Teenager fighting for life after shooting outside Wembley Stadium

An 18-year-old boy is fighting for life after being shot outside Wembley Stadium, police said.

Officers were called to Atlantic Crescent at around 5.30am on Sunday morning to reports of a shooting outside the stadium in north west London. They found an 18-year-old with a gunshot injury.

He was rushed to a major trauma centre where he remains in critical condition, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The teenager’s next of kin have been informed and are being supported by officers. There have been no arrests at this stage and enquiries are ongoing. Officers remain at the scene and Wembley’s South Way has been blocked off.

Chief Superintendent Tony Josephs, from the local policing team in north west London, said: “We recognise the shock and impact this incident will have on the community.

“The investigation is in its very early stages and we are working at pace to establish the full circumstances. There will be an increased police presence in the local area.

“We’d urge anyone who may know something about this incident, however small it may seem, to please get in touch and let us know.”

A London Ambulance Spokesperson said: “We were called at 5.26am today (21 September) to reports of a shooting in Atlantic Crescent, Wembley.

“We sent a number of resources to the scene including an ambulance crew, paramedics in fast response cars, an advanced paramedic and an incident response officer.

“We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance”, they added. “We treated a patient at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre.”

The route 440 bus, between Turnham Green and Wembley First Way, has been diverted in both directions, according to Transport for London who cited a “police incident.”

A statement on the website read: “Buses towards Wembley are terminating at Brent Civic Centre (E), with no service between Olympic Way and First Way. Buses towards Turnham Green are starting from Lakeside Way (C), with no service at stops First Way, Olympic Way and Brent Civic Centre.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or online, quoting CAD 1343/21SEP, or can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Trump says US would defend Poland and Baltic states from Russian attack

Donald Trump has said the US would come to the defence of Poland and the Baltic states if Russia were to attack in future.

Asked by reporters whether Washington would come to the aid of the Nato members if Russia were to continue escalating, he replied: “Yeah I would.”

His comments follow a number of incursions from Moscow in Nato territory. In the past fortnight, Russian drones and fighter jets have entered Estonian, Polish and Romanian air space – drawing international condemnation.

Under Nato’s Article 5 mutual defence clause, the US would be obliged to assist Poland, Estonia and Romania in the event of a Russian attack as military action against one member is considered an attack against all members.

Last week, Trump said the drone and fighter jet incursions could spell “big trouble” in an indication that he is becoming increasingly frustrated with Russia’s actions. However, he has not outlined plans to respond.

Czech president Petr Pavel has said Nato forces must shoot down Russian jets if necessary, demanding a more forceful response to Moscow’s repeated violations of the alliance’s airspace.

Jay Slater’s mother slams ‘armchair detectives’ who taint son’s memory

Jay Slater’s mother has called for new regulations to be introduced to curb the spread of misinformation about missing people online as she speaks out in a bid to set the record straight on his final hours.

Debbie Duncan, 57, said “armchair detectives” had been allowed to concoct “shocking” theories and “completely dehumanise” her son after the 19-year-old’s disappearance in Tenerife last year.

A coroner later ruled Jay’s death was caused by a traumatic brain injury caused by a fall sustained when he became lost in the treacherous mountains of Park Rural de Teno.

But, speaking to The Times, she said content creators were still unpicking Jay’s death online, claiming he is still alive and hiding out, ready to reclaim money raised by an emergency GoFundMe appeal for his grieving family.

“How can you say the F-word on Facebook and have your account removed, but people can say what they like about my son and that’s fine?” she asked.

In a separate interview with The Mirror, she said she wanted to “fight for Jay’s name” after the media frenzy that surrounded his death.

“To continue making videos (and posting them online) more than 12 months on, going through every bit of detail over and over again is shocking. When will it stop?

“Social media is good for spreading awareness, but can also be the work of the devil.

“If I can save another family from going through the trauma we have had to endure, it will be worth it.”

Her comments come ahead of a Channel 4 documentary,The Disappearance of Jay Slater, which airs on Sunday, 28 September at 9pm.

The programme will give unprecedented access into the 19-year-old’s final hours, which became the subject of countless conspiracy theories and media reports in June 2024.

An apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, Jay had gone on holiday to the New Rave Generation (NRG) festival in Tenerife with his friends, Lucy Law and Bradley Geoghegan.

