5 d. ago Half of young people are victims or frightened by knife crime, survey reveals

Little has changed since Kiyan Prince, 15, was murdered outside his north London school 19 years ago, researchers suggest

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7 d. ago I wrote a book about Everton legend Duncan Ferguson 11 years ago

Our chief football writer ends years of waiting by interviewing the once elusive Big Dunc

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8 d. ago UK asking other countries to host ‘return hubs’ for refused asylum seekers, Starmer confirms – UK politics live

PM on trip to announce increased cooperation against people smugglers alongside Albania’s prime minister, Edi RamaAll Commons Speakers, at least for the past 30 years, have complained about the government making major announcements to the media first, and not to parliament first. But rarely have any of them sounded quite as furious about this as Lindsay Hoyle, who this morning delivered an extended reprimand to the government about this at the start of an urgent question.The UQ was about plans to limit the use of prison recall – something announced by the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, at a press conference yesterday, while the Commons was still sitting. After pointing this out, and reminding MPs that details of the immigration white paper were given to the media extensively, long before the ministerial statement about it was delivered in the Commons on Monday, Hoyle went on to imply that, as well as regularly breaking the ministerial code, ministers were also guilty of hypocri...

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1 week ago ‘I’m not a hard man’: Duncan Ferguson on Everton, pigeons and his biggest regrets

Former striker answers your questions on Scottish nightlife, his toughest opponent, proudest moment and when football made him cryI served you many times in The Tally Ho pub in Dundee in the early 1990s. You were always a gent. How did your reputation as a hard man sit with you when, for me, you clearly differ from that in real life? Fionan LynchI’m not a hard man. I’ve always tried to be nice to people but sometimes I’ve been backed into a corner and got myself into a wee bit of trouble. I played the game aggressively but I don’t think I was even the toughest in any of the dressing rooms I’ve been in. I don’t see myself as a tough guy. But it’s followed me everywhere. A night to gain a reputation and a lifetime to get rid of it. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lorraine Kelly reveals being 'frightened' after being replaced on major ITV show

Lorraine Kelly has opened up about being replaced on GMTV after coming back from having a child, revealing she found the ordeal quite 'frightening'

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2 w. ago Real Housewives star, 55, reveals she had a full facelift while sharing frightening post

The Real Housewives star, 55, was seen recovering from a facelift and neck lift surgery in Southern California as she spent five hours under the knife in Newport Beach

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2 w. ago Trump's 'mental decline' on display as he bumbles response to simple question about Alcatraz

People are concerned about the US President's mental faculties after he embarrassingly could not answer a question about reopening the infamous Alacatraz prison

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2 w. ago Duncan Ferguson: David Moyes gesture was his way of telling me I was done at Everton

EXCLUSIVE: Everton legend Duncan Ferguson says David Moyes was still there for him five years after they fell out on his Goodison exit

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2 w. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson admits being £4m in debt was lowest moment

Duncan Ferguson tells how he went from riches to rags, finding himself trapped in millions of pounds of debt like many other football legends.

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2 w. ago Duncan Ferguson's lowest moment of life as he asked 'how the hell had it come to this'

'I was 26 when I married Janine, who was a year younger, at the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool on June 26, 1998. It was a 12.30 kick-off. Janine was late, but worth the wait.'

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2 w. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson regrets ever drinking and infamous Anstruther night

"I’ve never actually said, 'I’ve stopped drinking'. I don’t count the days since I last had a drink. I’m not in rehab."

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2 w. ago DUNCAN FERGUSON The humiliation of bankruptcy and the lowest moment of my life

Duncan Ferguson,the Everton hero, reveals how he went from riches to rags, finding himself trapped in millions of pounds of debt like many other football legends, and that being jailed for headbutting a player was not his only low point

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3 w. ago 'I was Everton targetman on the outside but inside I was the target', says Duncan Ferguson

"Inside, I was the target. And I was terrified. I’d just lost my appeal against a three-month sentence for what the courts claimed was an assault on another player, Raith Rovers’ John McStay, at Ibrox Park on 16 April 1994. I hardly grazed the boy, I promise you."

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3 w. ago DUNCAN FERGUSON How Everton fans and a young boy called Wayne Rooney helped me survive prison nightmare

Duncan Ferguson was released from his prison nightmare to return to the Premier League and a welcome he didn’t expect, after six weeks where misery and menace filled the air

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3 w. ago Duncan Ferguson's "blood ran cold" as prison guards marched him to be banged up in Barlinnie

"Outside, I was Big Dunc. Striker. Everton and Scotland targetman. Inside, I was the target. And I was terrified."

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3 w. ago Duncan Ferguson reveals 'frightening' first question he was asked on first prison walk with inmates

Former Rangers star Duncan Ferguson became inmate number 12718 during his stay at Glasgow’s Barlinnie prison - now he recounts his first walk outside his cell

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3 w. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson feared he'd be slashed in Barlinnie jail after con asked chilling question

"A boy wearing the regulation red shirt with white stripes stood there, holding a pair of scissors. How would I react?"

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3 w. ago DUNCAN FERGUSON I feared being slashed inside Britain's most notorious prison

Everton hero Duncan Ferguson was sentenced to three months at the infamous Barlinnie prison in Glasgow - now he speaks for the first time on his terrifying time inside

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3 w. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson regrets telling David Beckham to get lost

Breaking the British transfer record in 1993 when he switched Tannadice for Ibrox. Ferguson then went on to build a reputation as a fearsome striker with Everton before a spell with Newcastle United.

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3 w. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson insists he's "no hard man" as lifts lid on time in notorious Barlinnie jail

Duncan’s autobiography, Big Dunc, is released next week, a searingly honest account of his career and his life, including a painful reflection on the 44 days he spent in Barlinnie.

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