UK technology secretary hits out at Reform UK’s pledge to scrap Online Safety Act if it wins power

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The UK technology secretary, Peter Kyle, has accused Nigel Farage of being on the side of “extreme pornographers” over his party’s pledge to scrap the Online Safety Act.

Reform UK said on Monday it would repeal the legislation , arguing that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would make the UK “a borderline dystopian state”.

Super Falcons were two goals down to Morocco in the final but comeback repaid Justine Madugu’s faith in his team

Eyebrows were raised when Justine Madugu was appointed as the new Nigeria coach in September last year, having had no head coach experience in international football before taking on the role.

On Saturday the “gamble” – if you call it that – paid off when the Super Falcons came from 2-0 down to beat hosts Morocco 3-2 in the final at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat to win the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.

He inspired their band name and played on Born to Run but left before it turned his bandmates into superstars. As the album turns 50, does the musician – who went on to tour with Sting and Eric Clapton – have any regrets?

It was a late spring night in 1971 and David Sancious had walked from his home on E Street in Belmar, New Jersey to the Upstage club in Asbury Park. He was 17 and he had been playing piano and guitar with local bands for four years. “I had walked to the Upstage because I wanted to play,” he says, “and as I’m coming in I see Garry Tallent, a bass player who I already knew from other gigs.” Tallent was with a fellow New Jersey musician, a 21-year-old guitarist called Bruce Springsteen, “the local guitar hero”, says Sancious, “very famous locally.” Springsteen told Sancious he was having a jam session and invited him to play. “I said: ‘Absolutely.’”

The band played until 5am. As they were walking out of the club, Springsteen told Sancious he was breaking up his current band Steel Mill to form a new one: would he be interested in joining? Sancious said yes. He went on to record with Springsteen on his first three albums, but left the group before Born to Run transformed Springsteen and his bandmates into superstars. As that album approaches its 50th anniversary next month, I have wondered whether Sancious regrets walking away.

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as president ends tour of his Scottish golf courses and US-China trade talks continue

Donald Trump is in the UK, and by the looks of it he has been talking to someone with an interest in the oil industry: he has said the UK’s taxes on North Sea oil “make no sense”.

The US president wrote on the social network he owns, Truth Social, that the UK should “incentivize the drillers” and that there was “A VAST FORTUNE TO BE MADE for the UK, and far lower energy costs for the people”.

The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason

Two more men have come forward to accuse Christian rock superstar and Maga firebrand Michael Tait of drugging and sexually assaulting them – including Jason Jones, the founding manager of the American hard-rock band Evanescence.

Jones said he was fired from the band – which had ties to Tait – for speaking out about his alleged assault. Jones said the firing, which he claimed happened in 1999, cut him out of Evanescence’s massive success beginning in 2003.

The Black Sabbath singer’s hearse will travel along Broad Street to Black Sabbath Bridge in his home city on Wednesday

Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral cortege is to pass through his home city of Birmingham on Wednesday.

The hearse will travel along Broad Street to Black Sabbath Bridge and the Black Sabbath bench – the sites of thousands of messages, floral tributes and vigils following the metal star’s death last week at the age of 76 – at 1pm BST.

Rail regulator to extend paths from London for private operators despite capacity concerns and impact on state-funded services

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Private train operators will be allowed to run extra services on the east coast mainline from London to Glasgow, Hull and Bradford, Britain’s rail regulator has ruled.

The decision to give additional paths to three existing companies comes in spite of concerns about capacity and the impact on taxpayer-funded services, with the main operator on the line, LNER, preparing to run faster intercity trains.

• Cricket to return in LA Games after 128-year absence

• Pakistan, New Zealand not happy with selection process

Team GB will be guaranteed a place in the men’s cricket tournament at LA 2028 after the International Cricket Council opted to use the regional qualifying format favoured by the Olympic movement.

The controversial decision is understood to have sparked a backlash from Pakistan and New Zealand, who are set to miss out on cricket’s return to the Olympics after 128 years, with India and Australia to be awarded spots from Asia and Oceania respectively based on the ICC rankings. The IOC favour regional qualifying to ensure all parts of the world are represented at the Games so it is a truly global event.

Developing snorkelling trails is part of my job, but I never tire of the teeming underwater life and seeing some of the least crowded parts of Britain’s coast

People always ask me: isn’t it too cold to snorkel in Scotland? And I reply that while it’s obviously much cooler than it would be in Spain, the sea does warm up from May, when the temperature rises from about 9C to as high as 12-15C by August and September.

I go snorkelling in Scotland all year round. I work for the Scottish Wildlife Trust, developing snorkelling trails on the Scottish coast and creating guides to the places you can go to enjoy snorkelling in a particular area. But even so, the Wildlife Trust always recommends wearing a wetsuit.