Northern Lights to be visible again tonight after dazzling parts of UK

Parts of the UK could be treated to a display of the northern lights across the night sky tonight thanks to recent solar activity.

The Met Office forecast the effects of a coronial mass ejection – a burst of material from the sun into space – would result in the colourful displays across northern parts of the UK from Tuesday evening.

“Strong auroral activity is possible in northern Scotland, but even southern England could catch a glimpse in any cloud breaks,” the Met Office said on social media platform X.

The forecaster said its effects could continue into Wednesday night before easing into background levels.

The aurora borealis is caused by solar storms on the surface of the sun. These storms give out eclectically charged particles which can travel millions of miles and, in some cases, they collide with Earth.

Although most of these solar particles are deflected, some are captured by the Earth’s magnetic field, creating spectacular displays.

Auroras give off several colours, such as purple, blue and pink, and are most visible at night. These colours are created by two primary gases in the Earth’s atmosphere — oxygen and nitrogen.

Usually, the northern lights are visible in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, the north of American state Alaska and northern Siberia in Russia. They are rarely seen in the UK.

Stephen Dixon, spokesman for the Met Office, said ahead of a recent display last month that people had noticed the northern lights more in the last year due to the sun being in its solar maximum phase of an 11-year cycle, “meaning higher frequency of solar activity on the sun.”

Saka misses penalty for Arsenal as Real Madrid aim to spark comeback

Real Madrid host Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final second leg this evening looking to overturn a 3-0 deficit in front of their home fans.

The Gunners won the first leg in London in comprehensive fashion thanks to two goals from free kicks taken by Declan Rice and a third strike from Mikel Merino. Arsenal know that anything but a big defeat will be enough to send them through to the last four stage of the competition where they would face PSG after the French champions defeated Aston Villa yesterday.

Madrid, who are also aiming to catch Barcelona in LaLiga, will not believe they are out of this tie especially with their recent history of overturning losing causes to progress in the Champions League.

Jude Bellingham revealed that the hosts are focused on winning saying: “We believe so. You can’t come into a game like this thinking that there’s going to be anything other than a comeback. That’s the way we’re thinking about the game.”

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Trump officials face criminal contempt after defying judge’s orders

Donald Trump’s administration could be held in criminal contempt after ignoring a federal judge’s court orders to turn planes around carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members summarily deported to a brutal Salvadoran prison under the president’s use of a wartime law.

In a ruling on Wednesday, Judge James Boasberg said the government’s failure to return those flights to the United States demonstrates “a willful disregard” that is “sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”

“The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions,” he wrote in a lengthy opinion on Wednesday torching the administration’s refusals. “None of their responses has been satisfactory.”

Flights were in the air on March 15 when Boasberg ordered the administration to turn the planes around following a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that challenged their clients’ removal. The judge has repeatedly pressed officials to explain when government lawyers relayed his verbal and written orders to administration officials and who, if anyone, gave the flights a green light despite his orders.

At least 238 immigrants were on those flights.

“Despite the Court’s written Order and the oral command spelling out what was required for compliance, the Government did not stop the ongoing removal process,” Boasberg wrote Wednesday.

Administration officials must return those immigrants by April 23 to remove the contempt charges.

If they don’t, they must submit a filing to the court that identifies who ultimately made the decision to ignore the the judge’s orders.

And if those measures are “unsatisfactory,” administration officials will be hauled to court to testify or be deposed by plaintiffs, the judge wrote. If the administration declines, Boasberg will appoint a special prosecutor to “prosecute the contempt.”

The judge accused the administration of “increasing obstructionism” and “stonewalling” to avoid answering any questions about the flights, or who knew about the orders and when, after a series of hearings to understand why those planes arrived in El Salvador.

“Defendants provide no convincing reason to avoid the conclusion that appears obvious from the above factual recitation: that they deliberately flouted this Court’s written Order and, separately, its oral command that explicitly delineated what compliance entailed,” he wrote.

“Defendants’ conduct, moreover, manifests a willful disregard of the Court’s legally binding proscriptions,” he added. “Given the evidence at this early stage in the inquiry, and offered no persuasive reason to conclude otherwise, the Court finds that there is probable cause that Defendants acted contemptuously.”

