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Myspace, the early 2000s site synonymous with custom profile pages and emerging music artists, is being revived by its current owners, brothers Tim and Chris Vanderhook.
The duo say they are “just waiting for the right time to do it” to bring the brand back.
Myspace is coming back pic.twitter.com/R3n3b18Wms
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) July 31, 2026
The plans were revealed in the documentary Myspace, where the Vanderhooks discussed their intention to relaunch the platform with a “new vision.”
Although no launch date has been confirmed, the brothers said the reboot will steer away from algorithm-based entertainment.
They want the “modernised” Myspace to “feel different” from platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
It remains unclear whether the relaunch will focus on music as the original site once did.
Myspace was founded in 2003 and quickly became the world’s most popular social network.
It peaked in April 2008 with around 115 million monthly visitors and more than 320,000 daily sign-ups.
Tom Anderson, co-founder of Myspace—and the first “friend” of users by default—is not expected to be involved in the relaunch.
The Vanderhooks acquired Myspace in 2011 through their company Viant, then known as Specific Media.
From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site globally and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music.
It also helped launch businesses such as YouTube, Zynga, and Photobucket.
Despite remaining online, the platform has faded from public use over the past 15 years and changed hands several times.
In June 2011, the site was purchased by Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake for approximately $35 million (£26.6 million).
Time Inc. acquired it in 2016 for $87 million (£64.4 million), and it later became part of Meredith Corporation in 2018.
On November 4, 2019, Meredith spun off Myspace and its original holding company (Viant Technology Holding Inc.) and sold it to Viant Technology LL.
Following the news, fans took to Reddit to discuss the return of the once iconic social media space.
One said: “I loved MySpace in the mid 00s.
“I have no place for it in my life in the mid 20s.”
Another added: “No thanks.
“What I would like is to visit my old page so I can archive it, at least since it sucks they had an overhaul a couple of years ago, deleting most of the personal profiles of everyone.”
A third wrote: “It wouldn’t be the same if they did.
“Myspace wasn’t just a site, it was an experience, a thing of its time.
“I’m glad I got to experience it and I’m also glad it’s gone.”
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Some, however, were open to the idea, and even optimistic about its comeback.
One said: “I liked MySpace more than Facebook, so I’ll give it a try.”
Another agreed, saying: “I would definitely go back.
“Most of social media has become absolute trash and I miss the simplicity of MySpace.”
What do you think about Myspace looking to return? Let us know in the comments.
The AA Traffic News is reporting that the A1079 is blocked in the East Yorkshire village of Bishop Burton, outside Beverley, between Finchcroft Lane and Finkle Street.
East Yorkshire Motor Service said the delays are due to faulty traffic lights.
⚠️ X46 Service Update
If you’re travelling on the X46 today, please allow an extra 20–30 minutes for your journey.
This is due to faulty temporary traffic lights in Bishop Burton.
We’re sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience. You can track your bus in real time… pic.twitter.com/NJDYD71pic
— East Yorkshire (@EYBuses) August 5, 2026
Traffic is running very slowly from the A1079 roundabout to the east of the village at the junction for Beverley Racecourse and the B1248 for Malton
The Press will provide more information on this story as we receive it.
The county’s police force said the alleged assault happened in The Moors Inn in Headlands Road, Appleton-le-Moors, on Saturday, August 1.
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A force spokesperson said an arrest has been made in connection with the incident, and the person has been released on bail.
The North Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: “During the assault, the victim sustained several facial injuries.
“Our enquiries are continuing and we are particularly interested in speaking to anyone who may have witnessed the incident or anyone who has information that could assist our investigation.
“Please email Andrew Govier on drew.govier2@northyorkshire.police.uk, or visit the North Yorkshire Police website.
“If you are unable to use these options, please call North Yorkshire Police on 101.
“Please quote reference number 12260148116 when providing information.”
