Rarely has a speech been so heavily trailed in the media, with so many of the details - from the third runway at Heathrow to the revived Oxford-Cambridge corridor and the nine new reservoirs across the country - pre-briefed and leaked to the press in advance.
Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been released on bail pending an appeal - hours after being jailed for his cane corso dog attacking a man while he was running.
Harvey Weinstein has begged a New York judge to hear the retrial in his landmark #MeToo case as soon as possible due to his deteriorating health, telling him: "I don't know how much longer I can hold on."