9 h. ago Hearts reaction: Crisis played down, Celtic trophies spelled out, what Derek McInnes enjoyed

Goalkeeper situation comes under scrutiny following another injury

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21 h. ago Lawrence Shankland ensures Hearts hecklers have the last laugh on Neil Lennon after 'dry your eyes' gesture

Lennon was left frustrated by individual errors but enjoyed going up against Derek McInnes in Premier Sports Cup opener

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4 d. ago Heartburn or something more serious? When to get chest pains checked out

While heartburn is usually a harmless reaction linked to digestion, it can sometimes point to underlying health issues

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4 d. ago Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both

The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarterHere is a film occupying the heartsinking Venn diagram overlap between franchise exhaustion and AI soullessness: a film fatally unconvinced of the reason for its own existence. We’d all hoped that writer-director James Gunn, who was in charge of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, might put some wind back beneath Superman’s wings – or in his cape, or under his boots, or at any rate somewhere near his costumed person. The Man of Steel needed a fresh start after his self-cancelling contest in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, and getting muddled together with a lot of other utility superheroes in Justice League a year later – though I will admit to enjoying the pure hubristic craziness of the lengthy Zack Snyder cut of that movie when it saw the light of day.But this? If it was to be a reboot then...

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8 d. ago ‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel

Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residenceIn the spotless kitchen of a white clapboard house in the Appalachian mountains, a retired deacon, a regional jail counsellor and I form an impromptu book club. The novel under discussion is Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning Demon Copperhead, which is set in this area, Lee County, Virginia, during the 1990s, at the beginning of the opioid epidemic. I say that I loved the novel, that it was vivid and brilliant, heart-warming and tragic. Their reaction is more complex – there’s a real sadness behind it. Julie Montgomery-Barber, the jail counsellor, tells me she found the book “hard to read”. The Rev Nancy Hobbs agrees that reading it was painful, “because I felt like: I knew these people. At every level, from foster care to the football coaches to Demon. I knew Demon.”Hobbs and Montg...

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1 week ago Sheffield Wednesday on the brink as players and staff go unpaid AGAIN in deepening crisis

One of England's oldest football clubs is facing the most uncertain of futures with some players able to hand in their notice following a second successive month of failed payment

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2 w. ago Cameras capture Tommy Fleetwood's heartbreaking reaction to losing Travels Championship

Tommy Fleetwood let a three-shot lead slip in the final round of the Travelers Championship as Keegan Bradley stormed to victory at TPC River Highlands

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2 w. ago Tommy Fleetwood's emotional and honest reaction to latest painful PGA Tour heartbreak

Tommy Fleetwood couldn't his frustration after blowing a golden opportunity to win his first ever PGA title in the final three holes of the Travelers Championship on Sunday

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3 w. ago Bob MacIntyre shows who he really is with the moving story behind viral reaction to US Open winning putt

The Scottish star’s reaction to heartbreaking defeat at US Open which was caught on cameras won him a new army of admirers

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3 w. ago Bob MacIntyre shows the world his true colours with the most incredible reaction to heartbreaking US Open defeat

The Scottish golfing hero scratched and clawed his way back into contention at Oakmont but was denied by a putt of brilliance by J.J Spaun.

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4 w. ago Georgia Harrison shares heartfelt reaction to her MBE at King's Birthday Honours

Georgia Harrison, who appeared in the fourth series of Love Island, has been a prominent campaigner on violence against women and girls after being a victim of revenge porn

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