9 h. ago From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance

Three decades after its modest beginnings on Channel 4, the TV juggernaut now has its own channel and global subscribersThirty-two years ago, a small group of archaeologists gathered for a weekend in Somerset to make a TV programme about a field in Athelney, the site where once, 1,200 years ago, King Alfred the Great rallied resistance to the invading Viking army.There weren’t many concessions to showbiz glitz. Instead, a group of blokes with unruly hair and a couple of women walked across a field, talked things over in the pub and, at one point, gathered around a dot matrix printer to watch it slowly disgorging some results. The most exciting artefact they found was a lump of iron slag. No soil was overturned. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago ‘You guys, you KILL ME!’ – Celtic boss Wilfried Nancy goes on SEVEN

WILFRIED NANCY has launched an impassioned plea to the Celtic support asking for more time to turn the team around. The under-fire Hoops boss is fighting to stay in his job after five defeats from his first seven games in charge. Defeat for the Frenchman against Rangers in tomorrow’s Old Firm crunch would bring huge...

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29 h. ago Football transfer rumours: Mohamed Salah in line for Roma return?

Today’s fluff has a dusty war chestTwo days in, and we have our first piece of Mohamed Salah transfer jabber. Reports in Italy suggest Liverpool’s unsettled forward could be Roma-bound. According to La Repubblica, the Giallorossi are keen to bring Salah back to the club he played for in 2015-17 but are unlikely to move for him until the summer. If he does hang around at Anfield for any length of time, Salah could have a new teammate in the form of the Club Brugge central defender Joel Ordóñez. The Mirror suggests Liverpool are set to shell out an initial £35m rising to £43m for the Ecuador international. The Premier League champions have a clearer run at a deal too now that Chelsea have withdrawn their interest.The furiously energetic Conor Gallagher has been kicking his heels of late, having started only four league games for Atlético Madrid this season, and is thus attracting interest from Premier League clubs looking to rev up their midfields. Manchester United were linked with h...

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3 d. ago Manchester United vs Wolves LIVE: Early team news plus how to watch and kick off time

Manchester United face Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford in their final Premier League game of 2025 tonight.

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4 d. ago It’s a team game – the beauty of a goal scored after every player has had a touch

After Leeds’ stunning move at Sunderland on Sunday, we look back at other classics from the Premier League eraFrom Lucas Perri to Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Leeds’s equaliser at Sunderland on Sunday went from back to front. Every player in blue had a touch, playing their part in extending Leeds’s unbeaten run to five. It was the second time the whole team had been involved in a goal this season, out of 503 Premier League strikes. Here we look at some of the others. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Two killed in Anthony Joshua car crash named as tributes pour in

Anthony Joshua was involved in a fatal car crash in Nigeria on Monday which claimed the lives of two men who have now been named as team-mates of the two-time heavyweight boxing champion

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5 d. ago Australia coach Andrew McDonald says Ashes ‘done’ ahead of SCG Test

The teams reconvene for the final time at the SCG on Sunday with the hosts seeking an emphatic 4-1 win.

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6 d. ago I was there: Red Roses lifted the Rugby World Cup with a roar like no other

A sell-out crowd for the final helped deliver a once-in-a-lifetime experience as England’s captain Zoe Aldcroft raised the trophy after defeating Canada Recalling the moment that England’s captain, Zoe Aldcroft, lifted the Rugby World Cup still brings goosebumps. Twickenham was bathed in September sunshine, there was not one empty green seat and when the Gloucester-Hartpury star raised the silverware with gold streamers and fire pyrotechnics, the roar from the crowd was a sound unmatched at any other women’s rugby game I have attended.England had rewarded the home fans as they executed the perfect gameplan against Canada, the in-form team who were the underdogs despite knocking out the six-time champions New Zealand in the semi-final. The stadium was sold out with a women’s rugby record of 81,885 creating an electric atmosphere. Future World Cup finals will be sell-outs with a party-feel celebration but I am unsure if anything will be able to replicate the feeling on 2025 final day ...

