A father has been charged with ‘recklessly’ causing the death of his own son after he was alleged to have dropped him through a hotel window.

The 37-year-old banker was arrested just hours after his boy fell from the fourth floor of the King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Chlorakas, near Paphos on Sunday.

The father was waiting for a lift with the boy’s grandfather, holding him by the waist and swinging him from side to side as they waited for it to arrive, the court heard last week.

The boy then fell from his arms and through a window. He was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

If convicted, the unnamed dad could face up to four years in prison.

He had to inform his daughter about her younger brother’s death over FaceTime after his release was blocked at the last minute.

The dad, who appeared emotional as he sat in the dock, was accompanied by his father and mother, who had to pay €20,000 (£17,000) for his release.

Toxicology reports found a very small quantity of alcohol, equivalent to one or two drinks, in the man’s blood and the court will determine whether this is relevant.

Attorney General George Savvides decided to press charges for ‘causing death by a rash, reckless, or dangerous act or conduct not amounting to culpable negligence’.

The man was told he would have to provide the address where he would be staying and report to Paphos Police Station once a week at an agreed day and time. He also had to hand over all contact details.

A spokesperson for the Attorney General told the Daily Mail: ‘The Attorney General ordered criminal prosecution of the father.

‘He will be charged with causing death due to recklessness, among other things.

‘The father will be released, yet he will be subject to strict restrictive conditions, which will aim to ensure his presence at all future hearings.’

A relative told the Daily Mail: ‘He was a truly special, easy–going little boy who brought so much joy to everyone around him.

‘He was deeply adored, and his infectious smile, warm cuddles and kind heart are already so deeply missed and always will be.’

The family hoped the man would be released so he could be there to tell his five-year-old daughter of her brother’s death.

He was expected to be released on Wednesday but this was blocked at the last minute, and he was forced to inform the child over FaceTime.

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And it is right in the middle of a picture-postcard coastal village.

Here’s why people love The Sun Inn, in Alnmouth.

A lively, welcoming village local

Reviewers repeatedly describe The Sun Inn as having a “vibrant lively atmosphere” where you’re “made to feel welcome by all the staff.”

For many, it’s exactly what they want from a village pub: somewhere that feels like the social heart of Alnmouth rather than a generic seaside bar.

Cosy fires and comfort after a cold beach walk

Guests who drop in after winter walks on Alnmouth’s beach single out the Sun’s “cosy pub with open fire” and “warm and friendly” feel.

That combination of a crackling fire, snug interior, and shelter from the North Sea wind is a big part of why people say they’ll “definitely be back.”

Friendly staff who go above and beyond

Staff are a major reason people rate the inn so highly.

Reviews from TripAdvisor and Booking.com talk about “lovely staff,” “very friendly and welcoming” service, and a team who go “above and beyond” to fix last-minute problems and make short-notice stays feel special.

Guests mention individuals by name and praise the way the whole team looks after them from arrival to departure.

Hearty, well-priced pub food

The food is another standout.

Diners highlight “delicious” beef brisket casserole, steak pies, curries, and Sunday roasts, saying they “couldn’t have enjoyed staying there more” and “100% recommend this pub.”

Portions are described as generous and “homemade,” with visitors noting that the menu offers “every choice you could wish for, including veggie option” at “very fairly priced” rates.

Beer drinkers appreciate the “good selection of beers/lagers including local brewed ales,” with the bar offering everything from mainstream lagers to North East ales.

Combined with the atmosphere, that makes it a go-to spot for a pint whether you’re staying overnight or just in for lunch.

Clean, cosy rooms with thoughtful touches

Upstairs, the inn’s four rooms are often described as “lovely, clean, warm, and cosy” with “plenty of space” and “beautiful fluffy towels.”

Guests love touches like mini fridges stocked with juice, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, biscuits, and croissants for breakfast, all included in the room cost, which makes the stay feel generous and homely rather than basic.

Perfect for couples, friends, and families

Reviews come from couples, friends’ groups, and three-generation family parties, many of whom say the inn pleased everyone from grandparents to kids.

Larger bookings talk about “great” food and “friendly as well as efficient” service that keeps big tables happy without sacrificing the relaxed village feel.

A base for enjoying the best of Alnmouth

Guests also love how close the inn is to Alnmouth’s highlights: the beach, The Old School Gallery, the Ferryman’s Hut, and coastal walks are all just minutes away on foot.

