On Tuesday night’s episode of Emmerdale, viewers learned that Detective Thea Ramsden, played by Chelsea Edge, is the long-lost daughter of Kim Tate.

The revelation came during a flashback scene showing a younger Kim, portrayed by Claire King, in a hospital’s baby unit.

Shocking revelation on Emmerdale

A nurse asked Kim if she was sure about giving up her baby for adoption and whether she had chosen a name.

Kim replied that she had always liked the name “Anthea.”

The camera then cut to the present day, focusing on Ramsden’s police name badge, confirming her true identity.

Ms Edge said: “I have loved joining Emmerdale and keeping this secret.

“I hope that now it’s out in the open the viewers will follow the story and see how Thea’s determination and bitterness develops.

“It’s clear she’s very keen to understand why Kim, who seemingly has everything, status, wealth and power to give her away all those years ago.

“As to how far the apple falls from the tree… I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but there’s certainly a lot more drama to come.”

Kim Tate remains in the dark

Emmerdale producer Laura Shaw said that while viewers now know the truth, Kim remains in the dark.

Ms Shaw said: “While the viewers have been granted access to the mystery surrounding DS Ramsden’s true identity, it will be some time before Kim suspects that the child she surrendered is operating within her immediate circle.

“She is completely unaware that the daughter she left behind is actually right under her nose.”

The storyline adds a new layer to Kim’s character, who is currently trying to stop Joe Tate from giving up Baby Tate for adoption.

Ms Shaw said this plotline brings back painful memories for Kim.

Emmerdale airs at 8 pm weeknights on ITV1 and STV or from 7AM on ITVX and STV Player with the episodes also being uploaded to the official Emmerdale YouTube channel.

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The policeman brother of the siblings caught on camera battling officers at Manchester Airport faces the sack for comparing a black female colleague’s braided hair to a mop.

PC Mohammed Abid is one of eight current or former officers based at Bury police station accused of mocking the policewoman’s appearance or how she spoke.

Today a disciplinary panel was told the 29-year-old should be sacked after it ruled that describing her hair as ‘looking like a mop’ had been a ‘racist comment’.

Fellow PCs could also face the sack for regularly ‘mimicking’ the colleague’s African accent, leaving her feeling ‘uncomfortable’.

In July 2024, there was widespread outrage when Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, then 19, was seen being kicked in the face by a police officer in mobile phone footage which went viral.

However, CCTV footage later revealed that he and another brother, Muhammad Amaad, had violently resisted efforts to arrest Amaaz for headbutting of a tourist at Manchester Airport.

After a case which sparked accusations of police racism and claims of two-tier justice, Amaaz was jailed for assaulting two female officers.

But two juries failed to reach verdicts on whether he or Amaad had assaulted a male colleague.

Muhammad Amaad, 26, (left) and his brother Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, (right) arriving for their trial at Liverpool Crown Court either side of their solicitor, Aamer Anwar

Lawyers for the men repeatedly highlighted how neither brother – both from Rochdale – had been in trouble with the police before, and six members of the family are current or former officers with Greater Manchester Police.

Both trials heard a glowing character reference from PC Abid, who praised Amaaz’s ‘respectful, gentle and soft-spoken nature’ and ‘dedication to academic roles’.

But jurors were not told that he faced disciplinary proceedings over the racism allegation.

A misconduct hearing heard last month how constables based at Bury police station imitated a female colleague’s accent.

The policewoman, originally from Africa, has been granted anonymity and is referred to as PC Y.

PC Abid was said to have spoken to PC Y – who at the time wore her hair in braids – and describing it as ‘looking like a mop’ before ‘smiling and walking away’.

Under cross-examination, PC Y told the hearing: ‘He did ask about the hair, the braids, how long it took.

‘He then said “It looks like a mop”, laughed and walked off.’

He denied making the comment but the panel today praised her ‘consistent’ account.

Chairman Jonathan Roy said the braided style was ‘culturally significant’ to PC Y as a black woman, finding that PC Abid had made the ‘racist comment’.

This was a breach of professional standards in relation to equality and diversity which amounted to gross misconduct, it ruled.

PC Abid was also found to have breached standards of professional behaviour in relation to authority, respect and courtesy, and discreditable conduct.

