A RECENT inclusion on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour setlist  has the singer reimagining a brief love affair as an alien abduction. She is beamed up in ‘a cloud of sparkling dust’ and, on some spaceship never described, is smitten by her captor.

SCOTTISH Government ministers have slashed spending on TikTok promotions amid fears that sensitive information could be leaked to China.

PEOPLE living next to a women’s prison face being forced to sell their homes at a loss because of rowdy noise from inmates.

DOUGLAS Ross yesterday said he is happy to have his expenses claims scrutinised over allegations he used them to travel to his job as a football assistant referee.

JOHN Swinney has been branded ‘two-faced’ after issuing a desperate plea for General Election cash to activists by telling them it will advance the cause of independence.

FORMER BBC pundit and Liverpool footballer Alan Hansen was last night  ‘seriously ill’ in hospital, the club has revealed.

The search for Britain’s best pastry chef

FOOTBALL: Real Madrid insist they will compete at next year’s controversial Club World Cup, despite manager Carlo Ancelotti claiming the Champions League winners would skip the tournament.

MANCHESTER UNITED reserve goalkeeper Tom Heaton has been announced as a surprise addition to England’s Euro 2024 camp.

Southgate's stars get the perfect send-off

ENGLAND head coach Steve Borthwick has named six uncapped players in a youthful squad for his team’s crunch summer tour matches with Japan and New Zealand.

THE multi-billion-dollar Botox industry owes its existence to a spoiled black pudding. In the 1820s, German scientist Dr Justinus Kerner discovered the bacterial toxin while investigating victims of botulism poisoning after they had eaten pork meat infected with Clostridium botulinum. His research on the toxin’s ability to attack nerves, causing muscle weakness and paralysis, paved the way for its current therapeutic use in medicine and subsequent application in the cosmetic field.

WITH the annual general meeting (AGM) season in full swing, there are bound to be several ding-dongs between companies and their shareholders.

WHEN I visited my 76-year-old mother the other day, she seemed worried and annoyed with me.

GIOVANNI Pernice will not be returning to Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC has confirmed.

MAIL columnist Dr Michael Moseley sat down before losing consciousness in blazing 40C heat in Greece, an autopsy revealed today.

EMMANUEL Macron is gambling not only his own career but the stability of all Europe on this desperate throw of the dice. Faced with a surge to the hard-Right National Rally party led by Marine Le Pen, he has called a snap election.

■ Five-day hunt for Dr Mosley ends in tragedy ■ Health guru fell only yards from sanctuary ■ Outpouring of love as wife tells of her heartbreak

POLICE chiefs are under fire for failing to stop transgender officers being allowed to strip-search women.

AN OFFICER cadet at Sandhurst has become the latest recruit to die in an apparent suicide.

BRIGHTLY dressed in the blue and yellow of Ukraine, they are children of war given new hope to ‘dream again’ in Britain.

SURGEONS may soon be better able to remove prostate cancer thanks to a dye that makes tumours glow.

A KEY member of Israel’s war cabinet quit Benjamin Netanyahu’s government last night, heaping domestic pressure on the Israeli leader as the war in Gaza rages.

THE father of hostage Almog Meir Jan ‘died of grief’ hours before his son was rescued.

Family celebrate her return, but backlash at raid that ‘killed 274’

REFORM UK has overtaken the Tories to become the main opposition to Labour in dozens of Red Wall seats, according to a poll.

THE Conservatives last night pledged to recruit 8,000 extra police officers by increasing visa fees for foreign visitors and workers.

HEALTH and care will be ‘at the heart’ of the Liberal Democrat manifesto when it launches today, pledged Sir Ed Davey.

A ‘BRUISED’ Rishi Sunak returns to the campaign trail today as Nigel Farage triggered a race row over the PM’s D-Day fiasco.

FREE breakfast clubs proposed by Labour for every primary school would slash absence and save parents £400 a year, the party said yesterday.

Thornberry admits the tax on private school fees could hit the state sector

BRITONS are having to work an extra 19 days a year just to pay taxes than before the pandemic, research suggests.

THE Labour Party has been urged to reveal its pension tax plans amid fears it could raid the retirement savings of up to nine million workers.

Party will not raise income tax, VAT or NI... but won’t rule out a hike in fuel duty

CHURCHGOERS in one English village may find themselves a little late for Sunday service - due to a ‘quirky’ clock that has told the time incorrectly for 800 years.

A WOMAN is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a fairground ride malfunctioned at a country show.

■ He’s humbled at ballot box by Le Pen ■ Germany’s ruling socialists finish third

OVER the course of a week, I read a lot of scientific articles (so you don’t have to) and one of the things I always keep a keen eye out for is anything on prostate cancer.

MICHAEL Mosley, the doctor whose revolutionary diet advice made him beloved by millions of Daily Mail readers and TV viewers, waged a one-man war on conventional wisdom.

WALKING in high temperatures - the Greek isle of Symi has seen temperatures of between 35C and 40C in recent days - can be dangerous for even a healthy person not taking adequate precautions.

If only someone at the marina had looked up, they might well have seen him

EVERYONE at the Mail is absolutely devastated to hear of the death of Dr Michael Mosley.

I DON’T know quite where to begin with this. It’s devastating to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny, kind and brilliant husband. We had an incredibly lucky life together. We loved each other very much and were so happy together.

■ Five-day hunt for Dr Mosley ends in tragedy ■ Health guru fell only yards from sanctuary ■ Outpouring of love as wife tells of her heartbreak