46 m. ago Ruben Amorim reveals what he told Man Utd bosses with review planned after sack comments

Manchester United slumped to yet another Premier League defeat last time out, with manager Ruben Amorim accepting that his position should come under scrutiny if things don't improve

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3 h. ago Shotts rugby league player with passion for trucks hits the road with young Scotland squad

Jamie Steven was named for the under-16 international team

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3 h. ago Country pubs: our favourite rural boozers so far in 2025, from the Crooked Billet to the Harcourt Arms

As the weather warms, these are the country pubs to visit

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3 h. ago Arsenal’s statistical victories only hide some very obvious flaws | Jonathan Wilson

Mikel Arteta has explanations for his team’s shortcomings that may hold water, but ultimately the Gunners simply couldn’t get it done when neededSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereThe problem is that when the game doesn’t matter, other elements begin to take over. In other circumstances, Arsenal’s 2-2 draw at Liverpool on Sunday would have been an intriguing minor classic; but then, in other circumstances, it might not have gone like that. As it was, with the title won and Arsenal secure in the Champions League qualification slots, a clash between the top two became the stage for discussion of the booing of Trent Alexander-Arnold and a weird confected online fury about whether Myles Lewis-Skelly had applauded Liverpool with sufficient gusto in the guard of honour.At least, from Arsenal’s point of view, the game followed the opposite pattern to the one with which we’ve become familiar. Arsenal have dropped 21 points from winning positions this season (Liverpool just 13), whi...

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4 h. ago Zeekr 7X review: The best premium electric SUV you can’t buy (yet)

Arriving in the UK next year, the Zeekr 7X is an impressive Tesla Model Y rival from Chinese giant Geely. We think it’s worth the wait, but will the newcomer brand struggle to stand out?

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4 h. ago Man Utd to review Ruben Amorim's position after brutally honest sack admission

Manchester United have endured their worst season in recent memory and Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Co plan to review Ruben Amorim's position ahead of the summer break

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4 h. ago Ruben Amorim faces Man Utd job review even if he wins Europa League after sacking confession

Ruben Amorim's job as Manchester United boss will be reviewed by Sir Jim Ratcliffe whether he wins the Europa League and qualifies for the Champions League or not

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6 h. ago Shark FlexBreeze Hybrid Fan Review: Can It Beat The Heatwave?

Abha Shah tries out the multi-use pedestal-to-table fan operates at impressively whisper levels

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6 h. ago Virgin Island is cruel, exploitative, and horribly uncomfortable to watch: CLAUDIA CONNELL'S blistering review of Channel 4 show branded the 'dregs' of TV exploitation

New series follows 12 virgins on a Croatian island with the intent of coaxing them into losing their virginity - on camera - to a 'sex surrogate'.

Culture

6 h. ago The Marching Band review – tender French concert bromance gets out the trombones

Two strong leads in Pierre Lottin and Benjamin Lavernhe make this heart-on-sleeve but unsentimental class drama a triumph in a minor key French film-maker Emmanuel Courcol serves up a good-natured heartwarmer with some syrup, but also two watchable and robust lead performances. For British audiences, The Marching Band might call to mind Brassed Off, The Full Monty or Billy Elliot, movies from the heartland which dared to dream that showbusiness or cultural community adventures can somehow survive the wreckage of industrial capitalism.Benjamin Lavernhe plays Thibaut, a distinguished and sensitive orchestra conductor who collapses mid-rehearsal in Paris and is told he has leukaemia and needs a bone marrow transplant donor. Thibaut is adopted and this means tracking down his biological brother out in the boondocks: factory worker Jimmy, played by the formidable Pierre Lottin (recently seen in François Ozon’s When Autumn Falls), whose gift for deadpan comedy really only gets free rein a...

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7 h. ago Xabi Alonso basks in hero’s sendoff but Dortmund ruin Leverkusen party | Andy Brassell

Both sets of fans thanked Spaniard for breaking Bayern’s hegemony – then Dortmund found a ‘killer instinct’It was the last two and a half years in a nutshell; deliciously inventive, daringly late and, quite frankly, a bit too good for Borussia Dortmund. As stoppage time ticked on Florian Wirtz received the ball on the left, seemingly without an angle for a cross; so he dug out a spinning ball with the outside of his foot, spearing it to the back post. The substitute Jonas Hofmann snuck around the back of the defence to bullet a diving header into the far corner as we went into the second minute of added time, another goal at the last for Bayer Leverkusen. Yet there was just a muted cheer and as the familiar chords of ATC’s All Around The World greeted the strike from the sound system, they were met by considerable echo.This time, it was already over. Xabi Alonso’s side had lost a Bundesliga game for only the third time this season but the moment had long since passed, for coach and ...

