Sunday night at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, hundreds of nominees and famous faces assembled to celebrate the 2025-2026 Broadway season. After the first part of the ceremony, The Tony Awards: Act One, revealed a slew of winners in the technical and creative categories, the national broadcast was hosted for the first time by Grammy-winning singer Pink live on CBS with streaming on Paramount+.
Schmigadoon! scored the top prize, winning the coveted Best Musical category, along with Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations, and Best Book of a Musical.
Newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner Liberation won Best Play, while Ragtime won Best Revival of a Musical along with several acting and technical awards for a grand total of four Tonys.
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John Lithgow took home the first acting trophy of the evening for his role as Roald Dahl in Giant, setting a new record as the oldest man to win a competitive acting Tony at 80 years old.Laurie Metcalf won for her supporting turn in the Nathan Lane-led revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, which scored several trophies including the coveted Best Revival prize for a total of six Tonys — the most of any individual production.
First-time Tony Awards host Pink performed in several numbers throughout the evening (Reuters)
Broadway fan-favorite Shoshana Bean nabbed her first-ever trophy for her featured role in the new musical The Lost Boys, offering a heartfelt acceptance speech. Moments later, her co-star Ali Louis Bourzgui won for his supporting role as vampire leader David in the adaptation of the 1987 flick.
In addition to featuring performances from nominated musicals, the broadcast included tributes to a handful of Broadway shows celebrating milestone anniversaries, including The Book of Mormon, Chicago, A Chorus Line, and Rent.
Find the full list of 2026 Tony winners below.
‘Schmigadoon!’ producer Lorne Michaels accepted the Tony Award for Best Musical (Reuters)
Best Musical
The Lost Boys
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Schmigadoon! (WINNER)
Titaníque
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
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Nicholas Christopher — Chess
Luke Evans — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Joshua Henry — Ragtime (WINNER)
Sam Tutty — Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
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Brandon Uranowitz — Ragtime
Joshua Henry won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical award for ‘Ragtime’ (Getty)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sara Chase — Schmigadoon!
Stephanie Hsu — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Caissie Levy — Ragtime (WINNER)
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Marla Mindelle — Titaníque
Christiani Pitts — Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Best Revival of a Play
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (WINNER)
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Becky Shaw
Every Brilliant Thing
Fallen Angels
Oedipus
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Nathan Lane accepted the award for Best Revival of a Play for ‘Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman’ (Reuters)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Christopher Abbott — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Danny Burstein — Marjorie Prime
Brandon J. Dirden — Waiting for Godot
Alden Ehrenreich — Becky Shaw (WINNER)
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson —August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Richard Thomas — The Balusters
Best Revival of a Musical
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
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Ragtime (WINNER)
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Lear deBessonet accepted the Best Revival of a Musical award for ‘Ragtime’ (Getty)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Rose Byrne — Fallen Angels
Kelli O’Hara — Fallen Angels
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Carrie Coon — Bug
Susannah Flood — Liberation
Lesley Manville — Oedipus (WINNER)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
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Ali Louis Bourzgui — The Lost Boys (WINNER)
André De Shields — Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Bryce Pinkham — Chess
Ben Levi Ross — Ragtime
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Layton Williams — Titaníque
Ali Louis Bourzgui took home the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical award for ‘The Lost Boys’ (Getty)
Best Play
The Balusters
Giant
Liberation (WINNER)
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Little Bear Ridge Road
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Shoshana Bean — The Lost Boys (WINNER)
Hannah Cruz — Chess
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Rachel Dratch — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Ana Gasteyer — Schmigadoon!
Nichelle Lewis — Ragtime
Shoshana Bean won the Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for ‘The Lost Boys’ (Getty)
Best Direction of a Play
Nicholas Hytner — Giant
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Robert Icke — Oedipus
Kenny Leon — The Balusters
Joe Mantello — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (WINNER)
Whitney White — Liberation
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Best Direction of a Musical
Michael Arden — The Lost Boys
Lear deBessonet — Ragtime
Christopher Gattelli — Schmigadoon!
