61 h. ago Familiar faces and trophy races – talking points ahead of the new county season

International issues, domestic bragging rights and players pushing for a bright future are all on the agenda.

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4 d. ago ‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit Myself With. The song revisits a time before Aya Sinclair was one of the UK avant garde’s most exciting talents – when she was still a Huddersfield teenager, newly into Christian rock. The music gave her “this tingly, bubbly sensation”, she says. “And someone said: ‘This is the holy spirit.’” The experience led her to join a Pentecostal congregation for a couple of years, but after confiding in a church friend about some “feelings” – Sinclair would later come out as a trans woman – she was “kicked out for being queer, essentially. I was given an ultimatum, to either closet myself or leave.” As she whispers in this track, over the quickening click of a Geiger counter, “they had me out on a witc...

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4 d. ago Man United sent glowing wonderkid verdict after scouting trip amid transfer links

Latest Manchester United transfer news with an update on talented teenager Assane Diao

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7 d. ago Rangers transfer news: Dor Turgeman demand, the Leeds United link and Hamza Igamane 'bright future' key

Israeli internationalist scored his first goal for country against Norway

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7 d. ago Hamza Igamane catches Real Madrid eyes as Morocco moment sparks clamour for Rangers star with 'bright future'

The frontman made his international debut and impressed his boss and teammates during the World Cup camp

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8 d. ago Bright future ahead for talented teenage fighter from Shire Boxing Club in Wishaw

George Parvin won the Golden Gloves in the championships' 48kg category.

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1 week ago Manchester United make decision on rising star who has been compared to Phil Foden

Man United youngster Shea Lacey has a bright future ahead of him but his minutes have been limited this season.

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1 week ago Five players who can save Man United millions this summer including 'next Neymar'

The future is bright in the Manchester United academy right now - and there are a number of players that could save the club millions

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2 w. ago Elon Musk tells Tesla employees to hold on to their stock amid harsh selloff

Musk predicts ‘bright’ future despite Tesla bearing brunt of backlash against his role in Trump’s administrationUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk attempted to reassure Tesla employees of the automaker’s “bright and exciting” future at a company all-hands meeting on Thursday, urging them not to sell their stock even as the company’s valuation slides precipitously downward.“There are times when there are rocky moments,” the billionaire CEO told his employees. “But what I’m here to tell you is that the future is incredibly bright and exciting, and we’re going to do things that no one has even dreamed of.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Denmark coach reveals what Manchester United have privately said about Chido Obi

Chido Obi has been promoted to Man Utd's first team set up in the last few weeks and has a bright future ahead.

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2 w. ago I was a future Celtic striker who retired without scoring a single senior career goal

Islam Feruz had a bright future in the game but his football journey was nothing short of baffling

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2 w. ago Premier League manager begins boxing after unlikely friendship with Chris Eubank's nephew

Boxer Harlem Eubank, a Brighton fan who played in the club's academy as a youngster, recently won the IBF Inter-Continental welterweight title and has inspired Seagulls boss Fabian Hurzeler

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3 w. ago ‘Musicals can be quite sinister’: Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on bonkers bunker singalong The End

Inspired by a Russian tycoon’s survival bunker, the pair’s post-apocalyptic tale takes in environmental collapse, our facades and delusions – and big ol’ show tunesTime is short for the family at the heart of Joshua Oppenheimer’s new film. Mother, Father and their adult son eke out their days in an underground bunker with the walls decorated with priceless old masters, fine wine on the table and half a mile of bedrock above their heads. They gather each evening for formal dinners. They sing upbeat songs to keep the darkness at bay. “We thrive in our happily-ever-after,” they burble. “Together our future is bright.”Time is similarly tight for the writer-director and his star when they beam in via video link from Berlin. It’s the last day of the film festival, a late scramble towards the finish line, and Oppenheimer and Tilda Swinton are each working to a separate stopwatch. Oppenheimer is scheduled to take part in a panel discussion; Swinton is booked on a plane out of town...

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3 w. ago Moment East End actor, 77, collapses in boxing ring before hero coach leaps into action and starts CPR

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: When boxing coach Joe McKenna, 77, hit the floor of the ring on February 25, Double Jab Boxing Club founder, Patrick Harris quickly acted to save his life.

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3 w. ago Nithvalley Amateur Boxing Club finds new home at Lesser Loreburn Hall in Dumfries

The move is a homecoming for owner Mark Dawson as it’s where he started training with Dumfries Amateur Boxing Club back in 1982.

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3 w. ago Double Jab Boxing Club CCTV shows coach's lifesaving CPR in ring

Double Jab Boxing Club CCTV shows coach's lifesaving CPR in ring  BBC.com

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3 w. ago Kate Middleton shares heartbreaking message after death of talented teenager

The Princess of Wales has taken to Instagram to share a poignant message with royal fans, following the death of a talented teenager who she met last year

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3 w. ago Kate Middleton shares heartbreaking message after sad death of talented teenager

Talented young photographer Liz Hatton sadly passed away at the age of 17 in November - and the Princess of Wales has now taken to social media to honour the teen

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4 w. ago Married At First Sight UK star Lacey Martin reveals she has experienced 'dark thoughts' since split from co

Despite ending the experiment with a bright future ahead last year, the couple split just weeks later, after Nathan claimed Lacey said they were 'better off as friends.'

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last month Fearless and compelling: how Ethan Nwaneri is shaking up Arsenal

Teenager showcased talent again with performance and goal at PSV and has put his name in England conversation“Again? Come on!” Mikel Merino says, with a look that gets across the “Seriously guys” sense of it. But there is laughter, too, from the Arsenal midfielder-cum-emergency-centre-forward because he knows this is how it goes, how it has been for some time, pretty much every time he stops to speak to the media after a match.People want to talk about Ethan Nwaneri; inside the club, outside the club. The buzz around the attacking midfielder as he tore his way through the youth ranks, having joined at nine, was palpable. During the 6-0 win at West Ham last season, the Arsenal substitutes wanted Mikel Arteta to get him on, which the manager did for the final 13 minutes. Continue reading...

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