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7 h. ago Beyoncé Cowboy Carter tour reviews call concerts 'masterwork' and 'powerful'

Beyoncé fans can still buy tickets to the Cowboy Carter tour right now.

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8 h. ago Search 'paused' for missing British hiker, 25, who failed to return from solo hike on New Zealand mountain

Eli Sweeting, 25, sparked a major search and rescue operation when he went missing after setting off for a hike up the mile-high Mitre Peak near Milford Sound on Sunday, May 4.

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8 h. ago Make It to Munich review – uplifting story of a young footballer cycling to recovery

Touching film recounts the teenage Scottish player Ethan Walker’s 745-mile pilgrimage to the Euros and his comeback from a devastating accidentThis is an uplifting film about a miracle of ordinary life: the lightning-fast recovery of the teenage Scottish footballer Ethan Walker after being hit by a car, and the 745 mile (1,200km) bike ride he undertook from Hampden Park, Glasgow, to Munich just nine months after the accident to deliver the match pennant for the opening game of Euro 2024.Walker – on a football scholarship in New York when he was struck at 60mph – suffered cataclysmic injuries, including two brain haemorrhages, multiple fractures, the dislocation of his right knee and a lacerated lung. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Steven Wilson review – an interstellar sound voyage with Floydian grandeur

Bristol BeaconOn his first solo tour in seven years, Wilson transports a rapt audience through three hours of prog, bubbling electronica and time-bending post-rock blissA few feet above Steven Wilson’s head, the universe expands and contracts. His attention, though, is on a bank of equipment, from which he’s attempting to pull sounds that match the interstellar scope of the visuals spread across the gargantuan screen that hangs over him. Across the course of almost three hours, he does so with remarkable regularity.Appearing initially in profile, all in black and ensconced in a keyboard array that makes it look like he’s fallen to Earth in a pod, Wilson’s opening move during his first solo tour in seven years is to play his recent concept record, The Overview, in full. Its two vast songs (one 23 minutes, the other 18) are musings on our cosmic insignificance greeted with rapt attention by an audience relishing his return to prog after a run of works that tested his mettle in art-roc...

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9 h. ago Now the nurses could strike! Union threatens action this SUMMER after Government ignores demands for 'significant' pay rise

Union boss's warnings come just weeks after the NHS Pay Review Body recommended a 3 per cent pay rise for nurses, but ministers have said they can only afford to pay 2.8 per cent.

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9 h. ago 'I wore these pastel underwear sets after a breakup, and I've never felt sexier'

Nothing says 'new chapter' like a new lacy bra and knickers from a female-founded brand

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10 h. ago 'I went to Star Wars burlesque – there's dancing Sith Lords, sexy stormtroopers and more'

REVIEW: The Empire Strips Back is in London after impressing across the galaxy, bringing some very sexy, and also very funny routines to the capital in this intergalactic reimagining of burlesque

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11 h. ago Steven Gerrard in running for shock new job opportunity as shortlist emerges

Steven Gerrard hasn't rushed into a new job since his time in charge of Saudi Pro League side Al Ettifaq ended in January but he could be back in the dugout this summer

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12 h. ago Le Film de Mon Père review – father’s videotape legacy sparks intergenerational dialogue

A Swiss film-maker’s parent leaves behind a visual diary that raises questions about the limitations of art in a fascinating documentary debutThe genesis of Jules Guarneri’s documentary – his first – comes from an unusual gift. Having made more than 20 hours of a filmed diary, his father, Jean, entrusted the material to the budding director, hoping that it would form the building blocks for his son’s first feature. These visual journals, in which the older man addresses the camera – and ultimately Guarneri – with recollections from his past, are awash with nostalgia and regret. As Jean’s recordings are interspersed with Guarneri’s own footage of his family, what starts out as a monologue gradually transforms into an intergenerational dialogue between father and son.Filmed with a fixed camera, Jean’s diaries have a static quality that echoes the stagnancy of his life story. Christabel, his wife and Guarneri’s mother, was an heiress, and the couple lived as idle rich in the Swiss vill...

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