It was recently confirmed that he would be returning for his fourth season after renewing his contract

The Late Late Show return date has been confirmed, with the Friday night chat show back on our TV screens next month.

The show went on a summer break, with host Patrick Kielty signing off in May. At the time, it was unknown whether he would be returning to the role, after initially signing on to present three seasons back in 2023.

However, it was confirmed last month that the Co Down would be back behind the desk for another few seasons after renewing his contract until 2028.

RTÉ announced their slate of shows for the autumn on Wednesday, with the return date confirmed for the 18th September, RSVP Live reports.

In a statement, the national broadcaster wrote: ” Patrick Kielty is back in the hot seat for a brand-new season of The Late Late Show starting September 18th. Live from RTÉ Studios on Friday nights, join Patrick for celebrity guests, a live studio audience, and the stories that have Ireland talking.

“The countdown is also on to the biggest night in Irish television – The Late Late Toy Show – packed with must-see moments as the children of Ireland take over the telly for one night only.”

Elsewhere in the announcement, RTE also confirmed the return of some other eagerly awaited programmes in the coming months.

“Dancing with the Stars returns in January 2027 for a tenth season, with hosts Jennifer Zamparelli and Doireann Garrihy, who is back on our screens after maternity leave,” they continued.

“In a new series of Ireland’s Fittest Family, winning coach Andrew Trimble – fresh from his debut glory – will be returning alongside Davy Fitzgerald, Anna Geary, Donncha O’Callaghan, Michael Darragh MacAuley, and Ellen Keane for the highest-octane series yet.

“January 2027 will see Tommy Tiernan back in the hotseat with a brand-new line-up of top-secret guests for The Tommy Tiernan Show. The 2 Johnnies’ Late Night Lock-In is serving up another round of unpredictable laughs, unforgettable guests and the very best of Irish craic from Johnny B and Johnny Smacks.

“Also coming soon is a new series of the nation’s favourite dating show First Dates , all loved-up and looking its absolute best for a new season of seduction with Mateo, Pete, Alice, and Niall welcoming a fresh batch of hopeful singletons to the restaurant, and a First Dates Christmas Special will embrace the magic of the season. Ireland’s most successful and longest-running afternoon show, The TODAY Show, returns with more than a few surprises in store.”

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Here’s the updated list of teams still in the Carabao Cup:

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Barnsley

Brentford

Chelsea/Luton (play tomorrow night)

Sheffield United

Lincoln City

Bournemouth

Bradford City/Burnley (gone to extra time)

Brighton & Hove Albion

Norwich City

Millwall

Crystal Palace

Middlesbrough

Fleetwood Town

Fulham/Wimbledon (play tomorrow night)

Ipswich Town

Liverpool

Manchester City

Manchester United

Newcastle United

Leeds United

Coventry City

Preston North End/Everton (Everton 4-0 up)

Wolverhampton Wanderers

West Ham United

Reading

Hull City

Sunderland

Tottenham Hotspur

Leyton Orient

Peterborough United

Newly released 911 audio has revealed the moment police officers and paramedics rushed to Tim Curry’s Hollywood home the night he died. 

Curry, an iconic actor best known for his roles in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died at his $2million home in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, his manager said on Wednesday. 

Now, 911 audio reviewed by the Daily Mail has given a glimpse into what happened just before Curry died. 

Dispatchers were heard repeatedly stating Curry’s address and called it an ‘ambulance death investigation.’ The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to the Daily Mail that ‘a death investigation report was completed.’ 

Los Angeles City Fire officials confirmed to the Daily Mail that they responded to a medical call around 11.23pm to an address that is believed to be Curry’s.

Dispatchers were heard repeatedly stating Curry’s address and called it an ‘ambulance death investigation.’ Los Angeles City Fire officials confirmed to the Daily Mail that they responded to a medical call around 11.23pm to an address that is believed to be Curry’s

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First responders who arrived at the residence found the male patient, who was declared deceased at the scene. 