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Tim Jackson — Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch — Cats: The Jellicle Ball (WINNER)
Bill Rauch and Zhailon Levingston accepted the award for Best Direction of a Musical award for ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ (Reuters)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Betsy Aidem — Liberation
Marylouise Burke — The Balusters
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Aya Cash — Giant
Laurie Metcalf — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (WINNER)
June Squibb — Marjorie Prime
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
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Will Harrison — Punch
Nathan Lane — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
John Lithgow — Giant (WINNER)
Daniel Radcliffe — Every Brilliant Thing
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Mark Strong — Oedipus
John Lithgow received the Tony Award for Lead Actor in a Play for ‘Giant’ (Reuters)
Best Choreography
Christopher Gattelli — Schmigadoon!
Ellenore Scott — Ragtime
Ani Taj — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
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Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons — Cats: The Jellicle Ball (WINNER)
Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant — The Lost Boys
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
dots — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
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Soutra Gilmour — Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Rachel Huack — Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Dane Laffrey — The Lost Boys (WINNER)
Scott Pask — Schmigadoon!
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Dane Laffrey posed after winning a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for ‘The Lost Boys’ (Getty)
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Hildegard Bechtler — Oedipus
Takeshi Kata — Bug
Chloe Lamford — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (WINNER)
David Korins — Dog Day Afternoon
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David Rockwell — Fallen Angels
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams — Chess
Jane Cox — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
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Donald Holder — Schmigadoon!
Adam Honoré — Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Adam Honoré and Donald Holder — Ragtime
Jen Schriever and Michael Arden — The Lost Boys (WINNER)
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Michael Arden and Jen Schriever won for their lighting design on ‘The Lost Boys’ (Getty)
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Isabella Byrd — Dog Day Afternoon
Natasha Chivers — Oedipus
Stacey Derosier — August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Heather Gilbert — Bug
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Heather Gilbert — The Fear of 13
Jack Knowles — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (WINNER)
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman — Music by Caroline Shaw
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August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone — Music by Steve Bargonetti
The Lost Boys — Music & Lyrics by The Rescues
Schmigadoon! — Music & Lyrics by Cinco Paul (WINNER)
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) — Music & Lyrics by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
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Cinco Paul took home two awards for ‘Schmigadoon!’ (Reuters)
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Kai Harada — Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Kai Harada — Ragtime (WINNER)
Adam Fisher — The Lost Boys
Brian Ronan — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
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Walter Trarbach — Schmigadoon!
Best Sound Design of a Play
Justin Ellington — August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Tom Gibbons — Oedipus
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Lee Kinney — The Fear of 13
Josh Schmidt — Bug
Mikaal Sulaiman — Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (WINNER)
Mikaal Sulaiman won the Best Sound Design of a Play award for ‘Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman’ (Getty)
Best Orchestrations
Doug Besterman and Mike Morris — Schmigadoon! (WINNER)
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Ethan Popp, Kyler England, Adrianne “AG” Gonzalez and Gabriel Mann — The Lost Boys
Lux Pyramid — Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Brian Usifer — Chess
Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Wilson, Trevor Holder and Doug Schadt — Cats: The Jellicle Ball
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Best Costume Design of a Musical
Linda Cho — Ragtime
Linda Cho — Schmigadoon!
Qween Jean — Cats: The Jellicle Ball (WINNER)
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Ryan Park — The Lost Boys
David I. Reynoso — Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Qween Jean won for costume design on ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ (Getty)
Best Costume Design of a Play
Brenda Abbandandolo — Dog Day Afternoon
Qween Jean — Liberation
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Jeff Mahshie — Fallen Angels (WINNER)
Emilio Sosa — The Balusters
Paul Tazewell — August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Best Book of a Musical
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David Hornsby and Chris Hoch — The Lost Boys
Cinco Paul — Schmigadoon! (WINNER)
Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue — Titaníque
Jim Barne and Kit Buchan — Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
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Special Tony Awards:
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: producer André Bishop, lighting designer Jules Fisher and director James Lapine
Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award: music director Mary-Mitchell Campbell
Excellence in Theatre Education Award: Freddie Hendricks
Regional Theatre Tony Award: American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: production manager Jake Bell, designer and creative director Kenn Lubin, theatre lawyer Loren Plotkin and the 1/52 Project
Special Tony Award: The League of Resident Theatres (LORT)
Thomas McMahon admitted bringing painkillers to his son Joseph Peers
11:50, 08 Jun 2026Updated 11:52, 08 Jun 2026
A man tried to pass drugs to his imprisoned murderer son hidden in a crisp packet.
