Ford is planning to cut roughly 800 jobs across the UK over the next three years as part of a wider European jobs cull. The car manufacturer said the UK job cuts come as part of plans to axe 4,000 roles overall across Europe by the end of 2027 to slash costs. It said the cull will primarily affect Germany, where 2,900 roles are under threat, with ‘minimal reductions’ in other European markets.

Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy has arrived at his funeral today – with Harry Styles leading his One Direction bandmates as they rally around Cheryl. Payne died aged 31 on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. Nicola Robert’s, a member of Girl’s Aloud pop group, was among the first mourners to arrive. She was greeted with a kiss by Simon Jones, the former PR for One Direction who now acts for Cheryl, the mother of Payne’s son, Bear.

A forensic psychiatrist testified that Jordan Neely had been hospitalized for psychotic episodes over a dozen times and was heavily abusing drugs before his death on a Manhattan train. Dr. Alexander Bardey took the stand in the trial of Daniel Penny, 26, a marine veteran who put Neely in a fatal chokehold when the homeless man threatened passengers on a subway in May 2023. Witnesses said Neely screamed at passengers that someone was ‘going to die’ on the train, and Penny said he stepped in when Neely approached a woman with a child in a stroller.

Elon Musk is now more popular with the British public than Keir Starmer, a new poll has revealed. The Tesla founder, who has grown close to Donald Trump and is set to play a major role in his administration, has a net approval rating of -17, five points better than the Prime Minister on -22. Mr Musk is a vocal critic of the Labour leader, with the billionaire attacking his response to the summer race riots and most recently accusing him of going ‘full Stalin’ over his inheritance tax raid on farmers.

Joe Scarborough has revealed one takeaway from his controversial meeting with president-elect Donald Trump. The MSNBC star, 61, said on Wednesday’s episode of ‘Morning Joe’ that Trump was having issues with his Secretary of Defense choice Pete Hegseth. Shortly after Trump announced Hegseth for the job, it emerged that the Fox News pundit made a payment to a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017.

Denzel Washington revealed that December 2024 will mark a decade since he had any wine. The movie star, 69, spoke to Esquire magazine amid his promotional tour for his new film Gladiator II – explaining that he started drinking two bottles of expensive wine a day after he and his wife Pauletta built a house in 1999 that had a 10,000 bottle wine cellar. Denzel said he would stop the habit while preparing to work on a film and also during filming – but immediately resume once his projects wrapped – a pattern he did for 15 years.