66 m. ago Ange Postecoglou and Nottingham Forest never made sense. So why did it happen?

The former Tottenham manager made a rash Premier League return, and it will probably be his lastSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereThe weirdest aspect of Ange Postecoglou’s 40-day reign at Nottingham Forest was how inevitable it all felt. The only shock was that he was sacked on Saturday, within minutes of a 3-0 home defeat to Chelsea, rather than a day or two later. But by then, it was obvious this ill-starred adventure had run its course; perhaps it was kinder to everybody to bring it to an end. Forest, certainly, had to act quickly if they are to make the most of their first European campaign in three decades.But why was such an obviously terrible appointment made in the first place? What was it that made the Nottingham Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, ever think that Postecoglou was the right man to succeed Nuno Espírito Santo? They met in July at an event staged by the Greek league to celebrate Postecoglou winning the Europa League with Tottenham, but was it really j...

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77 m. ago Met Office warn 'temperatures to fall' as cool arctic blast hits UK this week

Some parts of the UK will be hit with 'wintry showers'

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81 m. ago Scotland warned of ‘potential storm’ that could ‘pack punch’ as Met Office pinpoint worst day amid ‘colder’ forecast

SCOTLAND could be hit by a horrific storm just in time for Halloween. A low-pressure system could see wind speeds increase and temperatures plunge. Southernly winds are currently barrelling towards Ireland and could make landfall later this week. Irish weather forecasters warned the potential storm could "pack a punch". Weather Alerts Ireland said: “There is...

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82 m. ago Beatrice shows the strain on visit to her father Andrew in Windsor's Royal Lodge as he's hunkers down after losing titles and facing Met probe

Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are holed up in their grand grace-and-favour Royal Lodge as Virginia Giuffre's bombshell book hit the shelves 24 hours early.

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84 m. ago Parker vs Wardley undercard takes major hit as Lewis Edmondson pulls out due to hip injury

BRITISH light-heavyweight champion Lewis Edmondson has pulled out of Saturday's bout against Ezra Taylor after a" hip injury" following the pair's heated face-off. Edmondson, 29, reportedly suffered the blow during the final stages of training, leaving Queensbury Promotions scrambling to find a replacement opponent for 31-year-old Taylor. The British title clash was set as chief...

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85 m. ago B&M shares plunge as finance chief quits over ‘embarrassing’ accounting error

The discount retailer said the issue has been resolved but will have a financial impact

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90 m. ago Katie Price risks backlash as she poses with pregnant bald cat in very racy music video

KATIE Price has been pouring lots of her energy into her music career lately - and her new video features a controversial cameo from her pregnant cat. The video for her latest single, Best Of Me featuring Lady Ice, landed on YouTube on Saturday. It's an upbeat dance track, where Katie, Lady Ice, and others...

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1 hour ago 'I boosted my radiator's heat and efficiency in minutes with 1 item already in my home'

I learned the best way to clean radiators and make them more energy efficient

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1 hour ago Met Office gives update today on snow possibility 'as temperatures fall'

The forecaster said that the weather this week is looking ‘ increasingly unsettled’ and said ‘severe weather warnings’ are possible

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1 hour ago Clydesdale community hub gets cash from Renewable Energy Fund

Hope Hub SCIO (HHS) has been given almost £60,000 to put in solar panels and batteries which will help it reduce running costs, carbon emissions and make the facilities more sustainable.

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2 h. ago ‘Here’s a script for the bathroom’: US government nuclear physicist arrested on child sex charges

Exclusive details: After his arrest for propositioning a 16-year-old, top government nuclear physicist Andrew Worrall, 56, is no longer employed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a spokeswoman told The Independent

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2 h. ago Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie pull out of high society ball dubbed London's 'Met Gala' after Prince Andrew loses royal titles

The royal sisters are understood to have been on the guest list for the British Museum's inaugural Pink Ball, which aims to rival the Met Gala, on Saturday night.

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3 h. ago Pope Leo ‘still coming to grips with enormity of church abuse’

Leo has met with survivors of sexual abuse for the first time as pope

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3 h. ago Yemen's Houthi rebels hold funeral for their chief of staff killed in an Israeli strike

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have held a funeral for their military chief of staff who was killed in a recent Israeli strike

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3 h. ago Pope meets with board of global organization of clergy sexual abuse victims to talk zero

Pope Leo XIV has met with a group of clergy abuse survivors and advocates for the first time

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3 h. ago 100 Nights of Hero review – Emma Corrin leads starry cast in a queer fable with a serious streak

London film festival: Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux in Julia Jackman’s playful medieval fairytale, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, also starring Maika Monroe and Charli xcxJulia Jackman has followed Bonus Track with this queer fantasy-fable that has a streak of earnestness to go with the romantasy energy and gorgeous costumes from designer Susie Coulthard. It’s adapted by Jackman from Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel of the same title, and inspired generally by Scheherazade and the One Thousand and One Nights – and also I think by Julie Dash, Peter Greenaway and maybe the theatricality of Agnès Varda’s One Hundred and One Nights. Emma Corrin and Maika Monroe star, with Nicholas Galitzine and Amir El-Masry in support; Charli xcx makes an appearance, and there’s also a tiny intriguing cameo for critic Sophie Monks Kaufman. It adds up to a likable movie, a little fey but unexpectedly subtle – although the meta-level of storytelling sometimes ha...

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3 h. ago Poem of the week: On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson

An elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmthOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel JohnsonCondemned to Hope’s delusive mine As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago King Charles makes surprise visit as royals brace themselves for more Andrew claims

The King has travelled to Manchester today to visit the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, where he met members of the congregation - weeks after a terror attack there, which left two people dead

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4 h. ago Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley at war with his own federation boss over Freemason questions

Sir Mark Rowley claims Matt Cane ‘launched a tirade’ against his anti-corruption measures

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4 h. ago The pathetic final years of Al Capone: Notorious mobster who went mad with syphilis was reduced to pleading for pills to treat constipation, unseen letter reveals

Two years after being released from prison amid his declining health, the syphilis-addled gangster asked his physician, Dr Kenneth Phillips, for '2 boxes of them red pills for bowels movement'.

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