changing how we study great apes

In all, EVApeCognition comprises 262 experimental datasets from 150 scientific publications between 2004 and 2021. These were all overseen by the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre, headquartered at Leipzig Zoo. Eighty-one great apes participated in these studies, with the vast majority (78) taking part in more than one.

These wide-ranging social cognition studies have assessed how great apes think about other apes, how they cooperate, and to what extent they are motivated to help their peers. But there have been limitations to this research.

In the wild, great apes are social animals who live in stable groups with histories, hierarchies and relationships that change over time. In contrast, a large majority of the studies in our database were with apes in pairs that imposed strict control conditions.

So, moving to larger-group studies could offer a more ecologically relevant window on their cognition and social behaviour. Group settings can present apes with different problems that map more closely on to the social challenges they face every day in the wild.

Our most recent study, led by Kirsten Sutherland at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, found that great ape quartets maintained access to a pool of yoghurt for significantly longer than pairs did. Social tolerance played a key role, with more tolerant quartets maintaining access to the yoghurt for longer periods.

We found that cooperation was strongest when the highest-ranking individual showed restraint, emphasising the importance of tolerant leadership.

The new database also highlights an imbalance running through captive great ape research: chimpanzees dominate the record, while bonobos, gorillas and orangutans remain comparatively underrepresented.

Bonobos – which, unlike chimpanzees, are known to cooperate in the wild outside the limits of their group’s territory – would be particularly compelling subjects for this research shift towards studying larger groups.

Closing the gap with wild settings

Experimental performance does not occur in a social vacuum. A great ape’s willingness to cooperate on a task on a given Tuesday may not only reflect its intelligence, but whether it groomed its partner that morning, or if its status had changed within the group.

Providing this context is essential to understanding how everyday experience and social relations shape their cognitive development. Fortunately, the field is moving in promising directions, with the EVApeCognition database one piece of a larger picture.

The global ManyPrimates project, established in 2017, has already produced the most comprehensive overview of primate short-term memory. This shows that genetic lineage has played a larger role than ecology or sociality in the evolution of their short-term memory.

At the level of higher-order reasoning, we now know that chimpanzees update their beliefs by considering all sources of information before making a choice. A 2025 study showed they remained committed to an initial belief when counter-evidence was weaker, but revised this when the supporting evidence became stronger – a pattern long thought to be distinctly human.

Perhaps most ambitiously, the divide between captive and wild settings is also beginning to close. Research led by Sofie Forss at the University of Zurich, for example, has found a systematic “captivity effect” when presenting the same new stimuli to both wild and captive orangutans. The wild individuals responded far more cautiously to novelty than their zoo-housed counterparts.

Taken together, these efforts point in a common direction: toward an understanding of great ape cognition that is at once broader in scope, richer in context, and more faithful to the complexity of their social lives.

The Hampshire police chief has apologised for his officers’ actions surrounding the arrest of dying student Henry Nowak but has insisted he won’t resign.

Bodyworn camera footage shows Henry Nowak telling police ‘I’ve been stabbed, I can’t breathe’ before an officer replied ‘I don’t think you have, mate’.

Police read Henry his rights and put him in handcuffs as the 18-year-old bled to death from a 7cm knife wound to his chest.

His killer, Vickrum Digwa, 23, insisted that he was the victim, telling officers he had a bruised eye and lied, saying that Henry had not been knifed.

Digwa has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of the University of Southampton student.

Despite one of the arresting officers resigning, a protest march turned violent ending in 11 police officers being injured as men tried to get to the spot Henry was killed.

The day after the riots, Alexis Boon, head of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary apologised for his officers’ actions.

Asked what he would now say to the family, Boon told the BBC: ‘I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this.’

He said: ‘I am clear we are sorry for handcuffing and arresting Henry, but I don’t know if that is cutting through for people. We understand it and are genuinely sorry.’

He called the student’s death a ‘tragedy from start to finish’ but added: ‘I don’t accept the term of two-tier policing, I don’t recognise it.’

He added that those involved in the disorder had been ‘determined to spark fear and division’.

He said: ‘What we, as a society, cannot accept is the violent scenes we saw in Southampton last night.

‘Some clearly arrived intent on causing disorder and trouble. We saw bottles thrown, makeshift weapons used, damage caused to the homes and vehicles of innocent residents and threats and violence directed towards our officers.

‘As a result, 11 officers and one police dog were injured, while trying to do their job to protect the communities that we serve.’

Mr Boon added: ‘It is not for me to tell politicians what to say. Politicians have a platform and a responsibility to ensure that they support the police and that violence does not ensue and I don’t think any politician wants to see violence spark out on the streets of Southampton or anywhere else.

‘I think everyone would condemn what happened last night.’

Southampton community leaders have accused the far right of bussing people into the city to ‘fuel’ violence to further their own agenda following the murder.

