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Dixons Carphone has announced plans to close 92 stores this year as its troubled mobile phone business continues to face “challenges”. The high street giant said its Carphone Warehouse division remained under pressure, partially due to customers shunning handset upgrades and going “Sim-only”.However, a spokeswoman told Sky News no jobs were expected to be affected and insisted staff would be redeployed and offered the chance to move to nearby larger outlets.The store closures will add to the pain on the high street, with Dixons Carphone adding its name to the long list of retailers – Carpetright, Mothercare, Byron and others…

Starbucks is closing more than 8,000 stores across the US on Tuesday as staff undergo racial awareness training. It comes after the coffee firm apologised to two black men who were arrested while waiting for someone in a Starbucks outlet in Philadelphia.Bosses apologised for the April incident before meeting the two men and pledging to carry out training “geared towards preventing discrimination”. 1:49 Video: Starbucks racism videos: What we know But there was further embarrassment for the company when a video also emerged of a separate incident in which a black man says he was denied entry to a Starbucks…

Footage has emerged of a police officer punching a woman in the head on a Jersey Shore beach. The video shows the officer striking the 20-year-old woman, wearing a swimsuit and hotpants, twice after pinning her down on the sand on Saturday.People can be heard shouting “stop resisting” at the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey.One officer can been seen kneeling by the woman as they get her on her back while another pulls her legs straight.A number of officers have been reassigned to administrative duty while the incident is investigated. Image: An officer is seen punching the woman on the…

England forward Raheem Sterling has defended his new M16 assault rifle tattoo after it was branded “disgusting” by an anti-gun campaigner. The 23-year-old, who plays for Premier League champions Manchester City, posted a picture of himself training with his England teammates at St George’s Park.The tattoo of an assault rifle on his right calf clearly visible. Lucy Cope, who founded Mothers Against Guns after her son Damian was shot dead outside a club in central London in July 2002, said the ink was “totally unacceptable”. Image: Sterling plays for Premier League side Manchester City She told The Sun: “We demand…

More than 20,000 children are classed as severely obese when they leave primary school, according to new figures. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, has obtained statistics which it says show children are rapidly gaining weight as they go through school.And it warns the severe child obesity rates are contributing to a “multi-billion pound ill-health time bomb”.The first data of its kind for 2016/17, supplied by the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), shows a total of 22,646 out of 556,452 (4.1%) of 10 and 11-year-olds in Year 6 are classed as severely obese.This…

The destruction of the Yarmouk District in Damascus could be a visual metaphor for Syria’s long and brutal war. The area is smashed up beyond belief – a panorama of wreckage, street after battered street.The neighbourhood was the so-called Islamic State’s last stronghold in the capital – the terror group overran the area in 2015 but the regime lost it in 2012 at the start of the rebellion. Image: Those coming back are looking over where their homes once stood The last batch of militants were evacuated last week – it means that the capital Damascus, after seven years of…

Two people were rescued from the roof of a car after it became submerged in floodwater overnight – but despite further flood warnings Monday could be the hottest day of the year. A West Midlands hazardous area response team had to swim to the car, with one person taken to hospital “under blue light conditions”.It came as more than a month’s worth of rain deluged parts of Birmingham in just one hour on Sunday.A site at Winterbourne, in the Edgbaston area, recorded 58mm of rainfall in one hour, and 81mm in a 12-hour period.The monthly average for the West Midlands…

WHSmith has been voted the worst high street retailer in the UK this year, in a Which? survey of over 10,000 shoppers. Customers complained of out-of-date WHSmith stores, expensive products and poor customer service in the survey of 100 major retailers which was carried out in January.The retailer has been in the bottom two of its poll for an eighth consecutive year, Which? said.The customer scores given were based on experiences of purchasing items other than groceries, their level of satisfaction and the likelihood of recommending each shop.John Lewis dropped to 10th place – its worst ranking since the annual…

North Korea has “brilliant potential” and will be a “great economic and financial Nation one day”, Donald Trump says. The president made the comments in a tweet on Sunday as US officials arrived in North Korea and met their counterparts at the border village of Panmunjom.”Our United States team has arrived in North Korea to make arrangements for the Summit between Kim Jong Un and myself,” he said.”I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day. Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It will happen!”:: Trump just couldn’t…

Italy’s president is facing calls for his impeachment after refusing to appoint a key minister backed by the country’s prospective prime minister. Sergio Mattarella would not endorse Eurosceptic Paolo Savona as economy minister, despite him being supported by Giuseppe Conte – who was picked as a compromise prime ministerial candidate by the populist coalition hoping to form a government.Mr Conte, a little-known 53-year-old lawyer with no political experience, subsequently rejected Mr Matteralla’s offer to form an administration – throwing Italy into fresh political crisis.The country has been without a government since elections on 4 March left the Eurosceptic 5-Star Movement…