At least one person was killed and ten were injured during an active shooter incident in Midland, Texas.

The Midland Police Department said officers are in a standoff with the suspect, who is reportedly barricaded inside a building. There are “11 known victims,” including one person who was killed, Mayor Lori Blong told reporters.

“Officers heard gunfire coming from the building and worked quickly to secure and clear the area. Armored units were deployed, and partner agencies assisted in the response. Efforts to bring the standoff with the shooter to a safe resolution are ongoing,” Midland Police Chief Greg Snow said in a statement Friday morning.

Investigators believe there’s only one known suspect. Officials have not released the names of the suspect or victims.

“We already have a perimeter established, and the situation is now secured in that area. But we’re still asking that all Midlanders stay put,” the mayor said.

Police are urging the public to stay away from the area, located near the 4600 block of West Wall Street. Officials have set up a family reunification center at Midland Memorial Hospital.

The hospital confirmed it received nine of the shooting victims, according to First Alert 7. Five of them are in stable condition, while four required surgery, hospital officials told the outlet.

This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.

Paul Bell, 55, of Widgeon Road, Darlington, appeared at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court on June 8.

He pleaded guilty to assaulting a man by beating him on June 18, 2025, in Darlington.

The court handed Bell a 24-month conditional discharge, meaning no further action will be taken if he does not commit another offence during this period.

Magistrates also ordered Bell to pay £100 compensation to the man concerned.

In addition, Bell must pay £400 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

The court prioritised compensation, so no victim surcharge was imposed. A collection order was made, with Bell required to make weekly payments of £10, starting June 22, 2026. Bell’s guilty plea was taken into account when sentencing.

David Hockney, one of the most celebrated and influential British artists of modern times, has died aged 88 at home on 11 June 2026.

David Hockney, one of Britain’s most revered and influential artists of the modern era, has passed away at the age of 88.

He died peacefully at his home on June 11, according to his publicist Erica Bolton.

A statement issued to the Press Association read: “The celebrated British artist David Hockney, one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away peacefully at home on 11 June 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday.”

The statement continued: “David Hockney’s enduring legacy reflects his underlying enthusiasm for life, his outstanding sense of humour, his immense generosity, and his investigative curiosity encapsulated by his signature phrase, Love Life.

“Details of memorials will follow in due course.”

Across a career spanning more than seven decades, Hockney’s vibrant and uplifting artistic vision established him as one of the most beloved artists in the world, responsible for some of the most iconic imagery of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2018, his painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) fetched 90 million dollars (£70 million) at auction in New York – shattering the then world record for a work by a living artist, reports Yorkshire Live.

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Long regarded as a “national treasure”, with his distinctive oversized round spectacles, soft Yorkshire accent and bleached blond hair – later replaced by a collection of flat caps – his appearance was nearly as recognisable and iconic as his artwork.

Having been raised beneath the northern skies of industrial Bradford, he became captivated by the luminosity and liberation of 1960s California, establishing the state as his primary residence for four decades.

Particularly significant was that, as an openly gay man during an era when homosexuality remained criminalised in England, he eagerly seized the chance to express his sexuality freely.

Perpetually inventive, he remained captivated by the possibilities of employing technology in artistic creation: during the 1980s he produced large-scale photographic collages using Polaroid prints, while in the 2000s he utilised the Brushes app to generate hundreds of images on his iPad.

His work encompassed a broad spectrum, from still lifes and landscapes to numerous portraits of friends and relatives – including even his pet dachshunds – alongside stage designs for theatrical and operatic productions.

A dedicated smoker, seldom photographed without a cigarette, Hockney frequently complained about the “little Hitlers” who attempted to restrict the habit. In his eighties, he commissioned badges bearing the motto “End bossiness soon” – joking that demanding to “End bossiness now” would prove “too bossy”.

Born in Bradford on July 9, 1937, David Hockney was the fourth of five siblings raised in a working-class household. His father, Kenneth, worked as an accountant’s clerk and painted “Ban the Bomb” posters for local peace demonstrations, while his mother, Laura, was a devout Methodist and committed vegetarian.

Bradley Thomas has denied inflicting a fatal brain injury when he was giving Emmerson Oak Thomas a feed during the night.

The 23-year-old’s partner of almost two years said she was awoken by Thomas screaming for help when their three-month-old son went limp.

The jury at Teesside Crown Court watched a police video interview of the baby’s mother while Emmerson was being treated at Newcastle’s RVI hospital.

She told officers Thomas ‘screamed’ for help and when she came downstairs, she found her son breathing in an unusual manner before his face turned white and lips turned blue.

The clearly distressed young mother said it felt like an ‘eternity’ for paramedics to arrive at their home and take over CPR.

Thomas previously told jurors he had fallen asleep with Emmerson on his knee and the baby must have slipped to the floor.

Toby Hedworth KC, prosecuting, cross-examined the evidence of the child’s mother.

