The family of 12-year-old Junior Slater, who died while swimming with friends in the River Ribble at Ribchester on Tuesday, paid tribute to "our little blue-eyed boy" and said "he was the life and soul of our lives". He is one of seven young people to have died in water-related incidents in England over the last few days, after records were broken for May's highest-ever temperatures in parts of the country. The first reported incident involved Declan Sawyer, 15, whose body was recovered after he got into difficulty after entering Swanholme Lakes in Lincoln on Sunday. On Monday, a 13-year-old boy died after getting into difficulty at Leadbeater Dam in West Yorkshire, while the body of a teenage girl was recovered on the same day at Kingsbury Water Park in Warwickshire. South Yorkshire Police said the body of a teenager had been recovered from the water at Rother Valley Country Park, Rotherham, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A body has been found in the search for a teenage boy who was last seen swimming at Hawley Lake on the Hampshire-Surrey border on Tuesday afternoon - while on Wednesday, Cheshire Police said the body of a 17-year-old boy was found after he went missing in Pickmere Lake in Northwich. On Sunday, a 72-year-old woman died after being pulled from the water at West Angle Bay beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The following day, a man in his 60s died of cardiac arrest after entering the sea at Tregirls Beach in Padstow to help two family members who were in difficulty, Devon and Cornwall Police said. In Ireland, another teenager died while swimming in the sea at a beach in County Dublin on Sunday. Explainer: What is cold water shock? The RNLI has warned of the "very real risk" of swimming in open water during the heatwave, with Steve Instance, the water safety lead for the charity, insisting it remains "very much winter temperatures" in UK waters. Meanwhile, NHS England said there were more than 20,000 visits to its heatstroke advice page on Monday, compared with 488 the previous Monday. In total, there were close to 37,000 visits to the site over the course of the bank holiday weekend. Read more from Sky News:Crystal Palace make history after winning first European trophyMum-of-one named as victim of Bank Holiday shooting outside bar Water shortages The hot weather has also brought about water supply issues, with thousands of people in Kent urged to use water for "essential purposes". South East Water said around 18,000 customers in the region were experiencing water supply issues, and that some would have intermittent supply until reservoir levels were restored. Matthew Dean, head of operations control, encouraged those who still have a supply to "put aside some water for essential use". He said: "We are continuing to ask customers in supply to use water for essential purposes only - for drinking, washing and cooking. "We have bottled water collection stations already set up and are monitoring." As well as in Kent, water supply issues also affected people in Sussex and Leicestershire earlier this week, with several hundred homes thought to have been impacted. Temperatures set to ease Forecasters have said that while parts of the UK will remain warm on Thursday, temperatures are expected to fall. The Met Office has predicted temperatures of 31C (88F) in London - lower than the 35.1C (95.2F) recorded in Kew Gardens on Tuesday - while the Midlands and North West are expected to experience highs of 28C (82F). However, another "tropical night", with temperatures remaining above 20C, is unlikely, according to the Met Office. It added that while Friday could be another warm day, temperatures are set to fall over the weekend, bringing "some fresher and possibly showery conditions".

Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, repeatedly administered the drug to the actor in the weeks leading up to his death, prosecutors said in legal documents, without medical training or safe equipment. During this period in October 2023, he found Perry unconscious at least twice - and on one occasion, saw him "freeze up" and lose the ability to speak. Despite these "clear warnings", they said, he continued. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, sitting at a federal court in Los Angeles, also sentenced Iwamasa to two years of probation and a fine of $10,000 (about £7,400). "You were privy to his struggle with addiction," Judge Garnett said. "Your conduct was reckless, not just on the day of his death but in the days leading up to his death." However, she said there was "no hard evidence" he acted "with malicious intent, though some would disagree". "I am so sorry to all of you," Iwamasa said in court, turning to face ​the Perry family. "I'm just so sorry to have done illegal acts I will forever ⁠regret. I will take that to my grave." His lawyer, Alan Eisner, had argued for a six-month prison term with six months of home confinement, emphasising he was acting at the direction of a famous boss who had much more power. "His loyalty to Mr Perry was paramount," Mr Eisner said in court. "He worshipped Mr Perry, he looked up to Mr Perry. All he did was please and accommodate Mr Perry." In a filing before the hearing, defence lawyers said Iwamasa could "not simply say no" to his boss - and "that inability had tragic consequences". But in their own letters submitted to the court, Perry's family members made it clear they blame Iwamasa for the star's death. He was a friend for 25 years, they said, a man they thought would help the actor maintain sobriety. 'My son paid the price' "Matthew trusted Kenny. We trusted Kenny. Kenny's most important job - by far - was to be my son's companion and guardian in his fight against addiction," wrote Perry's mother, Suzanne Morrison. "We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price." The actor's sister Madeline Morrison said Iwamasa had spoken at his funeral. "The person responsible for my brother's death stood up and addressed the people who loved him most," she wrote. "He tainted our final memories of saying goodbye." In court, Lisa Ferguson, Perry's business manager and estate executor, described the assistant as "the monster who killed" the star. After Perry's death, Iwamasa "continued his wrongdoing by destroying evidence and taking other steps to cover his tracks and obstruct justice", prosecutors said. However, after investigators executed a search warrant at his home in January 2024, they said Iwamasa then accepted responsibility and agreed to co-operate in the government's investigation. He was the first of five defendants to reach a deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine, resulting in death. Iwamasa began working for Perry in 2022. The star was paying him $150,000 (about £112,000) a year to live at his home in Los Angeles and act as his assistant. The Friends actor had been taking the surgical anaesthetic ketamine legally for depression, an increasingly common off-label use in the US, after years of struggling with addiction. But he started to want more than his doctor would give him legally. In the final days of Perry's life, Iwamasa was injecting him six to eight times per day, legal filings said. On 28 October 2023, he injected the star with a shot of ketamine at about 8.30am and then again at 12.45pm. Forty minutes later, Perry asked Iwamasa to prepare the jacuzzi and told him to "shoot me up with a big one", according to court documents. The assistant then left to run errands, only to find the star dead on his return. The LA County Medical Examiner found ketamine was the primary cause of death, with drowning a secondary cause. Iwamasa, the last of the five defendants to be sentenced, was described by prosecutors in court documents as an "enabler" and "drug supplier" to the star. According to his plea agreement, he bought ketamine from another doctor, Salvador Plasencia, who taught him how to inject it. Plasencia was jailed for two-and-a-half years at a hearing in December. Another doctor, Mark Chavez, was sentenced later that month to eight months' home confinement after admitting to selling ketamine to Plasencia. Both have surrendered their medical licences, according to the US attorney's office for California's central district. Iwamasa also began buying ketamine from Erik Fleming, a drugs counsellor and former addict himself, who was an acquaintance of Perry's. He was jailed for two years earlier this month. Fleming was getting the ketamine from dealer Jasveen Sangha, known as "the Ketamine Queen" in Hollywood, according to prosecutors. She received the longest sentence of the five, 15 years, at a hearing in April.

Dame Meg Hillier said the Department for Education "made a promise" about how Plan 2 student loans would be repaid, but that "hasn't been kept", which is having a "big impact on the generation who are paying off now". The previous and impending freeze of the repayment salary threshold, which will see graduates earning above a set amount being dragged into making larger repayments as their salaries increase, led the top Labour MP to accuse successive governments of "balancing the books on the back of people who have taken out student loans". Politics latest: Burnham hits back at Blair The Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday published documents produced by the Department for Education (DfE) and a contractor in 2018 and 2020 to explain to prospective university students how Plan 2 loans - for those starting courses between September 2012 and July 2023 - worked. They explained that they would only start repaying money to the Treasury once they earned more than a particular salary threshold, asserting: "The thresholds will be adjusted annually in line with average earnings." However, the previous government then froze the repayment salary threshold from 2021 until 2025, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that it will be frozen again at the 2026 level until 2030, meaning graduates whose incomes rise with inflation will repay more to the Treasury in real terms. The retrospective change to student loan repayment conditions is legal, as it was authorised in legislation, but the Treasury Select Committee boss said students were not fully informed of that possibility when they took out their loan(s), leading graduates to "feel angry and upset about the situation that they find themselves in". "That's partly because when they took out the loans they did not realise what they were signing up to and the full implications of that," Dame Meg told Sky News. She said that when the DfE "simplified" its advice to inform young people about the student loan system, they said "the threshold at which you start repaying will go up annually". "Well, that actually hasn't happened in the end," she explained. "You can understand that somebody in government thought it was a good idea to try and simplify that advice and make it clear for people to understand. But actually, you know, that was misleading." Dame Meg noted that the government has faced a series of crises in recent years, pointing to the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID pandemic in particular, and all chancellors "make decisions in order to balance the books". "But balancing the books on the back of people who've taken out student loans, and it's happened repeatedly under different governments, obviously it has had a big impact on the generation who are paying off now, and they feel very aggrieved by it, and not surprisingly," she said. How do graduates view their loans now? Her committee, which is conducting an inquiry into student loans and their impact on graduates, ran a survey earlier this year to understand their views on the system, and it received over 52,000 responses - one of the highest response rates to a select committee inquiry ever recorded. The unweighted survey found that: • Graduates overwhelmingly think the financial impact of repaying their loan(s) alongside the level of income tax is worse than expected, and has had a material impact on financial planning for the future; • They believe that the level of interest and repayment terms are or were unreasonable; • Graduates say they did not understand the full terms and conditions of their loan(s) before they took them out; • A majority would not take out a loan if given the choice again. Prospective students also submitted responses, and a majority told the committee that they do not have enough information to make an informed choice, and do not feel confident about making a decision. Experts to give evidence to parliament Asked what can be done, Dame Meg said there is a "huge understanding" on the Labour benches about the impact of student loans, and that is being communicated to the government. Her committee will be taking evidence from expert witnesses over the coming weeks, and aims to produce a report before the summer recess begins in July, which members "hope" will include immediate recommendations for ministers to ease the burden. "I wouldn't want to predict what they will be at this point, but we have an opportunity to press and push government to make some decisions that could make things better." In response, a government spokesperson said: "We recognise that some graduates have concerns about the cost of student loan repayments and understand why this is an important issue. "We inherited the current system and have taken steps to make it fairer - including raising the repayment threshold for the first time since 2021 and capping maximum interest rates this year to protect graduates from rising costs. We have also reintroduced targeted maintenance grants to expand opportunities for people from all backgrounds to go to university or college. "The student finance system protects lower-earning graduates, with repayments linked to income and any outstanding balances and interest written off at the end of repayment terms."

