The 52-year-old died in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle after he was allegedly attacked with a metal bar in a workshop at HMP Frankland

An inquest is due to open on Tuesday, April 14, into the death of Soham killer Ian Huntley. The 52-year-old died in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle on March 7 after he was allegedly attacked with a metal bar in a workshop at HMP Frankland in Durham on February 26.

The County Durham and Darlington Coroner has scheduled an inquest opening hearing to be held in Crook, County Durham, on April 14. Listed under the name Ian Kevin Huntley, the inquest opening will be heard by senior coroner Jeremy Chipperfield.

Anthony Russell, 43, has been charged with murdering Huntley at the maximum security jail. He will attend Newcastle Crown Court on April 24 for a pre-trial preparation hearing.

Huntley was serving a life sentence for the 2002 murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The ex-school caretaker killed the best friends after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets in Soham, Cambridgeshire, on August 4 2002.

He dumped their bodies in a ditch 10 miles away. They were not found for 13 days, despite a search involving hundreds of police.

At the time, Huntley lived with Maxine Carr, who was a teaching assistant at Holly and Jessica’s primary school. He denied murdering the girls but was convicted after a trial at the Old Bailey in 2003. He was jailed for life with a recommended minimum term of 40 years.

Carr gave Huntley a false alibi and was jailed for 21 months for perverting the course of justice. She is now living under a new identity.

Norton has hosted a chat show for almost 30 years, hearing stories from the biggest stars in the world, but now he’ll host a new gameshow, The Neighbourhood.

Over 11 episodes in the ITV show, six households, which are made up of real families, friends, and university flatmates, move into separate homes, where they will live side by side 24/7, socialising and taking part in challenges, for the chance to win a £250,000 cash prize.

The show, hosted by the Eurovision commentator, will see them compete in tasks inspired by the things we do every day, as well as navigate relatable domestic drama, and then avoid being voted off and removed from the neighbourhood.

When asked what he found interesting about the new show, he said: “What I loved about The Neighbourhood is that it is a new format.

“It’s not something meets something else.

“I really thought I hadn’t seen this show before.

“It leans into our curiosity about what’s behind closed doors, and there’s something really compelling and addictive about seeing the way the existing households interact with each other.

“I thought I’d watch that – and I’d never want to work on something I wouldn’t watch.

“I thought – this show would hook me!”

He explained how he thinks it’s different to other shows: “Because it is ‘The Neighbourhood’, we can all relate because unless you’re very, very rich, you probably have neighbours!

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“We all – even if you don’t necessarily want to – you get drawn into those everyday dramas.

“The ‘you haven’t cut the lawn, they put the bins out wrong, you shouldn’t park there’.

“What the show does is really amp those moments up, and dramatises them even more.

“There’s the gameplay, but because they’re there all the time, there’s the reality that these people really are living next door to each other and watching each other like hawks.

“And like any good neighbourhood, you want your way, but you want to keep everyone sweet, and that’s the skill!

“This show has been cast really well, so these people are all really good at it.”

Who is taking part in The Neighbourhood?

Norton said there are a variety of groups involved in the first series: “We have a traditional, multi-generational family, we’ve got blended modern families, we’ve got twin sisters and one of their girlfriends, we’ve got a university household where they’re flatmates, so the relationships are all different in each household.”

Graham Norton reveals his favourite part of the new show

Graham has shared what he loves about the new show: “One of the loveliest things about the show is seeing households who would never meet in real life, not only meeting but forming proper bonds of friendship.

“There are a few moments in the show that really do bring a tear to my eye because it’s just so genuine, so lovely and properly heartwarming.

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“It’s such an odd word to describe a show like this, but it’s properly wholesome — there’s something about the bright colours, being out in the countryside, and the genuine bonds that you see created.”

People have shared their excitement for the new show on Instagram with one commenting: “Omgggg I can’t wait!!!!”

Another shared: “Ah it just looks so good!!”

Someone else said: “Can’t wait to watch the drama unfold!! 🙈🙈”

How to watch The Neighbourhood

The Neighbourhood will be hosted by Graham Norton and will be available to watch later this month.

The new show comes to ITV1 and ITVX on Friday, April 24.

Will you be watching The Neighbourhood? Let us know in the comments below.

Kerry Katona has revealed that she rushed to hospital fearing she was having a stroke, after watching her daughter in a play.

The former Atomic Kitten star realised she couldn’t smile properly when the performance ended, and had felt unwell during.

After noticing the facial sign associated with a stroke, Kerry took a taxi to St Thomas’ Hospital where she was taken in an ambulance to King’s College Hospital.

Her daughter Molly was performing in London, and Kerry was there alongside her other daughter Heidi, who asked her mum: “What’s wrong with your face?”

Kerry told The Mirror that she then ‘started panicking’: ‘I discreetly left, went to my hotel and asked to see a doctor. I told the staff: “Something’s not right.”‘

The 45-year-old, who was also with her partner Paolo Margaglione at the time, explains how things ramped up when she arrived at St Thomas’ as staff announced they were ‘treating it as a stroke’.