On the night of his disappearance, he had been out at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de Las Americas when he decided to return to the Airbnb of Ayub Qassim and Steven “Rocky” Roccas, two men he had met during the holiday. The villa was 23 miles northwest of Playa de las Americas, surrounded by the rocky national park Rural de Teno.

He later phoned Ms Law to say he was lost in the mountains and had cut his leg on a cactus. His phone then died, and a huge manhunt was launched.

Rescue teams scoured the treacherous terrain for weeks in the burning sun in a bid to find the teenager – all the while, conspiracy theorists online sent Debbie and her family on “wild goose chases”.

After 29 days, his body was uncovered in what a coroner later called a “particularly dangerous” area of the vast park. He died instantly from a traumatic brain injury as a result of a fall. The 19-year-old had traces of cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine in his body, according to toxicologists.

But even the coroner’s ruling didn’t stop misinformation swirling online. Theories that he had been kidnapped by drug dealers whom he owed money, or had staged his own death, can still be found, 15 months on from his death.

Debbie told The Mirror: “What we have had to endure has really opened my eyes.

“It is not just us who are horrified by what has gone on – professional people are horrified too. I wanted this documentary to be made because I want to show Jay is a real person and not just the face of a story.

“I want to show everyone we are a normal family. Jay was a popular guy with a lot of friends and it’s been hard to watch it. I cried all the way through, but I hope it will finally shut down the armchair detectives. It’s been very well put together.”

Sultana drops legal threat in bitter feud with Corbyn over Your Party

Zarah Sultana has said she will call off legal action in a move of reconciliation in her bitter feud with Jeremy Corbyn over their fledgling party.

In a statement, the left-wing MP said she would put the argument behind her “for the sake of the party” and acknowledged that supporters felt “demoralised” over the row engulfing Your Party, which she established with Mr Corbyn.

Earlier this week Ms Sultana claimed she faced a “sexist boys’ club” amid a furious row over the party’s membership system. Last Thursday, supporters were urged to officially sign up and give the party financial backing – but this was later described by Mr Corbyn as an “unauthorised email”. Hours later, he warned people not to sign up to the link.

On Friday Ms Sultana said she had instructed “specialist defamation lawyers” after she was “the subject of a number of false and defamatory statements” about her launch of the membership system.

But in a post on Sunday night, Ms Sultana said she was “determined to reconcile” and was in talks with Mr Corbyn.

“For the sake of the party, and as an act of good faith, I will not be pursuing legal proceedings despite the baseless and unsubstantiated allegations against me,” she wrote in a statement posted on X. “Fascism is growing at the door. The stakes are too high for failure to be an option.”

She also said: “I know many people are feeling demoralised – I share that feeling. We find ourselves in a regrettable situation, but my motivation has always been to ensure the collective strength of our movement, put members first and build the genuinely democratic conference and socialist party we so urgently need.

“I am determined to reconcile and move forward. I am engaged in ongoing discussions with Jeremy, for whom, like all socialists of my generation, I have nothing but respect.”

As the row over the membership system escalated, the party said it had reported itself to the UK’s data protection watchdog and claimed a “false membership system has been unilaterally launched”.

Ms Sultana said she took the step because she had been “sidelined” and “effectively frozen out” by Mr Corbyn and fellow independent MPs Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain, Iqbal Mohammed and Shockat Adam.

The Coventry South MP added: “Unfortunately I have been subjected to what can only be described as a sexist boys’ club: I have been treated appallingly and excluded completely.”

Ms Sultana had said the link she posted online to sign up for Your Party was “safe, secure and legitimate”.

The party said the developments were a “blow for everyone who has put their hope in a real alternative” and that Ms Sultana “has not been excluded from any discussions”.

Your Party, which is yet to decide on an official name, was seen as a potential challenger to Labour, Reform UK and the Green Party. More than 750,000 supporters signed up since its launch earlier this year under the placeholder name of Your Party, according to Ms Sultana.

Trump and Musk reunited at Charlie Kirk memorial months after breakup

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were reunited at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona following their bitter split a few months ago.

The men were seen on camera shaking hands Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale during speeches remembering the Turning Point USA founder.

After months of being Trump’s “first buddy,” the world’s richest man made a dramatic exit from the White House at the end of May after a feud ignited between him and the president.

At Kirk’s memorial, the official White House Rapid Response 47 account shared footage of the men chatting as Musk joined the president in the stadium.

