UK weather: Mid-week heatwave with temperatures higher than Spanish Costas

Sophie Turner wears a cute daisy crocheted bucket hat while out to lunch at Wally’s with husband Joe Jonas on Tuesday afternoon (May 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

jet crash that killed 132 people when the plane flew into a mountainside appears to have been an intentional act, findings from the aircraft's black box have indicated.The flight from Kunming to Guangzhou had an 'accident' in mid-March last year in the region of Guangxi and caused a fire on the mountains, Chinese state television originally reported.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have only themselves to blame as their "star appeal" has now "died", royal fans have claimed. The damning verdict comes soon after Pearl, the Duchess of Sussex’s planned animated film about a young girl inspired by influential women from history, was scrapped by Netflix after profits plunged at the streaming giant.Their joint podcast Archewell Audio has meanwhile only released a 35-minute Christmas special, which came out back in 2020, with the Sussex's £18million deal with the audio app now looking to be a bad deal for Spotify.Harry and Meghan's string of media flops has been seen by many as evidence that their ability to draw in large audiences is now fading after years of high-profile media attention.Asked by the Daily Express whether the Sussex's "star appeal" was dying, one person simply wrote: “I can honestly say yes it has.”A second believed their conduct since stepping back from The Firm was to blame, writing: "They didn't have any ‘star power’ in the first place.

Gayle King and her colleagues will be following Johnny Depp's $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard until its conclusion. However, the veteran newswoman says there's no positive light to the entire spectacle.King and her CBS Mornings co-stars Nate Burleson and Tony Dokoupil walked the carpet at The Hollywood Reporter's Annual Most Powerful People in New York Media event on Tuesday, and they spoke with ET about the court case that has been dominating the spotlight in recent months.«It's all very sad to me,» King said of the ongoing case, which has been broadcast on TV since the trial began in April. I don't know how anybody wins in that case.

India is the country of honor at the Cannes Film Market and consequently a massive contingent from the country is descending upon the Croisette. Variety understands that some 400 attendees are winging their way from India, and that French embassies across the country were working at capacity to issue visas.That stands in contrast with the attendance from other parts of Asia, further East.

The stars are stepping out for the 2022 Cannes Film Festival!

EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook opened up about her battle with drug addiction.The 48-year-old actress appeared in a teaser clip shared for an upcoming podcast beside Paul Danan and Jumpin Jack Frost, where she admitted to wasting “years of her life.”In the heartbreaking clip, Dannielle is heard saying: “It’s taken me 48 years to get to that point and I can’t say I’ll be there tomorrow.“The worst thing I have down is throwing my life away, hating myself, the years I have wasted not liking the person I am.”She is undergoing a series of procedures and operations to repair her face, which was damaged during her lengthy battle with cocaine addiction and suffering from osteoporosis.Danniella recently recorded for The BoAt Pod podcast, where she discussed recovery and mental health.Sharing a photo from filming, Danniella said: “If anyone is struggling with substance abuse or mental illness of any kind, then [please] give it a listen when it airs next week. [You’re] not alone and we do recover”.Due to her excessive cocaine use, Danniella’s septum had completely eroded away and she was famously photographed with it missing at the 2000 British Soap Awards.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.Danniella has been open about her struggles with addiction throughout the course of her career.The former EastEnder lost her role as Sam Mitchell on the popular BBC soap because of it and revealed she first tried the Class A drug when she was just a teenager.

Tulisa has thanked her fans after news of an N-Dubz reunion tour was greeted with an outpouring of joy.The former X-Factor judge took to social media to thank fans of the RnB group for their "unfathomable" love and support days after she confirmed the tour set for November this year.The Female Boss shared a message on her Instagram stories that read: "All the gass aside, I just wanna say thank you to all the N-Dubz fans & supporters. The love and support after so long to be even stronger than it was before means everything to us."Every song & show we do we share a little piece of our hearts & the extent of the love you give us in return is unfathomable."It may sound far fetched but to us it feels like we're a part of one big crazy family.