Separately, constables on PC Y’s team were accused of ‘mimicking’ her African accent for months until she made a formal complaint in November 2023.

They allegedly copied how she said words like ‘hello’ and impersonated her ‘deep laugh’, causing her to feel ‘uncomfortable’, ‘nervous’ and ‘anxious’.

Giving evidence, the constables insisted they had only copied how she said ‘ok’ and that this was part of a ‘shared joke’ in which they all made fun of one another’s accents.

But the panel rejected their denials, pointing out that officers who weren’t part of the same team had mentioned hearing them putting on African accents.

‘The panel did not accept the mimicking of PC Y’s accent was part of friendly office banter,’ Mr Roy said.

‘It was much more serious than that.’

Five serving officers, PCs Heena Rani, Lucy Granby, Demi Green, Matthew Barlow and Matthew Hill, as well as former PC Jake Holt and a former officer referred to only as A, were all found to have breached standards of professional behaviour in relation to authority, respect and courtesy, discreditable conduct, equality and diversity and failure to report or challenge.

In each case their behaviour amounted to gross misconduct.

A further officer, Sergeant Adrian Bick, who supervised the team, was cleared of breaching standards on equality and diversity

Out of PC Y’s earshot, he had pointed out a photograph of a black fraud suspect and said she could be her mother.

PC Green then repeated the comment to PC Y, the hearing was told.

The panel said the comment was ‘thoughtless and insensitive’ but accepted that Sergeant Bick hadn’t intended to make a racist comment.

It found that he had breached professional standards of authority, respect and courtesy and discreditable conduct and ruled his case amounted to misconduct.

Neither Sergeant Bick nor PC Abid was accused of mocking PC Y’s accent.

Turning to the action the nine will now face, Mr Reed argued that all the serving officers should be sacked, apart from Sergeant Bick, who should receive a written warning. 

He said PC Abid’s behaviour was ‘aggravated’ by his understanding of the ‘cultural significance’ of PC Y’s hairstyle.

While the comment was a ‘single incident’, there was ‘no acceptable level of racism’ in the police, ‘especially when it arises from such calculated behaviour,’ he added.

However PC Abid’s barrister, Peter Byrne, argued that while he had shown ‘poor judgement’ he hadn’t ‘targeted’ PC Y on the grounds of ethnicity.

Along with lawyers representing the serving officers found to have mimicked PC Y’s accent, he submitted that PC Abid should instead receive a final written warning.

The panel is due to reconvene to announce what action the officers and former officers will face on Wednesday. 

The EFL, in their infinite wisdom, have bizarrely decided it might be a good idea to play a load of games tonight.

Swansea face Watford tonight at the Swansea.com Stadium, and Vitor Matos will be hoping to continue wha’s been a really strong start to the seaon.

“The next game is always the most important game so it’s important we recover and prepare properly to show the same mentality and intensity,” he said.

“It will be a very competitive game, we know how the nature of the Championship is, especially at the beginning of the season.

“They have a new manager who has brought some new ideas, they are a team with a very clear style.

“But we are at home, we love being at home, so let’s use it as an advantage.

“We have started well, but it is early and nothing is decided, so what we have to continue to do is go game by game, and so all focus is now on Watford.”

Infertility was a source of stress and sadness for some medieval couples, as it is for modern ones. It was a personal matter, but also a public one. Both families and the church assumed that the purpose of marriage was to have children. Couples who did not conceive often faced questions and scrutiny.

My research on infertility in the middle ages uncovers the ways in which medieval people explained reproductive problems and tried to enhance their fertility.

A merchant couple from 14th-century Italy – Francesco and Margherita Datini – were childless after several years of marriage. A family friend wrote to Francesco to praise the couple’s financial success and added “but I would rather see [Margherita] become fatter by making children than in gathering money”.

In this situation, medieval people drew on the knowledge and tools available to them. They did so within a very different social, medical and religious context from modern families – but like modern couples they had to make sense of different kinds of information and advice.

