Emergency services were called to a collision on the A189 between Burradon Road and the Moor Farm Roundabout, north of North Tyneside, just into Northumberland, shortly after 1.30am on Saturday (April 18).

It was reported that, for reasons yet to be established, a pedestrian was on the northbound carriageway when he was struck by a white Seat Alhambra car.

Emergency services attended the scene and the pedestrian, a man in his 20s, was found to have sustained life-threatening injuries.

He was taken to hospital for emergency treatment, but his death was confirmed later in the day.

His next of kin have been informed and continue to be supported by police.

The driver of the vehicle involved remained at the scene to assist with police inquiries, and an investigation was launched.

Officers from Northumbria Police’s Roads Policing Unit today (Sunday) appealed for witnesses to the collision to come forward.

They are particularly keen to hear from anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage of the incident itself, or the moments leading up to the collision.

 Sergeant Steven Chappell, of Northumbria Police, said: “Our thoughts are with the man’s family and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time.

“I would like to express my heartfelt condolences following this tragic incident, and we will continue to support them in any way that we can.”

Sgt Chappell added: “A range of inquiries are under way as we look to establish exactly what happened in the moments leading to this collision.

“As part of this, we are keen for any motorists or witnesses who were travelling in the area at this time to come forward.

“We are particularly keen to hear from those who may have dashcam footage which may have captured the collision or may show the man in the area of the A189.

 “I would urge anyone who has information about the incident, no matter how small you feel it may be, to get in touch with us if you have not yet done so.”

Anyone with information or footage should get in touch by sending Northumbria Police a direct message on social media, or by using ‘live chat’ and ‘report’ forms on the force website.

If anyone is unable to make contact in those ways, they should ring 101.

Callers are asked to quote reference number: NP-20260418-0078.

The 4,140 square-km bay is the largest estuary on the west coast of the US. Before 2018, this species of whales wasn’t known to stop seasonally or consistently in the bay, bypassing it on their migration route down to Baja California and back up the Arctic, said Josephine Slaathaug, who led a recent study on gray whale mortality in the bay.

More than 30 traders manned stalls selling their work, including ceramics, pictures, cakes, textiles and jewellery in Bishy Road car park.

Organisers Bishopthorpe Road Traders Association had hoped for between 300 and 400 visitors during the four hours the bazaar was open. Within 15 minutes of the bazaar opening, there were more than 100 people present.

Todd Lepage of the association said: “It’s fantastic.  It’s really, really good.”

Also from the association, Ruth Phillips said: “We are trying to create more atmosphere in the area, make it a bit more vibrant. It’s very much to showcase what people are doing and to bring more people to the High Street.”

All the exhibitors were from York.  Several artists from outside the city applied but were turned down.

In total more than 75 people applied.  Some of those who were unable to man stalls at this bazaar will be invited to exhibit their products at the next bazaar on Sunday May 24.

The association is planning to make the Bishopthorpe Road Bazaar a summer monthly event on the third Sunday of each month. Only York artists will be allowed to have stalls.

As well as the May date, future bazaars are planned for Sunday July 19 and Sunday August 23.  Sunday June 21will not have a bazaar as that is the same date as Bishy Road’s street party.

Jesy Nelson has begged the public for help after her car containing hospital equipment used to treat her twin babies was stolen.

The Little Mix star, 34, welcomed daughters Ocean Jade and Story Monroe with now ex-fiancé Zion Foster in May last year.

After being born prematurely, the girls were kept in hospital for three months, with Jesy going on to reveal earlier this year that they’ve both since been diagnosed with the rare genetic condition known as SMA, which causes progressive muscle wasting.

In a tearful video shared on social media, Jesy shared that medical professionals said that her daughters would have died without urgent medical care, but that they are still unlikely to survive beyond a few years.

Since then, she’s continued to share updates on their condition but has now revealed how their treatment has been thrown yet another curveball.

Posting on Instagram on Sunday morning, Jesy explained: ‘My car got stolen off my driveway in the early hours of this morning, if anyone sees a black Defender reg plate JJ73SSY.

‘Please, if any of you have seen or know of any information can you DM me or contact the police.

‘I have so much of my girls’ hospital equipment in that car that’s really needed.’

She went on to share another post that specified the car was stolen from Brentwood in Essex.

