20 minutes ago Super Spurs sink City and Amorim era begins at United – Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Seb Hutchinson, Lucy Ward and Dan Bardell as Manchester City extend their losing streak to five games with a 4-0 hammering at home to SpursRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; Manchester City are thrashed by Tottenham to make it five losses on the spin and leave them eight points behind Liverpool after the Reds’ win on Sunday. City are lacking in midfield but Spurs were brilliant – in particular the aging (his words) 28-year-old James Maddison. Continue reading...

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25 minutes ago Wall Street heading for record high after Scott Bessent nominated as US Treasury secretary; Barclays fined £40m over 2008 Qatari deal – business live

Bonds rally and dollar dips as investors welcome choice of billionaire hedge fund manager Bessent as next Treasury secretaryNewsflash: A deputy governor at the Bank of England has warned that it is “too early to declare victory” in the fight against inflation.Clare Lombardelli has told a conference at the Bank this morning that inflation has fallen steeply over the past two years. But, she is concerned that there are signs that the process of “wage disinflation” may be slowing, which would keep the cost of living rising faster than the Bank’s target.The outlook for wages and services prices is unclear from here.We need to see more evidence that wage growth and services inflation will continue their journey down to target-consistent rates.The UK economy has made good progress on disinfla...

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26 minutes ago Ladbroke Grove shooting: Gunman 'shot directly into car' in attack that left girl, 8, seriously injured

Distraught woman shouts: ‘My baby, my baby’s been shot’ as police cordon off Southern Row in west London

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37 minutes ago BBC The One Show host Alex Jones left stunned as guest brands her 'not nice'

The One Show host Alex Jones was left stunned after she was branded 'not nice' by a guest on the BBC show, with her co-host Roman Kemp forced to step in

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37 minutes ago London man who stabbed student and then wrote rap verse about it jailed

William Osaseri’s frenzied attack on victim left him in a coma for six weeks and with life-changing brain injury

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43 minutes ago ‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bay

After spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is now fighting to keep these vast liners out of the French port of MarseilleFew people know the sea better than Guillaume Picard. He grew up on a boat moored in the port of Hyères in southern France after his parents left 1960s Paris. His first job was on a sailing boat. Then he spent 30 years in the merchant navy before becoming a commercial captain, ferrying tourists and containers across the Mediterranean for more than two decades.Now aged 65, his grey hair in a ponytail, it is with no small note of sadness that he says, increasingly, it is the land that calls him. “To be completely honest, I want to go to sea less and less,” he says. “I go hiking a lot in the mountains with my wife, and we’ve found an environme...

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48 minutes ago Mark Wright cracks his head open in horror Vegas fall that left him needing stitches in his scalp

Former The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright has revealed that he split his head open after falling in a hotel bathroom in Vegas, resulting in a trip to the hospital

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55 minutes ago Rylan Clark left 'so embarrassed' over meeting with Mariah Carey as he says 'she's promised'

The presenter sat down with the All I Want For Christmas Is You legend for a special conversation about her life and career that's set to air on the BBC

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73 minutes ago Thousands of Brits' Christmas flights cancelled as pilots strike at European airline

Finnair has had to cancel hundreds of flights due to pilot strikes taking place ahead of Christmas, with festive travel impacted for more than 30,000 passengers

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91 minutes ago The loophole that could mean Britons abroad will NOT pay inheritance tax: How changes to non

Present rules state that anyone with a British 'domicile' has to pay inheritance tax (IHR) on their worldwide wealth even if they live and die abroad.

Economics