3 d. ago ‘Every account is slightly different’: who were the real Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday?

A new book, Brothers of the Gun, explores the unlikely friendship between a complicated lawman and a cursed gamblerThere’s a famous line from a John Ford western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Mark Lee Gardner is a leading historian of the old west whose new book, Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone, concerns two major figures in such history. He doesn’t like Ford’s line.“Every historian uses it, they just beat it to death,” Gardner says cheerfully, by video from Bozeman, Montana. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago STV faces chaos before Christmas as staff prepare to strike over 60 job cuts

STV could be thrown into chaos before Christmas as staff prepare to strike over proposals to cut 60 jobs. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has launched a strike ballot after STV bosses admitted the broadcaster lost £200,000 before tax in the first half of 2025 and is scrambling to save cash. Union chiefs say...

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4 d. ago STV facing strike before Christmas amid claims broadcaster has no future

The National Union of Journalists is balloting its members after a job loss plan was announced.

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5 d. ago STV legend says broadcaster has ‘no future’ and predicts sacking of chief executive

Bernard Ponsonby issued the bleak verdict on his former employer.

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2 w. ago STV News legend John MacKay QUITS after 31 years as ‘Scotland’s Anchorman’

JOHN MacKay is set to step down from STV News after a whopping 31 years as 'Scotland's Anchorman'. The station confirmed that the veteran news presenter will hang up his earpiece and mic for the final time in March 2026. John joined STV in 1994 as a reporter on the evening news programme, then called...

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2 w. ago Cuts to news output are not nuclear option, STV boss tells MPs

Rufus Radcliffe was speaking to a Westminster committee about proposals which would see 60 jobs go.

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3 w. ago Mike Tyson’s emotional response to John Fury comment as he reached for tissues

John Fury and boxing legend Mike Tyson have a complex relationship with the former once moving the boxing icon to tears with his comments

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3 w. ago John Terry gets blunt message after Chelsea legend bemoans failure to land manager's job

John Terry has been gaining coaching experience since retiring in 2017, but the Chelsea legend is yet to manage a first-team and recently opened up on failing to land a number of EFL jobs

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3 w. ago 'Difficult to fathom': Chelsea legend John Terry reveals frustration at lack of managerial opportunities

The former Blues defender dreamed of taking up a head coach role, but has not yet had the opportunity

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4 w. ago John Terry hits out at 'DISGUSTING' treatment of 'lovely man' Roman Abramovich as Chelsea legend comes out fighting for former owner after he was banned following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Chelsea legend John Terry has leapt to the defence of the club's former owner Roman Abramovich and hit out at the treatment he has received in recent years. 

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