The government is overhauling school food standards in England for the first time in more than a decade. The challenge is encouraging pupils to embrace the new menu
It’s midday on a Friday and children are pouring into the lunch hall at Greenside primary school, an inner-city state school in west London.
Rather than fish and chips or pizza, often served on the last day of the week, enormous trays of chickpeas and spicy rice are emerging from the kitchen, alongside roasted sweet potatoes, green beans and spinach braised with garlic. According to the excited four- and five-year-olds queuing up, the best thing is that all this can be crammed into a burrito with a choice of toppings served at the table. “I like the olives and cheese best,” says five-year-old Sumaya.
For anyone still hungry, homemade loaves of focaccia are lined up by the ovens, filling the hall with a sweet, malty aroma. “Every Friday, it’s ‘breaducation’, which means all the pupils get involved in making some kind of bread, and we link it back to whatever they are learning in the curriculum,” explains chef Jo Ilbury, who heads up the school’s catering team. “Anything left over is sold to parents at the end of the day.”
This is a school that takes food seriously, from the herb planters in the garden, which children can pick from, to the compost bin they help manage. Here, sustainability and an understanding of where food comes from are built into the day.
Two decades on from TV chef Jamie Oliver’s war on turkey twizzlers, Greenside primary is one of a growing number of schools that have made lasting changes to their kitchens, reflecting a national improvement in valuing what children eat. But progress remains patchy. For every school with pupils baking their own sourdough, there’s another serving up bland, highly processed fare, low in vegetables and favour.
A recent poll by the government revealed that three-quarters of parents in the UK are concerned by the food their children eat at school. What’s more, the health figures remain worrying, with one in three children leaving primary school overweight or obese.
Schools are now producing homemade loaves of focaccia as part of their ‘breaducation’ classes. Illustration by Sam Peet
To level the playing field, the government has announced plans to overhaul school food standards for the first time in more than a decade, while also extending free school meals to every child in a family on universal credit, reaching an extra 500,000 in England. The final version of these changes will be published later this year, following a public consultation, before coming into force in September 2027.
As well as an outright ban on deep-fried food, such as chicken nuggets and chips, the new standards will restrict high-sugar desserts to once a week. For most of the week, fruit-based options will replace puddings such as doughnuts, cakes and ice cream.
It’s not just about taking away treats. The shake-up also focuses on adding more grains, pulses and vegetables to children’s plates. Sample menus include Mexican bean burritos, cottage pie with root-veg mash and roasted chickpea, vegetable and mozzarella wrap.
“This is a genuinely pivotal moment for school food,” says Stephanie Slater, chief executive of School Food Matters, a charity that campaigns to ensure children have access to nutritious and sustainable food at school. “But the success of these reforms will depend on how they are implemented. Along with clear and robust standards, they will require adequate funding and effective monitoring and compliance in schools.”
Healthier meals could cost more, but the Department for Education argues that the changes could actually save schools money, for example, by swapping out meat for protein from pulses.
As well as ensuring that schools follow the rules – the government suggests that a school governor should take the lead on adherence – children also have to be up for it.
As well as an outright ban on deep-fried food, such as chicken nuggets and chips, the new standards will restrict high-sugar desserts to once a week
“It doesn’t matter how healthy a lunch is if most of it goes in the bin,” points out Bee Wilson, food writer and campaigner. Wilson launched TastEd in 2019, a charity offering schools free resources on food education with the aim of encouraging children to enjoy more fruit and vegetables. For the changes to have a significant impact, she believes they must be accompanied with better food education.
“What we’ve seen time and again is schools telling us that when they introduce new dishes, a lot of the food will be wasted,” she says.
In secondary schools, with older children, this can lead to ditching the school canteen altogether in favour of a stop at the corner shop or fried chicken joint on the way home.
This is a genuinely pivotal moment for school food
To prevent this, Chefs in Schools launched a campaign earlier this year called Try Something New Day – a weekly challenge to add new ingredients into meals – to build young people’s confdence with new flavours. The charity, which recruits trained chefs to run school kitchens, is encouraging all schools to put aside a small part of their catering budget to offer tastings of healthy ingredients.