Fire officials do not release the name of patients, but confirmed they responded to the same address as Curry’s. 

A cause of death has not yet been determined, but the 80-year-old had been dealing with serious health complications for more than a decade following a stroke he suffered in 2012 that left him unable to walk. 

Curry played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the hit musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show before starring in the play’s film adaptation. 

The very first show he played in was the musical Hair in 1968. He went on to get nominated for the Laurence Oliver Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his roles in The Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, and King Arthur in Spamalot. 

He was also known for his many on-screen roles in Home Alone 2, Charlie’s Angels, Scary Movie 2, It, and Peter Pan & the Pirates, among others. 

His final TV role was in 2010, when he played a criminal named Billy Flynn in two episodes of Criminal Minds. 

He opened up about his health battles last year during a special screening marking The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 50th anniversary.

Speaking to the audience at LA’s Academy Museum, he said: ‘I still can’t walk, which is why I’m in this silly chair, and that’s very limiting.

‘So, I won’t be singing and I won’t be dancing very soon. I still have real problems with my left leg.’

Since suffering a stroke aged 66, the legendary actor had remained largely out of the public eye. 

Curry (pictured in 1975) never married and did not have any children. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946

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Curry revealed in an interview last year that he had a stroke while he was getting a massage. 

He suffered two brain bleeds during the medical emergency, which he did not even realize was happening because he did not feel any of the symptoms as he lay on the massage table in his LA home.

‘It was so strange,’ Curry told CBS Sunday Morning in October 2025. ‘I was having a massage and the guy who was giving me a massage said, “I’m worried about you, I think we should call a doctor.”

‘I felt fine, I had no symptoms that I was aware of, but clearly he had noticed some.

‘He called 911 and an ambulance came and they carried me down the stairs of my house on a stretcher and put me in an ambulance and gave me morphine, which was interesting. I wasn’t in pain.

‘I was extremely nervous because I didn’t know what was going on. They didn’t know I’d had a stroke and I didn’t know either.

‘I said, can you take me to Cedars-Sinai, which is probably the best hospital in the city, and they said they had to take me to a nearer one, which was a Kaiser Permanente.’

Curry said that when doctors told him he had suffered a stroke, he ‘thought immediately’ of his father, James Curry, who survived a stroke when he was just 11 years old. 

‘I knew that a lot of people didn’t survive a stroke, and that he was an exception, and so I was scared,’ he said.

Curry (middle) played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the hit musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show before starring in the play’s film adaptation

He was also known for his many on-screen roles in Charlie’s Angels, Scary Movie 2, It (pictured), and Peter Pan & the Pirates, among others

After the episode, he had brain surgery and was in the hospital for ‘about a month’ afterwards for rehabilitation.

‘I had to learn how to speak again, that was very weird,’ he said. ‘I hated not being able to speak because I speak a lot. I have to be told to shut up a lot. I love words, I love to communicate.’ 

Curry never married and did not have any children. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946. 

He was the younger child of Patricia, a school secretary, and James, a Royal Navy chaplain. He had an older sister, Judith – a concert pianist, who died in 2001.

Curry grew up in Plymouth and went to boarding school. Then, in 1958, when he was just 12 years old, he lost his father to pneumonia.

A woman killed in a house fire has been described by her mother as “a beautiful soul, who would have done anything for anybody”.

Natalie McDonald, 34, died along with her seven-year-old niece, Valentina Foster, in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of Wednesday.

Cleveland Police said the fire had also left a 48-year-old woman in a critical condition in hospital alongside another three people who suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Two men, aged 23 and 31, had been arrested on suspicion of murder and were in police custody, the force said.

Lisa Kirton, Natalie’s mother said her daughter was “lovely, bright and bubbly” and “everybody loved her”.

She said Valentina, also known as Tina, had been spending the summer holidays with the family.

“She was a cute little kid,” Kirton said. “I can’t believe it, seven years old – it’s just a disgrace.”