She went on: ‘They were shining lights in my eyes while my face and speech were getting worse.’

Kerry even texted her children – Dylan-Jorge, 12, Max, 18, Heidi, 19, Lilly, 23, and Molly 24 – to tell them she loved them.

While at King’s, Kerry underwent tests and scans before being told what had caused the worrying changes.

Rather than a stroke, Kerry said: ‘The CT scans showed there’s a part of my brain that’s broken and isn’t able to send signals to my face due to stress.’

Kerry continued: ‘I’ve spoken to Anna Williamson from Celebs Go Dating about it since, and apparently it can also happen when you’re feeling content. It’s like delayed stress hitting you suddenly because you feel at peace.

‘Every now and then, I’ll get a shooting pain in my head. And I’m noticing my speech – even though I think I’m saying something properly in my head, it doesn’t sound right out loud.’

The mum-of-five has been looking back through old videos to see if she can identify when her speech started to change, and says she can see it getting worse over time.

She’s been reassured by doctors that it will come back, but Kerry says she wants speech therapy and to get exercises for her face, admitting she feeling ‘a bit panicky with it’.

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Three crews are currently at the scene tackling the fire

Firefighters were called to a road in a Cambridgeshire town after receiving reports of a fire breaking out on Tuesday (April 14). Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue were called at around 6.30am to a building fire on Acre Road in March.

Three crews are currently at the scene tackling the fire. It is not yet known what type of building is affected.

A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: “Firefighters are currently responding to a building fire on Acre Road, March. They were called at around 6.30am. Three crews are currently in attendance. The incident is ongoing.”

Outlook Lite, which launched back in 2022, is an app for Android devices, bringing users all the Outlook essentials in a smaller size.

It was made for low-resource phones and has the ability to work on slower networks.

Outlook Lite was retired by Microsoft on October 6, 2025, with the app removed from the Google Play Store.

Despite the app being retired, existing customers have still been able to use the app, with Microsoft confirming the app would be “fully” retired at a later date.

When will Outlook Lite be fully retired?

Microsoft has now confirmed when the Outlook app will be shut down for good.

Outlook Lite will be fully retired on all Android devices on May 25, according to Neowin.

The app will still open after it has been fully retired, but mailbox access will be disabled, and in-app navigation and functionality won’t work.

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Neowin added: “While the mailbox access will be disabled and navigation won’t work, Microsoft notes that user accounts won’t be disabled or deleted.

“It also said that all existing email, calendar items, and attachments will remain accessible when users sign in to Outlook Mobile.”

Android users urged to switch to Outlook Mobile before being “cut off”

Microsoft has urged Android users still using Outlook Lite to switch to Outlook Mobile before May 25.

Neowin added: “If you do still have it, you should definitely migrate to Outlook Mobile so that you aren’t cut off in late May.”

Microsoft shuts down Skype after 22 years

Outlook Lite isn’t the only app Microsoft has shut down recently.

Skype was officially “retired” by Microsoft in May 2025 after nearly 22 years, having first launched in August 2003.

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The tech giant said the decision to shut down the communications app was so it could “streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs”.

By retiring Skype, Microsoft said it enables the company to focus on Teams.

While Skype was officially shut down last May, users still had access to old messages until January 2026 before they were deleted.

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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is following in the footsteps of his spiritual father, St. Augustine, making a pilgrimage to the archaeological ruins of eastern Algeria where the fifth century titan of early Christianity lived, died and wrote some of the most important works in Western thought.

Leo’s visit to Annaba, the modern-day Hippo, is a spiritual homecoming for the American pope on his second full day in Algeria. He arrived Monday on the first-ever papal visit, against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and his calls for peace that have sparked a feud with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Leo proclaimed himself a “son of St. Augustine” on the night of his election and has cited Augustine prolifically in his first year, making clear he is the guiding inspiration of Leo’s pontificate. For this trip, where he is aiming to press a message of peace and Christian-Muslim coexistence, he is focusing on Augustine as a bridge-builder.

But the visit is also drawing attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who only spent five years in Italy but is often considered through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.

Leo’s Augustinian religious order was founded in Italy in the 13th century, inspired by the saint.

A life in North Africa, looking to Rome

St. Augustine was born in 354 to a Berber mother and Roman father in Thagaste, today the Algerian city of Souk Ahras near the border with Tunisia. At the time, the swath of North Africa was part of the Roman Empire, including Carthage in today’s Tunisia, where Augustine was educated and taught rhetoric.

He left North Africa for Rome in 383 and then Milan, where he converted to Christianity. He returned to his homeland soon thereafter, founded a monastery at Hippo, became a bishop and there wrote some of the most important works in the Western canon, including “Confessions” and “The City of God.”

