1 hour ago Sweden sack manager who slammed Viktor Gyokeres and Alexander Isak for 'forgetting how to score'

Sweden have sacked manager Jon Dahl Tomasson after a run of poor results saw them concede a humiliating defeat to Kosovo at home in the World Cup qualifiers

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2 h. ago Stop garden weeds from growing by scattering 1 item in autumn

One way to make sure your garden is weed-free is to scatter a certain material on the lawn - but there's a right way to do it, and a wrong way

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2 h. ago Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy

Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a sitcom feelThis is English National Opera’s first production shared between London and Greater Manchester – where the company has been obliged to plan to move its base, following Arts Council England’s diktat. The choice of a relatively small-scale opera – necessary in the circumstances – means it was never going to be the kind of show to announce the new era with a bang. Albert Herring is Britten’s 1947 work based on a slender 19th-century French story about a mummy’s boy suddenly finding freedom calls for only a small orchestra and no chorus, so the company won’t be heading en masse to Salford next week. It’s regular fare at music colleges thanks to its large and even cast, but this staging, surprisingly, is an ENO first.Billing Antony McDonald’s production as a semi-sta...

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2 h. ago Football Daily | Danish villain sent packing in Swedish football’s attempt at Nordic noir

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Something is rotten in the state of Sweden, though it’s a Dane taking the blame. Jon Dahl Tomasson, one-time Newcastle flop turned elite Feyenoord and Milan forward and former Blackburn manager, has just been sent packing after presiding over historic failure as manager of his neighbouring country. “Resign JDT” read one banner in Stockholm’s national stadium after Sweden lost 2-0 to Switzerland on Friday, while another read “danskjävel”, roughly translated as JDT’s nationality within a portmanteau questioning his parentage. Yes, that’s Sweden, the country that boasts Alexander Isak, the Premier League’s most expensive striker, and Viktor Gyökeres, last year’s European Golden Boot winner who hardly came cheap to Arsenal. The midfield trio of Daniel Svensson, of Borussia Dortmund, Lucas Bergvall of Tottenham and Brighton’s Yasin Asari reeks of talent and promise. Monday night, again at home, and the calls for Tomasson’s head continued...

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2 h. ago Sweden SACK manager hours after calling out Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyokeres

Sweden boss Jon Dahl Tomasson has been relieved of his duties following their dismal defeat to Kosovo which leaves their World Cup hopes hanging in the balance

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3 h. ago Sweden sack manager Jon Dahl Tomasson after World Cup qualifying defeat by Kosovo

Sweden are bottom of Uefa qualifying Group B after picking up only one point from their first four games and look set to miss out on the 2026 World Cup

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3 h. ago Netflix star’s ‘fantastic’ period drama critics ‘got wrong’ given second chance on ITVX

The period drama features stars from Downton Abbey, Ted Lasso and more.

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4 h. ago Hairdresser shares 'correct' way to shampoo your hair – with two major steps

A hair expert has shared that many people may be washing their hair the wrong way and it could explain why your locks still feel heavy or greasy even after a fresh shampoo

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5 h. ago Only one news outlet has signed on to Hegseth’s media loyalty oath — even Trump

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

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5 h. ago The House at Hallow End review – home renovation horror finds emotional heft among the terror

Angela Gulner’s tragi-horror debut trades jump scares for depth, as a family home turns into a mirror of loss and madnessNew mum Harper (Katie Parker) and her baby daughter move in with her mother Sadie (Patricia Heaton) to help finish sorting out an old fixer-upper of a home, bought with intent to flip. Also along for the ride is Bette (Emma Fitzpatrick), a live-in carer who turns out to be pregnant. But the path of property renovation never did run smooth, and soon, the weird noises and shadows and visions of a strange figure with a beak-like face start to take their toll on Harper. But how real is the threat? Is it all simply the projections of a frayed psyche or is something supernatural going on?Initially, it seems that writer and director Angela Gulner’s debut (previously titled The Beldham) is akin to a low-budget version of The Babadook, the breakout hit from 2014 that saw Essie Davis’s young widow living perpetually on the verge of a breakdown. There is indeed a similar int...

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5 h. ago 1 popular colour can make rooms 'dull and dingy' and it's not grey or beige

Choosing the right paint colour can be a minefield, but one expert has warned that by picking the wrong shade, you could be knocking "thousands" off your property value

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6 h. ago Is Alexander Isak to blame? How Sweden’s World Cup qualifying campaign turned to disaster

Sweden are bottom of Group B and unlikely to make the 2026 World Cup, and while manager Jon Dahl Tomasson is set to lose his job, he has not been helped by his star player’s summer on strike

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7 h. ago RIG R5 Spear Pro HS review: A good wired gaming headset for a budget price

Officially licensed by Sony, these old-school wired 3.5mm plug-in cans deliver booming explosions and clear highs while offering a decent onboard mic for online gaming

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7 h. ago 14 best mattresses, tried and tested by The Independent’s sleep expert

I’ve spent years testing mattresses from Simba, Nectar and more

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7 h. ago Is this new British Airways airport lounge the best in the world?

US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill discovers that BA’s new lounge above Terminal E is a welcome return to the glamor of yesteryear

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7 h. ago Taste test: How good is the Subway jacket potato full English?

Subway has decided to expand its offerings. The result is worrying, says Josh Barrie

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7 h. ago The Twits review – Americanised Roald Dahl is gruesome in all the wrong ways

Netflix’s animation mangles and sentimentalises Dahl’s black comedy about a gross and detestable married couple – relocating the action to Texas and introducing a plucky orphan heroineThis animated Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits is only fractionally less gruelling than eating wormy spaghetti or finding a toad stuffed in the bottom of your bed. Dahl’s story about one of the most dysfunctional marriages in fiction is not exactly burdened with plot: the 95-page original is essentially a series of mean pranks, all monstrously mangled here and tortuously added to.There has been some outrage that Netflix have Americanised the story, but that is the least of this film’s problems. In the fictional city of Triperot, Mrs Twit (voiced by Margo Martindale) is a Texan in blue denim cowboy boots, unhappily married to Mr Twit (Johnny Vegas, keeping his Lancashire accent). The couple have built a rickety amusement park called Twitlandia, with rides made out of toilets and old mattress...

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8 h. ago Drunk mobility scooter rider was caught downing wine as she drove the wrong way down a dual carriageway

Fiona Buckingham was pulled over by cops after almost colliding with several motorists on the busy A14 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, earlier this year.

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8 h. ago You're making gin and tonic all wrong! Expert reveals the proper way to make the cocktail

While many pour of gin over ice before adding tonic water and a slice of lemon, Sarah McDonald, brand manager at Caorunn Gin, a premium gin from Scotland, has claimed otherwise.

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9 h. ago Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai review – growing up in public

Clambering up bell towers, dancing the night away and falling in love – how ‘saint’ Malala forged a new identityLying in her Birmingham hospital bed in the weeks after she’d been shot in the head by a Taliban assassin, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai used to imagine the conversation she would have with Taliban leadership. “If they would just sit down with me I could reason with them and convince them to end their reign of misogyny and violence,” she writes in her new memoir.Malala kept a notebook by her bed, filled with rhetorical strategies and talking points – the names of journalists who might be able to broker a meeting with the Taliban, the Qur’an verses she could cite to show that girls do have a right to education in Islam, the things she could say to establish her own credentials as a God-fearing Muslim. Of course, that conversation never happened. Much later, after the fall of Afghanistan in 2021, it made her wince to recall her naive be...

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