Prison staff caught dad Thomas McMahon making the move when visiting Joseph Peers in HMP Full Sutton.
Peers was the getaway driver involved in the murder of 28-year-old Ashley Dale.
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McMahon, 64, admitted bringing in the prohibited painkillers into the Yorkshire prison on June 22 last year.
It holds some of the country’s most dangerous and high-risk prisoners in the country, including serial killers and terrorists.
Julia Baggs, prosecuting, told Hull Crown Court how McMahon and two women were visiting Peers, who was convicted for the murder of Ashley Dale, but during the visit staff noticed McMahon moving his mouth before putting an item inside a crisp packet.
Identical crisp packets were on a table in front of the group and they were “rotated” and moved around several times. This aroused suspicion and CCTV pictures showed McMahon’s crisp packet being moved on the table.
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Staff found that there were 14 white, oval-shaped tablets inside it. “Custodial settings are notoriously rife with controlled and uncontrolled drugs”, said Miss Baggs.
“It’s a high net-worth currency. All matters involving the transportation of prohibited items into prison are very serious but this is not any sort of large-scale operation.”
McMahon was arrested and claimed his son had been suffering back and knee pain and that he was worried about him. The tablets were to help his son with this.
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The prosecution did not accept this explanation but did not seek to challenge it, the court heard.
“It was a prescribed medication for pain relief but it is abused and is bought and sold on the black market,” said Miss Baggs.
McMahon had convictions for 23 previous offences, most recently in September 2023 for being over the drug limit for cannabis. He had returned from a trip to Amsterdam at the time, Hull Live reports.
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Billy Torbett, mitigating, said that McMahon’s previous conviction for drug-driving in 2023 came after he took a trip to Amsterdam because of the stress of his son’s murder trial. When he returned, there was still cannabis in his system while driving.
Father-of-four McMahon had no previous convictions for drugs possession or supply. He brought the drugs into Full Sutton Prison because his son was suffering pain from an injury.
The painkillers had previously been prescribed for himself to treat chronic pain but he had not used them. “He knows he has made a significant error in judgement, to say the least”, said Mr Torbett.
“He is immensely remorseful for his actions. He understands that he has made a significant error here, an error which he regrets.
“It was the simple passing of pain management drugs to his son. He is under no illusions about the seriousness of it.
“He has largely remained out of trouble for 34 years apart from that driving conviction in 2023.” McMahon was still banned from visiting his son at the prison and this had caused emotional problems for him.
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Recorder Taryn Turner told McMahon: “This is serious offending. This was in a custodial environment where there has to be the maintenance of order.
“Drugs equals currency, in monetary terms perhaps not, but nevertheless. You brought in a quantity of tablets, concealed from view.
“These tablets, you well knew, were prohibited items. The risk created is substantial. You were visiting your son, who is serving a sentence for murder.
“This was a serious lapse in your judgement.” Drugs in prisons fuelled violence, intimidation and debt, said Recorder Turner.
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McMahon, of Dunchurch Road, Knotty Ash, was given a six-month suspended prison sentence, ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work and 15 days of rehabilitation activity requirement days.
Peers was the getaway driver on the night of Ashley’s murder on August 21, 2022, with the care worker being shot in the abdomen with a Skorpion sub-machince gun at her home in Leinster Road as part of a plot to kill her boyfriend Lee Harrison.
Peers, then aged 29, was said to have been the getaway driver for a gunman, James Witham, who had discharged a hail of bullets in Ashley’s dining room as she fled through the back door of her home.
On November 22, 2023, Peers was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 41 years for the murder of Ashley Dale, conspiracy to murder Lee Harrison, and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon with intent to endanger life.
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He will be 70 years old before he is eligible for release.
Katie has so far been unsuccessful in her attempts to visit Lee behind bars
Katie Price has said when she’ll be ‘done’ with her husband Lee Andrews as he finally admitted to being subject to a travel ban after sparking suspicion when he failed to appear in the UK for his first TV interview with his new wife.