The account appeared to celebrate their reunion, captioning the post with a love-heart and handshake emoji.

Musk spent several months this year leading the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to slash government spending.

Under his leadership, Doge laid off hundreds of thousands of federal employees, hollowed out several agencies and terminated thousands of government contracts and grants.

Toward the end of Musk’s time in government, cracks began to show between the tech mogul and the president.

Trump officially marked the end of Musk’s 130 days as a “special government employee” at an Oval Office press conference, where the Tesla CEO appeared with a black eye.

The president praised Musk for his work through Doge and hailed him for having led what he called “the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations.”

“Elon gave an incredible service. There’s nobody like him, and he had to go through the slings and the arrows, which is a shame, because he’s an incredible patriot. The good news is that 90% of the country knows that, and they appreciate it, and they really appreciate what he did,” he said.

Trump then presented Musk with a trinket that dated back to the 47th president’s prior term as the 45th President of the United States: A “Key to the White House.”

After the send off, Musk went public with his opposition to Trump’s signature legislation, the “One, Big Beautiful Bill,” which the billionaire claimed would increase the budget deficit by $2.5 trillion.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote of Trump’s bill on June 3. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.”

Musk and Trump continued to spar until June 5, when the former Doge leader claimed the president appeared in the Epstein files.

“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

Tensions appeared to ease soon afterward. Musk expressed “regret” on June 11 for the posts he made about the president, while Trump revealed he had “no hard feelings” toward Musk.

Soon after the bill was signed, the tech mogul announced that he would be forming the new “America Party.”

“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he wrote on X.

Trump called the idea “ridiculous.” The president also threatened to “take a look at” deporting Musk to South Africa, where he was born and raised for several years.

What to expect from Heathrow’s ‘Redefine Your Beauty’ experiences

As someone who’s regularly jetting off to different corners of the globe for work, to me the airport has come to represent just a means to an end: Pret, security queue, working charging socket. After years of this, I’ve pretty much got my routine on lockdown, which usually involves some purely functional eating, a quick pint in Spoons, and a last-minute visit to Duty Free to buy a moisturiser because I forgot mine, again.

So, when I heard Heathrow was rolling out a new experiential beauty and wellness campaign across all four terminals, with pop-up beauty bars, luxury treatments and skincare tech that tells you things about your face you didn’t even know were possible, I was curious. Airports are not where I usually go to feel (or look) my best. But a quick massage and some free beauty advice before a flight? Oh, go on then.

I’m due to fly out of Terminal 5 soon, which means I’ll get to check out the Personal Shopper Lounge and see what the hype is about. There’s a full-on treatment menu, the kind you’d expect at a boutique spa, except here, it’s been designed for travellers on the move, like me, with treatments lasting between 10 and 20 minutes. How often can you say an airport is offering La Mer facials, Elemis LED masks, Molton Brown hand massages and Estée Lauder’s ‘Age Reversal Sculpt Ritual’ facial? From neck and shoulder massages to cryotherapy and ultrasonic peels, it’s the kind of thing you’d usually have to schedule weeks in advance, and here it is, just a stone’s throw from your departure gate. I might even consider swapping my pre-flight pint for something a little more restorative.

Outside the lounge, the terminals are set to be abuzz with pop-up beauty bars from brands like Charlotte Tilbury, MAC, Molton Brown and Penhaligon’s – offering live demos, free mini-treatments and genuinely helpful skincare advice. There’s even a skin analysis station (powered by tech that looks like it comes from the year 3000), and perfume engraving on the spot. Fancy.

I wasn’t planning to splurge £200 on more beauty products,​​ but it’s hard to resist when there’s a free luxury beauty bag up for grabs when you do, packed with products from Elizabeth Arden, Versace, Benefit, Amouage and Elemis, to name a few. The offer’s available in all the main World Duty Free stores, and if you’re a Heathrow Rewards member, you can earn double points on qualifying beauty buys (up to 1,000 points), which definitely makes me feel a little better about splashing the cash.

Even the food spots are jumping on board with the wellness vibes. I usually go for a failsafe Joe & The Juice Tunacado, but I’ve spotted a Clean Green smoothie at Jones the Grocer and a Firecracker Chicken Salad from Leon. I might even grab a poké bowl from YO! Sushi for the flight, although word on the street is the plane meal is steamed seabream with romesco.

