13 h. ago Barcelona’s rebirth and one last job for Szczesny: La Liga season review

It’s the Sids! Barça reclaimed the title as Madrid’s giants faltered while Athletic, Celta and Rayo shook up the European placesThe day La Liga 2024-25 began, Wojciech Szczesny was sitting on the beach in Marbella lighting up a cigarette, enjoying his retirement. The night it ended, he sat in the dressing room in Cornellà, 1,000km round the coast, and lit up a cigar instead. He had walked away in August, at 35 years old, unwanted and his heart no longer in it, or so he thought. Nine months on, here he was surrounded by kids half his age, a footballer again and winner of every trophy his new home country had to offer. He had not lost a single league match en route to becoming a champion.“I’ve arrived where even my imagination wouldn’t even dare to take me,” Szczesny had said when he retired. And if he hadn’t dared imagine that, there was no way he could imagine this: a Copa del Rey, a Super Cup and a Champions League semi-final to go with the title. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Korzeniowy Dol Gorge: Multiple children injured after huge branch falls off tree

Polish police said the tree branch fell on a group of 47 people in Korzeniowy Gorge, 43 of whom were kids aged between 11 and 12, and their four support workers

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4 d. ago Amazon Fire Kids tablet parents 'prefer to iPad' now almost half price

The Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet has been designed with children aged six to 12 in mind - and it's currently on sale with a huge saving of £60, but the deal won't last long

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8 d. ago Exact amount of screen time NHS recommends based on kids' ages

A mum has sparked a debate online after telling parents that she refuses to let her child have any screen time until she's at least two years old - and she's not the only one

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1 week ago Bring Her Back review – Talk to Me directors return with a film you’ll watch from between your fingers

Sally Hawkins is intensely disturbing as the foster parent from hell, with Jonah Wren Phillips playing a creepy kid for the ages in the Philippou brothers’ new horrorAustralian horror film-makers have spectacularly overdelivered in the last few years, conjuring various nerve-shredding bangers including Late Night with the Devil, You Won’t Be Alone, You’ll Never Find Me, Sissy, Leigh Whannell’s underrated Wolf Man reboot and Talk to Me. The latter – which revolves around thrill-seeking teenagers who converse with spirits instead of taking recreational drugs (kids these days!) – marked the fiendishly good debut of Adelaide-born directors Danny and Michael Philippou.They’re back – or baaa-ack! – with another serving of macabre bravado pulled from the black cauldron. Bring Her Back is lighter on thrills and spills for the midnight movie and heavy with thick, abject horror and despair, featuring an intensely disturbing performance from Sally Hawkins as a foster mother from hell. She play...

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1 week ago Parents spend almost £5k keeping 'bored' children entertained

A poll of 2,000 mums and dads with kids aged 17 and under found they'll spend an eye-watering amount of money taking them to theme parks and museums, or going to sports clubs

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1 week ago UK parents spend thousands to keep 'bored' kids entertained – here's where the money goes

A poll of 2,000 mums and dads with kids aged 17 and under found they'll splash the cash taking them to theme parks, visiting museums, or going to sports clubs

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2 w. ago Teacher shares exact time kids should go to bed each night but parents are divided

A teacher has shared an informative guide on the exact time kids should be going to bed each night, depending on their age - and it's divided parents right down the middle

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2 w. ago Lines of disappointment etched into Spurs fans’ faces evaporate into the Bilbao air | Max Rushden

Emotion of Europa League final victory hits hard, particularly tangled in with homesickness watching from Australia at 5amI didn’t really cry until Son Heung-min was handed the trophy – the camera hadn’t cut to him enough at full time. Of all the players who look sad when they’re sad, Sonny really looks sad. Building up to the Europa League final all I could imagine was a disconsolate South Korean walking around the pitch applauding mournfully. The Harry Kane walk. His smile when shiny-shoed Aleksander Ceferin hands him the trophy broke me. Apparently the Uefa Cup weighs 15kg – the same as my three-year-old. That trophy certainly looked lighter than when young Ian demands to be carried home from the park.As a very sleep-deprived middle-aged dad of young kids, the emotion of football back home hits a lot harder than it used to. I found myself weeping at the videos of Crystal Palace fans after the FA Cup final. Someone focused from person to person, pausing for just enough time on eac...

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2 w. ago The agony and ecstasy of watching Spurs win a trophy from 10,000 miles away | Max Rushden

Emotion of Europa League final victory hits hard, particularly tangled in with homesickness watching from Australia at 5amI didn’t really cry until Son Heung-min was handed the trophy – the camera hadn’t cut to him enough at full time. Of all the players who look sad when they’re sad, Sonny really looks sad. Building up to the Europa League final all I could imagine was a disconsolate South Korean walking around the pitch applauding mournfully. The Harry Kane walk. His smile when shiny-shoed Aleksander Ceferin hands him the trophy broke me. Apparently the Uefa Cup weighs 15kg – the same as my three-year-old. That trophy certainly looked lighter than when young Ian demands to be carried home from the park.As a very sleep-deprived middle-aged dad of young kids, the emotion of football back home hits a lot harder than it used to. I found myself weeping at the videos of Crystal Palace fans after the FA Cup final. Someone focused from person to person, pausing for just enough time on eac...

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2 w. ago Weaning is the hardest part of parenting with one in five spending up to 10 hours a week on it

A survey of 1,000 parents with kids aged between six months and four years found that 70% of mums and dads felt the process was fraught with worry.

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3 w. ago Gladiators champion who lost mum aged 2 offers important advice to kids like him

Gladiators champ Joe Fishburn and the 'amazing woman’ who brought him up have spoken about his ‘less typical childhood’ to the Mirror – and how it helped make him into the man he is today

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