He asked if she believed Thomas had ‘lost his temper and done something bad’, to which she simply replied ‘no’.

Earlier in the trial, jurors had heard how the “deeply unconscious” boy was taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough where a scan revealed brain injuries consistent with being shaken.

On footage shown to the jury, the child was seen to be making unusual arm gestures while laid on a changing mat before he became limp and lifeless.

Pathologist Dr Jennifer Bolton said the bleeding on the brain was consistent with blunt force injuries caused by excessive and vigorous shaking.

Thomas, of Grasmere Road, Redcar, denies murder and his trial continues.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Iran are close to signing an agreement aimed at ending their war, three regional officials told The Associated Press on Friday. A senior U.S. official said the tentative deal includes terms for removing and destroying nuclear material from Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted Friday on X that an agreement “has never been closer.” He gave no details, saying a final deal was still pending.

The apparent breakthrough in negotiations comes after Iran exchanged fire with the U.S. and Israel over three days this week, threatening to return the Middle East to full-scale war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said multiple times in recent weeks that the countries were on the cusp of a deal. The war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28 has rattled the Middle East and virtually shut down oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 7.

The regional officials said the emerging deal is expected to pave the way for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the phased lifting of sanctions on Iran, and the release of frozen Iranian assets. These officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, declined to discuss further details.

A senior U.S. official said key terms in the emerging agreement include the removal and destruction of Iran’s nuclear material and the dismantling of Tehran’s nuclear program. The terms also include Iran agreeing not to fund terrorist groups, the official said.

The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the sensitive talks.

Underscoring the fragility of the talks, Trump on Friday lashed out at Iranian officials on social media and said: “They better get their act together, and FAST!”

Iran’s nuclear program has been a key point of division. The U.S. and Israel fear it could lead to an atomic weapon — a main reason their leaders cited for going to war. Tehran has insisted its nuclear efforts are for peaceful purposes.

Also critical is Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for oil and natural gas. Disruption of transit through the strait has crimped global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made food and other basics more expensive well beyond the region.

Trump on Thursday claimed significant progress in talks to extend the ceasefire, just hours after he threatened to escalate attacks and seize Iran’s oil industry. Esmail Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said on state television that mediators were active and the text of a deal was “mostly finalized.”

There was no immediate comment Friday from Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, which has been leading efforts to mediate a deal between the U.S. and Iran. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi had said Thursday that Pakistan remained involved in negotiations.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel was not a party to the deal being negotiated. He said in a statement Friday that he and Trump were in “full agreement” that Iran must not have nuclear weapons.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement Friday he expects Trump to advocate for Israel’s interests. Katz warned that Israel could still act independently toward Iran and said the country would not pull out of the zones it is occupying in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, nor would it withdraw from the northern refugee camps of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Iran has insisted that any deal to end the war must also end fighting in Lebanon between its ally militia Hezbollah and Israel. Netanyahu appears intent on pursuing his goal of destroying the militant group, complicating negotiations between Iran and the U.S.

The deal was largely being brokered by Pakistan, led by its army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the regional officials said, with backing from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar.

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Binkley reported from Washington and Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. AP journalist Julia Frankel in Jerusalem and Michelle Price in Washington, contributed to this report.

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Stacey Solomon has admitted to owning a huge naked photo of her husband, Joe Swash, which is inspired by Orlando Bloom’s iconic nude paddleboard pose with ex-wife, Katy Perry

Stacey Solomon has admitted she doesn’t know what to do with a giant naked photo of her husband, Joe Swash. The Sort Your Life Out presenter confessed to owning the eye-popping image – in which the EastEnders star appears completely starkers, paddling a canoe – on her BBC spin off show: Sort Your Life Out: Unpacked.

In the striking snap, which was blown up by an excitable fan for Stacey, 36, and Joe, 44, after they took the photo in Australia, the dad-of-four attempts to recreate A-lister Orlando Bloom’s iconic pose from 2016 in which the actor appeared totally nude on a paddleboat with then wife, Katy Perry.

That NSFW snap went viral in minutes, with the Lord of the Rings star later revealing he had “the feeling of being of free”. However, there were some who were appalled by the star’s ‘ballsy’ comments.

In Joe’s snap, the cheeky chappy paddles his wife along a river Down Under, sporting a baseball cap backwards – and nothing else. Asked if her husband was naked like Orlando on the photo, Stacey replied: “He’s fully naked. We were in Australia, and do you remember when Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry took that photo? I was like: ‘Joe, we should take that photo”. So we did and we did our own re-enactment.”

Claiming the fan “put a pickle” to protect Joe’s modesty before sending the photo, she continued: “And then a fan blew it up and put a pickle in front of Joe’s (manhood) and sent it to us. I’m like: ‘What am I going to do with this?’”

She continued: “It was so lovely and thoughtful of this fan that I thought ‘I can’t throw it away’ – so I’ve just kept it for like 10 years.”