Members of the far-right were seen flashing Nazi salutes to police before flaming bins were pushed at them.

John Savage, a Labour representative for the Portswood ward of Southampton City Council where the disorder took place, described the violence as ‘absolutely outrageous’.

He added: ‘Mark Nowak, Henry’s father, clearly stated that he didn’t want anything to cause further division and tension in the area and that’s exactly what has happened it seems they are doing it for their own aims, their own agenda and it’s not welcome here.’

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Air pollution that spews from climate change-fueled wildfires, fossil fuel-burning power plants, artificial intelligence-generating data centers and gas-guzzling cars may be making you forgetful, a new study shows.

People with the highest levels of exposure to the microscopic particles over nearly 20 years scored lower on memory tests asking them to remember facts, words and general knowledge than others exposed to lower levels of pollution, researchers at U.C. Davis Health and the health care company Kaiser Permanente said Wednesday.

The results were similar to what researchers would expect from 10 years of normal aging and affect semantic memory: a crucial type of memory for everyday life.

“Semantic memory is essential for communication, comprehension and navigating everyday life,” the study’s senior author Kathryn Conlon, an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, explained in a statement.

“Our findings suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution doesn’t just affect physical health — it may also shape how the brain ages, particularly in ways that matter for independence and quality of life,” she said.

There wasn’t the same impact for all types of memory.

Tests of verbal episodic memory, or the ability to recall certain events and experiences, and executive function, which helps with focus and remembering instructions, did not show an impact related to PM2.5 pollution, the type emitted from coal-burning plants, vehicles and industrial sources.

The researchers say that suggests there are declines in specific and distinct areas of memory, rather than to a person’s overall intellect.

The data for the study came from Kaiser Permanente’s 2017 Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans, including the majority of the study’s 750 adult participants who live in California’s Bay Area.

The researchers worked out the participants’ level of exposure to the pollution by determining estimated levels at their homes over the course of 17 years.

They assessed their cognitive performance using tests at the five, 10 and 17 years marks.

Disproportionate disease

Black Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia compared to their white counterparts, according to the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Past research shows the group has more risk factors for the disease, like diabetes and high blood pressure, and people of color disproportionately live in areas most affected by pollution.

Black Americans have a higher risk of premature death in these communities, the American Lung Association reports, and show higher rates of cognitive impairment likely because they are not seeking treatment until the disease advances, Alzheimers.gov explains.

“Many Black older adults tend to seek medical treatment when they encounter neuropsychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions and personality changes, but delay help for memory problems, which are often viewed as a normal part of aging,” the site says.

A longstanding modifiable harm

The new research also builds on years of past research showing the possible harms of PM2.5 particulate matter, including an increased risk of premature death, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Past studies had also tied air pollution to more dementia cases and worsened Alzheimer’s disease. Some research has identified a modest link between wildfire smoke exposure and dementia.

A study from earlier this year found that air pollution raised the risk of amyloid plaques – clusters of proteins that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease – in older Americans with cognitive impairment.

“Understanding environmental contributors to cognitive decline is critical for addressing disparities in dementia risk,” Rachel Whitmer, co-author of the new study and the co-director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UC Davis Health said. “Air pollution is a modifiable exposure. That makes it a powerful target for prevention — both at the individual level and through public policy.”

People can reduce their risk of exposure by limiting outdoor activity on days with high air pollution levels, using air filters indoors, keeping windows closed and avoiding exercising near busy roads.

During this difficult period Konate was also carrying the burden of knowing his father was seriously ill.

“I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know whether I should go home and stop playing, because the team needed me too,” he added.

“I didn’t know who to talk to about it, so I kept it all to myself. And this is the advice I’d give to everyone: when you’re feeling down or something’s going on, you need to talk to those around you.

“It can help you and do you good. I didn’t talk about it and kept it to myself.

“The doctors then told us he didn’t have long to live, but we didn’t know it would happen so quickly.”

Konate returned early from compassionate leave to help Liverpool avert an injury crisis at the end of January but the centre-back conceded that things were never quite right.

He made 51 appearances across the 2025-26 campaign, 49 as a starter, but was unable to consistently produce the best form he had displayed across his previous four seasons on Merseyside as Liverpool finished fifth in the Premier League.

Konate, who has been capped 27 times by France, is part of Didier Deschamps’ 26-man squad for the World Cup, with Les Bleus among the favourites.

“There was never a moment when I felt like I was on the mend,” he added.

“All of these tragic events happened so quickly and as soon as I felt like I was getting my head above water, something else happened.

“I had the support of all these fans, who are exceptional at Liverpool, my team-mates and especially my family but I also had to learn how to get back on my feet on my own because the team needed me more than ever and I know that my father would have wanted me to get back.”

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