Britney Spears’ legal team has spoken out after the pop star pleaded guilty to reckless driving.

In early March, the chart-topping singer was pulled over by the police and arrested while out driving in California.

After checking herself into a rehab treatment facility, it was subsequently announced that Britney had been charged with a misdemeanour of driving while under the influence.

Her lawyer, Michael A. Goldstein, told Rolling Stone on Monday that Britney’s DUI charge had been “dismissed” at a hearing – where she was not in attendance – and that she had instead pleaded guilty to reckless driving.

“She’s doing well,” Goldstein said outside the courthouse. “It was reduced. The DUI was dismissed. She entered a plea to reckless driving.”

He continued: “We appreciate the district attorney recognising the positive steps Britney has taken to help herself, and we expect that she’ll continue to do so.”

Per Rolling Stone, Britney has been sentenced to 12 months of summary probation, during which she will be subjected to searches by law enforcement while driving.

She must also continue her “mental health and substance treatment”, which is said to include “weekly meetings with her psychologist and twice-monthly visits with her psychiatrist”, in addition to a three-month DUI course.

Following her arrest, Britney’s spokesperson told HuffPost UK: “This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life.

“Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time. Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being.”

Over the weekend, Britney returned to Instagram for the first time since entering rehab, posting footage of herself and her son, as well as an old clip of her dancing at her home from a year earlier.

She also posted a graphic with the slogan: “Your energy is magnetic, goddess.”

The Pussycat Dolls have announced they’ll no longer be moving forward with the planned American leg of their world tour.

Back in March, it was confirmed that the chart-topping girl group would be reuniting as a three-piece for a string of shows that would take them across North America and Europe, concluding with a run of performances around the UK and Ireland.

However, following poor sales for their shows in the US and Canada, the group announced on Monday night that they’d had to make a tough decision.

“We want to share an important update with you,” they began. “When we announced the PCD Forever Tour, we hoped to bring the show to fans across the world.

“After taking an honest look at the North American run, we’ve made the difficult and heartbreaking decision to cancel all but one of the North America dates.”

While a one-off performance at WeHo Pride in Los Angeles is still going ahead in June, the PCD Forever tour will officially now kick off in Copenhagen, Denmark in September.

“Our UK and European dates are still moving forward as planned,” the band insisted, pointing out that the “response has been incredible, with several shows already sold out”.

They added: “We are putting everything into making this show a true celebration of the music and the memories, for the fans who have been with us from the beginning and those discovering us for the first time.“We’re working hard to create the kind of show we’ve always dreamed of bringing to you. We cannot wait to bring this reunion to Europe and make these nights unforgettable.”

The current line-up of the Pussycat Dolls consists of Ashley Roberts, Kimberley Wyatt and frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger.

Former band member Carmit Bachar recently admitted she was disappointed to not be invited back for the planned reunion.

Meanwhile, Jessica Sutta – who now describes herself as a “mommy, wife and activist”, and is outspoken in her pro-MAGA and anti-vaccine stances – also insisted that while she was “never planning to return” to the Pussycat Dolls “under the current circumstances”, and is “still unable to dance due to ongoing health issues”, the reunion announcement still proved “difficult” for her.

Zack Polanski’s popularity has plummeted in the wake of the row over his reaction to the Golders Green attacks.

The Green Party leader was forced to apologise after appearing to criticise the police’s response to the incident.

Shilome Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were left seriously injured in what police have described as a terrorist incident last Wednesday.

A video of the incident posted showed Metropolitan Police apprehending the man suspected of carrying out the attacks.

Polanski retweeted a post on X which said: “So essentially [Met commissioner Mark Rowley’s] officers were repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head when he was already incapacitated by taser.”

That led to criticism from Rowley, who wrote to Polanski condemning “observers with little experience of policing in the real world” for criticising his officers.

Polling released by More in Common on Tuesday – two days before voters go to the polls in crucial elections across the UK – showed the Green Party leader’s approval rating has fallen by 14 points to minus 27 in the past week.

It means he now has a lower rating than Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey and Nigel Farage, though remains comfortably ahead of Keir Starmer, who is by far the least popular leader with an approval rating of minus 45.

Responding to the findings, More in Common director Luke Tryl said the row was making some people “think twice” about voting Green.

He said: “Two things have happened. Zack Polanski’s negatives have gone up but some people, particularly younger people, have moved to being neutral about him.

“The Greens are seen as a hopeful party, quite a nice party. I just think that what some of the candidates have said about antisemitism and Zack perhaps not being robust enough on that, and responding in the way he did to the police, is making some people think twice.”