We know from their letters that the Datinis consulted a physician, but their friends and family also recommended other solutions. Margherita’s sister offered to buy her a poultice (a mixture of herbs and fats placed on the skin) to wear on her stomach. It was being sold by a female healer and was said to have worked for other women. She also recommended a belt to wear which was inscribed with prayers.

In the same letter Margherita’s brother-in-law added that it would be better to seek God’s favour through charitable giving. Despite this advice, the couple never went on to have a child – although we know from their letters that Francesco had illegitimate children with other women.

The Datinis’ letters are mainly practical and don’t tell us how they felt about their struggles to conceive, but it’s easy to imagine that some of this well-meaning advice might have caused them stress.

Other medieval accounts do talk about both women and men who were saddened by reproductive problems. For example, in late 12th-century England, the biographer of a hermit, Godric of Finchale, told of a husband and wife who came to the holy man after a series of miscarriages or stillbirths. He said “they were both deeply distressed and felt that God’s judgment was standing over them in a dreadful way”.

How infertility was explained

There were two main explanations for infertility in the medieval period.

One was the medical explanation. Medieval European physicians drew their knowledge of reproduction from the Hippocratic medicine of ancient Greece, which was expanded in the Arabic-speaking world and then translated back into Latin in the 11th to 13th centuries. This explained infertility – and other medical conditions – mainly in terms of the theory of the humours.

This theory held that everyone’s body contained a balance of four qualities: heat, cold, moisture and dryness. If these qualities became too unbalanced, then this could damage your fertility. Infertility and sexual dysfunction were especially linked to too much cold, and so the solution was to consume medicines and foods deemed to be “hot”, including spices such as cinnamon and ginger. Humoral explanations have long been superseded by modern biomedicine, but for medieval people they offered a neat, intellectually coherent system that offered a pathway to treatment.

The other explanation was religious. The Bible told of women such as Sarah, Rachel, Hannah and Elizabeth who were infertile at first, but then went on to conceive a special child miraculously – even sometimes in old age.

Mindful of these biblical examples, medieval theologians and preachers taught that God could grant or withhold fertility directly, if he chose to. This belief could potentially be used to criticise couples who did not conceive, by implying they had done something to incur God’s anger. It lay behind the advice to Margherita and Francesco to seek God’s favour through charity. But more often churchmen argued that God caused infertility for his own purposes, not as a punishment.

The Golden Legend – a collection of biographies of the saints hugely popular in medieval Europe – stressed that “God punishes not nature, but sin, and therefore when he closes a woman’s womb, he does this in order to open it miraculously later on”.

These explanations were complementary rather than competing: God might work through natural causes. For medieval couples, they offered reasons for infertility, and actions to take, and so they offered hope and reassurance. But it’s much harder to know how couples felt when they didn’t go on to conceive. That’s because most of the surviving sources focus on the success stories where the longed-for baby arrived after medical treatment or a prayer to the right saint. Doctors and the collectors of miracle stories didn’t often mention their failures.

These historical stories of infertility show how medieval couples approached their fertility differently, but their experiences of negotiating medicine, faith and family still resonate.

The series sees actors take the parts of the legal teams and judges

A ‘divisive’ Channel 4 true crime series has returned with a restaging of a teenager’s real-life murder trial.

The station has been putting out more true crime content than usual in recent weeks. Last week marked the premiere of The Murder Detective.

The observational documentary tells the inside story of the seven-year-long mission to find out who murdered journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019 and secure justice for her family. Lyra, 29, was shot and killed when a dissident republican gunman opened fire during rioting in Londonderry on April 18, 2019.

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The hour-long episode followed detectives trying to uncover the truth of what happened for themselves, with the murder weapon missing and not one of the 150 people on the street when Lyra was killed willing to come forward.

Additionally, last week also saw Channel air the first two episodes of The Never Ending Murder. Initially airing on Amazon Prime Video in 2023, four-part true-crime documentary series explores Nicola Payne’s disappearance, who was 18 when she vanished in 1991 in Coventry.

On top of this, Sunday night (August 30), marked the return of 24 Hours in Police Custody. The Ambush, a special two-part edition of the programme, tells the case of a 17-year-old boy who was left critically injured on the roadside after suffering catastrophic head injuries.