Jesy rose to fame as part of the girl group Little Mix, who were formed on The X Factor in 2011. However, she later left the band in 2020 due to ‘medical reasons’, later saying she’d begun suffering panic attacks when performing and wasn’t enjoying it anymore.

Just weeks after publicly revealing her twins’ devastating health diagnosis, it was revealed that she’d also split from her partner – whom she’d begun dating in 2022.

At the time, in January, a source said: ‘She and Zion remain friends and are fully focused on their daughters.

‘They are fully united in co-parenting. Their priority continues to be the well-being of their daughters.’

After speaking out about her daughters’ health condition, Jesy also admitted the past few months had been ‘the most heartbreaking time of my life’.

Not long after she gave a sit-down interview, in which she detailed how her mother actually noticed something was wrong with the girls, adding they were left facing a ‘life or death’ situation.

In an interview on Sky News’ The UK Tonight programme, the former girl band star explained how there were missed chances to pick up on symptoms during early check-ups of her daughters.

‘The fact that there were healthcare visitors around my house a lot and we took them to the GP and not one of them saw any of the signs,’ she shared.

‘Thank God for my mum, because I dread to think what position I’d be in now if my mum hadn’t have said anything to me.

‘It’s one of them things that I constantly go over, and I have to sometimes stop myself from doing it because I will drive myself insane.’

The singer then spoke about her heartbreak over concerns her daughters may not live a ‘fulfilled life’.

‘I don’t want people to think that if you’ve got disability that that defines you because it definitely doesn’t,’ she said.

‘But I’ll openly say if I could have it the other way, I definitely would. Why wouldn’t I want my children to walk and live a fulfilled life?

A few weeks earlier she’d also broken down in tears on This Morning explaining how she would ‘never be able to get over it or accept’ her daughters’ condition.

‘When you know that there is something that could be done about it and it’s life changing, that’s something I cannot accept,’ she shared.

‘I’m still struggling. I just want to be their mum, I don’t want to be a nurse.’

In recent months she’d been campaigning for the UK to include SMA screening in the routine newborn heel prick test, which screens for serious health conditions.

A petition she began then secured more than 100,000 signatures, which means it will be considered for a debate in the House of Commons.

Last month Scotland confirmed it would become the first UK nation to screen babies for SMA, however Jesy admitted it felt like a ‘bittersweet moment’.

‘I will never be able to understand why we still do not test for it here in England,’ she explained.

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Noah the llama and his pygmy goat pals brought traffic to a standstill on the A82 on Saturday

There was a llama drama on one of Scotland’s busiest roads this weekend when gentle giant Noah and his pygmy pals decided to make a run for it.

Traffic came to a standstill on the A82 in Dumbarton when Noah the llama and his pygmy goat sidekicks Penny and Tuppence went for a wander after a visit to a children’s home in Bishopton.

The animals’ owner Kevin McVey of Overtoun Llama Lodges in Dumbarton tracked them down and calmly rounded them up while patient drivers enjoyed the entertainment.

Some of them even shared footage of the incident on social media. Delighted viewers enjoyed watching a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, by @Barra72.

Neil Buchanan described it as a “Lama Drama ding dong”, and the original poster replied: “Couple of wee goats in there too. Wonder who left the gate open….?”

But Kevin, 61, said no gate had been left open, and that sneaky Noah jumped over a gate when his back was turned.

He said: “Penny and Tuppence the pygmy goats are Noah’s besties and they go everywhere together. They must have managed to get through a hole somewhere.

“The goats follow the llamas wherever they go. They’re all very docile and friendly and llamas are super intelligent and sensible.

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“Noah would never have gone on the road if it had been really busy. I managed to get them back no bother at all and the drivers were all very patient with us.”

It’s not the first time Noah has done a disappearing act.

He caused a stir in 2022 when he escaped his enclosure with his buddies Rose and Delilah and went on a three-hour adventure traipsing around Dumbarton East.

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Kevin said at the time it was a huge community effort to get them to safety.

He said after Saturday’s escapades: “They are known escape artists and can easily jump six feet. They enjoy an adventure.

“They are also therapy animals and go up and down elevators in the places we visit and go in and out of rooms when we’re visiting care homes. Everyone who meets them, loves them.”

