Manchester United have improved bid of £55m plus £7.5m in add-ons for Bryan Mbeumo rejected by Brentford. Read full article at source...
On Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer insisted that he would plough on with the government’s proposed welfare reforms. For Labour MPs, that only made things worse. Today’s task for the prime minister and his team: make things better. The clear change of tone right from the start of the day was the first sign of that...
Leicestershire began day three on 389-3 but the new ball was available in the second over, with James Harris and Timm van der Gugten quickly getting rid of night-watchman Chris Wright for 19 and Lewis Hill for 70, both caught at slip by Colin Ingram. After the pyrotechnics of the Foxes’ batters the previous day,...
About 80 Labour MPs are supporting a fresh effort to block the government’s planned changes to the benefits system, the BBC has been told. The MPs have signed an amendment that would give them an opportunity to vote on a proposal to reject the welfare reform bill in its entirety. Dozens of Labour MPs have...
Manchester United have submitted an improved bid of more than £60m for Brentford striker Bryan Mbeumo. This month United had a bid rejected for the 25-year-old of £45m plus up to £10m in add-ons. Talks over the Cameroon forward, who would become the club’s second signing of the summer, are due to continue this week....
Reuters Notting Hill Carnival organisers say they need government funding to run the event safely Campaigners have urged the government to step in to protect the future of Notting Hill Carnival as they mark Windrush Day. The west London carnival is in jeopardy, its chairman Ian Comfort said in a letter leaked to the BBC...
Large asylum seeker sites like Wethersfield air base in Essex are set to be expanded under plans to end the use of asylum hotels, the BBC can reveal. Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged to stop using taxpayer-funded hotels by 2029 in her Spending Review, saying this would save £1bn. One of the ways the Home Office...
Daniela Relph Royal correspondent Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images The prince will attend a forum in Monaco and “[try] to harness capitalism for good” The Prince of Wales will travel to the South of France this weekend to call for more to be done to protect the world’s oceans. In what his team describes as a “landmark...
They will be brothers in arms at Oakmont – but there is also a serious rivalry as well. The two Weavers have played together for the Suffolk county team and Max made a notable mark of his own by winning the 2023 Welsh Amateur Championship in Newport. “We always said that if one of us...
More than 100 of Britain’s most renowned athletes have written an open letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer urging the government to back London’s bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships. Sir Mo Farah, Keely Hodgkinson, Dame Kelly Holmes, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Daley Thompson are among the athletes, past and present,...
Grassroots football teams in Exeter are being invited to register their interest in using pitches across the city. The City Council is about to allocate pitches and needs to understand the demand for its facilities. Cllr Ruth Williams, Lead Councillor for City Management, said that to ensure the process was fair and equitable, all teams...
Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News, Kyiv Emergency services of Sumy A Sumy region resident is evacuated from her village Russian forces are making gains in the Ukrainian north-eastern region of Sumy – a development that may be linked to Moscow’s attempts to create “buffer zones” along the border, Ukrainian regional authorities have said. The head of...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denied he is trying to change the constitution so that he can stay on when his term ends in three years’ time. Erdogan has led Turkey for 22 years, first as prime minister from 2003 and then as its elected president since 2014. But he cannot run again unless...
Maynard took over at Meadow Lane in January 2024 from Notts’ National League promotion-winning boss Luke Williams, who left the club to take charge of Championship side Swansea City. The job at Notts was Maynard’s first in full-time management, having worked part-time as Wealdstone boss while juggling his long-time career as a telecommunications engineer. His...
The ambulance service in the South West has announced up to 40 jobs could be at risk in a bid to save millions of pounds. The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWAST) said its Corporate Support Services had to save £5m in 2025. Therefore, the service had entered into a period of consultation,...