With free Wi-Fi, a bar, restaurant, and pet-friendly policy, The Sun Inn gives visitors everything they need to enjoy the village without stepping far from the front door.

Getting there

The Sun Inn sits right on Northumberland Street in the heart of Alnmouth, at 29 Northumberland Street, Alnwick, NE66 2RA.

By train, Alnmouth station is on the East Coast Main Line, with direct services from Newcastle (around 25 minutes), Edinburgh (around 60 minutes), York, Darlington and London.

From the station it’s roughly a 15‑minute walk into the village and down to the Sun Inn, or a short taxi ride if you’d rather not walk with luggage.

By car, Alnmouth is just off the A1 — leave at the Alnwick turning and follow the A1068/B1338 signs for Alnmouth, crossing the old stone bridge into the village.

The pub itself offers free street parking, and there are also pay‑and‑display car parks near Alnmouth railway station if the street is busy.

People have been urged not to touch the ‘nurdles’ and keep dogs on leads after they washed up on Littlehaven beach.

It comes after the crash involving the vessel Wind Orca and the container ship BG Orange on the south bank of the Port of Tyne on Sunday (July 19), leaving a man in hospital. A dockside gantry crane was damaged in the impact.

South Tyneside Council said: “We are responding to reports of plastic pellets known as ‘nurdles’ washing up on sections of Littlehaven beach following a vessel collision in the River Tyne.

“Working alongside the Environment Agency, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Port of Tyne and other partner organisations, we are assessing the extent of the contamination and any potential environmental impacts.

“Our priority is protecting the coastline and supporting the coordinated response being led by the relevant agencies and those responsible for the incident. Council teams are monitoring affected locations and are supporting any clean-up activity undertaken by specialist contractors.”

Nurdles are small raw material pellets used to make plastic products. They are transported in bulk and melted down to form everything from bottles and packaging to household items, which means spills at sea can quickly turn into widespread pollution along the coastline.

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Nurdles are small enough to be easily mistaken for food by birds and marine creatures, and can adsorb toxins from the surrounding water, turning them into tiny, toxic “sponges” inside the food chain.

Heather McFarlane, senior project manager at Scottish environmental charity Fidra, said the sight of fresh pellets on the beach was “devastating” so soon after a major North Sea spill last year.

She warned that plastic pellets are “very difficult to clean up” and, if not contained quickly, “can spread far from the original spill site”, affecting communities, tourism and wildlife over a wide area.

“Most pellet pollution can be prevented with simple measures like better packaging and safer stowage,” she said, calling for tougher UK rules to stop similar incidents.

“We urgently need stronger UK regulation to prevent pollution on land and mandatory measures at sea to stop spills like this in the future.”

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves entered Parliament with a massive majority, but just a couple of years into the job, both left Downing Street and headed straight to the pub

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were spotted at a pub with drinks in hand just hours they left Downing Street.

The former Prime Minister and Chancellor rocked up to The Pineapple pub in Kentish Town, north London, while Ex-Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham put together his Cabinet. Rather than appearing downtrodden, photographs published today showed the pair in seemingly good spirits.

Mr Starmer was seen chatting and texting on the phone while holding a pint in his hand after he arrived. Another snap at the pub showed the dad of two leaning by the door after putting his pint down and speaking to someone on the phone.

The Pineapple brands itself as northwest London’s “beloved back street boozer.” In addition to a selection of pints and spirits, the pub also offers Thai food, although it is unclear if any of the ex-Prime Minister’s team tucked into any tasty treats.

Just hours before he left Downing Street, Mr Starmer said his “work is done.” He later added: “I go with a smile and I go proud of everything that we have achieved.”

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The outgoing Prime Minister said he wished Mr Burnham “every success” before exiting Downing Street, Mr Burnham is now the UK’s seventh Prime Minister since 2016, an unprecedented position in Post War Britain.

At the pub, Ms Reeves was surrounded by friends and colleagues while sipping some wine. The former Chancellor was also seen being embraced by one of her aides at the pub.

Ms Reeves had reportedly been offered the role of Defence Secretary, but she ultimately declined the offer. She was the first female Chancellor in British history, but her position became uncertain after it became clear Mr Burnham would become Labour Party leader and, later, Prime Minister.

