"The world watched as Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by those sworn to protect and serve."
However, some restaurants told the ONS the football tournament had had a negative impact on footfall.Despite some travel agents seeing an increase in bookings because of the Paris Olympics, overall bookings fell month on month, the ONS said.
Business owners are worried a sinkhole which appeared in a Dorking road is damaging trade.It first appeared in West Street - home to many of the Surrey town's antique shops - on 30 August, and has since been investigated by Thames Water.It means the road has had to be closed to traffic while urgent repairs are done and traders fear it could be weeks before it reopens.
Thames Water said engineers were currently surveying the site to plan out repair works.Paul Harman who runs Harmans, an interiors shop on the street, said it had caused "carnage" and the lack of traffic had impacted passing trade.
“When [shoppers] are going along they look in the shop windows and see things in shops and stop... but we are getting no passing trade whatsoever," he said.
Glyn Elias has been at the Dorking Desk Shop for 50 years, but said West Street was the quietest it had ever been.Not only was it strikingly different to some recent presidential debate cycles in the US, it was even friendlier than some past Canadian federal debates.
A landfill site where a man lost a hard drive containing a Bitcoin wallet now worth about £620m is set to close.James Howells, from Newport, claimed his former partner had mistakenly thrown out the hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins in 2013.
He tried to sue the city's council to get access to the site on Docks Way or get £495m in compensation,Newport council documents show the landfill site is expected to close in the 2025-26 financial year.