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Hearing date set for Sheffield United parent company winding up petition – thestar.co.uk

  • Winding-up petition against Sheffield United's owners gets 19 August court date
  • Former owner Prince Abdullah's firm claims he is owed over £35m
  • Dispute adds to club's off-field turmoil ahead of new season

A High Court hearing date has been set for a winding-up petition brought against Sheffield United's parent company, COH Sports Bidco Limited, with the case now due to be heard on Wednesday 19 August. The petition was filed by United World Holding Ltd, the vehicle of the club's…

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Sheffield United finalising deal for 30-year-old midfielder after pre-season trip omission – Yahoo Sports UK

  • Sheffield United reportedly near midfielder deal.
  • Pre-season omission suggests transfer is imminent.
  • Key transfer details were not supplied.

Sheffield United are reported to be close to completing a deal for a 30-year-old midfielder, after he was left out of the club’s pre-season trip. The omission has heightened expectations that a transfer is imminent, potentially strengthening the squad ahead of the new campaign. The article text supplied…

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Andy Burnham’s plans for technical education build on coalition’s UTC roots

  • Burnham's technical education plan echoes Kenneth Baker's UTC model
  • UTCs report under 5% youth unemployment versus 16.4% nationally
  • Unions worry Burnham's proposals lack detail and clear funding

Andy Burnham's plans to put technical and vocational education on an equal footing with academic routes in England have won unlikely praise from Kenneth Baker, the 91-year-old former Conservative education secretary who introduced university technical colleges (UTCs) in 2010. The prime minister's proposal would see schools develop technical…

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Is Kazuyoshi Miura the oldest goalscorer in competitive football history? | The Knowledge

  • Kazuyoshi Miura, 59, scored for Fukushima United, extending his oldest-goalscorer record.
  • Egypt's Ezzeldin Bahader, who scored aged 74 in 2020, remains the all-time oldest scorer.
  • Brazil's Formiga, scoring at 41 in 2019, tops the women's game.

Japanese striker Kazuyoshi Miura extended his own record as the oldest goalscorer in professional football, netting for Fukushima United in a 7-0 thrashing of Iwaki Furukawa in the Emperor's Cup on 25 July 2026, aged 59 years and 149 days. It was his first competitive goal in almost…

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The 23-year-old teacher leading lesson on stripping bowls’ stigma

  • Sophie McGrouther, 23, competes in Commonwealth Games women's bowls singles
  • Former world indoor champion aims to challenge bowls' "old man's game" image
  • Hopes to inspire younger players and grow the sport's appeal

Sophie McGrouther, a 23-year-old primary school teacher from Fife, is competing for Scotland in the women's singles bowls event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, hoping to challenge perceptions of the sport as she pursues a medal. As the youngest member of Scotland's bowls team and a former…

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The athlete who has never held her Olympic medal

  • Madias Ngake fled Cameroon after London 2012 fearing persecution over her sexuality
  • She has never collected her retrospectively awarded Olympic bronze medal
  • Now based in Nottingham, she'll compete for England at Glasgow 2026

Madias Ngake, a Cameroonian-born weightlifter, will compete for England at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, 14 years after fleeing the London 2012 Olympics rather than return home, where her sexuality had become known and homosexuality is illegal. She endured months of homelessness in the UK before rebuilding her…

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Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

  • Organic free-range eggs emit roughly twice the CO2 of caged-hen eggs, study finds
  • Free-range systems need more chickens, cutting efficiency and raising emissions
  • Study used outdated 2009-2010 data and excluded pesticides, biodiversity impacts

A new study suggests that organic, free-range eggs have a greater climate impact than eggs from caged hens, as free-range systems require more birds to produce the same number of eggs, since caged hens are more efficient producers. This challenges the common assumption that higher-welfare farming methods are…

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AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

  • Charities warn AI age-estimation tech will misclassify child refugees as adults
  • System reportedly shows racial bias against Black children from conflict zones
  • 755 children already wrongly identified as adults in 2025, Home Office data shows

Rights groups and children's charities are warning that new AI-powered facial age-estimation technology, which the UK government plans to introduce to screen migrants, will lead to more child refugees being wrongly classified as adults. Critics say the underlying models show racial bias, disproportionately overestimating the ages of Black…

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Soggy socks & a slathering of deep heat – rain causes chaos in Glasgow

  • Torrential rain disrupted Commonwealth Games athletics in Glasgow
  • Eseme and Rogers set Games records despite the conditions
  • Uganda's Cherop finished 10,000m after losing a shoe

Heavy rain caused disruption at the Commonwealth Games athletics events in Glasgow, with officials struggling to clear standing water from the track while competitors dealt with sodden conditions across multiple events. The downpour contrasted sharply with a UK-wide heatwave elsewhere, forcing athletes to improvise with tactics such as…

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