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President Donald Trump has issued his latest threat to Iran and said that if officials fail to make a deal with the United States “the whole country is going to get blown up.”

The president also made threats Sunday morning to target civil infrastructure after it was reported that Iranian forces were refusing to allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.

“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” Trump wrote. The posts appeared to be an effort to bring the regime to the table for 11th-hour talks before the U.S.-Iran ceasefire expires next week.

Trump told Fox News that he was sending a team to Pakistan this week for negotiations. It was unclear whether Iran was sending its own delegation, after their top negotiator said both sides remained far apart on key issues and hit out at the U.S. over its blockade of the Strait. There has been no official confirmation of talks, even as Islamabad stepped up security.

“If they don’t sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown up,” Trump told Fox News.

Talks in Pakistan collapsed last weekend after Vice President JD Vance was dispatched to lead the Trump team’s efforts to reach a deal. Those efforts failed, and Vance emerged from a marathon session unable to pinpoint a specific matter on which the two sides had found agreement.

According to Trump and other U.S. officials, the central issue is Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Trump administration officials are pushing for the full destruction of Iran’s nuclear sites, the surrender of nuclear material, and a guarantee that Iran will not seek to enrich uranium in the future.

Vance will lead the latest round of talks, which will include special envoys Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Trump’s Sunday morning Truth Social post comes 48 hours after the president declared “victory” over Iran and said that the Strait of Hormuz was open once again to global shipping traffic.

Early Friday morning Trump wrote on Truth Social that the strait was “fully open.”

On Sunday, a U.K.-based maritime security agency reported that a tanker was fired upon by a vessel or vessels manned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

“The Master of a Tanker reports being approached by 2 IRGC gun boats, no VHF challenge that then fired upon the tanker. Tanker and crew are reported safe. Authorities are investigating,” the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Centre reported.

In an X post from Iran’s embassy in Hyderabad, India, the IRGC stated: “As long as the traffic of vessels to and from Iran is threatened by the U.S, the status of the Strait of Hormuz will be as before, more restricted.”

“Every breach by the US will meet an appropriate response,” added the IRGC naval command in the statement posted to X.

RIVERTON, Utah (AP) — When a dozen Republican activists gathered on a back deck in the Salt Lake City suburbs to talk about this year’s elections, the conversation cycled through all the staples of conservative chatter in Utah such as dwindling water supplies, illegal immigrant fraud and chemtrail conspiracy theories.

But Doug Fiefia, a state representative running to be a state senator, wanted to start with something else — artificial intelligence. Fiefia used to work at Google and, like several other tech employees who have gone into politics, he has made regulating the industry a centerpiece of his campaign.

“I know it sounds like ‘Doug, this is all you talk about,”’ Fiefia said. “That’s because it’s coming, it’s here and it’s going to be our biggest fight.”

Fiefia’s focus has put him on a collision course with President Donald Trump’s administration, which this year helped block his state proposal requiring companies to include child safety protocols. The White House wants a single national standard for artificial intelligence, arguing that a patchwork of excessive regulation could handicap American innovation in a global competition with China.

But with no progress in Congress, it has been state lawmakers struggling to address concerns about a technology that is poised to reshape the economy. In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis added the issue to a special legislative session that he is convening later this month. Democratic-controlled New York last year required major AI developers to report dangerous incidents to the state.

All told, there are more than 1,000 state legislative proposals addressing AI, a reflection of the uneasiness that has seeped through the country.

“None of us are really sure,” said Brett Young, a structural engineer who attended the backyard event with Fiefia. “Is this something we should be scared about, or is it no so big a deal and it’ll enhance our lives?”

Pressure in the states

Trump has routinely tried to stamp out state-level AI policies, and he issued an executive order that included legal threats and funding penalties to deter new regulations.

The White House recently released a framework for potential congressional legislation that calls for preempting state laws considered “too burdensome” but would allow some rules to protect children and copyright material.

None of these steps has eased the number of proposals in state capitals. Popular ideas include forcing chatbots to remind users they are not human and barring the use of AI to make nonconsensual pornography, which includes replacing or removing clothing from photos that are posted online.

