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Sales of trainers dive as cost of living pressures hit JD Sports performance
JD Sports has cut its full-year profit forecast after cost-of-living pressures, worsened by the US war on Iran, hit sales of trainers and other footwear, particularly in the United States. The retailer’s shares fell 12% on the news, dropping to their lowest level since July, as investors reacted to signs that inflation is making shoppers…
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‘Game of Thrones’ Play ‘The Mad King’ Reveals Behind-The-Scenes Secrets in Stage Transformation Video (EXCLUSIVE)
A new video shared exclusively with Variety reveals the elaborate stage transformation behind “Game of Thrones: The Mad King,” the HBO/Royal Shakespeare Company stage production currently running at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The footage showcases production design by Chloe Lamford that the theatre describes as unlike anything previously staged there, involving major structural…
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Premier League: nine newcomers to watch in the top flight this season
The Guardian, drawing on Opta data, has picked out nine notable new signings across the Premier League to watch this season, with clubs including Newcastle, Arsenal, Brentford, Everton and Leeds all adding players who could make an immediate impact. The feature blends statistical analysis with scouting insight to highlight who might fill the void left…
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Halsey Is Back to Blonde: See Her Latest Hairstyle
Halsey has revealed a striking new look, dyeing her short hairstyle from dark brown to platinum blond and sharing the transformation with fans on Instagram. The 30-year-old singer, whose birth name is Ashley Frangipane, has long treated her hair as a form of creative self-expression, and the change marks the latest in a long line…
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Irish WAG Aine May Kennedy and Tottenham Hotspur’s Conor Gallagher have a LOT to celebrate this year. Here is the secret to the glamorous couple’s meteoric rise
Áine May Kennedy, a model and dancer from Glenville, Co. Cork, has become one of football’s more visible partners as fiancée to Tottenham Hotspur and England midfielder Conor Gallagher. The pair, who met as teenagers in London while Gallagher was coming through Chelsea’s academy, got engaged in Mallorca in June 2025 and recently announced they…
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Celtic take the lead through Nygren’s ‘magnificent’ strike
Celtic took the lead against Austrian side LASK in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie at home, with Benjamin Nygren scoring a spectacular opening goal. The strike, struck from outside the penalty box into the top corner, was widely praised for its quality and gave Celtic an early advantage in a fixture…
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BG3 meets Fire Emblem in a Brand-New Steam RPG
Ledgerbound is an upcoming tactical RPG and dating sim from OmniMegaSuperCorp that satirises the insurance industry through the lens of fantasy heroics. Players follow Rayna, a claims adjuster whose job is to deny grieving widows’ payouts, who ends up hunting monsters herself to prove her company shouldn’t have to pay out on a ruinously expensive…
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Between ‘Off Campus’ and ‘The Shards,’ Collegiate-Inspired Menswear Is Queued Up for Fall
Men’s Wearhouse has released its Fall 2026 menswear collection, positioning the range as tapping into a wider “collegiate” or preppy academia aesthetic that has been popularised by television shows such as Off Campus and The Shards. The retailer’s new arrivals lean on established brands to offer wardrobe staples designed to move easily between office and…
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Anderson .Paak and Cordae Announce Collaborative Album Heavy Is the Crown
Anderson .Paak and Cordae have announced a new joint album, Heavy Is the Crown, due for release on 23 October via APESHIT/Mass Appeal/EMPIRE, alongside a trailer for the project. The record extends a creative partnership between the two artists that began with “RNP” on Cordae’s 2019 debut The Lost Boy and has since included further…
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After cranking up the difficulty, I am once again asking: How many of these games with pixel art styles can you identify?
PC Gamer has published a follow-up instalment of its recurring quiz feature, challenging readers to identify video games purely from screenshots of their pixel art style. This edition raises the difficulty compared with previous instalments, testing readers’ familiarity with retro and pixel-art-inspired titles across the gaming landscape. The piece continues a regular series on the…