Heartless scammers have set up a fake fundraiser after a 'talented, young footballer' drowned in the Thames. 

Banta Sillah, 14, died on Tuesday after jumping into the water at Millwall Outer Dock during the heatwave. 

His football club, Frontline Community FC, paid an emotional tribute yesterday, describing him as a 'much-loved' and a 'true leader'. 

Within hours of the tragic teen being named, a GoFundMe appeared with a £6,000 target asking for donations to help pay for his 'burial and a memorial'.  

Kindhearted members of the public quickly parted with their hard-earned money, and by last night the page had reached more than £3,000.   

But Banta's football club has now urged those who donated to report the page to GoFundMe and to ask for their money back. 

People were still able to donate to the fundraiser this morning, but the account had been taken down by the time of publication. 

GoFundMe told the Daily Mail that no money had been released to the campaign organiser and all donors have been refunded.  

In another sickening twist, the fundraiser's supposed 'organiser' Banta Silluh bears a resemblance to the dead teen's name. 

Taking to their Instagram stories last night, the

A law graduate who collapsed during a bar exam has alleged that proctors refused to pause the test as she suffered a cardiac arrest, a lawsuit claims.

Mary Jane Jung, 36, suffered a medical emergency as she sat the New York state bar in July last year.

But as she began to 'gasp for air and cry out in distress,' exam officials failed to offer timely medical attention and scolded fellow test-takers for trying to help, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday claims. 

The New Jersey-native said she lost consciousness and suffered a serious brain injury on July 30, 2025, at Hofstra University.

The grueling test takes around twelve hours over the course of two days.

Jung, one of around 600 examinees, began 'gasping for air, crying out, losing consciousness' and eventually turned blue as she collapsed in the exam hall shortly before a set lunch break, the complaint obtained by the Daily Mail stated. 

'The unmistakable signs of cardiac arrest unfolded before hundreds of people present in the room,' the filing said. 

'Yet, despite the obvious severity of the situation, Defendants' agents and employees failed to response with the urgency required by such a medical emergency.'

Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, has returned home since he was hospitalized after a bad fall over 50 days ago.

McConnell wrote in a statement that he was 'discharged' from his rehabilitation center today to 'continue my recovery at home.' 

He thanked his wife, Elaine, and the 'excellent' doctors, nurses and therapists who helped him at the hospital. 

'On the advice of my doctors, I'll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period,' he added.  

A fall at his DC residence on June 14 left him briefly unconscious and paramedics rushed him to the hospital. 

But he still has not been seen in public or released a video of any kind. 

Last month, attention quickly turned to McConnell's wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, after she was noticeably absent during his first days in the hospital.

Chao was already in China when the senator suffered his medical emergency, having departed on a long-planned trip on June 12—two days before McConnell was hospitalized.

A search is underway for a young mother and her two daughters after they vanished from London.

Lily, 23, disappeared alongside five-year-old Navejah and 23-month-old Nayah.

The mother was last seen in Somers Town Camden, at around 1pm yesterday.

The Metropolitan Police have launched a search for the young family.

Officers say they are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of the young family.

The force has released an image as part of an appeal to find them. 

Anyone with information or who has seen them is asked to call 999 

A search is underway for Lily, 23, and her two daughters after they vanished from London

Five-year-old Navejah also dissapeared from Somers Town Camden, at around 1pm yesterday

A grass fire at London's Heathrow Airport forced one of its runways to close this evening, with passengers warned disruption will continue for the rest of the day.

Runway 27L was closed for around an hour while the airport's fire service battled the blaze. 

Witnesses said crew from four fire engines 'quickly brought the blaze under control'.

The closure happened at peak time for the airport, which normally has two operational runways. The reduced capacity meant takeoffs and landings were delayed, with several arriving flights diverted to other English airports.

Authorities said delays to schedule departures would stretch into the evening. 

A spokesperson said: 'Due to a grass area fire 27L has had to be temporarily closed and therefore we will be 27R single runway operations [until further notice].'

The spokesman said operations on the affected runway resumed at around 6.45pm. 'Sorry for the inconvenience,' they added.

Flights from Newcastle, Aberdeen and Boston are believed to be among those that landed at other airports. 

A Minnesota curmudgeon has been charged after he allegedly placed a homemade spike strip along a popular bike path to take petty revenge on child cyclists using his yard as a shortcut.

Kyle James Steffen, 39, is accused of installing the device outside his home, which sits along popular Goodview Park in the small city of Wyoming, earlier this year.

Officers were called to his $366,000 home on April 28 after a neighbor reported that Steffen was yelling at her children to stay out of his yard, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Daily Mail.

When they arrived on scene, police saw a three-foot-long and five-inch-wide piece of plastic anchored into the grass next to his home, the filing said. 

There were about 40 three-inch screws sticking straight up from the plastic strip, according to the complaint.

Officers noted bicycle tracks running under and around the strip and said it appeared that local children would bike through Steffen's yard as a shortcut into the park. 

He has been charged with one gross misdemeanor count of setting a spring gun/pitfall/deadfall or snare. If convicted, Steffen could face

Current chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who the president nicknamed "ice maiden," is known for being a quiet figure while managing a fiercely loyal, aggressive core team. And she's made more headlines than most chiefs of staff even though she's very much media-averse. 