She also said Natalie’s 15-year-old daughter and a friend had managed to escape through an upstairs window.

The friend, she said, had “kicked out a window” and “had saved their lives”.

Police say they heard reports on the evening of Wednesday August 26 that drivers had been racing high-powered cars against each other.

They then found a bright orange Lamborghini supercar when its driver lost control right in front of their police vehicle at the junction of Bury Road and Hypatia Street in Tonge Fold.

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: “On Wednesday August 26 2026, 6.30pm police received a report of high-powered vehicles racing.

The car has been seized (Image: GMP)

“Officers attended the Bury Road/Hypatia Street area in Bolton when this vehicle accelerated at speed, losing control of the back end of the vehicle, directly in front of a liveried police vehicle.

“The vehicle was stopped and seized under S59 police reform act with the driver being issued a traffic offence report.”

Images supplied by police at the scene show the orange supercar having come to a stop in front of a police car and then being towed away.

Anyone concerned about dangerous or anti-social driving in their areas can call police on 101 or 999 in the event of an emergency.

Alternatively, members of the public can call independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

“It is a very serious health and safety issue, there has already been several accidents at this location, with one of them being a very young child who had to be hospitalised.”

A Lisburn councillor has highlighted “alarming” traffic evidence giving way to “serious concerns” over Lambeg car accidents close to a children’s play park.

The council is now seeking to grill the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) with the chamber hearing a potential blind eye being turned to parking breaches.

A Freedom of Information (FoI) request has shown that despite visits by Traffic Attendants now surging in the last month (July), no parking tickets have been handed out in seven months..

In chambers, Lisburn North DUP councillor Jonathan Craig said: ”A very controversial parking issue has raised its head again in Lambeg.

“It is a very serious health and safety issue, there has already been several accidents at this location, with one of them being a very young child who had to be hospitalised.”

“The thing that has really brought this to a head is that a resident has put in a Freedom of Information (FoI) request and has emailed it to all of the councillors.”

The Local Democracy Reporting Service has viewed the FoI, which shows DfI enforcement officers visited the Lambeg area only once in January and then not again until April.

The Traffic Attendants then made regular visits at about four times a month and then jumped to seven times in July.

The FoI requested a list of visits from January to July on the Lambeg Road, Lambeg.

Councillor Craig added:“What this FoI highlights is that on 19 separate occasions enforcement officers visited Lambeg.

“The alarming thing was that the same individual showed me evidence of an enforcement officer standing beside vehicles that were clearly parked on double yellow lines.

“But as this FoI shows that on all 19 occasions, absolutely no enforcement tickets were handed out and there is evidence showing us that should not be the case.

“I would request a meeting of all Lisburn North councillors with Roads Service to try and get a resolution to this situation. We do need to get this addressed.”

The proposal to write to DfI was approved this week by the council.

However, in the FoI response, DfI added:”Patrols have been programmed over the coming weeks.

“However, due to the high level of compliance with the restrictions recorded by the Traffic Attendants, the frequency of patrols may be reduced thereafter.”

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By DAN HODGES, DAILY MAIL COLUMNIST

Published: 00:21 BST, 26 August 2026 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 26 August 2026

Andy Burnham has chosen to stand up to Vladimir Putin. And Putin is already plotting his revenge.

‘The chatter we’ve been picking up over the past two weeks indicates the Russians are preparing for something,’ a senior security source revealed to me. ‘They’re planning some sort of action against UK interests. They’re going to test Burnham.’

On Monday, the Prime Minister arrived in Ukraine – and he came bearing gifts. After appeals from Volodymyr Zelensky, Burnham agreed to hand over the technical blueprints for Britain’s long-range Storm Shadow missiles.

‘Ukraine has been Europe’s protector: not a drain on our security but the frontline in keeping Europe safe,’ Burnham declared. ‘The Ukrainian people deserve not just our continued support, but our gratitude and respect.’

