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Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, former Det Sup Blaik, who led the Thames Valley Police investigation, pointed to remarks by the judge who sentenced PC Harper’s killers. Mr Justice Edis referred to their case of manslaughter as being “very close to a case of murder in its seriousness”.The former officer called for prisoners who were judged to have had a high level of culpability for a manslaughter offence to be excluded from the scheme.Allowing them to walk free would “undermine” the judicial process and impact police morale, Blaik said, before urging the government to have a “long, hard think”…

Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for its initial public offering on June 24, 2021.Source: NYSEShares of medical platform Doximity more than doubled at one point in premarket trading Friday after some bold comments on the margin for its new AI search tool.CEO Jeffrey Tangney said the product brings in 10 times what it costs to run.”It’s early days on our AI search product, but I can tell you we’re earning more than 10 times per search in revenue than it costs,” he said on Thursday during the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call.”Over time, we probably expect the…

More European airlines could be the crosshairs of private equity buyers following Apollo Global Management’s swoop for EasyJet — with rival U.K. budget carrier Jet2 emerging as a potential takeover target.Anna Macdonald, investment strategy director at Hargreaves Lansdown, said airlines had been hit hard in the early stages of the Iran war. But recent share price action suggests investors now anticipate further deals ahead. Macdonald flagged Jet2 as a potential target for private equity interest, highlighting its “similar dynamics” to EasyJet as a low-cost carrier.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconJet2.”Jet2, for example, was trading on a price-to-equity ratio of 6-7 times.…

Remaining uncertainty At the FDA advisory committee’s June meeting, experts expressed optimism about an mRNA-based flu vaccine. The platform—the same used in the company’s COVID-19 vaccines—is agile, easily allowing tweaks and updates to vaccine design, and it offers swifter vaccine production at scale compared to existing flu vaccines. Traditional flu vaccines are grown in fertilized chicken eggs, a process that requires six to eight months, compared to mRNA vaccines’ one to two months. Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel celebrated the approval in a statement Thursday, saying it “demonstrates the continued strength and versatility of our mRNA platform.” “Flu remains a significant…

WCC insists there is no plan to ban pub-goers in Soho from drinking while standing up, branding reporting of anything of that nature “utterly ludicrous”.Tim Barnes, WCC deputy leader and cabinet member for growth and planning, said: “There is no plan, and never has been, to ban drinking while standing up in a Westminster pub.”Suggesting otherwise is a wilful misreading of the policy proposals with clauses taken out of context.”We want people to go out in the West End and have a good time. Our guidance is simply about encouraging venues to manage their customers so people don’t pack on…

In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and Ask Jeeves promised to tame the chaos, each with its own suite of quirks, charms, and flaws. The real story of pre-Google search is not that early engines were inferior. It’s that they reflected a different Internet entirely, one where directories mattered, crawling was still an art, ranking was…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.This column has always been about helping readers based on honesty and experience. So let me begin this week by warning you off sailing holidays with a partner and kids. Especially in summer.Proximity to water doesn’t cool you down enough. I would like to say I enjoyed at least some peaceful nights alone on the boat after my family mutinied and rowed to an air-conditioned hotel. But it was too hot to sleep. And our fridge broke — ruining my emergency beers.I…

Savers Value Village is launching a new platform leveraging artificial intelligence to help optimize product pricing, the company told CNBC exclusively, as the tricky-to-price thrift segment gains traction around the world. The new platform, called ThriftIQ, uses AI to reduce the work needed to price items across the men’s and women’s apparel assortment and bring more consistency.”We’re getting clear sell-throughs, larger baskets, it’s helping our new stores ramp more favorably, and obviously there is the profitability improvements,” CEO Mark Walsh told CNBC.The tool has already been deployed in 58 pilot stores, according to the company, pricing more than 25 million…

Blue Origin provided its first substantive update this week on the cause of the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and most of its launch pad infrastructure at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in May. The space company’s chief executive, Dave Limp, said investigative work is continuing into the anomaly that happened during a hot-fire test of the rocket during the evening of May 28, 2026. He confirmed, for the first time, widespread speculation that the problem started in one of the rocket’s seven BE-4 engines that power the vehicle’s first stage. “The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on…

Firefighters conduct works to extinguish wildfires in Agia Paraskevi, West Attica, Greece on August 1, 2026. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAs wildfires, heatwaves, and extreme weather are becoming a permanent feature of European summers, insurers warn that the region faces a growing “protection gap” as disaster recovery costs outpace insurance coverage. A gigantic wildfire ravaging parts of France and Spain began in July and has destroyed over 300,000 acres of land, in what’s been described as a “clap of thunder” for the local economies. More recently, Greece saw a wildfire outbreak worsened by 100 km per hour winds.To top…