10 h. ago Win for Celtic or Rangers only papers over cracks of your crises, Kris Boyd tells Patrick Stewart and Michael Nicholson

PATRICK STEWART and Michael Nicholson will shake hands in the Hampden VIP suite. Then the Old Firm chief executives will cross their fingers that their new managers can deliver a win to paper over the cracks. The action will be on the pitch in Sunday's Premier Sports Cup semi-final. But the fallout will all be...

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2 w. ago Former England star makes Craig Bellamy admission in World Cup qualification prediction

Qualification for next summer's World Cup is firmly in Wales' hands as they take on Belgium on Monday looking to take a huge stride towards securing their spot.

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3 w. ago Google may be forced to loosen control of search engine in UK

The competition watchdog has used new powers to hand the tech firm strategic market status, which could see conduct requirements imposed on it.

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3 w. ago Banking shares rise after car loan scandal firms are handed a lower

FTSE 250 lender Close Brothers closed up 5.4% while Lloyds Banking Group gained 3.7% and Barclays rose 1.1%.

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3 w. ago ‘Sweat, dirt and grape juice – it’s incredibly rewarding’: volunteer harvesting on a vineyard in France

Grape picking in the Côtes du Rhône wine region is hard physical work, but it’s steeped in camaraderie – which is why so many return every autumn to help outThe wind whips the grapevines, turning my meditative picking stance into a full-body workout. I firmly plant my legs, stabilising a thrashing branch with my left hand as my right snips off a bunch of grapes. Local people claim the roaring mistral wind makes you crazy, which I can appreciate as each arid gust chaps my lips and desiccates my eyes.I’m at Domaine Rouge-Bleu, an organic vineyard in the Côtes du Rhône wine region in southern France. I have volunteered for les vendanges, the autumnal grape harvest where backbreaking work is doused in camaraderie. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Up to 14m car loan scandal victims in line for average £700 payout, City regulator announces

City regulator unveils compensation scheme for motorists who bought cars via discretionary commission deals from 2007 to 2024Victims of the UK’s car finance scandal are likely to receive compensation payouts averaging £700 resulting from 14m unfair loans, the City regulator said on Tuesday.The payouts would be less than previously expected, but the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said lenders could be landed with an £8.2bn compensation bill, which could go as high as £9.7bn. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind

Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid The matrix of pointlessness is reloaded in this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi, more a screensaver than an actual film. It’s a threequel to the original movie Tron from 1982, a film that was mould-breaking and boldly pioneering for its day in a way that eludes this one and its predecessor Tron Legacy from 2010. Tron: Ares (almost) comes to life just once – when Evan Peters gets a smack in the face from Gillian Anderson playing his mum, in an old-fashioned bit of analogue reality. That’s a bit of firm parenting you might feel like handing out to every producer involved in this film, and it’s sad to see the estimable Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith being made to look so lifeless.The situation now is that an evil AI corporation with the unsubtly gangster-ish name of Dillinger has become a rival to the virtual reality firm Encom, originally set up ...

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