On Monday evening (September 1), The Jury: Murder Trial returns for its third series. Premiering in 2024, each series is a verbatim re-enactment from court records of a real murder trial.

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The series sees actors take the parts of the legal teams and judges while the jurors are people drawn from every-day life. The series questions whether or not juries randomly drawn from citizens from all backgrounds without legal qualifications are suitable for making a just decision in cases .

Season one saw the re-enactment of a real case in which a man admitted to killing his wife with a hammer after two months of marriage, hoping for a verdict of the lesser crime of manslaughter. The second series followed a woman accused of having stabbed her partner to death during an alleged attempt by him to strangle her during a domestic altercation.

Series three is once again taking a forensic look at the inner workings of justice. Filmed over ten days, it examined the real-life case of two brothers, one aged just 14, who are charged with the murder of their stepdad.

The jury, made up of twelve members of the public, will have to decide whether it was a calculated act of revenge or an act of desperation. Adding to the complexity is that the siblings admit to stabbing their stepdad whilst he was sleeping

Viewers will see if the jury comes to the same conclusion from the exact same evidence presented in the same way. Often, other factors play a part in their decision that didn’t originally.

Over on the true crime Reddit page, viewers have been left unsure in the past whether they’re fans of the series which won ‘Best Reality’ at the 2025 British Academy Television Awards.

@bandlj said: “I like the idea of this but I don’t think you can really recreate a true trial because obviously all the witnesses are lying/acting and you could easily have someone that’s supposed to be honest that’s just a bad actor etc. I guess it’s still interesting to see how the jurors react to the process though.”

@FluidSupport4772 wrote: “Being a keen true crime follower I was excited about this judicial experiment, but found it truly disappointing. In real life a jury will only deliberate after all the evidence has been heard and with everyone fully present. These 2 jury’s were deliberating at lunch and coffee break.”

@Gaz-a-tronic commented: “It’s been eye opening to see how different people can deeply personally identify with various aspects of the case, and how they can give others perspective and insight that they wouldn’t have on their own. I think a rich and diverse set of life experiences are very useful.”

The Jury airs on Channel 4 at 9pm on Tuesday, September 1

Officers taped off part of the bus station during rush hour after emergency services were called to reports of concern for a man.

A man has died after emergency services were called to Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station during the evening rush hour.

Police taped off part of the station on Killermont Street after officers were called to a report of concern for a man at around 4.40pm on Tuesday, September 1.

Multiple police vehicles were seen at the scene as emergency services responded. Witnesses reported seeing an elderly man being treated by paramedics.

Police Scotland has confirmed the man was pronounced dead at the scene. The age and name of the man is not yet known.

A force spokesperson said: “Around 4.40pm on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, we were called to a report of concern for a man at Buchanan Bus Station, Killermont Street, Glasgow.

“Emergency services attended however he was pronounced dead at the scene.

“There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances and enquiries are ongoing.”

The circumstances surrounding the death have not yet been disclosed.

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It’s been billed as one space with two experiences

A new cafe with a twist is set to open on the Lisburn Road.

Alongside the cafe will be a studio upstairs that customers can take part in both reformer and mat pilates.

Forme is set to open its doors to customers in September, with the owner Joshua Daykin telling Belfast Live, “it’s coming soon”.

In a post on social media, the new spot is billed as “one space two experiences”.

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Letting their followers know about their plans, they said it will be a “cafe and pilates studio under one roof”.

Joshua also added, “It’s been a labour of love, and I’m still not there yet, but I’m excited to start sharing the journey with you.”

When the cafe opens later this month, it will sell a range of hot drinks alongside pastries and traybakes.

The new South Belfast cafe will take over the vacant unit across from the Tesco Superstore on the busy Lisburn Road.

This news comes as another cafe called Drip announced they are also set to open on the same road soon.

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Police have been maintaining order at a wildlife haven after protesters confronted travellers who ripped it up in a bank holiday land grab.

Hundreds of outraged locals flocked to the field in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, to vent their anger at the work that began on the land on August 29.

Furious residents protested by camping on the land near Rod Stewart‘s sprawling Grade II-listed 18th century mansion, Durrington House, overnight, ensuring no more work took place.

And the protest was victorious on Monday when workers at the encampment left the field after a police and council visit.

