86 m. ago Tantrum transfers, hysteria and endless cash: the greatest window ever had it all | Barney Ronay

An emotional, strategic, plot-driven entertainment product was all wrapped up in a single epic three-month tracking shotBy the time the clock hit 7.30pm the main presenter on Monday’s Sky Sports Window Slam Countdown looked not just frazzled, but oddly heroic, like a man who has ingested a potentially fatal overdose of late-breaking excitement and is now being encouraged to keep talking in a low, dogged voice about massive deals and unexpected snags just to keep himself awake until the paramedics arrive.There was something of the Situation Room about the whole tableau, five nobly dishevelled talking heads leaning in around the curved tables, lists of names earnestly reeled off. Eberechi Eze. Randal Kolo Muani. We’re hearing that Coventry has fallen. In the bottom corner of the screen a picture of Marc Guéhi would flash up now and then reproachfully, wearing a strange, lost smile. And below it all the countdown clock replaced with the simple end-of-days message: WINDOW CLOSED. Contin...

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1 hour ago Trump orders end union protections for 450,000 federal workers in ‘largest union busting in American history’

Legal battles take aim at the president’s executive orders ripping up collective bargaining agreements for federal workers

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2 h. ago Two men die and five others seriously injured in roundabout crash

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3 h. ago Jessica Pegula moves to within one match of another US Open final appearance

The American fourth seed eased to a 6-3 6-3 victory over Barbora Krejcikova.

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3 h. ago Argentina couple under house arrest amid search for painting stolen by Nazis

Daughter of former Nazi official and her husband to be questioned after raid on home failed to find masterpieceA federal court in Argentina has ordered house arrest for the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband after a raid failed to locate a painting stolen from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam.Authorities raided a home in the coastal city of Mar del Plata last week after a Dutch newspaper identified a painting seen in a real estate photo as an Italian masterpiece registered on a database of lost wartime art. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Ella Baron on the hard right and violence against women – cartoon

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3 h. ago Veteran having 86th race can land the odds – Jason Heavey's Wednesday racing tips

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3 h. ago Lamine Yamal reveals Barcelona star's reaction to Chelsea and Manchester United transfer links

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3 h. ago The lost structures hidden for decades being revealed by low reservoir water levels

An unusually dry spring followed by the hottest summer on record has caused a major drought

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4 h. ago Emmerdale's Bradley Riches admits it's 'a lot' as he reaches soap milestone

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4 h. ago Households urged to lock in a new mortgage deal now after Barclays ups rates and gilt yields hit 27

Households are being urged to lock in a new mortgage deal as soon as possible, after Barclays announced it's upping rates.

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5 h. ago Ruth Jones teases fans as Gavin and Stacey star posts picture of her driving Dave Coaches' bus around Barry

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5 h. ago Gorgeous autumn products create a cosy and stylish home and are bargains too

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5 h. ago Former Chelsea star David Luiz 'sent chilling threats to glam social worker to 'make her disappear' after she rejected his request for a threesome'

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5 h. ago 'Loving mum', 33, killed in Llanddewi Velfrey crash while riding her bicycle

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5 h. ago Martin Lewis warns over ‘disgraceful’ adverts by criminals misusing his name

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5 h. ago Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France

From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creativeVariously described as an “architect, painter, novelist, communist and convicted fraudster”, Fernand Pouillon’s life was punctuated by abrupt reversals of fortune that might have sprung from the pages of Dickens or Dumas. Throughout an eventful career, he ricocheted from intoxicating success, to financial scandal, prison, exile and eventual rehabilitation.In 1985, when Pouillon was in his early 70s, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by President François Mitterrand. Yet just over 20 years earlier, Pouillon found himself in custody awaiting trial on charges of corruption. As a prolific architect-developer who had designed gargantuan housing schemes in France and Algeria, he was accused of funding irregularities and violating laws contrived to keep the processe...

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5 h. ago British bar rolls bar prices back to the 90s – and you can get pint for £1.80

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