However, despite the row, the Greens are still forecast to gain round 600 English council seats in Thursday’s elections.

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Good news for tired gardeners: no-mow May is upon us.

Experts like Monty Don recommend leaving our strimmers and mowers in the shed this month – even as late as the end of June – and letting our gardens grow wild instead.

Here are 13 bee-rilliant (sorry) reasons to lay down the blades:

Because of their open shape, bees find it really easy to extract much-needed pollen from yellow dandelions.

Calling the so-called “weed” our “most undervalued wildflower,” the Scottish Wildlife Trust added they also fuel other pollinators like butterflies, hover flies, day flying moths and solitary bees.

The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside said that long grass is important for invertebrates, like insects, that “in turn provide food for birds and mammals such as hedgehogs″.

Additionally, some species, like craneflies and sawflies, which rely on longer grass to flourish, are “particularly important for the survival of young chicks”.

The common meadow brown butterfly lays its eggs in taller grass clumps, too.

Speaking to The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, wildlife gardener Jack Wallington explained that “Wilder lawns are probably the most sustainable usable surface people can create because they absorb carbon as they grow”.

The Royal Horticultural Society added that “when you stop weekly mowing, your lawn starts on its journey to becoming natural grassland – one of the world’s most efficient carbon sinks, able to lock up over three tonnes of carbon per hectare”.

Yes, of course, you’re already down one task: mowing. But speaking to HuffPost UK previously, Helen Bostock, a senior wildlife specialist at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), said that letting your garden grow wild can make it more self-sufficient.

“A vibrant garden ecosystem is one that requires [fewer] inputs from gardeners – when natural predators are keeping the aphids in check, [fewer] sprays are needed,” she shared.

“It is also more productive – when insect pollinators are in abundance, our fruit trees will set heavier, higher quality fruit.”

Plantlife, the organisation that invented No Mow May, did so in response to the UK losing 97% of its grassland meadows since the 1930s.

Letting your lawn breathe increases its biodiversity and number of wildflowers.

Not only is it adaptable to a range of environments (native wildflowers flourish in “poor” soil), but it can suit all different needs, too.

If you need to keep a path or verge clear, that’s OK: it’s not an “all or nothing” policy.

The RHS said that “You can ‘no mow’ your whole lawn or just part of it. Leave it long until at least August for maximum wildlife benefit.”

With speculation mounting about whether or not she and Harry Styles are engaged, Zoë Kravitz had a fun way of keeping the rumours at bay while attending this year’s Met Gala.

Zoë and Harry were first linked in the press in the summer of 2025, and found themselves at the centre of even more rumours last month, when the Big Little Lies star was pictured wearing what appeared to be an especially eye-catching engagement ring.

Following this, People magazine cited an undisclosed “source” who claimed the couple had told a “small circle” around them that they were engaged after around eight months of dating.

Since then, both she and the As It Was singer have kept schtum about the rumours, and – perhaps sensing it could be a moment on the Met Ball red carpet, decided to take matters into her own hands.

Or, rather, her own hand. Because Zoë’s Met Gala look for 2026 consisted of a black lace dress boasting both pockets and long sleeves, so she spent the whole night posing with her left hand completely obscured.

In other words, photographers couldn’t get a shot of what may or may not have been an engagement ring (although pictures taken from inside the event showed that she was not wearing the ring in question for the event).

Zoë has previously dated Penn Badgley and Karl Glusman.

She previously directed in the film Blink Twice, and was engaged to co-star Channing Tatum between 2023 and 2024.

Meanwhile, Harry has previously been linked to a number of famous faces, including Olivia Wilde, Taylor Russell, Olivia Dean and Taylor Swift.

Earlier this year, Harry told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe while promoting his latest album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally: “I had a real honest conversation with myself about, ‘OK, in five years, what do I want my life to look like?’. And then how do I make changes to aim at that?

“I want to have great friendships with people. I want a family. I want these things. It just allowed me to go like, ‘Okay, what do I have to do to create space to allow these things to happen? I can’t just expect them to just happen to me’.”

Donald Trump is now paying the price of going to war with Iran “without thinking through the consequences”, a senior BBC journalist has declared.

Jeremy Bowen, the corporation’s international affairs editor, also warned that the US president’s attempts to re-open the Strait of Hormuz could see a return to all-out war.

His comments came as Iran’s foreign minister warned that America could be “dragged back into quagmire”.

