Teenage Plymouth Argyle midfielder Caleb Roberts has signed a new three-year deal at Home Park. Roberts, 19, is now tied to the relegation-threatened Championship club until the summer of 2028. “I’m buzzing to get the deal done. It gives me time to learn a lot more,” he said. “Since I’ve been training with the first...
Ukraine’s government has announced the signing of the outline of a minerals deal between the war-torn country and the US. Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said the memorandum of intent paved the way for what she called an economic partnership agreement. She said a final deal would also involve an investment fund for the reconstruction of...
Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni talked up the chances of a trade deal between the US and Europe, as the Italian prime minister visited Washington. “There will be a trade deal, 100%,” Trump said, “but it will be a fair deal”, while Meloni said she was “sure” they could reach an agreement, later adding that...
Andrew Dawkins BBC News, West Midlands PA Media Bin bags have piled up on streets during the dispute The Unite union says if Birmingham City Council puts in writing “what it is saying in public” a deal in the bin dispute “would be much closer”. In a statement, it claimed the authority’s leader John Cotton...
The UK government is in negotiations with France on a scheme to return illegal migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats. In return, the British government would accept legal migrants seeking family reunion in the UK. The French interior ministry told the BBC this would be a pilot scheme based on “a one-for-one...
Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen has signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at the County Ground beyond his 42nd birthday. The South Africa-born batter joined the East Midlands club in 2009, and is the county’s second-highest scorer across all formats, with more than 22,500 runs to his name. Madsen, who skippered Derbyshire to...
Long-serving Exeter hooker Jack Yeandle is close to signing a new deal at the Premiership side. The 35-year-old is out of contract in the summer but Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter says he is nearing an agreement to extend Yeandle’s stay into a 14th season. The Exeter-born forward has played more than 300 games...
New Zealand centre Rieko Ioane will join United Rugby Championship and Champions Cup frontrunners Leinster for the 2025-26 season. Ioane is contracted to the Blues in New Zealand until 2027 but will take a “sabbatical” to join the Irish province on a one-season contract. The 28-year-old, who can also play on the wing, made his...
Exeter’s United States centre Gabby Cantorna has agreed a new deal to stay at the club for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 29-year-old has been at Sandy Park since Exeter formed their women’s team in 2020. She is the club’s record-points scorer having kicked 310 points and scored five tries. “Gabby is one...
Rotherham United have given Matt Hamshaw the permanent manager’s job on a three-year deal after he picked up three wins as caretaker boss. Hamshaw, 43, was a coach for the Millers under former manager Paul Warne and took charge of the first team after Steve Evans was sacked last month. United then won at Northampton,...
US Vice-President JD Vance said there was a “good chance” a trade deal could be reached with the UK, suggesting it would be easier to land than with other European countries due to “a much more reciprocal relationship”. UK business and trade minister Sarah Jones welcomed Vance’s comments and said talks to secure a deal...
On being appointed administrator in November, Quantuma said insolvency was the result of non-receipt of “significant” funds owed from the sale of land in 2021. Accounts until 31 May 2023 later showed the club were due to receive gross proceeds of £1.85m. A statement on Dumbarton’s X account now reveals that “heads of terms with...
US Vice-President JD Vance said there was a “good chance” a trade deal could be reached with the UK, as the dust continues to settle from America’s global trade shakeup. “We’re certainly working very hard with Keir Starmer’s government,” Vance said in an interview on Monday with the UnHerd website. The global stock market has...
A strike by bin workers in Birmingham is set to continue after the latest offer by the city council was “overwhelmingly” rejected. It follows a month-long stand-off between members of the Unite union and the Labour-run authority as bin bags and fly-tipped rubbish have piled high on streets. Read full article at source...
When 25-year-old McIlroy claimed the fourth major of his career – at the 2014 US PGA Championship – it felt inevitable he would quickly complete the collection at the Masters. Back-to-back majors at the Open Championship and US PGA – having previously won the 2011 US Open and 2012 PGA – signalled his dominance. A...