Want every day to be a good hair day? We tested 18 hair dryers to find the best, from gentle diffusers to high-speed and travel-ready models

• The best hot brushes, tried and tested by our expert

In my years of reviewing beauty tech, it was upgrading my hair dryer that made the biggest difference to my beauty routine. I used to dread hair-wash days: the chore of shampooing, conditioning and rinsing my hair, plus the time – and aching arms – spent getting it dry again.

My clunky, bargain-bucket hair dryer of seven years was weighty, deafeningly loud, and took a painstaking 20 minutes to dry my hair completely. So happier days really did arrive when I switched it up for a new model.

Best hair dryer overall:
Hershesons the Great

Best budget hair dryer:
BaByliss Hydro-Fusion

Some applaud TfL’s efforts to stop ‘headphone dodgers’, while others say people should ‘suck it up and get over it’

A campaign by Transport for London (TfL) to target people playing music or videos out loud on public transport is launching this week, with posters targeting “headphone dodgers” appearing on the Elizabeth line and other services from autumn.

TfL bylaws already ban passengers from singing or playing music out loud anywhere on the network unless they have a licence such as the ones granted to approved buskers.

• Updates from the third day at Flushing Meadows

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Katie Boulter is up against Marta Kostyuk, the 27th seed. Getting to the second round hasn’t been an issue for Boulter. She’s got there in five consecutive slams – but can’t find a way to get to the third. Her last third-round slam appearance was at the 2023 US Open. Sonay Kartal, facing Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, is looking to build on her run to the fourth round at Wimbledon.

Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the last day of first-round action at Flushing Meadows. We’ve got Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner leading the cast on Arthur Ashe, and we’ll keep an eye on the Brits as well: Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal will kick off at 11am local time/4pm BST. Over on Louis Armstrong, we’ll get a look at 10th seed Lorenzo Musetti as well as Amanda Anisimova, recent runner-up at Wimbledon.

Evacuation problematic and dependent on Israel’s approval amid claims more scholarship students still in dark

Ministers have approved plans to help a further 30 students leave Gaza to take up places at UK universities next month but their evacuation remains uncertain and dependent on Israel’s approval.

It takes the total to 39, after a government commitment last week to work to secure the evacuation from Gaza of nine Chevening scholars with places at some of the UK’s leading universities.

The 16-year-old’s belief that opportunities at Anfield would be greater than Stamford Bridge seems to have been correct

There was vindication as well as a place in the Liverpool history books for Rio Ngumoha with the ice-cool finish he swept past Nick Pope at St James’ Park on Monday. The 16-year-old has announced himself on the Premier League stage, as every one of his coaches predicted he would, though it is debatable his name would have registered so quickly without a bold decision taken 12 months ago.

Ngumoha was considered one of the brightest English prospects in the Premier League academy system when he stunned Chelsea last summer by leaving for Liverpool. If it was a wrench to leave the club he had joined aged eight, and for a Newham-born boy to leave London days after his 16th birthday, then the clearer route to first-team football that Ngumoha envisaged at Liverpool was compensation. Monday’s dramatic 100th-minute winner at Newcastle, when the teenager replaced Ben Woodburn as the youngest goalscorer in Liverpool’s history aged 16 years and 361 days, justified that call.

We want to hear about your summer holiday experience

What were your holidays like this summer? Did you stay closer to home and spend it in the UK? What did you do? Perhaps you had a camping trip to explore nature? Or maybe you had a seaside break?

Earlier this month, AirBnB said more UK holidaymakers were “embracing spontaneous getaways close to home” and choosing “quieter, affordable places”.