The concept was devised by Amber Francis head chef and food educator at Christ’s College, a secondary school in Finchley, north London. Every Tuesday, at breaktime, she wheels out her trolley, laying out small pieces of something in bowls for pupils to try. This could be different types of tomato or lesser-known flavours such as kohlrabi, kale, blood orange and pomelo.
‘We’re working with other schools in the borough to help them find ways to put food education at the heart of their curriculum by learning from practices that have worked for us,’ says Ciara Finney, headteacher at Greenside primary school
“It’s about getting young people to step out of their comfort zone and have conversations about what they do and don’t like,” says Francis, who was crowned Champion of Champions on BBC’s Great British Menu in 2025.
For many schools, taking steps like this will be crucial to the success of the government’s latest plans, helping children become familiar with healthier foods, while making sure the quality of school dinners around the country becomes more consistent. For those ahead of the game, it’s about sharing experiences.
“We’re working with other schools in the borough to help them find ways to put food education at the heart of their curriculum by learning from practices that have worked for us,” says Ciara Finney, headteacher at Greenside primary school. “As for our menu, it won’t need to change. We’re there already.”
Photography: Henry Cavendish and Chefs in Schools
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A hospital intruder dressed up as the ‘Grim Reaper’ and glared at patients, a court heard.
Leon Gillespie, 26, donned an all-black hooded outfit and stood overlooking the entrance to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in Denbighshire, North Wales.
Four police cars and a fire crew were sent to apprehend Gillespie after he stayed on the roof for nearly an hour on Saturday.
Hospital visitors were shocked at the sight of him standing motionless and brandishing what appeared to be a long blade.
No explanation was given for the stunt when Gillespie appeared in front of magistrates in Llandudno.
His outfit was also described in court as being a ‘crow’.
Gillespie was fined £200 after pleading guilty to causing a nuisance at a hospital.
A spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: ‘The health board has previously stated it has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, aggression or nuisance within its hospital sites.’
Gillespie also admitted separate offences of stealing £30 to 40 of cat food and cat litter from Pets at Home on March 26, and food and drink from Sainsbury’s on May 28.
Both were committed in Llandudno.
He was ordered to pay £50 in compensation, £100 in fines, and £100 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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Russia has attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 17 people and leaving at least 44 injured, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
In one of the deadliest strikes across Kyiv this year, which started after midnight on Wednesday, the head of the city’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said the “enemy is once again massively attacking”.
Air raid alerts were in place for more than an hour as the capital’s military administration said the barrage damaged residential buildings and warehouses.
Ukraine has urged allies for more US-made Patriot missile interceptors to defend against Russian ballistic attacks.
The Russia defence ministry said it had struck logistics hubs and supply centres in Kyiv and the surrounding region.
“These centres were involved in the storage, delivery of various weapons and military supplies, as well as in the production and distribution of unmanned aerial vehicles,” it said.
It also said it had also hit three cargo vessels “which were transporting weapons and military equipment” near the Black Sea port of Odesa.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were fears people could be trapped under rubble after strikes on the centre of the city.
He noted on Telegram that four of the injured people were in serious condition.
“The enemy is once again deliberately striking civilians and civilian infrastructure,” Kyiv’s military administration said.
Ukraine’s air force did not report intercepting any missiles during the attack, saying in a post on Telegram that Russia had launched 24 ballistic missiles and four anti-ship missiles.
It added that 115 drones had been launched by Russia during the attack and air defence systems intercepted 98 of them.
Russia has intensified attacks on Kyiv in recent weeks, while Ukraine has also increased its attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, including power facilities.
Dmitry Milyaev, the governor of Russia’s Tula region, said on Wednesday that a drone had crashed into a warehouse of e-commerce giant Wildberries in the region overnight and caused a fire.