I never thought I’d describe an airport experience as relaxing and rejuvenating, but this campaign is definitely out to challenge me. Between the luxurious treatments and nutritious food choices, Heathrow has created the first airport rendezvous that won’t leave you feeling like you need a holiday from your holiday.

If you find yourself passing through Heathrow between now and early October, don’t just bolt straight to your gate. Give yourself an extra 30 minutes, book yourself in for a quick massage or facial, and visit World Duty Free to grab that beauty bag full of goodies to make your holiday that little bit more special.

Find out more about Heathrow’s Redefine Your Beauty campaign, including treatment menus, participating brands and exclusive offers here

Arteta overthought his Arsenal plan and paid City too much respect

As the league leaders now know better than anyone, there is little like a late goal for that rush, that surge of emotion that floods all thinking and makes everything seem worth it. One key difference already this season, however, is that Liverpool have scored them to win games and Gabriel Martinelli’s was to salvage a point. Mikel Arteta’s “finishers” at least had the final say against Manchester City. Eberechi Eze picked out Martinelli with that beautiful lofted pass, and the Brazilian finished brilliantly.

After a strange if absorbing afternoon at Arsenal, Arteta was naturally asked if that reflected the fact he’d got his starting lineup wrong and that the finishers should actually have been starters. It could have been much worse for Arsenal but there was also that lingering sense that they’d left something out there, that it could have been much better. City, who very much “parked the bus”, seemed to get away with one.

Arteta admitted he was “very disappointed with the result” but wouldn’t quite go as far as the question.

“It’s too easy to say that, I think.”

It’s a phrase that maybe revealed more than intended, and also reflected one of many ironies to this curious 1-1.

Principally, whether Arteta himself did indeed overthink a match against one of the game’s biggest overthinkers in Pep Guardiola. Arsenal certainly paid City more respect than arguably anyone has in a year. And, typically, there was at least some logic to that.

From what insider sources say, Arteta and his staff had been conscious of the fact that a new City team’s adaptation to a different pressing system has caused them to tire more than usual at around the hour mark. The biggest illustration so far was the 2-1 defeat away to Brighton. It hardly helps that Rodri can’t yet be as physically dominant as we’re accustomed to.

So, that should have been prime time to then bring on fresh attackers and cause havoc.

To add to that, Arteta also wanted to start the game using the “positive momentum” of specific players who are on good form. Leandro Trossard got a goal and assist against Athletic Club. Mikel Merino has been on fine form. Noni Madueke has enjoyed an exhilarating start to his Arsenal career.

Except, in this match, it all felt a bit too much.

It was even like Arsenal were thinking too much in play. The build-up was cautious and lacking spark, an aspect that looked all the more pronounced when the sensational Erling Haaland surged through for that brilliant opening strike. You knew it was a goal the second he and Tijjani Reijnders set off.

It was such a straight line, compared to the knots that Arteta’s side were getting themselves into.

Arsenal, in essence, had overcomplicated things – right down to the counterintuitive logic of starting almost all of their best attackers on the bench.

Against that, Haaland made things so simple. And that very goal played into another of the game’s key ironies.

First, there was how stripped-down City were. It wasn’t quite “reductive”, given that Rodri is still there and they have the class of a player like Reijnders.

But you can still almost reduce it to having one big lad at the back and one big lad up front. Gigi Donnarumma keeps them out, and Haaland puts them in.

It’s reminiscent of Real Madrid around the mid-2000s, when Iker Casillas would keep them out and Ronaldo would put them in.

Except that obviously wasn’t the comparison people were thinking of. One stood out as the game went on. That was Internazionale against Guardiola’s own Barcelona in 2009-10. There were stretches when City had almost their full XI congesting space in the box. Haaland seemed to be clearing it more than he was shooting. City had a mere 32.8 per cent possession, the lowest of the manager’s entire career. For all the focus on the two big men, some of the defenders were superb. Special mention should be afforded for Josko Gvardiol and Nico O’Reilly. They got their bodies in the way of so much.

No one could have imagined a scene like this from Guardiola as he paced that touchline back in 2010, trying to come up with ways for that attack to open up Jose Mourinho’s packed defence. It appeared to go against every one of his principles, and Guardiola himself gestured that this was a compliment to Arsenal.

It also represents a clear logic, and – yes – perhaps some overthinking. Guardiola may have changed the game through those principles, but that’s the thing. The game has changed. The world around those principles has moved.

