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Super Bowl conspiracy theories involving Taylor Swift are “nonsense”, says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Music superstar Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, whose team will compete in their fourth Super Bowl in five years on Sunday. Right-wing critics say their relationship is part of a plot to rig the NFL’s championship game and help get US President Joe Biden re-elected. “I’m not that good a scripter,” said Goodell. “The idea that this is within a script, this is pre-planned, is just nonsense. It’s frankly not even worth talking about.” The presidential election is scheduled for 5…

The government must do more to counter “misinformation” on electric vehicles published in parts of the UK press, a Lords enquiry has said. Despite the UK passing the milestone on Monday of 1m electric cars registered, growth of the sector has flatlined. The Lords Climate Change Committee urged the government to build consumer confidence and push back against what it called mistruths on range and cost. The government did not comment on this but said £2bn was committed to EVs. Nearly a quarter of the UK’s carbon emissions – responsible for climate change – are produced by road transport, according to the latest…

Eight million people on means-tested benefits are now receiving their final cost-of-living payment to help with high prices and bills. The £299 payment will go directly into bank accounts of those eligible before 22 February without the need to claim. No further payments of this kind are scheduled and charities are urging the government to consider more support. However, questions have been raised over whether such payments were the best way to help struggling households. Scam warning This payment of £299 is the last of three instalments that totalled £900 that will have been paid within a year. Work and…

A 91-year-old woman was left on the floor “like a piece of rubbish” during a nearly 24-hour ambulance wait, her family has said. Theresa Jones had to be dragged back to her room on a sheet from the corridor where she fell in Port Talbot’s Maes-y-Bryn residential home, her daughter Janice Maguire said. A 999 operator told staff not to pick her up in case she had broken a bone. The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was “deeply sorry” for what happened. Mrs Jones fell at just after 21:00 GMT on 31 January. “The staff rang for an ambulance to…

More people who are still using telephone landlines will soon need to decide if they want to finally hang up on their service. Just last week, AT&T applied for a waiver that would allow it to stop servicing traditional landlines in California. AT&T and Verizon previously stated they want to be fully operational on newer infrastructure within the next few years. That’s part of a sweeping move by phone service providers to replace older copper wire-based telephone systems lines, also known as Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), with faster and more advanced technology that doesn’t work with landlines. Providers worldwide are shifting toward offering fiber optics…

The Great Escape and The Wooden Horse are two classic British World War II escape films, but what is perhaps less well known is that one of the team involved in both of the escapes that inspired them would go on to become a star of the Carry On movies. Now, 80 years on, Peter Butterworth’s recently discovered German prison identity card is going on display as part of an exhibition telling the story of his life as a prisoner of war. Butterworth served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm during the war but was shot down in 1940,…

The Dad’s Army actor Ian Lavender, who played Private Pike in the hit TV series, has died at the age of 77. Birmingham-born Lavender was just 22 when he was cast as the guileless platoon member, in what was then a new BBC sitcom. But it made him a household name, and he ended up spending 10 years as part of the comedy classic. Lavender, who died on Friday, was the last surviving main cast member of the series. Away from Dad’s Army, he also acted in other TV comedies such as Yes Minister, and appeared on stage, including in…

At least three people have been killed by falling trees as a powerful storm drenches California bringing flooding, mudslides and power outages. Fire officials have responded to over 130 flooding incidents and conducted several rescues since the deluge began. Forecasters say heavy rain with life-threatening flash flooding will continue into Tuesday. The record-breaking rainfall has led the governor to declare a state of emergency in eight counties. The storm is due to an “atmospheric river” effect, a phenomenon in which water evaporates into the air and is carried along by the wind, forming long currents that flow in the sky…

A video on Facebook manipulated to suggest that President Joe Biden behaves inappropriately toward women can remain on the platform, but only because of a problematic loophole in Meta’s “incoherent” policies, the company’s Oversight Board said Monday. The loophole threatens elections worldwide and should be closed as soon as possible, the quasi-judicial board added. The video in question was posted last spring and showed Biden placing an “I Voted” sticker on his adult granddaughter’s chest — but the clip had been edited to make it seem as if he had touched her chest repeatedly and inappropriately, the Oversight Board said in…

The UK-based operations of the electric van maker Arrival – a firm once championed by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson – have been placed in administration. Arrival planned to build innovative electric vans for sale around the world. The Banbury-based business was worth £9bn just three years ago It had been described as the future of the UK automotive industry, but struggled to get its designs produced. Between them, Arrival UK Ltd and Arrival Automotive employed 172 people. Nearly 40 have been made redundant, while others are being retained to assist with the sale of the business and assets. Arrival…