Sophie Donovan, Manchester-born and classically elegant, once turned down a commission to chase a long-form piece on Salford’s textile heritage, filing instead from the mill where her grandmother worked. Advocates patient, context-rich features and brings a taste for quiet narrative detail and theatre aficionadoship.
James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems will purchase New York Magazine, Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network in a transaction worth over $300m, with leadership and talent arrangements that aim to preserve editorial independence
Losange Bleu led from the front to claim the Racing TV Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil at Auteuil on 16/05/2026 while the Irish challenger Home By The Lee was pulled up during the contest
Real Madrid must reconcile Kylian Mbappé, Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham on the pitch while resolving fan friction and choosing a coach who can restore stability
Ukraine has offered an open-ended ceasefire from 6 May 2026 as Russian strikes killed at least 27 people before rival truces and Victory Day commemorations
The long-running 7 Up project, filmed every seven years since 1964, reaches its final installment, 70 Up, with Asif Kapadia taking the director’s chair to close a unique record of ordinary lives.
Manchester City’s dominant win at Stamford Bridge injects momentum into the title race while Tottenham’s woes deepen and individual players push for fresh contracts or redemption
Learn how the UKHSSG theme groups bring producers and users together to standardise methods, coordinate outputs and make health statistics more accessible across the four nations
Police discovered a three-tonne consignment of cocaine worth £256m concealed in banana boxes, a seizure that ranks among the largest ever recorded in the UK