“There’s a lot of state lawmakers looking at what the federal government is doing and saying, ‘We want to take action because we’re not satisfied,’” said Craig Albright, senior vice president for government relations for the Business Software Alliance, which represents software companies.

Some residents who live on the street that won Nigel Farage’s controversial energy bills competition have said they have not been given their prize.

Reform said they would cover the energy bills from the winning home – and every address on the street – for a year.

June from Wigan was announced as the winner earlier this month. In a video posted on social media, Mr Farage could be seen handing over flowers to June and her husband in their foyer, as the party’s treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick held a giant cheque.

The win faced scrutiny when social media users claimed Mr Farage already knew the winners, as a picture appearing to show him standing behind the couple at a 2019 Brexit Party event resurfaced.

Wigan’s local Reform UK branch also posted the news on Facebook later, congratulating the pair of “staunch” branch members on their win.

It is understood that the party followed the legal requirements of the competition, with a draw that picked June as the winner at random.

Now some people who live on St Malo Road in the Greater Manchester town have said they have been excluded from the prize, despite Reform saying it would pay for the energy bills for every home on the street.

The Telegraph has reported that only the homes in the same half of the street, which is divided by St Aubyn’s Road, as the winners that received a letter, which instructed them how to put in a claim to Reform.

Reform says they were not able to deliver all of the letters on the day of their visit, but they are now incoming.

Angie Ecclestone, 48, told The Telegraph that her sister rang her to congratulate her on the winnings but she has not received them.

“I thought to myself I’ll believe it when I see it but I didn’t realise I had been excluded and that my neighbours had all received a letter and instructions,” Ms Ecclestone said.

“Nigel Farage said the whole street [would be included] but we haven’t heard anything. I am in shock. I am the first house on St Malo Road. It’s the whole street or not the street. I am mortified.”

Similarly, IT worker Matt Johnson, 53, learnt about the prize draw win when his sister got in touch with him.

“We thought we would hear something from Reform by email or post but at the moment we haven’t heard anything,” he said.

“I mean if Reform said at the time it would be the whole street, then we feel like we should be included in that.

“Our energy bills keep going up and down but they are around £3,500 a year. Having them paid for would make a huge difference.”

Fraser Hayes, 63, also said he has not received the winnings but would give them away if he does get them, as he is no fan of the insurgent right-wing party.

“I have no qualms about depriving Reform of the money and giving to a local kids’ charity or maybe even the Labour candidate,” he told The Telegraph.

“[The stunt] is appalling. It’s obviously a data grab. They’re trying to get loads of people to write in and they ask, ‘Who did you vote for last time. Who will you vote for this time?’

“I am absolutely not a Reform fan and I am appalled that anyone is.”

When announced, the competition sparked calls for the information watchdog to investigate, after competitors were asked questions including who they voted for at the last general election and who they plan to back at the next.

Reform UK said it had been cleared by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

A Reform UK spokesman told The Independent: “We posted letters physically through some of the doors on the day but weren’t able to deliver to all the addresses on the day. Letters are incoming for the remaining households. We always intended to pay for the whole road, as promised, and will do.”

An investigation is underway ‘to establish the full circumstances of the crash’ on the M90 near Kinross

The police watchdog is set to investigate the circumstances of a crash that killed two men after one of them drove in the wrong direction down a motorway.

Police Scotland said a grey Ford Kuga was seen driving northwards on the southbound carriageway of the M90 close to junction seven near Kinross at around 10.30pm on Friday.

It collided with a white Vauxhall Corsa which was on the southbound part of the motorway. The 44-year-old man driving the Kuga and the 20-year-old man driving the Corsa were both fatally injured.

Police Scotland confirmed a referral has since been made to the Police Investigation and Review Commissioner (PIRC) to investigate.

A spokesperson said: “A referral of the circumstances of the incident has been submitted by Police Scotland’s Professional Standards Department to the Police Investigation and Review Commissioner for consideration.”

Chief inspector Lyne Williamson said on Saturday that an investigation was underway by Police Scotland “to establish the full circumstances of the crash”.

“Anyone who was travelling on the M90 at the time and witnessed what happened, or has dashcam footage that could assist our inquiries, is asked to contact officers as soon as possible,” the chief inspector added.

The M90 was closed southbound between junctions six and seven for around 16 hours to allow an investigation to be carried out.

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