Ms Reeves said on social media after leaving Downing Street: “It has been the privilege of my life to serve as the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The economy today is stronger, fairer and more resilient because of the choices we have taken as a Labour Government over the past two years.”

The mum of two added: “Stability restored, investment delivered and reform to our economy under way. I said when I was appointed Chancellor that I would judge my time in office if the lives ordinary working class people have been improved. I’m proud to say that they have.

“And to every young woman and girl let my time in office show there should be no ceilings on your ambitions, your hopes or your dreams. I wish the very best of luck to my successor, Andy and his cabinet. You have my full support, and I will continue to play my part in helping this Labour government deliver the change the country needs.”

Going into the judges dressing rooms and taking some of their prized possessions might not be the best way of getting them on your side.

Smashing those items with a hammer is even less likely to help your chances.

Yet that is exactly what Mawhinney did, leaving Mel B, Sofía Vergara and Howie Mandel stunned before revealing that every item had somehow survived.

Mandel’s phone appeared inside a locked box that had been sitting in front of the judges throughout the audition.

The phone then began receiving texts from Mawhinney revealing where the other judges missing valuables had ended up.

Vergara’s framed picture of her dog was hidden inside her seat cushion, while Mel B’s bracelet was concealed in one of the famous Got Talent red buzzers.

“I don’t know how you do it. I believe in magic but I loved it,” Mel B said when giving her verdict, which was a yes.

Vergara laughed and said the “magic was very impressive”. She also voted yes, adding: “I don’t know if this was necessary, but it was very exciting.”

Mendel called Mawhinney “charming, you’ve got a good look”, but it was a no from the comedian, calling the performance “too slow”.

Simon Cowell agreed on the length of the performance and said “you can’t do that on a live show”.

“Our audience love magic, which is exactly the reason I’m going to say yes.”

With three yeses, Mawhinney progressed to the next stage and remains in with a chance of winning the cash prize.

The White House is “deeply concerned” about Ed Miliband’s appointment as foreign secretary, with a warning that Donald Trump has not forgotten scathing remarks the former Labour leader has made about him in the past.

New prime minister Andy Burnham has been cautioned that Mr Miliband has some “serious diplomatic repair to undertake” in the US, after his promotion to the role on Monday sparked anger from the Trump administration.

The former energy secretary has previously clashed with Mr Trumpover net zero and his attitudes to democracy and in 2016 he described the president as “a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper”.

One source close to the president told The Independent: “There’s genuine anger about this appointment.”

The two men have been attacking one another for more than a decade. Mr Miliband previously said of the president: “We must do our best at home and abroad to resist the worst of Trumpism… These are dark days for America and the world. There can be little solace right now.”

In 2017, he said Mr Trump had “lowered the bar for idiocy” and later joined a Stop Trump March in London. He also criticised the president’s “incredibly peculiar relationship with Russia” and accused him of lowering standards in politics.

The new foreign secretary has also described Mr Trump’s criticism on social media of the UK’s stance on drilling for oil and gas as “irrelevant”, with the president highly critical of his “net zero zealotry” and accusing him of blocking the UK from expanding oil and gas operations in the North Sea.

On Mr Miliband’s past remarks, one ally close to the president told The Independent: “Trump doesn’t forget. He will not forget. Miliband has some serious diplomatic repair to undertake.”

A consultant who works with both the White House and State Department added: “It [Mr Miliband’s appointment] is going down like a lead balloon. The US government no longer takes the UK seriously.

“Ed Miliband is known in Washington for all the wrong reasons. Ed Miliband is seen as an unreasonable ‘nut zero’ extremist who blocked North Sea oil production but was happy for the UK to purchase Norway’s fossil fuels from the North Sea.”

The White House is said to be “deeply concerned” about the appointment even though Mr Miliband has previously described how much he loves the US.

They also noted that Mr Burnham himself said in 2021: “Any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed.”

Mr Burnham chose Mr Miliband as foreign secretary partly because he decided against making him chancellor, following a backlash from those on the right of the party.

However, the plan, as revealed over the weekend by The Independent, is for Mr Miliband to reform the Foreign Office around the UK’s climate goals and find a roadmap back to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on overseas aid, which was slashed under Sir Keir Starmer.