The Gunners manager beat Pep Guardiola, Andoni Iraola, Brentford's Keith Andrews, Sunderland boss Regis Le Bris and Manchester United's Michael Carrick to the prize. Arteta led Arsenal to their first title in 22 years after three second-placed finishes, topping the table since October and becoming champions with a game to spare. The Spaniard took over the club at arguably their lowest point in the Premier League era in December 2019, but their triumph this season is the culmination of six-and-a-half years of work. How Mikel Arteta transformed ArsenalBruno Fernandes and Nico O'Reilly win Premier League awardsTransfer Centre LIVE! | Latest on YOUR PL club!Choose the Sky Sports push notifications you want! 🔔 Arsenal lifted the trophy at Crystal Palace on Sunday and Arteta said: "The fans have been waiting for this for so long. "We have had some difficult moments along the way but all of them are worth it when you see that kind of reaction. "We showed an incredible connection, an incredible commitment and incredible courage as well. Everything around us was fuel for the desire to go and do it. "There are doubts and the understanding that maybe you are not the right person. But thanks to God that we have done it. I feel a lot of joy and a lot of relief as well." From lowest point to historic high, how Arteta transformed Arsenal Sky Sports' Nick Wright: This time last year, after a narrow win over Newcastle in the final Arsenal home game of a difficult season, manager Mikel Arteta, deflated but defiant, microphone in hand on the Emirates Stadium pitch, vowed that his side would come back stronger. "We have to start creating our own history here. There is much more to come. We have to do it all together. It's not going to be easy, but this group of players, I'm telling you, they have the hunger, the quality, the talent, and we are going to make it happen." Arsenal supporters had of course heard similar before. This was their third straight season as Premier League runners-up. But they were not empty words. As predicted, it was far from straightforward. In fact, most fans would agree it was excruciating at points. A year on, though, Arsenal are champions, the wait over. For Arteta, it is the culmination of six-and-a-half years of work. He inherited a club in a state of drift when he took the job, his first as a head coach, in 2019. The squad was an expensively assembled mess. Supporters were disengaged. Standards had slipped. The transformation has been exhaustive, with Arteta one of few constants. Arsenal, once soft-centred and easily bullied, are now characterised by steeliness and a fierce will to win, described by Pep Guardiola as one of the most competitive sides he has ever faced. Read more about Arsenal's transformation under Arteta

David Rush was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money last week, court documents show, after more than 300 gold bars were seized from his home in Virginia earlier this month. Officials also confiscated about $2m (£1.5m) in cash as well as dozens of luxury watches, according to an FBI affidavit. The bureau, which is working with the CIA and US Department of Justice in its investigation, alleges that - from November to March - Rush requested and received a "significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses". It claims Rush "knowingly embezzled, stole, purloined, or knowingly converted a thing of value of the United States" for his personal use, but that it remains unclear exactly what Rush intended to use the money for. A portion of the funds were discovered in a storage space near his office, authorities said. Rush is currently being held in custody pending a hearing in federal court in Alexandria on Friday. His lawyers are yet to comment. Read more from Sky News:Viral 'Donald Trump' buffalo spared from sacrifice in BangladeshMatthew Perry's assistant jailed for three years and five months Fabricated backstory It is not clear what role Rush had at the CIA or when he left the agency. Court documents describe him as a "former senior executive service-level employee at a United States government agency". The FBI said Rush appears to have lied for years about his education and military background, with the bureau alleging he falsely claimed to be a US navy pilot who had graduated from Clemson University in South Carolina and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. An investigation instead found Rush had enlisted in the navy in 1997 and served in the navy reserves from 2004 until 2015, when he was he was honourably discharged as a lieutenant. The bureau's statement indicates Rush had not undergone any evaluations as a pilot during that time, and it claims he did not attend either university.