Trump launched “Project Freedom” at the weekend, vowing that the United States would “guide” stranded ships through the Strait, which has been effectively closed by Iranian attacks since the war began.

That has led to a spike in oil prices and triggered fears of a global economic crisis.

Two US-flagged ships are reported to have passed through the key waterway.

However, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – a Gulf ally of the US – said a tanker affiliated with its state-owned oil company, had been targeted by two drones as it transited the Strait.

On Radio 4′s Today programme, Jeremy Bowen said “Iran was always going to react” to Trump’s plan and warned that it could lead to the collapse of the uneasy ceasefire which has been in place in recent weeks.

“The question is does it end there, or does it slide both of them back into all-out war,” he said.

“This is territory for misperceptions and miscalculations which have been made, and these are the factors which are classic ways of driving the ways that wars escalate, even out of ceasefires.

“The length of time that the Strait of Hormuz stay closed will determine how much more severe this becomes for all of us, as well as the Gulf states.

“You heard President Trump, as ever, being very bullish, but what is happening is [the Gulf states] are seeing the consequences of going to war, assuming an easy victory and without thinking through the consequences of what happens and what to do if it turns out, as has occurred, that it’s not easy.”

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In April, stargazers got to enjoy the Lyrid meteor shower.

But if you missed it, don’t worry: since April 18, the Eta Aquariid meteor shower has also been falling, and it’s set to peak this week.

Here’s why it happens, when it’ll be at its brightest in the UK, and how to catch it:

As with the Lyrid meteor shower, it’s not that the comets are “shooting” towards us.

They’re part of the debris following a comet (in this case, comet Halley); in our journey around the sun, we pass through this space rubble, some of which then enters our atmosphere.

When they do that, they move so quickly that they compress and superheat the air surrounding them.

That leads to a glowing “head” and, sometimes, a streaking “tail” that stargazers will recognise as part of a meteor shower.

Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) said on its site, “the beautiful streaks we see in the night sky can actually be caused by particles as small as a grain of sand.”

The debris of Halley’s comet is associated with two meteor showers. The other one, Orionid, is due in October 2026.

In the UK, your best odds are on Wednesday, 6 May, from midnight to dawn. But don’t despair if you miss it.

One of the things that makes the Eta Aquariid meteor shower distinct is that it doesn’t have a “sharp peak”, RMG said.

Instead, brilliant shows tend to cluster around a particular week. In 2026, that’s this week (May 4-10).

Look towards the Eastern horizon in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Steer clear of sources of light pollution, like street lamps, and wait. (Unfortunately, the peak of this meteor shower occurs alongside quite a bright moon, which might make the display less obvious).

The meteors should be visible to the naked eye, so you won’t need any special tools like binoculars.

Every year, the Met Gala gathers together some of the most famous faces from across the world of music, cinema, sport and, of course, fashion for a star-studded fundraiser in aid of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art’s Costume Institute.

This year’s event was held on Monday night, and proved to be as A-list as ever.

Co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and, as ever, Anna Wintour, the themed dress code of 2026’s Met Ball was “Fashion Is Art” – really allowing the famous guests to think outside the box and let their imaginations run wild when putting together their red carpet looks.

And what do you know – some of them actually did.

On that note, we’ve pieced together some of the must-see looks from this year’s Met Gala, from some of the biggest stars on the planet…

As one of the organisers of the Met Gala this year, Beyoncé will have known that all eyes were on her on the red carpet.

Leaning into the elaborate theme, the Break My Soul singer sported this glittering, skeletal-inspired look on the red carpet, where she was joined by her husband Jay-Z and eldest daughter Blue Ivy Carter, marking the 14-year-old’s Met Ball debut.

Sam Smith has become renowned for their dramatic approach to fashion in recent history, and this year’s Met Ball really afforded them the chance to go all out.

Channelling Norma Desmond, the British star gave us old school Hollywood glamour in a floor-length black dress complete with bejeweled adornments, billowing sleeves and a feather headpiece.

Madonna’s Met Gala look was a real departure from what we’re used to seeing the Queen of Pop in, opting for something more gothic, dark and, frankly, weird that we’re totally here for.

The Bring Your Love singer’s ensemble was directly inspired by a Leonora Carrington painting, in one of the night’s more literal interpretations of “Fashion Is Art”.

Janelle Monáe brings it every single Met Ball, and a theme like “Fashion Is Art” was always going to be in their wheelhouse.