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The former glamour model confirmed that her husband was being held at Dubai’s notorious Al Awir prison after being arrested and detained on suspicion of espionage.
It came after she previously claimed that Lee had been kidnapped after she received a string of concerning messages before he was due to board a flight from the United Arab Emirates, where he lives in Dubai, with a plan of appearing on Good Morning Britain alongside Katie for their first joint interview.
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“He has a travel ban, he did eventually tell me. I said to him, ‘No one will b****y care if you’ve got a flight ban. It’s not a big deal!’” she toldThe Sun. “The big deal is, you keep videoing, saying you’re at the airport, and you’re coming to England, and you don’t turn up.”
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Katie has so far been unsuccessful in her attempts to visit Lee behind bars, but once she does get to speak to him and has subsequently vowed to end their marriage if she isn’t happy with what he has to say.
She told thenewspaper: “I’m not a mug and when I finally see Lee, I’m going to question him. And if the answers I get aren’t right, that’ll be it, I’ll be done. That’s it. And I’ll just get on with my life… and not find a man on Instagram.”
Katie added: “My eyes have been opened. I just need some time to think. I still cannot end things with Lee until I’ve spoken to him but that was a lot.”
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Also in her first interview regarding the whole saga, she insisted that despite rumours that it was all a ploy for publicity, it was all a genuine situation that she had found herself in. She said: “This is real, this is real life; this is my life.
“It has been a tough few weeks, don’t get me wrong. But I’ve still stayed strong through it all, and I have a smile on my face. So, in this situation, I’m doing what I want to do, and I’m out here in Dubai, because I’m here to help Lee.”
She’s also spoken to former partners of Lee. Katie said: “I am not ignoring these women… One day, who knows, if I’m not with Lee, I would meet up with them. Just for clarity. But right now, I’m sticking up for myself. He’s got a side of the story, so have these women.
“So I think it’s really unfair as well, just to listen to what these women are saying because there’s always two sides to every story. I cannot just walk away from my marriage without seeing him again. He is, surely, entitled to his say.”
A previous planning agreement meant that the restaurant could open 24/7 for two years before it had to seek further permission
Darren Calpin, Local Democracy Reporter
09:55, 08 Jun 2026Updated 10:03, 08 Jun 2026
A popular fast food outlet near a city centre retail park is looking to maintain its around-the-clock opening hours.
The McDonald’s Drive Thru restaurant at Morrisons supermarket next to Brotherhood Retail Park has requested permission to maintain its current 24/7 trading hours from Peterborough City Council.
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Documents submitted to the council’s Planning Services department on behalf of McDonald’s by Savills real estate services state the application has been made “in order to enable the restaurant to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
The application has been made to offset previous planning permission requirements agreed two years ago.
In 2024, a planning agreement granted around-the-clock opening with a condition (Condition 4) which stipulated the restaurant would revert back to non-24/7 opening times.
It said: “Within 24 months of the date of this decision the site shall cease operating 24 hours, 7 days per week.”
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The current application seeks “continued use of the [Lincoln Road] site, without compliance with Condition 4 of the 2024 Permission”.
The application states that the Lincoln Road restaurant’s capability to successfully operate around-the-clock has been evident.
“Over the course of the 24 months, members of the public and the Council have not raised any issues with regard to the additional hours of trading during the temporary period,” Savills noted.
“As such, the 24/7 operations have not caused any disturbance relating to noise or anti-social behaviour.”
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The document concludes by saying the proposed extension will “ensure that the restaurant is better able to meet the demands of its established customer base and enhance its overall efficiency”.
The roads have been closed while the bus is recovered from the area.
A number of roads have been closed after a bus crashed into a garden near Glasgow.
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The incident happened on Mill Road in Clydebank this morning, Monday, June 8, at around 6am. It is not believed anyone was injured but a number of passengers were checked over by paramedics at the scene.
Police closed down several road in the area to allow for the bus to be recovered.
Pictures show a number of uniformed police officers standing on the road behind the bus. Debris from the crash can be seen under the bus, which lies deep in a hedge inside a residential garden.
Police Scotland confirmed four roads have been closed this morning following the collision.
A spokesperson for the force said: “Mill Road in Clydebank is closed following a single vehicle crash, involving a bus, which happened around 6am on Monday, 8 June.