While breaking historical ground as the first female chief of staff, the public has become fascinated by her and the intense opaque role. 

Unelected and unconfirmed, the chief of staff is the president's closest adviser. When the president makes a life-and-death decision, often the only other person in the room holds this title.

It got us thinking, what fictional character would make the best chief of staff in real life?

Sound off in our poll below, and the results will be revealed in a future edition of the DC Insider newsletter.

I am on the Zoopla property website, staring at a photograph of the house I used to call home.

Nothing much changes with Aberdeen's granite. To see it today is to see it as I first saw it as a toddler in 1970 when we moved there.

The crazy-paving front path is exactly as it was. The garden hedge shielding our bay-windowed lounge from the gaze of passers-by is still doing the same job.

Up there is my bedroom window, directly above the front door. Behind that glass, a childhood. My one.

There used to be a Sanyo radio cassette recorder in that room – a birthday present when I was eight or nine.

I'd sit cross-legged on the floor next to it, my fingers hovering over the play and record buttons, as the chart countdown show was broadcast on Radio 1.

This room was the scene of the most petulant strop of my childhood years. I ripped a set of drawers out of their chest and flung their contents over the floor. I pinged scrambled egg with a spoon onto the ceiling as I lay sulking on my bed.

It was on this bed in this

A two-Michelin-starred restaurant has been awarded a top hygiene rating after receiving a one-star verdict over flies, raw lobster and a dirty knife.

Ynyshir, located near Machynlleth in west Wales, was given the lowest possible rating following a hygiene inspection last November.

The report released by Ceredigion County Council found that the exclusive £468-a-head restaurant fell short in its 'layout, ventilation, hand washing facilities and pest control'. 

It found that the correct checks had not been carried out to serve raw lobster and a rug hanging in the kitchen was not able to be cleaned properly.

Inspectors discovered that the safe management of ingredients including birch tree sap, aged pigeon and wild garlic was deemed to be inadequate.

They also observed that a knife used for preparing beef for burgers was 'dirty' and there was 'an accumulation of flies' on a paper sticky strip in the prep room near the walk-in chiller. 

Officials consequently said a 'major improvement' was required for the management of food safety and the cleanliness of the facilities. 

After the scathing report, the restaurant's head chef, Gareth Ward, 'immediately' made the necessary changes and was awarded the highest rating of five after a

The number of obese adults in England has doubled to 14.3million since the UK's first obesity strategy was published in 1992, damning new analysis reveals.

John Major's Conservative government vowed to cut obesity among men by a quarter and women by a third in its pioneering 'Health of the Nation' document but rates subsequently soared.

Since then, a further 13 national obesity strategies have been published, each of which has failed to stem the crisis, the King's Fund think tank says.

Its latest research shows there are 7.2 million more adults living with obesity than would be the case if rates had stayed the same as 1993, when the Health Survey for England first published obesity prevalence data.

The percentage of adults who were either obese or severely obese rose from 15 per cent to 30 per cent from 1993 to 2024, the most recent year available.

The King's Fund is now calling for urgent action to address the 'obesity time-bomb' and warns GLP1 fat jabs, such as Mounjaro and Wegovy, are not the 'silver bullet'.

It's analysis, shared exclusively with the Daily Mail, reveals the rise in obesity has been

A lesbian throuple who gained millions of fans with their self-help lifestyle tips saw their blossoming romance crumble after their younger third-wheel launched a scathing lawsuit against her former lovers. 

Nicole LePera, 43, and her wife Lauren Galvin, the glamorous influencers behind the popular 'Holistic Psychologist' empire, are facing allegations from their former lover Jenna Weakland over claims they cheated her out of a promised $3.5 million payout. 

Weakland alleges in a lawsuit obtained by the New York Times that she was erased from their brand despite claiming to have been a central figure in its growth. The Holistic Psychologist Instagram currently boasts over 9 million followers. 

But in a counter-suit launched by LePera and Galvin's production company seen by the Daily Mail, the couple claim that Weakland was essentially a customer service agent for the brand after they already built it. 

The clashing lawsuits each allege their glamorous online personas hid abuse and violence, and Weakland claims that LePera threw her down a flight of stairs, per her filing. 

LePera and Galvin deny those claims and allege that Weakland assaulted Galvin and threatened to harm herself and release a damaging tell-all memoir

A black Democratic candidate running to be the next governor of Wisconsin  complained that it is a 'slur' to refer to him as an 'establishment' option.

David Crowley, the Milwaukee County Executive, told a rally that he finds the characterization insulting earlier this week.

Crowley is running against socialist candidate Francesca Hong, who has faced scrutiny from opponents for several extreme far-left positions she has taken in the past.

She has portrayed Crowley as the establishment choice, citing his endorsement by the incumbent governor and his substantial fundraising advantage in recent weeks. 

Polls show Crowley is trailing Hong by double digits with just a week to go before the August 11 primary despite her controversial stances.

'I'm trying to figure out who "the establishment' is,'" he told the crowd at a rally in Madison on Wednesday.

'My parents were drug addicts, suffered from mental health, I worked extremely hard to be where I am today.

'When people try to call me the establishment, I look at that as a slur, particularly as an African American candidate.