It is arguably the most Guardiola thing imaginable to do something else when everyone is trying to copy him. He’s consequently doing something old and new at the same time.

In a world of short passes and slow build-up through the right-back, launch it to your big man. In a world where set-pieces are treated like space launches, get your big goalkeeper to knock everything away.

Arsenal had much less success with corners than we’ve seen in any game over the past two years. Is this an inevitable evolution in this dynamic, a response and counter-response? Are set-piece coaches now going to condition a new approach from opposition goalkeepers. Donnarumma even seemed to be getting into Arsenal’s heads – causing them to overthink – as he slowed down kick-outs to the point he eventually got booked. That’s another one from the Mourinho playbook.

Except, we then had the key final irony. In the one moment when City finally stepped up, and left that space in behind, Eze exploited it and Martinelli finished it.

Arsenal were consequently left rueing what might have been in this match. City both lost two points and got away with one.

So much to think about. And yet, as Arteta thinks, Liverpool just go and keep on winning.

Ed Davey ‘not afraid of Farage’ and claims he can stop Reform’s march to power

Ed Davey has said he is the political leader who can halt Nigel Farage’s path to power, as he accused the Reform UK leader of being a “plastic patriot”.

The Lib Dem leader insisted he was not afraid of the Reform UK frontman, whose party is ahead of both Labour and the Tories in the polls.

His bold claim came as Techne UK’s latest poll revealed that one in eight of those who voted Lib Dem at last year’s election have already switched to Reform.

But although Mr Farage’s party has rocked Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch and left the Conservatives and Labour on the ropes, the Lib Dems are slowly gaining in the polls.

As the Lib Dems handed out toys at their annual conference in Bournemouth, casting Mr Farage as a “plastic patriot” in Lego form, Mr Davey said that his party appealed to many people dissatisfied with how the country is being run but did not want to support the ex-Ukip boss.

The Lib Dems offered them an alternative to backing Reform UK in a bid to send a message to Downing Street, he said.

In an interview with the Independent, Sir Ed said: “So I think our style of community politics, our message on health and care, cost of living, and pride in your local community, actually appeals to some people who would otherwise vote Reform. And the more we get that out… I think it will peel (voters) off and stop Reform.

“I think we are part of the answer to stopping Reform and, unlike the other two parties who seem to want to mimic them, we’re going to stop Reform, but stay true to our values.”

He insisted he was not afraid of the threat from Mr Farage. “No, not for the Liberal Democrats… I think we can hoover up some of his vote… People are fed up. Because their real incomes haven’t been going up, because public services aren’t any good. Yes, they thought the Tories let them down and got rid of the Tories . Now Labour is not doing a very good job and they’re fed up.”

He said Reform was offering a change, but not one that was “true to British values”.

“I think people want a decent, caring country that provides good public services, but they want to know if there is another party they can believe in that can deliver that change –and that’s us.”

But he conceded that “some of the people who follow Farage and Tommy Robinson, I don’t think we’ll be able to get to that sort of vote”.

He also suggested that the home secretary should look at whether to ban Elon Musk from the UK in the wake of last week’s row over his comments at a rally in London led by far-right activist Mr Robinson, which attracted tens of thousands of people, where he issued a chilling “fight back or you die” message.

He said there was “a very, very strong case” for Shabana Mahmood to look at the issue.

The home secretary can exclude those expressing views on a number of grounds, including those which foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.

The power can be used whether or not the person’s nationality would normally allow them to travel to the UK visa-free, and 369 people were excluded in the 12 years to 2022.

Sir Ed also said that as a patriot himself, he would have attended the state banquet with US President Donald Trump that he boycotted last week, if he were prime minister.

He said: “The truth is, if you’re the PM, of course, you’ve got to meet other heads of state”.

He said it was important to “engage with people you don’t agree with. That’s how life works, and America has been a long-standing ally”.

He said he had intended to go to the banquet, mostly out of respect for the King, and “I really wrestled with the decision not to go”.

But, he said, “It was Gaza that did it for me, and Trump’s ability to call Netanyahu to get him to stop the fighting and get the aid in.

“If you were the prime minister, of course, you have to engage with them. I’m not the prime minister, I was a leader of an opposition party, and I had the freedom, if you like, to do what I did, and I’m pleased I did what I did.”