East Hertfordshire District Council ordered a stop to the work involving diggers and bulldozers that evening and an injunction has since temporarily blocked any further development. 

Officers remain on the site which is surrounded by fencing, contains a static home and four heavy-duty diggers.

Aerial pictures of the site, taken over the bank holiday weekend, show a concrete surface had been laid as well as fences used to create five plots.

Two caravans were parked at the wildlife spot where muntjac deer are said to roam, despite the temporary injunction prohibiting any further work or occupying of the lot.

Police officers remain on the site, pictured, standing near a caravan parked at the wildlife haven

Four heavy-duty diggers and a caravan parked in one of five plots of line created by fencing

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Labour MP for Hertford and Stortford, Josh Dean said he was ‘appalled by the flagrant disregard for the rules and the damage that has been done to our environment.

‘The law needs to change to ensure that local authorities have the powers they need to bring this kind of activity to a swift end,’ he said.

Hertfordshire Constabulary previously told the Daily Mail that officers entered the site this morning and ‘all those who had unauthorised access, left the site peacefully’.

A spokesperson for the force said: ‘This was following an amended High Court injunction, which was granted and served this morning. 

‘The High Court injunction meant that anyone found carrying out activities prohibited by the injunction – including bringing caravans on site and occupying the land for carrying out development – could be arrested by the police. No arrests were necessary.’

A council spokesperson said: ‘Early on Saturday… we became aware of works taking place on the land off Sheering Mill Lane, Sawbridgeworth, following reports from local residents.

‘Heavy vehicles and construction equipment had entered the site. The land does not have planning permission for development.

‘We served a Temporary Stop Notice shortly after 10.45am on Saturday 29 August. We also made an urgent application to the High Court for an injunction.

Police officers turned up at the site in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, to ensure diggers left the area and any unauthorised works came to a stop

A concrete base has already been laid on the site alongside fencing over the bank holiday weekend

Police officers speak to one of the travellers working on the site in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire

‘Our priority is to prevent the site from being occupied and to bring the unauthorised development to an end as quickly as possible.

‘We will continue to work with our partners and use the legal and enforcement options available to us to achieve this. A hearing has been scheduled for 15 September.

‘However, as works are continuing on the site, the council and its partners are doing everything possible to secure an earlier court date.’  

Sawbridgeworth is the latest area to be targeted after huge lorries arrived on Friday morning with fences going up and roads being blocked.

In videos posted on social media, birds were heard chirping as work involving heavy machinery was carried out on greenbelt land. 

It devastated residents who feared travellers had taken over and destroyed the precious wetland habitat and floodplain.

One neighbour, in her 50s who wished to be anonymous, has lived in the area all her life and told the Daily Mail she felt ‘powerless’ and ‘devastated’.

She said: ‘I believe they are travellers building a traveller site. Some people don’t want them anywhere, and I think they should go through all the steps that everyone else has to when it comes to planning and building.

An aerial picture of the wildlife haven before any work had been carried out over the weekend

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A tattooed man holding a can of Stella Artois speaks to officers at the site where work had been carried out without planning permission

The council issued a Temporary Stop Notice which requires further work on the site to be halted, but the order was ignored

‘They definitely don’t have permission – the order was ignored and they’ve continued to bring in diggers and all sorts of machines.’

The resident added that she and her neighbours are mostly saddened by the destroyed habitats of the protected wildlife, including bats, newts and nesting birds.

She said: ‘The reserve has been around for as long as life and within a day it was destroyed. It’s a total destruction of nature, it’s absolutely disgusting.

‘There’s a lady who lives right across the road from it and she’s in tears. We’re completely appalled by the destruction; it’s devastating to be so powerless in the situation.

‘It’s the bank holiday and no one has the chance to stop it before it’s too late, so they’ve got four days to destroy habitats’.

It follows a trend that has seen travellers purchase land, often in leafy parts of the Home Counties, and then set up unauthorised sites.

A newborn baby girl has died from stab wounds, a forensic post-mortem has confirmed, as a murder investigation continues in Sheffield

A newborn baby girl who was found dead at a property in Sheffield died from stab wounds, a post-mortem examination has confirmed.