The administration’s refusal to answer questions about the flights and the judge’s move to hold officials in contempt escalates what has become a volatile conflict between the president and the judiciary in yet another case that legal experts say has pushed the country towards a constitutional crisis.

Boasberg’s decision “affirms what we have long known: the government’s conduct in this case is unlawful and a threat to people and our constitution,” Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, a co-counsel in the case, said in a statement. “We will continue to work through the judicial process in defense of our clients and all people in America who are entitled to due process under our laws.”

In his proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act for only the fourth time in U.S. history, Trump stated that “all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of [Tren de Aragua], are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies.”

But the administration has admitted in court filings that “many” of the people sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador did not have criminal records, and attorneys and family members say their clients and relatives — some of whom were in the country with legal permission and have upcoming court hearings on their asylum claims — have nothing to do with Tren de Aragua.

On April 7, a divided Supreme Court agreed to lift Judge Boasberg’s order that temporarily blocked the president’s use of the wartime law to swiftly deport people from the country while a legal challenge plays out.

But justices said immigrants marked for removal are “entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal” in front of a judge, just not in Boasberg’s courtroom in Washington, D.C.

Following that ruling, lawsuits challenging immigrants’ deportations under the Alien Enemies Act have been filed in states where they are being detained. Several judges have since blocked the administration from summarily deporting them without a hearing.

“The Supreme Court already rebuked him. Lawless,” Homeland Secretary assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Independent in a text message.

Administration officials have also invoked a “state secrets” privilege — typically reserved to shield evidence that compromises national security — to avoid answering the judge’s questions.

“The Court is exceedingly doubtful that the privilege applies here,” Boasberg wrote Wednesday.

He is “simply seeking to confirm times and numbers: how many passengers the two flights carried, whether they were all deported pursuant to the Proclamation, and when they were transferred out of U.S. custody,” he wrote.

White House communications director Steven Cheung said the administration will appeal.

“The President is 100% committed to ensuring that terrorists and criminal illegal migrants are no longer a threat to Americans and their communities across the country,” he told The Independent via email.

The ruling comes one day after another federal judge signaled she would begin her own investigation into whether the administration similarly defied a Supreme Court to “facilitate” the return of an immigrant in Maryland wrongfully deported to the same Salvadoran prison.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not removed under the Alien Enemies Act; administration officials argue he was deported due to an “administrative error” despite a judge’s order that blocks his removal from the country for humanitarian reasons. Judge Paula Xinis has ordered officials to return him to the United States to correct their admitted “error.”

Andrew Feinberg contributed reporting from Washington, D.C.

Fears over child safety if Starmer agrees to US free speech demands

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that giving in to US demands over free speech to secure a trade deal will harm children.

The concerns have been raised after allies of vice-president JD Vance told The Independent that he wants the UK to repeal hate speech laws and ditch plans for a new online safety law in exchange for a trade deal that could see the UK avoid tariffs.

He has previously claimed that free speech is being undermined by laws banning hateful comments, including abuse targeting LGBT+ groups or other minorities, and sees UK legislation aimed at improving online safety as an attack on US tech giants.

Both the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) have highlighted concerns over any retreat by Labour on either area.

Matthew Sowemimo, associate head of policy for child safety online at the NSPCC, said: “The Online Safety Act offers a foundation that we believe will vastly improve children’s experiences online.

“For too long, too many children and young people have been exposed to harmful content, groomed, harassed, and bullied online.

“To ensure this vital legislation reaches its potential, we need the UK government to ensure the Online Safety Act is strongly implemented and bolstered where needed. They must be holding Ofcom and tech companies to account, and ensuring the act has enough weight behind it to change the tide for children’s safety online.”

Sophia Worringer, deputy policy director at the CSJ, said: “We have a deeply unhappy generation, amplified by the cancer of social media, whose childhood spent online is threatening their adulthood. Added to this is the ballooning welfare bill with more young people than ever going straight from education into long-term sickness benefit.

