Membership of the main political parties continued to fall last year despite Westminster gearing up for a general election, according to newly published accounts. Labour lost 37,000 more members during 2023, leaving its total membership at 370,450 at the end of the year. Although it still has the most members of any UK party, the
Veteran British actor Sir Ian McKellen says a fat suit that he wore to play the famously portly Shakespearean character Falstaff saved him from even worse injuries when he fell from a London stage in June. In an interview for Saga magazine, he revealed he was still recovering from the experience, with his neck in
Jay Slater’s heartbreaking last words to his mother before the teenager fell to his death down a 300ft ravine in Tenerife have been revealed. The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer told Debbie Duncan ‘I love you mother’ for one final time before he went on a night out, she said. Jay went missing on June 16 earlier