But there is also anger in the US over Mr Miliband’s time as Labour leader when he withdrew his support for bombing Syria after the regime there was responsible for a number of atrocities in 2013. The coalition government lost the vote in parliament as a result and the US was left alone in wanting to take action.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson, who is close to senior Republicans, suggested on Tuesday that this emboldened Vladimir Putin to invade the Crimea in Ukraine in 2014.

He wrote on X: “The failure to stand up to Bashar al-Assad – for which Miliband bears much guilt – led directly to Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine. An appalling choice for foreign secretary. The Kremlin will be delighted.”

Mr Miliband lived in Boston, Massachusetts, as a boy for brief periods while his father, the Marxist academic Ralph Miliband, was teaching there. He is big fan of baseball and a supporter of the Boston Red Sox. He later returned to the US as an adult in the early 2000s to spend several semesters teaching economics at Harvard University.

Another ally of the president working on his Iranian policy told The Independent that Mr Miliband was not the only choice raising eyebrows in the US.

They said: “Miliband is a bit of an odd choice – as is Wes Streeting as defence secretary.”

But former Labour foreign minister Bill Rammell said he believes Mr Miliband and Mr Trump will be able to put their differences behind them.

He pointed out that both Sir Keir Starmer and former foreign secretary David Lammy had developed a good relationship with President Trump despite their previous remarks about him.

Added to that, vice-president JD Vance had never been a Trump supporter before becoming his pick for vice president in 2024.

Mr Rammell told GB News: “I am sure Ed Miliband will be able to build a working relationship.”

In a statement following his appointment, Mr Miliband appeared to look towards the EU first, promising to deepen ties with the bloc before speaking about Britain’s “essential alliance with the United States”.

Mr Miliband pledged to fight for “Britain’s interests and our values of democracy, freedom and the rule of law on the world stage”.

He added: “I will seek to deepen and strengthen our strategic alliance with the European Union, which is so important for our prosperity and security and at the same time nurture our strong, enduring and essential alliance with the United States.”

Steve Bannon, an outspoken ally of President Trump, told The Telegraph: “The Trump administration took the extraordinary step of warning the new prime minister that the United States would view the appointment of “red diaper” baby and self-described socialist Ed Miliband as very injurious to the “special relationship”.

“Burnham could not care less – he appointed this twit anyway.”

The Independent has contacted Mr Miliband’s office but they have declined to comment.

Downing Street today failed to commit to new Chancellor John Healey’s demand of spending 3 per cent of Britain’s GDP on defence by 2030.

In Andy Burnham‘s first full day as Prime Minister, No10 also ruled out issuing ‘defence bonds’ to raise billions of pounds for extra military spending.

Mr Healey was named as Chancellor to replace Rachel Reeves after Mr Burnham took office on Monday. 

The former defence secretary was handed the Treasury role little more than a month after he quit Keir Starmer‘s administration amid a furious row over defence spending.

When he resigned, Mr Healey raged at Sir Keir’s and Ms Reeves’ failure to commit to a timetable for spending 3 per cent of Britain’s GDP on defence.

In an explosive resignation letter, he said it was a mark that needed to be reached by 2030. But Downing Street on Tuesday afternoon dodged on whether Mr Burnham was also committed to Mr Healey’s demand on defence spending.

The PM’s official spokesman said: ‘As the PM said yesterday, we will honour our commitments on defence to our international partners. We’ll set out more on defence in due course.’

The spokesman also noted how Mr Burnham, in a phone call on Monday with NATO boss Mark Rutte, said that appointing Mr Healey as his Chancellor ‘is a signal of his intent’.

Mr Healey is said to have been keen on a ‘defence bonds’ scheme to fund a boost to military spending. But it is understood it is not something the Government is working on.

Sir Keir, the former PM, and Ms Reeves had previously ruled out the idea and cautioned defence bonds are ‘just another form of borrowing’.

The Tories earlier warned Mr Healey against trying to find an ‘easy way out’ by issuing defence bonds, as they branded the proposal a ‘total gimmick’.

They instead urged the new Chancellor to ‘deprioritise’ spending in other areas in order to fund a defence boost, rather than just add to Britain’s debt pile.

Mr Healey has previously indicated he would consider the use of defence bonds, borrowing allocated specifically for the military, to help boost its financial resources. 

