News & Star media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place News & Star in the centre. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is News & Star biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place News & Star in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is News & Star left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place News & Star in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is News & Star reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for News & Star are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What News & Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with News & Star’s own report linked underneath.
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
News & Star reported it asStar Trek and X-Men actor Sir Patrick Stewart dies aged 86, statement confirms (opens News & Star in a new tab)
The Chancellor has announced plans to cut import tariffs on more than 100 products, including food staples, as part of a series of 'everyday fixes' ahead of the upcoming Budget. Other measures include changes to parental pay and carer's allowance.
News & Star reported it asBudget 2026 5 changes that could affect your money before Christmas (opens News & Star in a new tab)
A major security vulnerability discovered in the PHP programming language has led to widespread alerts and the precautionary shutdown of numerous websites globally. Developers are releasing patches to address the flaws.
News & Star reported it asCumbrian businesses urged to check websites after PHP security alert (opens News & Star in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, has stated she is a lawyer. An investigation found no record of her being licensed to practice law in any US state or Washington D.C. She told reporters she passed the bar exam when she moved to China.
News & Star reported it asNew White House press secretary defends legal background and short briefing (opens News & Star in a new tab)
Three Australian appellate judges have rejected activist Uncle Robbie Thorpe's bid to prosecute King Charles III for alleged genocide. Thorpe plans to pursue the case at the International Criminal Court after exhausting domestic legal options.
News & Star reported it asBid to prosecute King Charles III reaches international court (opens News & Star in a new tab)
Spain came from behind to beat England 3-2 in their Nations League opener at Wembley. Lamine Yamal scored early for Spain, but England led 2-1 before halftime. Harry Kane missed a penalty while England was ahead, and Mikel Oyarzabal scored the winning goal for Spain.
News & Star reported it asCumbrian duo Trafford and Branthwaite win latest England caps against Spain (opens News & Star in a new tab)
Record-high diesel prices have prompted Republican Senator Chuck Grassley to call for an embargo on exports. Farm state Republicans are pressuring the White House to stop exports, citing the impact on farmers and truckers.
News & Star reported it asDiesel prices near record highs as AA issues fuel price warning (opens News & Star in a new tab)
The United States, Denmark and Greenland plan to sign a security pact at the UN General Assembly next week. President Donald Trump says the deal gives the US permanent control over security matters, while other outlets report no sovereign US control. A joint working group will discuss future cooperation.
News & Star reported it asAndy Burnham congratulates Donald Trump and Mette Frederiksen on Greenland deal (opens News & Star in a new tab)
The BRICS New Delhi Declaration condemned the April 22, 2025, terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The statement called for zero tolerance towards state-sponsored cross-border terrorism and reaffirmed the commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms.
News & Star reported it asBrics leaders voice concern over Middle East and condemn unilateral sanctions (opens News & Star in a new tab)
A U.S. federal judge has postponed the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, who is charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The delay is due to newly discovered evidence that defense attorneys need to examine.
News & Star reported it asLockerbie bombing trial postponed after new evidence cited (opens News & Star in a new tab)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
News & Star reported it asHarry and Meghan plan UK return as children set to start school, say reports (opens News & Star in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for News & Star.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Carlisle, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- newsandstar.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- newsandstar.co.uk
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
11 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. News & Star is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of News & Star: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 6 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as News & Star, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where News & Star publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.