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But as he spoke those words Andy Burnham knew that frontline is likely to move closer to home. On Sunday, it was announced Russia had withdrawn its British ambassador, without appointing a replacement.

Within the British security establishment this is viewed as a clear indication of an impending Russian intervention. ‘We think he’s been pulled so that when they act we don’t have the ability to expel him,’ one source revealed.

My understanding is that while there is as yet no specific intelligence on the precise nature of the possible impending Russian attack, the Prime Minister has been briefed on a number of likely scenarios.

At the top of the risk register is some form of cyber-attack against the nation’s infrastructure, possibly aimed at the health service or transport system. ‘That would be in keeping with the Russians’ MO,’ one security source said.

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There is a broader perception within Russia, dating back to Boris Johnson, that Britain is a major obstacle to Vladimir Putin realising his military aims in the region

Andy Burnham and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth last month

A second area of concern is some form of direct sabotage or attack on Britain’s military supply chain. Yesterday Andrei Fedorov, a Kremlin adviser and former deputy foreign minister, warned British factories could be targeted by ‘unknown sources’.

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Burnham has also been warned there is potential for some sort of clash involving Russian and British military forces. In May, the Ministry of Defence reported that Russian jets had ‘repeatedly and dangerously’ intercepted a British Boeing RC135 ‘Rivet Joint’ surveillance aircraft.

Last month, a Russian frigate conducted a ‘live-fire exercise’ off the coast of Plymouth. And in May it emerged an RAF jet carrying then-Defence Secretary John Healey had its navigation system jammed by Russia. As one defence source explained: ‘The fear is they will engineer some form of ‘incident’. It could be done deliberately. Or the fact the Kremlin is adopting a much more openly aggressive posture towards us could lead to someone down the chain of command precipitating something on their own.’

What is also particularly concerning the security services is the possibility of a direct provocation from the Russians towards the PM himself.

Last year, a house and car previously owned by Keir Starmer were subject to firebomb attacks. It’s believed these were initiated by criminals connected to the Russian state. And although two of the perpetrators were ultimately convicted, the assessment is Moscow was pleased with the results.

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As an intelligence source explained to me: ‘The problem was that after those attacks Keir Starmer came out and said how shaken he and his family had been by the incident. So in the eyes of Russian intelligence that was a successful operation. And that in turn holds out the prospect they will try something similar again.’

Part of the Russian rationale for an attack on the UK would be to directly challenge Burnham’s resolve. The Prime Minister is regarded as a blank page when it comes to foreign affairs – and there is an incentive for Moscow to test him.

But there is also a broader perception within Russia, dating back to Boris Johnson, that Britain is a major obstacle to Putin realising his military aims in the region. ‘The Kremlin thinks we’re standing in the way of victory,’ one foreign office source told me. ‘Every time they meet with the Americans they’re telling them: ‘It’s the British who are the problem here. There won’t be any solution unless you pull the British into line.’

And there is a final reason Putin is now contemplating some form of direct action against the UK. His mounting desperation. Ukrainian ‘deep-strike’ operations within Russia have turned the war into a political crisis that directly threatens the Russian dictator.

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‘If you live in Moscow, you can’t ignore the war any more,’ another intelligence source claimed. ‘When you walk out of your house to go to work in the morning you see a giant plume of black smoke from the latest Ukrainian attack. You can’t buy petrol. The war’s now on Putin’s doorstep. And his attitude is: ‘The people who are doing this need to get some payback on their own doorstep.’

Since he entered Downing Street the PM has focused on domestic issues. But on Monday, his decision to stand with the Ukrainian people represented a welcome foray on to the world stage. Now we must expect a response to this expression of solidarity. A few years ago another Labour leader – Ed Miliband – was mocked for responding, ‘Hell yes!’ when he was asked: ‘Are you tough enough to stand up to Vladimir Putin?’

Andy Burnham has suggested that he is. Putin is now about to put that to the test.

By LUKE AUGUSTUS, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Updated: 21:42 BST, 26 August 2026