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Niall Horan Pays Tribute To Liam Payne On Heartbreaking New Song

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Niall Horan is opening up about his former bandmate Liam Payne’s death.

The ex-One Direction star recently sat down for an interview with GQ Hype, where the subject of Liam came up during the course of the conversation.

Liam died in October 2024 at the age of 31, after falling from a balcony in Argentina while under the influence of numerous substances.

Shortly before his death, he attended Niall’s concert in Buenos Aires, with the two also catching up while they were both in South America.

“It was great,” the Slow Hands singer recalled, claiming the two quickly fell “back in like it was 10 years ago” when they met up. “[Liam] seemed in good form and we had a good laugh, good reminisce.”

Liam Payne and Niall Horan with One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles in 2014
Liam Payne and Niall Horan with One Direction bandmates Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles in 2014

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Niall later got the message that Liam had died, admitting: “I just didn’t think it was real. Someone so young, you’re not expecting to hear that they’ve passed, especially someone that you’ve just seen. I just went back from shock to sadness to anger.”

After he and his former bandmates attended Liam’s funeral, he said that he “went into hiding a little bit” to allow himself time to grieve, and has written a song about the loss on his upcoming album Dinner Party.

Per GQ Hype, on the song End Of An Era, Niall can be heard singing: “We had it, pure magic, remember what it was like, time passes so fast and I couldn’t tell you goodbye.”

In the days after Liam’s death, Niall told his Instagram followers: “Liam had an energy for life and a passion for work that was infectious. He was the brightest in every room and always made everyone feel happy and secure.

“All the laughs we had over the years, sometimes about the simplest of things, keep coming to mind through the sadness. We got to live out our wildest dreams together and I will cherish every moment we had forever. The bond and friendship we had doesn’t happen often in a lifetime.

“I feel so fortunate that I got to see him recently. I sadly didn’t know that after saying goodbye and hugging him that evening, I would be saying goodbye forever. It’s heartbreaking.”

Meanwhile, Harry Styles recently shared his own feelings about the loss of Liam during a recent interview.

Read Niall Horan’s full GQ Hype interview here.

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Labour Should Pledge To Rejoin European Union At Next General Election, Says Sadiq Khan

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Labour should include a pledge to rejoin the European Union in the party’s next general election manifesto, Sadiq Khan has declared.

In comments which will be seen as a direct challenge to Keir Starmer, the London mayor said it was time for the party to “be bold” in its offer to voters.

In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Khan repeated his call for Britain to rejoin the EU customs union and single market in this parliament – a move already ruled out by the prime minister.

But he said Labour should go even further by pledging to take the UK back into the EU if it wins the next election, which is expected in 2029.

Khan said: “I’m quite clear. On the ballot paper of the next general election is a vote for Labour, a vote to rejoin the European Union, and we should be unequivocal about the benefits of the European Union because we’ve now seen the alternative.

“We’ve now seen what happens when you’re outside the European Union: less investment in the UK, less exports to the European Union.”

Asked in 2024 whether he could foresee the UK rejoining the single market or customs union in his lifetime, Starmer said: “No. I don’t think that that is going to happen. I’ve been really clear about not rejoining the EU, the single market or the customs union.”

However, in his interview, Khan said it was “inevitable” that the UK would once again become an EU member state now that voters have seen the damage done by Brexit.

He said: “We’ve now seen what happens when you’re outside the European Union: less investment in the UK, less exports to the European Union.

“But let me speak from experience. You know, since 2019, and it breaks my heart, I’ve seen Londoners who are EU nationals leaving London.

“We had in 2019 more than 840,000 EU Londoners working in London. That’s gone down to now 700,000, that means 140,000 Londoners have left London, and the two biggest sectors they’ve left concerned construction and hospitality.

“And these are Romanians, Polish, Italian, French, Irish Londoners, who’ve left their friends. They’ve left their neighbours. As a consequence, we’ve suffered economically, in construction, hospitality, but also we’ve suffered socially and culturally as well.”

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Trump Sends Bizarre Warning To ‘Non-Responsive’ Allies Over Iran War

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Donald Trump has issued a bizarre threat to his “non-responsive” allies who are not supporting the US’s war against Iran.

The president has called for Nato members to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, the major oil shipping lane which Iranian forces have effectively closed by targeting all vessels which pass through there.

But allies, including Britain, have refused to get drawn into the wider war even as the cost of oil continues to climb.

So the president fumed on TruthSocial: “I wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called ‘Strait?’

“That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!”

Trump also attacked Nato on Tuesday, claiming the defensive alliance had abandoned the US “in its time of need”.

Speaking from the Oval Office, he insisted “we don’t need any help” from Nato, before adding: “But they should’ve been there.”

The president has also lashed out repeatedly at the UK in particular for not backing the US’s strikes.

Keir Starmer rejected America’s first request to use British military sites to attack Iran before granting permission to a second query, asking to use the bases for “defensive” and “limited” strikes.

Trump has raged about this decision, claiming this week that the UK-US relationship was “always the best” until “Keir came along”.

He said the war a “great test” of the so-called “special relationship” with America.

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Everything You Need To Know About This Month’s New Bin Collection Changes

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As a part of their “Simpler Recycling” initiative, the government is going to change the rules around how bins are collected across England this month.

It will mean councils will have to offer collections for the same four kinds of waste.

Here’s when it comes into place, what it means, why it’s happening, and what you need to do next:

When do the bin changes come into place?

For households, the changes begin on 31 March, 2026.

For workplace recycling, they have been in place at businesses with 10 or more employees since 31 March, 2025.