Spokesperson Terri Hinte said Rollins died at his home in Woodstock, New York, on Monday. She cited no specific cause of death, but said he had been largely housebound during the last couple of years because of various physical problems. Rollins was one of the last living greats of the bebop era and - along with John Coltrane and Charlie Parker - one of the most influential saxophonists of his time. Born Walter Theodore Rollins in New York City, the musician released more than 60 albums as a band leader. He performed with bands including the Rolling Stones, providing improvisations to ⁠three tracks on their 1981 album Tattoo You. Rollins won two Grammys. His 2001 album This Is What I Do earned him a Grammy award for best jazz instrumental album. He won again in 2006 for best jazz instrumental solo for Why Was I Born? Read more from Sky News: There's a big problem with AI - and it needs fixing fast10 tips for staying cool - and how to have a better night's sleep He was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. In 2011 he received the Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony. Rollins continued touring into his 80s until pulmonary fibrosis, a thickening and damaging of the lungs, would eventually force him into retirement. He played his last concert in 2012 and stopped playing altogether in 2014.

Twenty-six Labour MPs and one former Labour MP, now an independent MP, have reported Reform UK for possible Islamophobia after the group claimed there was "overwhelming evidence" the party has breached its obligations under the 2010 Equality Act. In the letter the MPs claim: "Over the last few years, we have seen a number of Reform UK politicians and members make comments that are clearly racist and discriminate against ethnic minorities, and in particular, Muslims." The group went on to say: "The prevalence of racism within Reform UK does not exist in a vacuum and has real-world consequences for the millions of British Muslims in our country." Politics latest: Labour has 'no coherent plan', Blair tells Starmer A spokesperson for Reform UK said: "We stand by our comments. We will not be intimidated." The Labour MP heading up the complaint, Afzal Khan, said: "Reform UK have consistently failed to tackle their growing Islamophobia problem." He accused the party of "consistent attacks on Muslim communities". This letter comes after the government announced a definition of anti-Muslim hostility in March - something Mr Khan campaigned for in the past. When the definition was published, the government asserted that 45% of all religious hate crimes were targeted at Muslims - a record level, and more than any other faith group. And the government insists there is significant underreporting. Among the group of 27 MPs who have signed the letter to the EHRC are Labour MPs Ian Byrne, Clive Lewis and Bell Ribeiro-Addy, as well as Mother of the House and independent MP Diane Abbott. The MPs cite a list of examples of what they believe to be Islamophobic comments made by Reform politicians. For example, they allege that keader Nigel Farage was Islamophobic when he criticised a mass Muslim prayer event in Trafalgar Square, and for suggesting they could be banned from taking place at historic British sites. The letter to the EHRC also criticises Reform MPs Sarah Pochin, Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson, as well as Reform members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd.

Contrary to reports, all the points of a proposed three-year contract are not yet fully agreed. However, a contract is expected to be finalised in the coming days, as discussions centre around the timeline of his appointment, the make-up of his backroom staff, and other finer details. Which managers are changing in the Premier League?Transfer Centre LIVE!| Latest on YOUR Premier League club!Got Sky? Watch Sky Sports LIVE on your phone📱No Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺 City have announced on Tuesday that two more of Guardiola's assistants - Pep Ljinders and Kolo Toure - are leaving the Etihad, along with Lorenzo Buenaventura, Manel Estiarte and Xabi Mancisidor. Maresca, who left Chelsea in acrimonious circumstances in January, still had three-and-a-half years left on his contract there. Club lawyers will be taking a keen interest in his next move, as compensation may well be due. Chelsea were informed by Maresca last autumn that he had been the subject of interest from City about eventually replacing Guardiola when he decided to leave, having worked under him as assistant coach during the 2022/23 season. Will Maresca be a success at Chelsea? Sky Sports' Paul Merson: "I liked him at Chelsea. I thought he was a good manager. He's going into Man City, he's been there before, he's worked in the Premier League before. He knows some of the players at City. I think he ticks every box. "He's not coming in trying to get used to the place, he's not coming into a league that he's never been in. I think he'll go in and settle quite nicely. "They'll need a few players as well. But this is the problem: Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Man United, Chelsea all need players. There's not that many players around. "Who's going to be able to produce and give the most money to these players?" What's next for Guardiola? Guardiola has previously spoken about international management and, when quizzed on whether he would ever consider taking the England job, again did not rule it out. He said: "I don't have any absolute plan about my future. I stop to rest and go to recover the time that I missed with my kids. "They are grown and there are many things I've not done I want to do. So I don't think for one second about anything related to football for the next years. I need to rest, I need to reflect. "After, we'll see what happens. I don't have a plan, it's just to rest and do a lot of things I want to do I didn't do in the past - stupid things." Asked what he meant by "stupid things", he said: "Nobody cares."