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Women’s Super League 2026-27 preview No 4: Brighton
Brighton head into the 2026-27 Women’s Super League season looking to build on a landmark campaign that saw them reach their first FA Cup final, where they lost to Manchester City at Wembley. Manager Dario Vidosic, now entering his third season and the WSL’s second-longest-serving boss, has overseen a relatively stable summer with seven arrivals…
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Beyond China’s humanoid robots, a quieter machine revolution is unfolding
China is rapidly expanding industrial automation, with more than two million robots now working in its factories—more than any other country—while simultaneously training a new generation of workers to operate alongside them. This forms part of President Xi Jinping’s $20bn (£14.7bn) strategy to position China at the forefront of technological innovation and in direct competition…
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Gavin Newsom’s unrelenting attack dog turns on Pete Buttigieg as the Democratic knife fight starts two years early
An early skirmish in the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential jockeying has broken out after Gavin Newsom’s communications director, Izzy Gardon, mocked Pete Buttigieg for visiting South Carolina, sarcastically noting it was his “first time in SC in 3 years”. The remark, aimed at the former transportation secretary during a stop with the Orangeburg branch of…
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Newsnight ‘could be axed’ as BBC bosses battle to save £500million
The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Newsnight faces potential closure as the corporation tries to save £500million over the next three years, according to sources cited in reports. Staff on the 40-year-old show fear it could be axed by the end of next year as the BBC shifts its focus towards social media output and…
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Balaclava-wearing youths gather with flares in hand to mark lives of dead ‘joyriders’… while across the city silent prayers are held for PCs killed in A66 horror
A vigil for five young men who died after driving the wrong way down the A66 and colliding head-on with a police car descended into chaos on Monday afternoon, as balaclava-clad attendees set off flares and fireworks in a field in South Bank, near Middlesbrough. The scene contrasted sharply with a solemn church service held…
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Sudanese woman is allowed to stay in UK with her refugee cousin because they are married… after couple had ‘customary Islamic’ wedding in their home country
A Sudanese woman who was initially refused asylum in the UK has won the right to stay after successfully arguing that deportation would breach her human right to a family life, because she is married to her cousin, a recognised refugee already living in Britain. The Home Office had rejected her case, believing the couple’s…
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Scottish Labour leadership frontrunner admits party faces ‘systemic’ problems as he vows new taxes on families and big businesses
Michael Marra, the frontrunner to become Scottish Labour’s next leader, has admitted the party faces “systemic” problems while proposing new taxes on wealthy individuals and large corporations to address funding pressures. Speaking in Glasgow, he said dissatisfaction with Sir Keir Starmer had been “a storm from which the Scottish Labour Party had failed to make…
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Two week electricity blackout sees power crews SHOT AT in notoriously-scary Midwest city where Michael Jackson was born
Restoration crews working to restore power in Gary, Indiana were forced to briefly halt operations after being shot at overnight, following storms that left thousands of residents without electricity for roughly two weeks. Two NIPSCO utility workers were surveying Rutledge Street just after midnight on 15 August when gunfire struck their vehicle twice; neither employee…
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Ecstasy, ketamine and laughing gas are found buried underneath Creamfields festival site as 80,000 ravers prepare for four-day music event
Cheshire Police have uncovered ecstasy, ketamine and more than 200 canisters of nitrous oxide buried at the Creamfields festival site in Daresbury as part of “disruption work” ahead of the event’s opening on Thursday. Up to 80,000 people are expected to attend the four-day festival, which features more than 250 artists including Calvin Harris, Tiësto,…
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Goodbye Dandelion review – ode to a fabulous friendship with a 50-year age gap
This Guardian review covers Goodbye Dandelion, a storytelling show at Underbelly during the Edinburgh fringe, performed by sibling duo Maddie and Marcus Rice. The semi-fictional piece recounts Maddie’s friendship with 87-year-old artist and piano teacher Darcy O’Shea, nicknamed “Dandelion”, and touches on the theme of assisted dying that recurs across several shows at this year’s…