“Emergency services attended and passengers were checked by paramedics at the scene. “Closures are in place from the train station, Millburn Avenue, East Barns Street and Yoker Mill Road, to allow for vehicle recovery.”
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Rory McIlroy finished in a tie for 12th at the Memorial Tournament but the Northern Irishman is focused on improving ahead of the US Open at Shinnecock Hills
11:12, 08 Jun 2026Updated 11:21, 08 Jun 2026
Rory McIlroy has acknowledged feeling “limited” with his driving at present and conceded he needs to improve before next week’s US Open.
While he believes most aspects of his game are in solid shape ahead of the third major of the year, which begins on 18 June, McIlroy expressed his disappointment with his driving performance at Muirfield Village.
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He managed to hit just 30 of 56 fairways during the tournament, though the six-time major champion is drawing comfort from the fact that conditions at Shinnecock Hills should prove more manageable off the tee.
“Off the tee still wasn’t where I want it to be. I feel limited at the minute. Thankfully the fairways at Shinnecock are a little wider than they are here.
“I need to work on how I’m hitting it off the tee. But everything else, (my) putting felt pretty good for the most part and my iron play and wedges were pretty nice.
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“I’ll just try to keep getting a little bit better each and every day heading into Shinnecock.”
McIlroy flew back to the UK on Sunday night and plans to return to the United States this weekend, heading straight to Long Island in New York, where the US Open will take place.
“Overall, (it was) not a bad week, got some good stuff out of it, and I’ve got a week to prep and get ready for Shinnecock,” he added.
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Boris formed Monday and is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding and possible mudslides to parts of southern Mexico’s Pacific coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Boris was located about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of Acapulco and 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Punta Maldonado, according to the Miami-based weather center. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving northeast at 5 mph (7 kph).
Boris was expected to make a turn to the north, bringing rainfall of 4 to 10 inches (10 to 25 centimeters) to coastal portions of the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca through Monday night.
“This rainfall may produce life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in areas of steep terrain,” the center said.
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A tropical storm warning was in effect from Laguna de Chacahua in Oaxaca to Tecpan de Galeana in Guerrera, with tropical storm conditions expected in the area within 24 hours.
Boris is the second named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, which started May 15. Tropical Storm Amanda formed June 3 far out to sea, posing no threat to land.
The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1, but no cyclones have formed in that basin yet this year.
The band had previously set their sights on securing their first number with new single, Fever, but guitarist Turnbull Smith said they were “absolutely buzzing” to land the fourth spot.
“We’re absolutely buzzing to be in at number four in the UK official vinyl charts and number five in the physical charts,” he said. “What an achievement.”
Fever by Skylights charted at number four in the official vinyl single charts (Image: Supplied)
Fever was the first single to be released by Skylights since the band announced they would be releasing music independently.
They partnered with Vinyl Eddie in Tadcaster Road to produce the vinyl, which was pressed at Vinyl Press in Monks Cross and recorded at Young Thugs Studio in Southbank.
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Skylights were kept off the number one vinyl spot by pop giant Ariana Grande whose new single, Hate That You Made Me Love You, peaked at number one during its first week.
Grande was followed in the official vinyl single charts by Dinner Party by Niall Horan at number two and Down Below by Jayler at number three.
Skylights did, however, chart ahead of rock legends the Rolling Stones whose new single, In the Stars, dropped to number six in the vinyl charts in the song’s third week of release.
Intention today is to outline the case and move onto individual cases from tomorrow. The lead prosecutor at court today is Matthew Cobbe.
Mr Cobbe tells the court: “Kyrees 16 and jarvey 15 died on 22 may 2023 they had been riding an e bike and lost control.. Both suffered catestrophic injuries and died at the scene.”
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The prosecuor went on to say that the “terrible news travelled quickly” and that large crowds gathered.
The court hears that body worn cameras captured the grief and distress at the scene.
The chief executive of British Airways (BA), Sean Doyle, has warned that flight prices will soar if jet fuel costs remain high.
Speaking to the Financial Times (FT) at the International Air Transport Association (IATA)’s yearly meeting, Doyle said “there’s no getting away from [the reality that] if fuel goes up, fares have to go up”.
