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Travellers take over school playing fields with more than a dozen caravans and threaten staff – forcing them to cancel sports day and PE classes

  • Travellers' caravans occupy Caldicot school playing field in south Wales.
  • Sports day and outdoor PE lessons cancelled as a result.
  • Staff and pupils allegedly threatened; rescheduled event unlikely to proceed.

A group of travellers with more than a dozen caravans has set up an unauthorised encampment on a playing field used by Caldicot Comprehensive School in Caldicot, south Wales, forcing the school to cancel its sports day and outdoor PE lessons. Staff and students at the 1,300-pupil school…

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CBS News anchor tells viewers Democrats dropped Platner because he was looking ‘like a loser’

  • CBS anchor questioned why Democrats backed Platner despite repeated scandals.
  • Platner suspended his Senate campaign over a rape allegation.
  • Dokoupil suggested support lasted only while Platner was winning.

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil delivered a pointed on-air report on Thursday examining why the Democratic Party had backed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner for so long before abruptly dropping him. Platner suspended his campaign after a rape allegation from a former girlfriend, and Maine Democrats are…

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Upside-down American flag at Minnesota Somali celebration sparks community chaos: ‘Unfathomable’

  • US flag flown upside down at St Cloud Somali Independence Day event.
  • Police corrected it; organisers say the error was unintentional.
  • Councilman Brodeen and some residents remain sceptical and angry.

An American flag was flown upside down on a city flagpole during a Somali Independence Day event at Lake George Park Pavilion in St Cloud, Minnesota, on 3 July, prompting complaints to police and a wave of anger online after footage of the scene went viral. Displaying the…

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Time marches on: what the next three years will bring for the USMNT

  • USMNT enters the 2030 cycle after a strong-but-flat 2026 World Cup.
  • Pochettino's future and a vacant sporting director role remain unresolved.
  • Nations League, Gold Cup, Copa Amu00e9rica and Olympics will shape the rebuild.

The Guardian looks ahead to the next three years for the US men's national team following a 2026 World Cup that began strongly but ended disappointingly, as the programme now enters the 2030 cycle with several ways to rebuild the squad. The piece matters because major uncertainties hang…

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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

  • A 12-year Beckett festival spans Irish and British sites tied to his life.
  • Actors will play Krapp's Last Tape using recordings of their own younger voices.
  • The event reclaims Beckett, long an ambivalent figure in Ireland.

The Guardian reports on the Samuel Beckett Biennale, an ambitious 12-year festival organised by Seán Doran through his cross-border organisation Arts Over Borders, which aims to reclaim the playwright as a figure of both Ireland and Britain. Staging experimental "performed readings" at locations significant to Beckett's life —…

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Hidden underground chamber revealed beneath home of legendary Roman emperor

  • Possible oldest structure yet found at Hadrian's Villa in Italy.
  • It dates to the Roman Republic, predating Hadrian himself.
  • Likely a silo or storage facility, partly filled with debris.

Archaeologists have uncovered a hidden underground chamber beneath Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, which researchers say could be the oldest structure ever identified at the famous imperial site. The discovery, announced by Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, matters because it points to an earlier villa that…

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International Insider: Sky Buys ITV; Banijay-All3 Complete Merger; Emmy Noms

  • Sky agrees to buy ITV's network and streaming arm for u00a31.6bn.
  • Deal faces an antitrust probe and up to 18 months' wait.
  • Banijay and All3Media complete their $8bn production merger.

Comcast-owned pay-TV group Sky has agreed to buy the ITV network and streaming business — though not the production arm, ITV Studios — for a total consideration of £1.6bn ($2.1bn), marking Sky's first move into ownership of a British public service broadcaster. The deal matters because it would…

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