He said on Telegram that one person had been injured and there had been no deaths reported, with the retailer saying firefighting teams were working at the site and the facility had been evacuated pre-emptively.
Ukraine has repeatedly targeted warehouses, including those operated by Wildberries. Five people were killed and 10 wounded in the Moscow region on Tuesday morning in the most recent strikes on warehouses.
The day before, Russian officials said seven people were killed and 58 injured after a drone hit a busy beach in the southern Krasnodar region.
Ukraine, meanwhile, expressed outrage over a video showing a man chased by a drone in Kherson, calling it a deliberate “hunt” and “safari” targeting civilians.
Both sides have denied deliberately targeting civilians.
One of Elon Musk‘s discarded SpaceX rockets has crashed into the moon’s surface at 5,400 miles per hour (8,690 km/h).
The out-of-control spacecraft is the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, which weighs 4,500 kg and measures 39 feet long (12 m), about the size of a five-story building.
The rocket struck near the Einstein Crater, on the moon’s western edge facing Earth.
Scientists estimate that its impact produced a blast equivalent to 15,000 sticks of dynamite, or three tonnes of TNT.
That should produce a flash big enough to see from Earth using a telescope, but not with the naked eye.
Due to the lack of wind and low gravity, the impact will also launch a cloud of dust and debris that will linger for tens of minutes.
Scientists and space agencies were carefully watching as the rocket approached, but we are still waiting to see if any pictures of the crash were captured.
Astronomers expect that the impact will carve a crater into the lunar surface roughly 27 metres across and five metres deep.
One of Elon Musk’s discarded SpaceX rockets has crashed into the moon. Pictured: The rocket launching in January 2025, from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, in January last year.
It was carrying two private lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience, into lunar orbit and was not intended to crash into the moon.
Parts of the Falcon 9 are designed to be reusable, safely returning to Earth after pushing the upper stages out into space.
However, other sections are simply jettisoned and left to drift through space, where they usually burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
However, after delivering the scientific instruments to the moon, the upper stage has been drifting through space under the influence of the moon’s gravitational pull.
NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), concluded that the rocket was on a collision course with our lunar satellite after independent astronomers noticed its dangerous trajectory.
Shoppers are flocking to purchase a ‘large capacity’ storage shed from Amazon, with many praising how it’s ‘easier to put together than they thought’. The Keter Outdoor Garden Furniture Storage Shed is presently priced at £145 on Amazon.
Recognised as an Amazon’s Choice product, over 2,000 units have been purchased in the last month alone, highlighting its widespread appeal. This particular price applies to the light grey version, which boasts an 880L capacity.
It’s promoted as the ‘ideal outdoor storage solution for garden tools and equipment, BBQ and accessories and two 120L wheelie bins’.
The weather-resistant shed showcases stylish wood-effect panels that can be accessed from either the top or front, complete with a lockable mechanism for added security. It includes a ‘heavy-duty floor’ with integrated support for shelving, though shelves aren’t part of the package.
When fully assembled, it measures 132cm x 71.5cm x 113.5cm, reports the Express.
For shoppers willing to spend more, Argos offers the Suncast Columbia Plastic Shed (7 x 4ft) at £799. According to the retailer, the multi-wall resin panels are designed for robustness and longevity, while the all-weather build delivers water resistance and UV defence.
Alternatively, Debenhams stocks the Living and Home Outdoor Solid Wood Storage Cabinet Garden Tool Shed for £85.97, reduced from £219.99. This features a solid wood frame, waterproof asphalt roof and is ideal for ‘organised tool storage’.
The Keter Outdoor Garden Furniture Storage Shed boasts an impressive average rating of 4.4 out of five stars based on over 14,800 Amazon reviews. One customer praised: “Absolutely brilliant, large capacity, a lot easier to put together than I thought was. Able to do it alone, perfect garden storage.”