A new book, “Augustine the African,” by Catherine Conybeare, an Augustine scholar at Bryn Mawr college in Pennsylvania, explores Augustine from his perspective: As a North African, looking to Rome as the center of his universe but feeling insecure there about his Punic-accented Latin.

“One of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition actually came from Africa, spent almost his whole life in Africa,” Conybeare told The Associated Press. “How does that change things?”

“Of course, because his successors — the people who carried on his heritage — were in Europe, they got to tell the story,” she said. And Europe got his body: After dying in Hippo, Augustine’s body was taken eventually to Pavia, Italy, though a forearm remains in the basilica in Annaba.

In welcoming Leo on the first-ever papal visit to Algeria, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expressed the “immense pride” Algerians feel over St. Augustine. He called him “a cherished son of this land, which having been his first cradle, proudly became his initial resting place.”

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It was on April 24 , 1555, George Marsh was cruelly put to death in Chester.

Bolton’s first and only martyr was sentenced to death for refusing to denounce his protestant faith and become a catholic.

This was after Queen Mary declared that anyone who refused to follow her religious beliefs would be executed.

His death has withstood the test of time and it is still remembered to this day- and so has the urban legend surrounding his footprint.

When Queen Mary came to the throne in 1553, many protestants left the country to escape persecution.

George, who was born in Deane, remained and continued to preach his religion.

He came to Smithills Hall out of his own freewill and was interrogated by Robert Barton who was the owner of the hall and also local justice of the police.

After being questioned it was ruled that he should be taken to Lancaster prison to await trial.

Legend has it that as he was being led from the Hall he stamped his foot on the flagstone as a declaration of faith, leaving a mark that has remained there ever since.

The story goes that his footprint will bleed each year on April 24-the anniversary of his death.

Staff and visitors to the hall have reported some spooky happenings and paranormal encounters in the hall.

The Green Room is considered to be the most haunted room in the hall.

According to the Bolton Libraries and Museum Website, a visitor noticed a man at the top of the stairs near the green room as a small child despite being the only people in the hall.

To this day, the visitor is convinced that it was the spirit of George Marsh.

On April 24, two tours will be arranged about the famous Bolton martyr, where visitors will be able to see the room in which he was interrogated before his trial and execution.

The tours will take place at 1pm and 2.30pm.

Tickets are £4 per person and can be booked on Eventbrite.

Visit Bolton Libraries and Facebook page for more information.

Paul Scholes fears there is no way back for Arsenal in the Premier League title race and is confident Manchester City will have their measure in Sunday’s top of the table clash.

The Gunners saw their nine-point lead reduced last weekend when their home defeat against Bournemouth was ruthlessly capitalised on by Pep Guardiola’s side who are hitting form at just the right point in the season.

A devastating second-half display at Stamford Bridge, decorated by quickfire goals from Nico O’Reilly, Marc Guehi and Jeremy Doku helped put Chelsea to the sword and piled the pressure on Arsenal.

Mikel Arteta’s side appear to be wilting in the face of mounting scrutiny and their record against the Premier League’s elite is hardly cause for optimism as they prepare to travel to the Etihad, a venue at which they haven’t won since 2015.

Faltering Arsenal must first overcome Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League tomorrow night before attention will turn to a potentially decisive clash with City, but Scholes fears the result is already something of a foregone conclusion.

‘I just think Arsenal have gone, me,’ the former Manchester United midfielder told  The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast

‘I just think all the momentum is with City. At some point, you have to beat your rivals. I’ve not seen them do it, they don’t win big games.’

Scholes’ former teammate and podcast co-presenter Nicky Butt agreed the writing appears to be on the wall for a group of players who are displaying the mental fragility that has reared its head in the past.

‘Until you’ve won it, or got over that hurdle, it is an absolute nightmare,’ he said.

‘You’re just thinking that you’re going to let them down again, and you can see that now with Arsenal and City, especially with Pep in charge, the amount of times he’s won the title.’

A third former United midfield general and multiple title winner Roy Keane, meanwhile, argued it us up to the senior players in the Arsenal dressing room, including Declan Rice, to get a grip of the current situation and display some much-needed leadership.

He said: ‘Rice has to show more leadership skills. That was a nervous performance. It’s okay being nervous, it’s how you deal with it.

‘When a team is pressing you – and Bournemouth really were – when it goes back to the goalkeeper and you’re showing for it, don’t; you’ve got a big target man.

‘Don’t complicate it, especially if you’re nervous. I’d rather be nervous up the field than giving the ball away cheaply in our own half.

‘You have to smell these things. It’s not like Arsenal learned from the first half, they were doing it in the second half too.

‘People like Rice, talking about leadership skills, they’ve got to get a grip of people.

‘People are looking at Arteta, the fans are nervous, no – this is on the players.

‘The fans aren’t going to do it for you, the manager can only do so much, he’s got a great squad together in a brilliant position.

‘Arsenal have got to get a grip – or it will slip by.’

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