Wes Streeting, who is now the Defence Secretary, has also suggested inheritance tax-free defence bonds could help fund military spending and pointed to a Canadian-led initiative.

In comments last month, Mr Streeting claimed such a scheme would see ‘the huge amounts of money that are currently sat in all sorts of other savings and investments, probably not earning a great deal of interest, actively investing in the defence of our nation today’.

Lord Dannatt, the former Army head, told Times Radio on Tuesday morning that Mr Healey will ‘probably want to look at the notion of a defence bond’.

‘If we think collective security is something that involves us all, then why shouldn’t those who are concerned about these things and have the ability to put their hand in a pocket, why shouldn’t they be invited to contribute?,’ he said.

‘It’s been done before and I think it’s an idea that’s certainly worth looking at; it’s not the complete solution but if John Healey is going to be true to himself, knowing exactly what the defence budget needs, he’s going to have to work very, very cleverly and very carefully at finding ways of raising more money.’

But Paul Johnson, the former head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said there was ‘zero economic difference’ between defence bonds and extra borrowing.

He posted on X: ‘I’m sorry but ‘defence bonds’ is literally just another way of saying ‘more borrowing’. Fine. If that’s what you want to argue for just say so. There is zero economic difference.’ 

Rupert Harrison, another leading economist who was formerly George Osborne’s chief of staff in the Treasury, agreed with Mr Johnson’s comments.

He wrote: ‘This 100% And doing it with eg an IHT (inheritance tax) exemption for defence bonds is a textbook example of financial repression – using policy to divert capital away from the private sector and towards the state – and crowding out private investment.’

Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge said defence bonds are ‘a total gimmick’.

The senior Tory MP congratulated his former opposite number Mr Healey on getting ‘the second most powerful job in Government’.

But he added that ‘there’s already been talk around defence bonds, which he himself, when he was asked MoD (Ministry of Defence) questions, was always, in my view, relatively enthusiastic about in his responses, primarily from the Liberal Democrats’.

Mr Cartlidge told Times Radio: ‘My view is this is a total gimmick, it’s simply borrowing.’

A paper from the ‘independent, very respected’ House of Commons Library said the bonds make ‘no difference in the impact on Government borrowing costs or on the national debt’, he added.

‘With defence bonds, they both go up – it’s just like any other borrowing, that’s the easy way out, that is not a policy,’ he continued.

‘A policy implies you have to make a difficult decision about what you’re going to deprioritise to prioritise the spending we need on defence.’

The Lib Dems have called on Mr Healey to introduce defence bonds as a means of raising extra cash for defence.

Party leader Ed Davey said: ‘John Healey has seen up close the need to rebuild our Armed Forces after years of Conservative cuts and Starmer dithering.

‘Now as Chancellor, he should take up Liberal Democrat plans for defence bonds to invest £20 billion in our sovereign capability.’

A statement from Liverpool’s owners FSG was released following the news

A consortium headed up by British-Indian millionaire Amit Bhatia has expressed an interest in buying a minority stake in Premier League giants Liverpool.

Bhatia has a long association of being involved in English football, and was was director and co-owner at Championship club QPR for 18 seasons but on Tuesday stepped down from his role and relinquished ownership of the Hoops.

He is the son-in-law of Indian billionaire businessman Lakshmi Mittal, who is believed to be backing the move. The Mittal family’s net worth was most recently valued at over £26billion by Forbes.

Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), released a statement to BBC Sport acknowledging the news.

“An investment consortium led, managed, and represented by Amit Bhatia has expressed interest in making a strategic minority investment in Liverpool Football Club,” the statement read.

The BBC add that the deal has not yet been finalised with FSG.

Current owners FSG purchased the Anfield club in 2010 for a fee in the region of £300million.

According to the Financial Times, as quoted by the BBC, the consortium led by Bhatia would value the Reds at more than $6bn (£4.5bn).

Back in 2022, FSG made their stance clear over investment into the club.

It said at the time: “FSG has frequently received expressions of interest from third parties seeking to become shareholders in Liverpool.

“FSG has said before that under the right terms and conditions, we would consider new shareholders if it was in the best interests of Liverpool as a club.”

FSG has sold a minority stake in the Reds before; in 2023 they struck a deal with global sports investment firm Dynasty to own a percentage of the Merseyside outfit.

Bhatia started his career on Wall Street, working as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley.