“Unless we act now to increase the age of digital consent to 16 and ban algorithms for users under 16, our forecasts show that one quarter of all UK children will suffer from a mental disorder by 2030. This is a national emergency, and we need to act now.”

The concerns came after the vice-president said he was optimistic on the prospect of a UK trade deal with the US, adding that Donald Trump’s administration is “working very hard” to get it done.

But sources close to him warned that Mr Vance is “obsessed with the collapse of western civilisation” and has linked what he sees as an erosion of free speech in the UK and Europe to getting a trade deal done.

As well as hate speech laws, he has also raised concerns about legal cases against Christians for praying silently outside abortion clinics.

The Independent was told: “The vice-president expressing optimism [on a trade deal] is a way of putting further pressure on the UK over free speech. If a deal does not go through, it makes Labour look bad.”

The vice-president does have supporters in the UK for his agenda. Lord Toby Young from the Free Speech Union has said he supports Mr Vance’s desire for hate speech and online safety laws to be removed.

Lord Young said: “I would prefer it if His Majesty’s government stood up for free speech of its own volition. But as it has no intention of doing so, I welcome a bit of pressure from our American cousins.

“I think JD Vance is absolutely right to raise the alarm about the UK and its European neighbours losing sight of free speech and it’s of vital importance to the proper functioning of liberal democracy.

“European political elites are increasingly trying to silence their critics by passing laws against misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, rather than engaging in open debate about issues like immigration, climate change and abortion.”

However, Stephen Kinsella from the Clean Up the Internet campaign group warned: “Watering down online safety rules to get a trade deal with Trump would be a huge mistake. Rules to keep our children safe, and to protect our society from hate and extremism, simply shouldn’t be up for negotiation.

“But it also just doesn’t make any kind of economic sense. Right now we are all footing a huge bill for unsafe social media sites, for example in money lost to fraud, or in taxpayers’ money to deal with the fallout of the damage to mental health.

“The government’s own figures show that the cost of unsafe social media is over £30bn per year. Watering down online safety bills would mean the UK continues to have to pay billions to clear up the mess caused by the US companies, and that’s not a good deal for us to strike.”

Downing Street has insisted that free speech concerns have not been raised in the trade negotiations, with US trade secretary Howard Lutnick taking the lead in most of the talks with UK business secretary Jonathan Reynolds.

The UK is hoping for a specialised trade deal with the US which will largely focus on integrating the two countries for future growth industries such as artificial intelligence and biotech.

However, there have been further complications over President Trump’s threat of tariffs which he has suspended for 90 days. The UK car industry is facing 25 per cent tariffs while the UK as a whole would be hit by taxes of at least 10 per cent on all exports to the US.

Part of Mr Trump’s claims is that online safety laws, as well as VAT are barriers to US trade.

The hope is that a trade deal between the two countries would eliminate most tariffs.

YouTuber who ‘left Diet Coke’ for world’s most isolated tribe has bail plea rejected

An American tourist who allegedly stepped onto a remote Indian island to make contact with one of the world’s most isolated tribes was denied bail on Tuesday.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was arrested on 31 March for allegedly sneaking onto the restricted territory of North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands and offering a can of diet coke and a coconut to the tribe as an offering.

A court in Port Blair, capital of the federal territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, rejected Mr Polyakov’s bail application and extended his judicial custody, PTI news agency reported.

He was scheduled to appear before the court again on Thursday.

Mr Polyakov, a YouTuber, arrived in Port Blair on 27 March and was arrested three days later after he was reported to local police by some residents who saw him take a boat to North Sentinel Island.

He was charged with entering a prohibited tribal reserve area of the North Sentinel Island, protected under the Andaman & Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation 1956.

He could face up to five years in prison and a fine if found guilty.

Indians and foreigners alike are banned from going within 5km of North Sentinel to protect the indigenous tribe from external diseases and safeguard their way of life.

There are only around 150 members of the isolated tribe left on the island, which is cut off from the rest of the world, and not much is known about their way of life.