Admitting she didn’t know what to do with it, Stacey later mused: “I don’t want this in my house but I don’t know what to do with it.”

The mum-of-five, who stars in the BBC show Sort Your Life Out where people are forced to clear out clutter from their homes, admitted she keeps everything fans send her.

She added: “It’s just so lovely that someone would take the time to blow up an inappropriate picture of you and spend their time and money doing that. And I think: ‘I can’t just shred it and put it in the bin”.’

However, drawing the line at framing the photo, she said: “The thought was there, but I’m not framing it.”

And ask if she’d considered putting it up in her toilet, she joked: “My lovely blue loo? That’s like my sanctuary – I’m not putting Joe’s penis up there.”

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A large boat and two caravans stuffed with waste were found in Fenland in separate incidents

A large boat and two caravans stuffed with waste were found dumped in Fenland in separate incidents. Fenland District Council received a report on Monday, June 8, that a fly-tipped boat had been dumped in High Side, Gorefield.

In recent weeks, two caravans stuffed with rubbish had also been dumped in March and Wisbech. A fly-tipped caravan in Oldfield Lane, Wisbech, was reported to and removed by the council in May.

Another was dumped in Flagrasshill Road in March, which was stuffed with asbestos sheeting. A spokesperson for the district council warned: “Fly-tipped waste should not be disturbed by the public.

“Fly-tipped waste can be dangerous – it might include syringes, broken glass, asbestos, toxic chemicals or other dangerous items. It may also contain evidence that could help find those responsible and lead to prosecution.”

The council said it worked with a specialist contractor to clear it gradually and safely before removing the caravan from the site on Thursday, June 11. The boat was also removed by the district council the afternoon it was spotted on Monday, June 8.

A spokesperson for Fenland District Council said: “Fly-tipping of any nature is illegal. Fly-tipping and abandoned vehicles cost the taxpayer significant amounts of money to clear away.

“We take reports of fly-tipping very seriously and aim to prosecute the people responsible. Fly-tipping can lead to a prison sentence and unlimited fine.

“Householders and businesses must also be aware that it is an offence to allow fly-tipping by not taking proper precautions to ensure anyone they engage to dispose of waste on their behalf does so correctly and is properly registered.”

The district council is appealing to the public for information about any of these incidents. Information can be reported through the fly-tipping form on the council’s website or by calling 01354 654321.

The council has asked anyone who sees fly-tipping to make a note of its exact location, the day, date, and time it was spotted and, if you see a vehicle or individuals involved, the registration and other identifiable features.

An online child sex abuse predator told police he was a ‘paedophile hunter’. Rhys Meikle, from Openshaw, Manchester, was ‘operating as a prolific paedophile online’ before he was caught.

That claim was ‘a cover story in case he was ever caught’, police said as he was locked up. He distributed and traded ‘the most abhorrent child sexual abuse material’ with other sex offenders, detectives added.

Police raided his home in Openshaw in May 2024 after intelligence that indecent images of children had been shared online.

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He was arrested and his electronic devices were seized for examination, before he was bailed.

But the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) said he committed further offences while on bail – engaging with another individual online to share indecent images and videos of children and attempted to arrange their sexual abuse.

During their conversations, police said Meikle ‘indicated an intention to travel to abuse children’, discussed obtaining and distributing indecent images and suggested he had ‘a significant amount’ of child sexual abuse pictures and videos.

In a statement after he was jailed, NWROCU said: “In interview, Miekle claimed that he had no intention of committing child sex offences and said he was attempting to catch sex offenders online, asserting that he possessed indecent images because he intended to use them as part of his role as a ‘paedophile hunter’.”

Detective Constable Adam Cronshaw from the NWROCU’s Internet Child Abuse Team said: “There is no legal justification for possessing or distributing indecent images of children, even for legitimate online child abuse hunter groups. Behind every image and video shared by Meikle is a child victim of sexual abuse.

“Meikle was operating as a prolific paedophile online, distributing and trading the most abhorrent child sexual abuse material with other sex offenders.

“He also attempted to arrange the abuse of young children so he could obtain first generation images to sell on a website. His claim of being a paedophile hunter was not credible and is believed to be a cover story in case he was ever caught.”

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Meikle, 31, of no fixed address, was jailed for four years at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to arranging or facilitating the commission of child sexual offence and making; and distributing indecent images of children. He also received an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and was placed on the sex offender register indefinitely.

Police said that at the same hearing, Meikle received a further four-year sentence after being found guilty of drugs offences, following a separate investigation by Greater Manchester Police.

Detective Sergeant Chee Chan, from GMP’s Response Police Unit D Relief, called Meikle ‘a dangerous individual’who who ran a drug dealing operation while distributing and trading child sexual abuse material for money.

“In an attempt to evade justice, he falsely portrayed himself as a ‘paedophile hunter’ despite the overwhelming evidence against him,” he added. “His imprisonment removes a significant threat from our communities, safeguarding children and protecting the public from further harm.”