Scientists have set up an “alien telescope” that focuses purely on sounds coming to Earth from outer space.Researchers at the National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia – one of the quietest places on the planet, where mobile phones don’t work and WiFi is scarce – are hoping to pick up messages from extra-terrestrial beings.A huge receiver that is 100 metres wide and fully steerable turns radio waves from space into electric signals that boffins then analyse.Dr Ethan Siegel, a theoretical astrophysicist working on the project, said aliens could be trying to send us messages from deep space.He told FreeThink: “If someone is actively speaking to us from across the universe, if we didn’t listen because we didn’t find it easily the first time, how much would we be short-changing ourselves through our own short sightedness?“If we discover we're not alone in the universe it will change forever how we view life on earth… (but) the way we’re going to find it is not through grainy footage or pixels we can’t make out.”Although there have been plenty of supposed UFOs caught on camera, researchers can’t find out much from the footage as it is often blurry and could have easily been edited.Stay up to date with all the Daily Star's latest news by signing up to one of our free newsletters here.But the new project to listen to outer space could prove the key to having definitive proof of life outside of planet Earth.Ryan Lynch, a scientist at the Green Bank Observatory, added: “The radio signals we’re trying to pick up from space are extremely weak.“It’s like casting a net – the bigger the receiver dish, the bigger the net and the weaker the signals we can pick up.” It comes as governments around the world start to take UFO sightings

Lamborghini taken for a five-hour joyride by a parking attendant.Mikhail Varshavski – also known as Dr Mike – dropped his £256,000 Lambo off at a parking garage in New York on May 6 before going home for the evening, according to a police report.But the YouTube star – dubbed the Sexiest Doctor Alive by People Magazine in 2015 – was alerted by his building's security staff the next day that a garage employee had taken the vehicle out for a drive during the early hours of the morning.Police paperwork shows that the matte black sportscar with neon green trim had been taken out from around 1am to 6am that morning by the member of staff who had not asked for the 32-year-old's permission.CCTV images seen by security staff captured the parking attendant driving away from the garage in the celebrity doctor's vehicle, which sported the personalised licence plate DRM1KE.A source with knowledge of the incident was quoted by the New York Post as saying: "The reason that they caught him was because other people came to get their cars and there was no one there.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here."So security had to go through the footage to find out where he went and then they waited for him to return a few hours later."Licence plate checks carried out by the NYPD found that the car had driven "all over New York City".An NYPD spokeswoman said no arrests had been made in the case.Varshavski, who has 4.4million Instagram followers, posted a picture of the car on the social media site in September last year alongside the caption: "Welcome the new member of the family! P.S.

Steve Martin and Martin Short couldn't be prouder of their girl, Sel! ET spoke to the  stars about Selena Gomez's hilarious  hosting debut and the second season of their hit Hulu series.«How did you think I did?» Gomez asked her co-stars --15-time  host Martin and former  cast-member, Short.«I thought you delivered the comedy so beautifully and so low key, but hilarious,» Martin, who appeared in a skit on last weekend's show with Gomez, gushed.As far as any advice the comedy legends gave Gomez, the Rare Beauty founder revealed that the pair helped her with a few jokes.«They kind of helped me with a few jokes,» Gomez shared.«We said, 'Go Selena,'» a proud Martin added.Martin and Short weren't the only funny friends who had her back ahead of her hosting debut, Gomez told ET that she had the backing of show creator, Lorne Michaels, and Amy Schumer.«It was so much fun. I had a blast,» Gomez said. «I had their support.

Miley Cyrus is sharing scary details about the moment her plane was struck by lightning back in March while she and her band traveled to a music festival in Paraguay.

Brits have been warned of a potential "cold snap" taking hold in just a few days' time with snow set to fall in May.Despite temperatures being likely to hit 18C in the South today, the UK's recent spell of warm weather is coming to an abrupt end. Forecasters now say that bitter northerly winds will soon create unsettled conditions and see the mercury plummet.

A balmy spring is set to continue this weekend in Greater Manchester with temperatures higher than in parts of Spain in some areas. The Met Office has forecasted more bright sunshine and blue skies with highs of 15C in Manchester on Saturday, compared to 12C in the Spanish capital of Madrid.

