Fans disappointed by last-minute Wireless line-up

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Getty Images Drake was announced as the headliner for an unprecedented three nights earlier this year

Music fans say they feel let down after the full line-up for Wireless was revealed just four days before the start of the festival. In February, organisers revealed megastar Drake would headline all three nights of the London event, and announced slots for other well-known acts including Burna Boy, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Summer Walker and Vybz Kartel. The remainder of the bill was kept under wraps until Monday, when 20 new artists were added. But some fans have told BBC Newsbeat they're disappointed, and scrambling to sell their tickets. Wireless has been contacted for comment.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Wireless and fans had high expectations. "It's just frustrating," fan Ellie Stammers tells Newsbeat. "You spend all this money for an event you think is going to be the hypest, the biggest event that there's ever been, and then you get let down four days before. "This is the 20th anniversary, it needs to be go big or go home." Drake first headlined the festival in 2012, with organisers saying he holds the title "for the audience's most requested artist". But there was a mixed reaction to the decision to give the Canadian three headline sets. Some said it was overkill and called for more British artists to be added to the line-up. On Monday, organisers announced sets from artists including Popcaan, Darkoo, Odeal and SAILORR. It also added Leon Thomas, Uncle Waffles, BigXThaPlug and Lancey Foux to the line-up, among others. "People don't really know what they're paying for," says ticket holder Brittany Orrin.

PA Media Odeal, who won a Mobo for best R&B/ Soul act this year, was added to the line-up on Monday

Brittany initially paid to attend the whole weekend but is now trying to offload her Saturday and Sunday tickets. "They left it for so long for people to know who was coming and it's quite unfair for everyone who's got their tickets," she says. "It doesn't give them a chance to change their plans." Last year's Wireless featured headline sets from Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat and 21 Savage. And while Drake is one of the biggest music stars on the planet, Brittany says she was hoping for more variety. "He is a big artist but people don't want just one artist," music fan Brittany Orrin tells Newsbeat.

Getty Images Summer Walker was announced earlier this year as a headline act for Friday

Tickets to attend all three days of the festival are on sale for £475 and, as of Monday, some artists had still not been announced. Organisers said on Monday there would be "more surprises in store" and the 2025 festival had been the fastest to sell out in its history. Around 50,000 people are expected to be there each night to see Drake's return to the UK - and he's just dropped a new diss track, What Did I Miss?, reflecting on his beef with Kendrick Lamar. His rival will also be in the UK this week, launching his tour in Birmingham on Thursday, one night before Drake's first Wireless set.

Southport attack 'one of UK's most egregious crimes'

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Family handouts Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Aguiar and were murdered in the attack on 29 July 2024

The Southport murders were "one of the most egregious crimes in our country's history" the chairman of the public inquiry into the atrocity has said. The inquiry will examine how the "deteriorating and deeply troubling behaviour" of Axel Rudakubana, who went on to "cause such devastation" on 29 July 2024, was dealt with by public bodies. Alice Aguiar, nine; Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven and six-year-old Bebe King died while eight other children and two adults were seriously wounded during the attacks at a dance studio in the Merseyside town. The first live hearings have now begun at Liverpool Town Hall, chaired by retired senior judge Sir Adrian Fulford.

Sir Adrian said he was committed to delivering "sensible and achievable" recommendations. He told a council chamber packed with legal representatives, lawyers, the media and the public that "ordinary language simply fails to reflect the enormity of what [Rudakubana] did. "None of the most powerful adjectives even begin to suffice. "There are no words that adequately describe what occurred and I am not going to try, and then fail, to find them."

'Risk posed'

Sir Adrian said the inquiry, announced by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in April, would involve two stages. The first will analyse "the perpetrator's history and his dealings with all of the relevant agencies". He continued: "We will identify the decisions that were made or not made, how information was shared and extent to which the risk he posed was addressed, along with any missed opportunities to prevent what occurred." The second phase would involve looking at the "wider phenomenon of children and young people who are being drawn into extreme violence". A few minutes after Sir Adrian began addressing the chamber, he asked all present to stand for a minute's silence in memory of Alice, Elsie and Bebe.