The 46-year-old has since moved into the realms of construction, real estate and private equity.

His departure from Loftus Road earlier this week was unexpected.

“Since joining the club in 2007, QPR has been a deeply important part of my life and my family’s life,” Bhatia told the club website.

“Over nearly two decades we have shared promotions, relegations, unforgettable highs and painful lows, and the memories we have made at Loftus Road alongside the supporters will stay with us forever.”

“I step back from my formal responsibilities with pride, gratitude and affection. I want to thank the players, managers, staff, the Community Trust, my fellow board members and, above all, the fans, who have made me and my family feel part of the QPR family for so many years,” he added.

A drugs courier caught with almost 44kg of cannabis hidden in his luggage after landing at Glasgow Airport has been jailed for 12 months, as the National Crime Agency warns of a sharp rise in smugglers recruited through social media.

A man has been jailed for trying to smuggle around £430,000 worth of cannabis into Scotland on a flight from Thailand.

Zane Jamahl Hutton-Lewis, of Haringey, London, was stopped as he tried to make his way through Glasgow Airport on January 21, 2025, and was caught with 43.8kg of the Class B drug hidden inside his luggage.

The 34-year-old was arrested by Border Force officers and an investigation was launched by the Scottish Organised Crime Partnership – a team of officers from the National Crime Agency and Police Scotland.

Lasr Friday, Hutton-Lewis was jailed for 12 months at Paisley Sheriff Court.

Brits caught smuggling cannabis from Thailand will now have to pay huge new fines or face up to two years behind bars. The NCA has been working with Thai authorities to reduce the number of air passengers smuggling cannabis into the United Kingdom.

It comes after an explosion in the number of drugs couriers trying to smuggle cannabis. In 2023, 142 cannabis smugglers were caught arriving in the UK. In 2024 that number rocketed to 801 – a 464% increase.

The figure rose again in 2025 to 976. And 2026 is on track to be even worse with 600 air passenger couriers arrested at UK airports in the first six months alone.

Social media influencer Ellie Cramspie from Glasgow was jailed for 16 months at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for smuggling £150,000 of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport.

Crampsie was found to have more than 37lb of the Class B drug stuffed into a suitcase as she travelled home from a holiday in Thailand in April last year.

Under the new fines regime that started on June 17, smugglers will have to pay Thai Customs 30,000 Baht (around £680) per kilo of cannabis.

The ‘average’ smuggler is caught in Thailand with 26 kilos – equalling a fine of £17,680, and, if not paid will lead to a criminal prosecution with up to two years in jail.

Beki Wright, Head of the NCA’s Borders Threat Team, warned would-be couriers – who are normally recruited on social media – to think again if they are tempted to smuggle cannabis from Thailand.

She said: “You will be kept in Thai detention until you have found the money to pay or for two years.

“The crime groups that paid you to smuggle it will leave you high and dry.

“If convicted, you face potentially life-changing jail sentences both in the UK and especially abroad. You’ll also have a criminal record, which could wreck future job prospects and your ability to travel abroad.

“It just isn’t worth the risk.”

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Smoke from a major wildfire in Blaenavon has spread across South Wales, with people reporting the smell as far away as Newport and Cardiff. The fire services has warned those affected by the smell to close their windows and doors.

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (SWFRS) said crews remain at the scene tackling the blaze, which has generated a large number of 999 calls since it first broke out on Monday.

The fire service said smoke from the fire could be seen up to 10 miles away and urged residents not to be concerned if they could smell or see it.

A SWFRS spokesperson said: “Crews are continuing to deal with a significant wildfire in the Blaenavon area, and smoke from the incident can be seen up to 10 miles away.

“We are receiving a large number of calls for this incident and we want to reassure residents, particularly those in the Abergavenny area, that we are aware and we are dealing with it.

“Thank you for your concern.”

In a further update on Tuesday morning, the fire service said the smoke had travelled much further than first reported.

It said: “Smoke from a significant wildfire in the Blaenavon area has spread as far south as Caerphilly and Cardiff this morning.

“If you’ve woken up to this smoke in the air, please be reassured that our crews are continuing to deal with the incident which is causing it.

“If you are living or working in one of the areas affected, please close your windows and doors.

“We’re receiving a significant volume of calls to report this smoke, however we want to let you know we are aware.”