The Sentinelese last made headlines in 2018, when they killed an American missionary, John Allen Chau, 27, who was trying to enter their territory to preach Christianity. He was killed after the tribespeople shot him with arrows as his boat approached the island.

In 2006 the tribe killed two Indian fishermen who had accidentally drifted near the island. When a military helicopter later flew low over the island, members of the tribe fired arrows at it.

Police say Mr Polyakov sailed nine hours in a rubber dinghy with an outboard motor to reach the island and used binoculars to survey the area but saw no inhabitants. He is said to have recorded his visit to the island, leaving a can of Coke and a coconut on the shore as an “offering” to the North Sentinelese.

Police said Mr Polyakov conducted detailed research on sea conditions, tides and accessibility to the island before launching his journey.

“He planned meticulously over several days to visit the island and make contact with the tribe,” Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal, a senior police officer in Port Blair, said.

In a statement, police said that the YouTuber’s “actions posed a serious threat to the safety and wellbeing of the Sentinelese people, whose contact with outsiders is strictly prohibited by the law to protect their indigenous way of life”.

Police seized Mr Polyakov’s phone as well as the GoPro camera he is said to have used to record his trip. He allegedly filled a bottle with sand from the island and taken it away with him.

Caroline Pearce, director of Survival International, a charity dedicated to the protection of tribal groups, said the incident was “deeply disturbing”.

“It beggars belief that someone could be that reckless and idiotic. This person’s actions not only endangered his own life, they put the lives of the entire Sentinelese tribe at risk,” she said. “It is very well known by now that uncontacted peoples have no immunity to common outside diseases like flu or measles, which could completely wipe them out.”

The Sentinelese, she said, “have made their wish to avoid outsiders incredibly clear over the years”.

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Triple killer Nicholas Prosper’s sentence referred to Court of Appeal

Triple killer Nicholas Prosper’s 49-year prison sentence has been referred to the Court of Appeal after shadow justice minister Kieran Mullan claimed it was unduly lenient.

Prosper was jailed for life with the specified minimum term at Luton Crown Court in March, after admitting killing his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, and siblings Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, along with weapons charges.

The violence-obsessed 19-year-old was also plotting a mass shooting at his former primary school in Luton, Bedfordshire, purely with the aim of gaining notoriety.

Passing sentence, High Court judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told Luton Crown Court that her duty to the public was met with the 49-year minimum term, rather than using “the sentence of last resort” and jailing him for the rest of his life.

Conservative shadow justice minister Dr Mullan referred the sentence to the Attorney General’s Office under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme on the day Prosper was jailed.

The scheme allows any member of the public to ask for certain crown court sentences to be reviewed, and if necessary the case will be referred to the Court of Appeal.

On Wednesday, an Attorney General Office’s spokesman confirmed the Solicitor General has referred Prosper’s sentence to the Court of Appeal.

The spokesman said: “It will be argued that Prosper ought to have been given a whole life order. It is now for the court to decide whether to increase the sentence.”

Rules were changed in 2022 to allow younger defendants aged 18 to 20 to receive whole-life orders in exceptional circumstances, but none of the orders imposed since then have been on criminals in that age bracket.

The judge said that for defendants over the age of 21, whole-life orders can be considered in cases involving two or more murders with a significant degree of premeditation or planning, or where one child is killed with similar pre-planning.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: “The court may arrive at a whole-life order in the case of an 18 to 20-year-old only if it considers that the seriousness of the combination of offences is exceptionally high, even by the standard of offences which would normally result in a whole-life order. This is described accurately as an enhanced exceptionality requirement.

“Despite the gravity of your crimes, it is the explicit joint submission of counsel that a lengthy, finite term will be a sufficiently severe penalty, and this is not such an exceptionally serious case of the utmost gravity where the sentence of last resort must be imposed on an offender who was 18 at the time and is 19 today.”

While Prosper was “indisputably a very dangerous young man”, the risk to the public was met with a life sentence, she said.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told the court she would not impose a whole-life order because Prosper was stopped from carrying out the school shooting, having murdered his family earlier than he intended after his mother woke up.