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6 d. ago Derek Johnstone 'rips into' Rangers team during Ibrox half time draw before roaring 'No Surrender'

The Ibrox icon was brought at during the break against the Steelmen and pulled no punches

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7 d. ago Diana’s team devoted time to ‘upstaging’ Charles, newly released documents claim

The document claims also claims Diana was “more skilled in the media battle” than Charles

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7 d. ago Nottingham Forest vs Man City LIVE early team news plus kick off time and how to watch

Manchester City play Nottingham Forest in the Premier League today as they aim to continue their solid recent form.

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7 d. ago Diana’s team devoted time to ‘upstaging’ Charles newly released document reveals

The late Diana, Princess of Wales was "far more" skilled in the media battle with the then-Prince of Wales, Irish officials were advised 30 years ago, according to a newly released document which claims her staff were devoting time to "upstaging" St James' Palace

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7 d. ago Diana’s team devoted time to ‘upstaging’ Charles, Irish officials told

The King paid a two-day visit to Ireland while Prince of Wales in June 1995.

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8 d. ago Manchester United vs Newcastle LIVE early team news plus how to watch and kick off time

Man United will be looking to bounce back against Newcastle tonight after their 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa last time out in the Premier League.

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1 week ago The 2 things Danny Rohl told Rangers stars after Hearts sickener as 'different messages' make something crystal clear

Rohl offered a glimpse inside full-time his team talk at Tynecastle and he's adamant the title race isn't over yet

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1 week ago ‘An unsung alternative to the Cotswolds‘: exploring Leicestershire’s Welland valley

This hidden gem has country inns, canalside walks, a stunning viaduct, the historic town of Market Harborough – and not a tour bus in sightIt was a chilly Sunday in November 2000 when the gods chose to smile on Ken Wallace. The retired teacher was sweeping his metal detector across a hillside in Leicestershire’s Welland valley when a series of beeps brought him up short. Digging down, he found a cache of buried coins almost two millennia old. He had chanced upon one of the UK’s most important iron age hoards, totalling about 5,000 silver and gold coins.More than 25 years on, I’m staring at Ken’s find at the civic museum in the nearby town of Market Harborough. The now gleaming coins are decorated with wreaths and horses. They’re about the size of 5p pieces, but speak of a wild-eyed age of tribal lands and windswept hill forts. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Anthony Joshua is Britain's most eligible bachelor, but can't find love: Single boxer, 36, earned £70M from Jake Paul fight

Anthony Joshua is a two-time world heavyweight champion who also won Team GB's crowning final medal at London 2012 - yet his private life has also prompted fascination.

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1 week ago Aston Villa v Man United LIVE: Early team news plus how to watch and kick off time

Manchester United could move up to fifth in the Premier League table with a win over in-form Aston Villa today.

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2 w. ago German World Cup winner explains why Florian Wirtz is struggling at Liverpool

Benedikt Howedes says Wirtz is ‘too good to fail’ but needs time to earn the trust of his teammates and the supporters at Liverpool

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2 w. ago Bog Queen by Anna North review – a tale that could dig deeper

This story of a teenage druid whose body is discovered in a peat bog has memorable moments – but its evocation of time and place is unconvincingAnna North’s fourth book, Bog Queen, is a stranded or braided novel. First “a colony of moss” speaks – or rather, does not speak, but “if such a colony could tell the story of its life”, here’s some of what it might say. Then we have Agnes in 2018, American, tall, awkward, expert in forensic pathology and uncertain about everything else, including much of life in England. And then, in the first person, there is an iron age teenage girl, the druid of her village, riding towards a Roman town with her brother Aesu and friend Crab: “I had been druid for two seasons at that point and everyone said I was doing very well.”Agnes has a post-doctoral fellowship in Manchester, from which she is summoned to the discovery of a body in a peat bog in Ludlow. The story shadows that of Lindow Man, found by peat harvesters in a bog near Wi...

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