According to The Guardian, at the same meeting, IATA’s director general, Willie Walsh, said: “High oil prices will inevitably mean higher ticket prices… There’s just no way to avoid that.”
Jet fuel costs have reportedly doubled since the closure of the key shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, as a result of conflict in the Middle East.
Speaking to the FT, Doyle said that longer-haul flights might be more affected should price increases go ahead.
“When people’s purpose to travel is business and doing deals … those price increases are kind of peripheral to the reason they’re travelling,” the airline boss said.
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“A brand like BA, which has got a lot of long-haul, a lot of corporate, a lot of premium, we’d expect maybe to have more pass-through of prices than maybe a carrier who’s solely competing for leisure short-haul.”
Still, he noted, plane ticket prices haven’t risen in line with inflation and have generally stayed around ’90s levels in some cases.
“We had fares in 1995 of Barcelona for £60 one way. You can go on BA.com and probably get Barcelona for not too much more than that off-peak,” he claimed.
One study found that between 1990 and 2016, the price of plane tickets dropped by 40% per mile when adjusted for inflation.
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The BA chief executive added that the airline’s flights to the Gulf and Dubai are set to return
Doyle also said that the airline will resume flights to the Gulf, which have been paused after the outbreak of the Iran war, in the coming months.
And he said British Airways will also restart its routes to Dubai, though he doesn’t expect this to begin again until October 2026.
Other airlines have expressed similar cost concerns
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Cathay Pacific Airways is considering cutting flights after the 2026 summer season if jet fuel costs continue to soar, Bloomberg reported.
And the following airlines that service the UK have previously said they plan to run fewer flights after ballooning costs:
KLM
Air Canada
Asiana Airlines
Delta Airlines
Lufthansa
SAS.
Meanwhile, some bosses, like Ryanair CFO Neil Sorahan, said they aren’t worried about jet fuel shortages yet.
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He recently remarked: “Do we have plans for some kind of Armageddon situation? Of course, we do, but I don’t see that coming to pass. As things stand, we’re operating a full schedule this summer and plan to operate a full schedule into the winter period.”
Supporters of a Commons investigation believe evidence should be taken in Scotland.
A “box office” Westminster inquiry into the Peter Murrell scandal could meet in Edinburgh to put maximum pressure on John Swinney.
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House of Commons sources believe bringing any probe to Scotland would make it almost impossible for the SNP not to cooperate.
Murrell, the former SNP chief executive and Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband, is facing jail time after he pled guilty to embezzling over £400,000 of party funds.
The SNP’s political rivals, as well as a number of pro-independence figures, believe there should be a separate parliamentary inquiry into the role of Police Scotland and the Crown in the case.
Labour have been pushing for a Holyrood inquiry, but SNP and Green opposition means this option looks to be dead.
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A more likely outcome is a probe by Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee.
As revealed by the Record last week, the SNP are considering boycotting a Westminster investigation.
However, a number of Labour figures have told the Record any Westminster hearings should be held north of the border, preferably Edinburgh.
Such a move, it is argued, would undermine claims of a London-based committee investigating the SNP.
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Supporters of the probe also believe holding hearings on Swinney’s doorstep would make a snub look ridiculous
Labour peer Lord Foulkes said: “There are strong arguments for evidence sessions in Edinburgh, as there would be less of an excuse for John Swinney to appear. It would also remind people that we have two Governments in Scotland.”
“It would be curtains for Swinney’s reputation if he did not cooperate. He would look evasive.”
He said of a Westminster inquiry: “It will be box office”.
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Douglas McAllister, the Labour MP for West Dunbartonshire who sits on the Committee, said:
“It’s not unusual for the Scottish Affairs Committee to hold hearings in Scotland.
“Let’s make it as easy as possible for the key witnesses to attend. This is also about restoring public confidence in politics, and rather than hearing evidence down in Westminster which some may regard as remote, let’s bring the Scottish Affairs Committee directly to the people of Scotland.”
If a witness refuses to provide evidence to a Westminster inquiry, a committee can issue a summons.
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Defying a summons can lead to a witness being found in contempt for Parliament, with sanctions including admonishments, fines or imprisonment.
The Committee will meet on Tuesday to discuss the potential for a probe into the scandal.
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