Police were called to an address on Holywell Heights in the Wincobank area on Sunday morning (August 30) following concerns for the safety of a newborn baby.

The child was found during a search of the property and was pronounced dead at the scene despite efforts by emergency services to save her. A forensic examination carried out on Monday concluded that the baby died as a result of stab wounds, reports Yorkshire Live.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death. Seven individuals aged between 15 and 38 were detained on suspicion of murder. Two people, aged 26 and 37, have subsequently been released on bail.

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Detective Chief Inspector Tom Woodward remarked: “We recognise this is deeply distressing for those who would have loved to have a chance to love this baby girl, for the emergency services who responded and for the community who will inevitably be shocked by this incident.

“Everyone involved in responding to this tragedy – from the first officers and paramedics on the scene to the detectives now leading the investigation – has felt the profound impact of this investigation.

“Our commitment to this little girl is unwavering. We will confront every difficult and distressing challenge and pursue every line of enquiry with determination and care to secure justice for her. We know the local community will hold her in their thoughts and support us as we work through this complex investigation.”

Police remain present in the Holywell Heights vicinity carrying out investigations. Anyone holding information regarding this incident that may aid the enquiry is urged to get in touch with police via their website or by phoning 101, referencing incident number 993 of 30 August 2026.

Alternatively, details can be shared anonymously with Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or through their website.

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Leading Labels, founded in 1993, is a long-running clothing retailer that draws shoppers with major brands at outlet prices.

It stocks discounted fashion items from big-name brands, including Calvin Klein, Wrangler, and Joules.

At its peak, Leading Labels ran around 30 stores with more than 200 employees.

The Bolton store shut in the spring.

Leading Labels falls into liquidation

Leading Labels is now closing down after falling into liquidation earlier this year.

Jeremy Bleazard of XL Business Solutions Limited was appointed liquidator on May 26, according to The Gazette.

Companies House also said Leading Labels has accounts overdue dating back to 2024.

Full list of Leading Labels stores set to close

As a result of the company’s collapse, all 15 of Leading Labels’ remaining stores are set to close:

• Basildon
• Boston
• Bury
• Carlisle
• Cleethorpes
• Clowne
• Evesham
• Hornsea
• Ipswich
• Kidderminster
• Lincoln
• Norwich
• Stevenage
• Balloch (Scotland)
• Cumbernauld (Scotland)

The company’s website has also stopped working.

Closing-down sales now underway at all Leading Labels stores

Closing-down sales are currently running at Leading Labels’ remaining stores to help clear stock.

Leadinglabels.co.uk, an informational website which is not affiliated with the actual company, said: “Discounts typically deepen as a liquidation progresses and stock thins out, so ranges, sizes and the best-known brands sell through quickly.

“Once a store’s stock is gone, that branch closes for good.

“If you are looking for the same brands Leading Labels carried — in full size runs and with stock guaranteed — the most reliable option now is to shop branded outlet fashion online.”

XL Business Solutions Limited has been contacted for comment.

Other UK companies that have closed or entered administration/liquidation in 2026

It has been a tough year for the UK high street, with several other retailers entering administration or liquidation and others announcing widespread store closures.

Major high street brands LK Bennett, Claire’s, and Quiz have been forced to close all their remaining stores after falling into administration.

Whitbread confirmed it will be closing all its UK restaurants in September:

TG Jones and the British Heart Foundation will also be closing around 150 stores each across the UK.

Other retailers have been forced to close stores this year, including:

The company responsible for iconic British bikemaker Raleigh, Accell Group, has also collapsed into administration, putting the 139-year-old British bikemaker at risk of closing.

Several UK travel companies have ceased trading or entered administration in 2026:

Meanwhile, four UK airlines have fallen into administration or liquidation:

UK delivery company Yodel is set to be phased out after being acquired by InPost.

It’s also been reported that Morrisons is looking to sell some of its in-store pharmacies as it continues to cut costs.

It hasn’t all been bad news for the UK high street, with several major brands announcing new store openings for 2026, including Aldi, M&S, and Superdrug.

Meanwhile, brands including Evans and Bodycare have returned to the UK high street this year after previously closing all their stores.

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