Another buyer remarked: “Excellent product, researched a number of garden storage systems and this came out the best, would certainly buy another if needed. Took about an hour to build, wasn’t too difficult, only tool needed was a screwdriver.”
A third reviewer noted: “Second one I’ve bought. I’m a woman on my own and assembled this in less than an hour (had already done one before) with the help of an electric screwdriver. Ideal storage for garden, everything has stayed dry and a great bargain with next day delivery.”
Some purchasers offered constructive feedback alongside their reviews. One customer shared: “Comes flat-packed in a huge box. I managed to assemble it in about two hours, I am 79 so I think I did well. Two people would make it easy. The instructions are very good, easy step-by-step. It does seem a little flimsy, but when fully assembled, it seems sturdy enough. Quite big, it holds quite a lot. There are built-in shelf supports if you want, but you have to buy the shelves yourself. It does what I wanted it for. Bit expensive to be honest though. I bought the light grey one, which was cheaper than the other colours. I am pleased.”
Someone else remarked: “Went together very easily, just a one-man job. Looks nice and seems fairly sturdy. Also, when it’s finished, it’s light enough to move to another location fairly easily. Only thing is, it’s quite a bit lighter in colour than the pictures.”
The Keter Outdoor Garden Furniture Storage Shed can be purchased through Amazon.
Hartlepool Borough Council has granted certificates of lawful development for the conversion of 22 and 24 Kilwick Street into two separate five-bedroom HMOs.
The decision comes despite strong opposition from Cleveland Police.
The force previously warned the HMOs pose a “clear and significant” risk to the community, citing concerns about increased crime, anti-social behaviour, and additional pressure on policing resources.
They also argued the move could disrupt what they called a “fragile community” and harm the character of the street.
However, the applications were for certificates of lawful development rather than planning permission.
This means the change of use and internal works did not require formal planning approval.
They said: “A certificate of lawful development (proposed use) as set out in the application should be granted.”
Cleveland Police maintained their opposition.
The force said: “The HMOs presented clear and significant risks relating to vulnerability, crime, anti-social behaviour, policing demand, community cohesion, and cumulative impact.
“The development was inappropriate for this location, risked undermining ongoing policing operations, and should be refused in the interests of public safety, community wellbeing, and responsible urban planning.”
The scheme at 22 Kilwick Street will include a communal dining room, utility room, kitchen, and a ground floor bedroom.
There will also be two en-suite bedrooms on the first floor and two en-suite bedrooms in the loft.
The layout of 24 Kilwick Street will also include communal living areas and five bedrooms, with two en-suite rooms on each of the upper levels.
While the council acknowledged the concerns, they noted the applications met the legal requirements.
They said: “Comments from police had been relayed to the applicant directly and are not discussed further in the report.”
However, decision reports for both properties stated issues of crime, fear of crime, and anti-social behaviour were “considered in detail.”
The council has concluded the plans were acceptable “on balance.”
Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, has welcomed new figures from the Scottish Government which show that 400 families whose children are receiving treatment from NHS Lanarkshire have received financial support while their kids underwent a hospital stay.
Through the Young Patients Family Fund, the Scottish Government has provided over £72,000 this financial year to families receiving care from NHS Lanarkshire.
The Young Patients Family Fund is a Scottish Government scheme which provides financial help for travel, food, and accommodation costs for parents, primary carers, and young siblings who are visiting a young inpatient in hospital.
Launched by the Scottish Government in 2021, the unique-to-Scotland fund has helped thousands of families through the difficult experience of a young loved one undergoing a long stay in hospital.
Ms Haughey said: “When a child or young person is in hospital, it can be an incredibly challenging time for them and their family, and anything that we can do to help to reduce this stress is really welcome.
“Families understandably will want to focus on the health and wellbeing of their child, without any additional worry of the costs around being there for them – and this cash support can be absolutely vital.
“This policy is unique to Scotland, having been in place for five years now, and I am proud that are continuing to support families in their time of need.”
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