PA Media Hundreds of people blew bubbles into the air outside the Town Hall in Southport during a vigil last year

Sir Adrian quoted Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who said "Southport must be a line in the sand" and that "nothing will be off the table in this inquiry – nothing". He said that "troubling" facts about Rudakubana, who the hearing was told would only be referred to by his initials AR or as "the perpetrator", would be explored in detail. The inquiry heard how, on one occasion, Rudakubana had attended a school in December 2019 after he had been excluded and attacked a pupil with a hockey stick.

He was found to have a knife in his bag and said he wanted to kill another student. Sir Adrian said Rudakubana was referred to the counter extremism service Prevent on three occasions between 2019 and 2021 based on concerns about his online activity, which included research into school shootings, the Libyan military dictator Colonel Gaddafi and the London Bridge terror attacks. The inquiry heard Rudakubana had been reported missing on 17 March 2022, and was found by police officers on a bus with a knife. Sir Adrian said: "Again, of potential critical importance, he said that he wanted to stab someone."

Monzo gave account to fake 10 Downing St address

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Getty Images Monzo did not check the "implausible" addresses of applications

Digital bank Monzo accepted customers claiming to live at 10 Downing Street, Buckingham Palace and even its own premises, an investigation has found. A lack of address verification meant it failed to spot the "implausible" use of London landmarks on applications to open accounts. Monzo was fined £21m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its failures regarding anti-financial crime measures. The bank said the regulator's findings related to problems dating back more than three years and vast improvements had since been made to its systems.

The FCA's investigation, which has taken a number of years, found Monzo took on customers using using PO boxes, foreign addresses with UK postcodes or "obviously implausible UK addresses, such as well-known London landmarks". They included home of the UK Prime Minister 10 Downing Street, the Royal residence Buckingham Palace and its own business premises.

Getty Images Buckingham Palace was one address used in an application

The lack of verification meant it took on risky customers who were based outside of the UK, and illustrated "how lacking Monzo's financial crime controls were", the regulator said. It was one of a number of areas in which it failed to mitigate the risk of financial crime. Monzo had grown rapidly, with the number of customers increasing almost tenfold from around 600,000 in 2018 to over 5.8 million in 2022. Many were attracted by its claims to be a digital pioneer. It has no physical branches. However, the FCA said that Monzo's financial crime controls failed to keep pace with its customer and product growth. Therese Chambers, FCA joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, said that banks were a vital line of defence in the fight against financial crime. "They must have the systems in place to prevent the flow of ill-gotten gains into the financial system," she said. "Monzo fell far short of what we, and society, expect."

'In the past'

Assume the 100ml airport rule remains, flyers told

Heidi Alexander said: "You should work on the basis that it is 100ml at the moment unless you have heard from your airport otherwise."

But other airports around the UK are at different stages of putting technology in place that would mean the near 20-year-old rule on liquids could be relaxed.

Edinburgh and Birmingham airports have installed new scanners which allow bottles of up to two litres to be taken on board planes.

The Transport Secretary has told air passengers to assume the 100ml limit on liquids in hand luggage remains in place despite two airports changing their policies.

The new scanning machines use CT X-ray technology, meaning that passengers at airports in Birmingham and Edinburgh can do away with clear plastic bags filled with tiny toiletries that must be removed from luggage for inspection.

Terminals have undergone complex and costly processes to install the new scanners.

They are heavy and some airports have had to reinforce floors to install them. Meanwhile, there are only a handful of manufacturers that make the scanners resulting in restricted supplies and delays to installation.

Alexander told Times Radio: "The rollout of this new technology, the new scanning technology, has been overseen by the individual airports themselves. They have different contracts in place, different providers."

While she said she was hopeful the technology could be rolled out sooner rather than later so flyers "have that extra added flexibility", she said: "I always advise people to check in with their airlines and their airports before travelling."

Sources in the industry said described the approach to installing the scanners as "haphazard", with the issue of not having a consistent policy approach from government.

A spokesperson for AirportsUK, said: "Aviation security procedures around liquids are evolving and this change will take place at different times at different airports."

AirportsUK advised passengers to check security arrangements at every airport. "We would stress this involves return airports abroad as well as those in the UK, as rules will be evolving there too," it said.

The rollout of the scanners across Europe has also been inconsistent.

Last summer, the European Union had to revert back to 100ml rules because of a technical issue with new equipment.

The 100ml onboard liquid rule was introduced in 2006 as part of enhanced security measures following a series of terror-related incidents after two planes flew into the World Trade Centre's Twin Towers in New York on 11 September, 2001.