The 10-time Grammy nominee mixed the old and new with their imaginative look, which incorporated elements of nature and technology, merging moss and butterflies with wires and microchips.

Dressed in head-to-toe leather, Luke Evans’ look was an obvious nod to Tom Of Finland.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the Met Ball red carpet, the Welsh actor said that “playing such an iconic character on stage” in the current Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show made him want to put a “twist” on an “iconic gay artist who has influenced so much”.

Former Game Of Thrones star Gwnendoline Christie has never been one to shy away from leaning into a Met Gala theme.

On Monday night, her look consisted of a massive feathered hat and a floor-length red dress nodding to faded glamour – but our favourite part of the whole ensemble was the hand-held mirror, adorned with a recreation of her own face.

Perhaps inspired by her own trip to space last year, Katy Perry’s Met Gala look consisted of what appeared to be a fencing mask, with a shiny and opaque face covering on the front.

As she made her way down the red carpet, Katy revealed that the mask also swung open, adding even further to its futuristic elements (and putting us slightly in mind of a Star Wars villain).

We’re going to be very honest and say that content creator Emma Chamberlain was not exactly the person we thought was going to turn it out the hardest at Monday night’s event – but you can’t argue with this look can you?

In fact, the influencer may have just given us our favourite Met Gala look of 2026, with the dripping paint effect creating an optical illusion that really served the night’s theme.

Fresh from her Oscar nomination and leading performance in the new Handmaid’s Tale spin-off The Testaments, Chase Infiniti’s Met Gala debut was also one of our favourites from this year’s event.

The One Battle After Another star’s colourful dress almost put us in mind of painting-by-numbers (in the best way!), with its graphic design.

On its own, Sarah Paulson’s expansive, red carpet look would have been show-stopping enough, putting us in mind of a presidential ball as much as an event like the Met Gala – but that dollar bill blindfold accessory really gives it something extra.

Sadly, even though Madonna was there too, we didn’t get a recreation of one of our favourite moments in Met Ball history.

One of the more literal “Fashion Is Art” ensembles came from Ben Platt, wearing a colourful suit inspired by one of Georges Pierre Seurat’s most famous works.

The Seurat painting, of course, was also the basis of the iconic Stephen Sondheim production Sunday In The Park With George, which makes Tony winner Ben wearing it all the more fitting.

SZA’s Met Gala look consisted of a layered gown in this absolutely gorgeous yellow colour, as well as a floral headpiece and some beaded face jewellery for the evening.

Our favourite part of the whole look, though, was just how much of a blast the Good Days singer was clearly having wearing it.

Extra body parts always go down well on the Met Ball red carpet, and Lisa’s look was no exception.

The jury’s out on whether “Fashion Is Art” really came into play here, but we just think the Blackpink and White Lotus star looks really cool, to be honest.

Another big name doing the UK proud on the Met Gala red carpet was Brit Award nominee Skepta.

The rapper made a big impression in this matching white co-ord, which he later revealed was adorned with embroidery inspired by his own tattoos, as well as his own song lyrics.

Listen, Nicole Kidman never misses on the red carpet, but given how imaginative some people were with their looks, this feels a little out of place.

We’ve mostly mentioned it in this round-up so we can include her explanation for it.

“Fashion is art and I wanted something red, because I wanted to embrace the way in which red has been used in art through the years,” she apparently claimed.

Kim Kardashian’s latest Met Ball look consisted of a molded bodysuit in an eye-catching shade of orange.

Again, it wasn’t exactly our favourite outfit of the evening, but given just how synonymous with the Met Gala that Kim K has become, we just had to include her, alright.

This year, Halloween came early, with Heidi Klum unveiling one of her trademark dramatic transformations six months before her usual spooky season bash.

For the 2026 Met Ball, Heidi transformed herself into a living artpiece, paying homage to 19th century sculpture with the aid of prosthetics and unconventional materials to deliver one of the night’s most talked-about looks.

And speaking of prosthetics – Bad Bunny’s look was certainly an unconventional one, too.

The recent Super Bowl headliner walked the red carpet as an older version of itself, which it’s been pointed out was a probable nod to “The Aging Body”, a key element of the Met’s Costume Institute’s exhibit this year.

Rihanna’s position as Queen of the Met Gala is safe for another year.

Her latest Met Ball look was another mix of the old and new – offering an unconventional silhouette and undoubtedly the night’s most intricate adornments.

We absolutely love what she did with her hair, too, with her partner A$AP Rocky also joining her on the red carpet later on, sporting a baby pink overcoat and tuxedo.