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Sheffield MP Louise Haigh says Starmer tried to ‘knock my character down’ after she left Cabinet
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Moment drivers repeatedly smash into bollards too slim for cars – as fed-up homeowner calls for slimmed-down road to be widened
Ring doorbell and CCTV footage has captured drivers repeatedly crashing into bollards on Woodmere Avenue in Watford, Hertfordshire, where a long-standing width restriction was installed to stop lorry drivers using the road as a rat run. Resident Tim Vigor, who overlooks the restriction, has now called for the slimmed-down road to be widened, saying the…
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Exit strategies: how and why 25% of World Cup coaches have left their jobs
A quarter of the 48 head coaches at the 2026 World Cup — twelve in total — have either been sacked or left their posts, an unusually high turnover that underlines the pressure and volatility surrounding international management at the tournament. The departures span teams eliminated in the group stage and the knockout rounds, and…
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Ukraine’s drone revolution shows Russia is dangerously unprepared. But, so is America
This Fox News opinion piece argues that Ukraine has gained a decisive advantage in its war with Russia through the large-scale use of AI-enabled drones and long-range cruise missiles, which Russia has so far been unable to counter. The author contends that this “drone revolution” has exposed how dangerously unprepared Russia is, and warns that…
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Siblings who went into neighbour’s garden and hacked down their 33-foot Leylandiis set to lose childhood home after being handed £209,000 court bill
Three siblings face losing their childhood home after being ordered to pay a £209,000 court bill over a long-running boundary dispute with their neighbours in Nazeing, Essex. Robert McCarthy, 59, and his wife Amanda, 61, had lived in “relative harmony” with Foulla Bowler, 61, and her siblings until a “fence war” erupted in 2018, culminating…
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Loyalists torch ‘sickening and cowardly’ Northern Ireland bonfire with replica mosque on top before police can move it to take it down
Loyalists in the Northern Ireland village of Moygashel, Co Tyrone, have been widely condemned after setting alight a bonfire topped with a cardboard replica of a mosque before police could remove it. The display, which also carried signs reading “Secure our borders” and “End the threat of radical Islam”, was lit a night earlier than…
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France Reaches World Cup Semi-Finals as Violent Unrest Erupts in London
France secured a spot in the World Cup semi-finals with a decisive 2-0 quarter-final victory over Morocco in Boston. The result triggered violent unrest in London, where police forces clashed with football supporters dur
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Beggan breaks down where semi-finals will be won and lost
Ahead of two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals at a full Croke Park, Monaghan goalkeeper and BBC Sport NI pundit Rory Beggan has assessed how each tie is likely to be decided. Louth face Mayo on Saturday in the county’s first semi-final since 1957, while Sunday brings a renewal of the Dublin v Kerry rivalry.…
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Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss | Larry Elliott
In this Guardian comment piece, economics writer Larry Elliott argues that Andy Burnham, whom he characterises as Britain’s “prime minister-in-waiting”, is correct in his diagnosis that 40 years of neoliberalism have failed the country, particularly its former industrial heartlands in Scotland, Wales and northern England. Elliott draws a pointed comparison with Liz Truss — both…
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‘I just want to know if it has caused my cancer’: life in the shadow of Lancashire Pfas factory
A government-commissioned study published last month found higher-than-expected rates of kidney cancer near the AGC Chemicals Europe plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, prompting residents to demand answers about the health impact of widespread contamination. The plant emitted an estimated 49 tonnes of Pfoa — a carcinogenic “forever chemical” internationally linked to kidney cancer — between the…