If you need more information on changes that might affect your local area, check your council’s website or contact them directly.

Where do the bin changes apply?

They will apply in England.

What do the new “Simpler Recycling” rules mean?

The standard requirement for businesses and households will be the following four bins:

  • residual (non-recyclable) waste,
  • food waste (mixed with garden waste if appropriate),
  • paper and card,
  • all other dry recyclable materials (plastic, metal and glass).

That means they’ll be collected separately.

“Plastic film packaging and plastic bags will need to be collected with plastic recycling from 31 March 2027,” the government explained on its website.

In the meantime, the four options bullet-pointed above will become the standard ones in England.

They must be collected from all households, including flats.

Why has the government created this change?

They hope it will make recycling easier.

Recycling rates have stayed under 45% since 2015 in the UK. But the government wants us to reach a 65% recycling rate by 2035.

It is hoped that by getting rid of a “muddled and confusing patchwork of approaches to bin collections,” people will be more likely to recycle.

Currently (prior to the March 21 change), some households would have to use seven bins to get all of their waste collected properly.

The government hopes a country-wide approach will “end the ‘postcode lottery’ of bin collections in England whereby councils collect different materials for recycling, causing confusion for households”.

This way, you won’t have to check with your specific council to see whether your waste can be collected. It will be the same across England.

Simpler Recycling aims to make recycling simple and consistent. It will include food waste bins nationally, which will get rid of “bad-smelling” food waste. At the moment, lots of UK households don’t get food waste collection.

So, what do I put in each bin under the new rules?

1) Paper and card

This covers all paper and card, except that which has been laminated, contains glitter, or is dirty, wet, and/or sticky.

This will also not include books, wallpaper, or padded envelopes.

2) Mixed recycling

That includes glass items like jars and bottles.

But waste collectors don’t have to collect glass not used as packaging, like mirrors, drinking glasses, microwave plates, light bulbs, or glass vases as mixed recycling.

The category also excludes ceramics like earthenware or crockery.

Mixed recycling also includes metals, like aluminium and steel cans, tins, and spray cans, foil, food trays, jar and bottle lids, and tubes (like empty tomato puree tubes).

But it does not include “laminated foil, like pet food pouches and coffee pouches”, electrical items like batteries, kitchenware like knives and forks, kettles, irons, or containers that held white spirits, paints, engine oils or antifreeze.

Plastics like bottles, tubs, trays, tubes (like toothpaste tubes), and cartons for food or drink (like Tetra-Pak) also count as mixed recycling.

But any plastic labelled “biodegradable” or “compostable,” like coffee pods, or plastic containers that held white spirits, paints, engine oils or antifreeze, does not count as mixed recycling.

Mixed recycling also does not cover bulky plastics like garden furniture, or polystyrene or PVC packaging.

3) Food waste

This counts for all food waste except liquid. That can include eggshells, vegetable peels, etc.

The food waste caddy liners that your food waste will sit in can also be collected.

4) Residual waste

That includes things that can’t be recycled, like plastic film, foil, kitchen roll, food containers that can’t be wiped clean, and nappies.

You can also put some garden waste in here, like grass clippings.

But it does not cover animal bedding, sand, sawdust, plastic, rocks, plant pots, gardening tools, bulky waste like fencing or garden furniture, or very large branches that have not been cut down.

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Trump Blames Starmer For Breakdown In US-UK Relations In Latest Bizarre Rant

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Donald Trump has blamed Keir Starmer for the breakdown in UK-US relations in yet another bizarre rant.

The US president said the two countries got on well “until Keir came along” as he once again hit out at the prime minister’s response to the Iran war.

Trump also repeated his observation that Starmer is “not Winston Churchill” as he pointed at a bust of the wartime leader in the Oval Office.

It is the latest in a succession of attacks on Starmer by the president since America and Israel started bombing Iran more than a fortnight ago.

He has made clear his anger that the PM initially refused his request for American jets to use RAF bases to launch their missions.

Trump has also accused Britain of turning down a request to send two aircraft carriers to the Gulf – a claim which has been denied by senior government sources.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, he said: “We have a tremendous, long-term relationship with the UK. It’s the oldest, the longest. Should be the best. Always was the best until Keir came along.”

He also attacked the Labour government’s policies on immigration and shifting from fossil fuels to green energy.

Asked if he had confidence in the prime minister, Trump said: “It’s not for me, it’s really for the people of the UK to have confidence.

“I mean, I’ve been very critical of Keir – and I did it in a friendly way – I said, if you don’t change your energy thing and get away from windmills and go back to oil and gas.

“You have something that no other country has, very few countries have anything like it: the North Sea.

“You have some of the greatest oil and oil deposits in the entire world. The North Sea, they don’t use it.”

He added: “I think he’s a nice man, but I disagree with him on two things.

“Primarily his immigration policy is a disaster, and his energy policy is a disaster – and they’re about the biggest policies you can have.

“You’ve allowed millions and millions and millions of people to come into your country that shouldn’t be there. And, by the way, that’s all over Europe.

Downing Street has been asked to respond to the president’s latest comments.

Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch has slammed Trump for his “childish” attacks on Starmer.

She said she found Trump’s remarks “quite shocking”.

“I’m Keir Starmer’s biggest critic, I think he does a lot of things wrong, I think on this he’s been quite slow.

“I think it’s quite childish as well, a war of words between the White House and Downing Street.”

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🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch says Donald Trump’s comments about Keir Starmer are “childish”

“I’m Keir Starmer’s biggest critic… but the last thing we need is a war of words” pic.twitter.com/TXWP7G3qjc

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) March 17, 2026

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