With British Summer Time now upon us, it’s time to slather on the SPF and grab your sunnies as the UK is looking set to enjoy a spell of hot weather. According to predictions, some parts of Britain are expected to be hotter than Madrid this weekend as temperatures climb into the late teens. On Saturday 23 April, temperatures in London will make the capital hotter than Madrid as the mercury looks set to reach 17°C.To the east and south, the weekend will be characterised by “sunny spells and scattered showers” according to the Met Office.

wildfire warning has been issued in the UK for this weekend with temperatures set to soar to 18C. People have been told to "think twice" before doing anything involving a naked flame while the wildfire risk remains.

weather modelling maps show that Brits are in for a week-long dumping of snow at the start of next month. Temperatures have been slowly decreasing following a balmy Easter bank holiday weekend when the mercury hit 23C in places. The Met Office have said that conditions will be "turning cold for many" towards the end of this month and now it seems they will be turning Arctic at the start of May.

sunshine is set to come to an end on Easter Monday with a dip in temperatures and rain expected.Sun-loving Brits have packed out parks and beaches around the UK since record-breaking highs of 23C on Good Friday.Manchester enjoyed highs of 21C today whilst Londoners revelled in 20C and Cardiff enjoyed 19C.Even the north was treated to the sun and Newcastle reached 18C with Aberdeen hitting 15C.The capital’s 23.4C heat in St James’s Park marked the hottest day of the year so far and beat the previous record of 20.8C on March 25 in Cornwall.But the mercury will end after Easter Sunday and overnight temperatures are set to drop as low as 7C with daytime highs of 16C.Meteorologist Dan Stroud said: "Fresher conditions will slowly start to move in from the west accompanied by cloud and some rain."Looking at Easter Monday, outbreaks of rain will continue to move eastwards, but weakening all the time."Sunny spells and showers following on, but feeling a lot fresher, and that theme will continue into the new week."For Northern Ireland and the far west of the UK, the bad weather started early and they experienced "thick cloud and rain" from today.Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge added: "Sunday is mostly dry across the vast majority of the country, apart from the far west, but it will turn slightly cloudy as the day goes on.Stay up to date with all the latest Daily Star news by signing up to one of our free newsletters here."It will be more milky sunshine, because we'll have very high level clouds coming in, but it will still be bright and dry."Independent forecaster WXCharts even predicted the UK could be hit with snow later this month.Arctic winds blowing in from the north on their radar show the first band of snow could

weather in a matter of days — despite temperatures rocketing up to summery highs this weekend.People across the country have been bathing in sunny conditions this weekend, with the mercury reaching 22C in St James Park, London on Good Friday.It means that many parts of Britain have been warmer than popular sunseeker's holiday destinations in Spain and Greece.But a new weather map from independent forecaster WXCharts show that a shock return to snowy scenes could be on the horizon, thanks to Arctic winds blowing in from the north.The radar shows the first band of snow sweeping in across the north of Scotland late on Friday 29 April, before moving down the north-east coast of England on Saturday 30 April.May then begins with widespread snow across the United Kingdom, with flakes falling in the south of England and Wales on Sunday 1 and Monday 2 May.In the meantime, Netweather expect temperatures to peak at 18C today (Sunday 17) in the south east, sliding down to 16C on Monday before a considerable drop off as the week progresses.Neil Armstrong, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office, said: "A low-pressure system will affect the northwest of the UK later Sunday, bringing unsettled weather to the north with some strong winds and rain in the northwest, which could impact driving conditions for some, but further south it will be drier, especially in the southeast. “There will be varying amounts of cloud, but temperatures are widely likely to be above average for the time of year, although low cloud might keep temperatures lower in coastal areas.

The Easter Bank Holiday weekend is off to a sunny start as temperatures are set to rise to 21C in Greater Manchester today. After a cloudy start to the day, the skies will brighten up by mid-morning, according to the latest forecast from the Met Office.

Met Office has said that a mini weekend heatwave is set to bring potentially record-breaking temperatures to the UK today and tomorrow. In their latest video weather forecast meteorologist Helen Roberts said: "For central and eastern areas there will be some bright and sunny spells, and in that sunshine [it will be] feeling really quite warm."For this afternoon (Friday April 15) they predict that temperatures in and around London will hit 22C.