Mirror Daily Digest: Our top stories from Jay Slater bombshells to PM's winter fuel U-turn

Welcome to the Mirror's Daily Digest, where we pull together all the best stories of the day from our News, Showbiz, Sport teams and more. This Wednesday, we're featuring everything from the inquest into Jay Slater's death to everything we know ahead of the final and Starmer's huge winter fuel bombshell.

This morning, Jay Slater's inquest began to establish the events in the build up to the apprentice bricklayer's shock death which grabbed headlines across the UK. Elsewhere, -united-fc> are set to take on Tottenham Hotspur this evening in an all-English Europa League final and has made a shock winter fuel payments U-turn.

Jay Slater's mum breaks down in tears as she begs missing pals to come forward

Last summer, Jay Slater's disappearance in Ibiza grabbed headlines across the UK, with many theorising what could have happened to the British teen until his death was tragically announced. This Wednesday, Jay Slater's name returned to headlines as our news team live blogged his inquest - taking place to establish the events that led to Jay's death,

Jay Slater's mum broke down in tears at the inquest into her son's death. She told the court: but how can we ever get any understanding we know he died and he had an accident but from him leaving that holiday resort to going up to there we have read their statements and we want these people to be here sat in front of us, we want to ask them questions"

were not able to be tracked down to give evidence. The pair flew to the Spanish island in June last year with Jay, 19, to attend the NRG music festival in Playa de las Americas. Following the event, Rural de Teno national park area in the early hours of June 17.

Europa League Final - 'Leaked lineups' as Spurs and Man Utd to face off in Bilbao clash

This evening, our sports team will be live blogging one of the biggest matches of the season, as Manchester United are set to take on Tottenham Hotspurs in a hotly anticipated all-English Europa League final. The two teams are aiming to put their rotten seasons behind them by claiming silverware with success in the Europa League.

While the final represents a huge chance to lift a trophy, it also offers each a chance to return to the Each side have seen their hopes of playing in the competition evaporate due to their league positions amid woeful league form.

Both and are each chasing a first trophy in English football. Both spoke in their pre-match press conferences on Tuesday, and - in spiky mood as he hinted at this being his penultimate Spurs match.

Keir Starmer in huge winter fuel U-turn as he drops bombshell during PMQs

During PMQs this Wednesday, our politics team broke the news that said he wanted more pensioners to get in a huge U-turn on the controversial cut. The Prime Minister said with the economy showing signs of improvement he wants to ensure "more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments".

The surprise announcement at - - came amid mounting pressure to roll-back the decision to strip the £300 payment from all but the very poorest pensioners. has argued the unpopular decision - - was necessary to fix the Tory mess they inherited.

But in recent weeks Labour MPs have blamed the policy for the party's bruising results at the local elections earlier this month and defeat to Reform UK at a key by-election. Speaking at PMQs, Mr Starmer said: "We all know the economy was left in absolute mess by the Tories. We had to stabilise the economy with tough decisions but the right decisions. Because of those decisions it is beginning to improve."

Eamonn Holmes, 65, and girlfriend Katie, 43, finally go Instagram official in sweet snaps

With their hawkish eye on celebs' Instagrams, our showbiz team spotted GB news presenter and his girlfriend, Katie Alexander, go social media official after months of low-key holidays and date nights. Katie, 43, who is a marriage counsellor, took to her page to share a reel of her recent day out with the 65-year-old former presenter.

With The Levellers' song What a Beautiful Day playing over it, Katie, captioned selection of photos: "Lovely …. Lovely company," along with the sun emoji. In one photo, Katie rested her chin on Eamonn's shoulders as they posed for the camera. Both rocked sunglasses as they soaked up the sunshine.

Another showed the blonde beauty rocking a polka dot dress as she posed in the sunshine with her pooch, Dottie, and Eamonn, who was in a wheelchair. The new snaps came not long after it was claimed their relationship

Met Office issues tornado and funnel cloud warning for UK amid heavy rain

Brits are being warned to brace for a possible tornado set to batter parts of the country today - as southern England is pummelled by heavy rain following the driest spring in decades.

meteorologist Alex Burkill said it was "not out of the question that we could see a funnel cloud, maybe even a brief tornado across parts of the South East" of England on Wednesday. Southern areas are also facing thunder, lightning, and hail.

Burkill added there was a "bit of a North-South split in our weather through today". While Northern parts have welcomed a lot of fine, sunny weather, the South has seen rain - "and there will be further showery bursts to come as we go through the rest of today," he said.

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