He also pleaded guilty as soon as the charges were put to him after psychiatric reports had been completed, and he was 18 at the time of his crimes which is at the lowest end of the age bracket for whole-life terms.

Dr Mullan said at the time: “What exactly does someone have to do in this country to be sent away for life? This was the most serious of crimes – including the murder of two children. What is the point of making provision for whole-life orders if they aren’t used in cases like this? It makes a mockery of the justice system and is an insult to the victims.

“This is the latest in a series of cases that demonstrate too often there is a gap between what the majority of law-abiding members of the public would see as justice and what the judicial system delivers. It was particularly galling to read the judge give to describe as mitigation for the murderer the fact that they didn’t succeed in a plan to kill even more people. What kind of logic is that?”

One of UK’s largest companies sees £2bn wiped off shares through Trump tariffs impact

One of the UK’s largest public listed companies has seen its share price sink by 25 per cent on Wednesday, after reporting a lower annual forecast for 2025 and warning over the “uncertainty” caused by Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Bunzl is a distributor business which supplies other companies around the world with essential everyday goods such as food packaging and labels for supermarkets, catering equipment for restaurants, and masks, gloves and gowns for hospitals.

Having held a market capitalisation in excess of £10bn, the share price crash of the FTSE 100 company has seen more than £2bn wiped off that total in hours after CEO Frank van Zanten cited a “challenging trading environment”.

No other company on the London Stock Exchange’s biggest index saw a fall of more than four per cent on Wednesday, leaving Bunzl as a huge outlier as it battles with its biggest market operating cautiously amid potential import costs and a weak dollar.

“A profit warning and termination of a share buyback programme, the first such halt by any FTSE 100 firm since the dark days of Covid-19 and lockdowns, are both taking a heavy toll on shares in Bunzl and driving them to a four-year low,” said AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould, explaining why the tariffs had particularly weighed on the company.

“The specialist distributor had already flagged the combination of higher input costs and price pressure in the US business in particular, where sales and profit fell in 2024. These challenges have become even more acute, especially for the food service and grocery segment. Volumes have stayed soft, prices have weakened, a customer has been lost and Bunzl has invested in its sales proposition to reaffirm its competitive position in the market.

“That is all putting a lid on profit margins after a period of strong expansion and also eroding one of the key parts of the investment case for Bunzl’s shares, namely the essential nature of the services it provides for its customers, and the pricing power this brings.”

Bunzl have halted a £200m buyback programme for this year, which sees companies buy their own shares from the market to return value to investors.

No FTSE 100 company had taken this course of action since 2020.

“It’s still all connected with the concerns about global tariffs and slowdowns…there’s nervousness in the market. Any bad news or any hint of bad news is being punished severely,” added Nick Saunders, CEO of Webull UK.

Bunzl has about 27,000 employees, with more than half of its revenue coming from North America.

The company reported higher earnings for the past year, generating an operating profit of £799.3m, about 1 per cent higher than 2023. However, its profit before income tax declined nearly 4 per cent year-on-year, and total revenues came in fractionally lower at £11.78bn. Bunzl said the decline was mainly driven by deflation across the US and Europe, which led to fiercer competition to decrease prices among suppliers.

The volume of sales was also impacted by the firm switching its focus towards own-brand products in its food services division in the US.

In the UK, Bunzl flagged a more challenging sales environment leading to weaker volumes, particularly in its safety division, which includes supplying equipment for building sites, and retail arm, with packaging for luxury fashion and jewellery firms impacted by slower consumer demand.

The company said it had a record year of acquisitions, buying 13 companies in 2024 and pledging to spend £883m.

Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst for Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “It’s been a tough year; prices have been falling in many of Bunzl’s markets after a period of rampant inflation and that’s been bad news for top line growth – but it might finally be at an inflection point.

“Key markets are showing brighter volume trends, and pricing looks set to flip positive soon, setting the stage for a stronger core business, with own-brand gains and cost efficiencies promising sustainably higher margins despite last year’s cost pressures.”

Bunzl said it expects revenues to grow in 2025 “despite significant uncertainties relating to the wider economic and geopolitical landscape”.

Additional reporting by PA