7 h. ago Issues flagged with two Bridgend schools during internal audit

Financial records and receipts not operating properly

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8 h. ago ‘They are strong but we are ready’: Marc Cucurella aims to cap dream year by sinking PSG in final

Defender has gone from villain to hero at Chelsea and can embellish his cult status by lifting the Club World CupMarc Cucurella is thinking back to his early days at Chelsea. Signed from Brighton for £62m in August 2022, the left-back struggled to adapt to life at a big club. Chelsea were experiencing teething problems during the opening months of the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership and it was Cucurella’s misfortune to be held up as a symbol of the club’s apparent malaise.It is funny to think that the Spain international was booed on to the pitch by Chelsea supporters before a Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund in February 2023. Cucurella is a cult figure these days. He is loved by the Chelsea faithful and has come a long way since that difficult first season at Stamford Bridge. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Wyndham Clark admits Oakmont locker room smash shame was a wake

American star has fans talking about him for the right reasons again at Renaissance as he puts himself in Scottish Open contention

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10 h. ago Woman dies after getting into difficulty while swimming in river

Onlookers reported witnessing numerous emergency vehicles descending on the river near to a bridge

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10 h. ago More than $113,000 of rare Pokémon cards stolen in Massachusetts break

Owners of 1st Edition Collectibles in New Bedford say suspect broke in to courtyard and smashed window in doorMore than $113,000 worth of rare Pokémon cards have been stolen from a Massachusetts shop, according to the shop’s owners.Officers responded to a reported break-in at 1st Edition Collectibles, a trading card shop in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. The break-in reportedly happened around 2.30am and the thief stole a handful of Pokémon cards including five to seven rare cards and a few vintage boxes. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Man's body pulled from East Lothian river as police swoop on scene

A walkway near the River Tyne has been cordoned off.

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16 h. ago Trump cuts questioned as role of Fema in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response

White House appears to be backing away from pledge to ‘phase out’ disaster-relief agency, even as key leaders have leftAs the cleanup continues from this month’s torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) say the organization is dangerously underresourced and overstretched in the event of further natural catastrophes.A mass staff exodus, plunging morale and a loss of key leaders has left the main US disaster-relief organization ill-equipped to cope with an anticipated deadly spate of storms in the current hurricane season, former agency insiders say. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Glasgow tenement block collapses as residents forced to evacuate homes

Actor and musician Tom Urie, known for his role as Big Bob in River City, was walking past when the building collapsed just after midnight.

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19 h. ago Mum put bodies of two newborn babies in bin bags and hid them around her house

A mother hid the bodies of two full-term babies inside her home in Maes-Y-Felin, Wildmill, Bridgend, after she delivered them "alone and without medical support" a court was told

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21 h. ago Fans mistake Olivia Attwood's £46 River Island boucle dress for £3.2k Chanel one

Olivia Attwood's pale blue boucle mini dress had fans immediately assuming it was a £3.2k Chanel dress - and they were in for a treat when they found out how much it actually was

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21 h. ago Chelsea’s three new ‘leaders’ identified under Enzo Maresca’s revolutionised squad

Chelsea have the youngest squad in the Premier League, but one former fan favourite at Stamford Bridge has identified three players ready to embrace leader roles for the Blues

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26 h. ago Life jacket exchange set for July 19 at London Bridge Beach Stage

Life jacket exchange set for July 19 at London Bridge Beach Stage  Havasu News

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28 h. ago House Democrats call for urgent review of deadly Texas flooding as Trump tours disaster zone

‘I’ve never seen anything like it. A little narrow river that becomes a monster,’ president says

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29 h. ago Fergie's "London Bridge" Revisit Signals a Climbing Trend in Pop Music and Nursery Rhymes

Fergie's "London Bridge" Revisit Signals a Climbing Trend in Pop Music and Nursery Rhymes  Collider

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31 h. ago Major police search launched after boy, 11, goes missing near river

Police have issued an urgent appeal for help to find 11-year-old Artur

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31 h. ago A Utah man dies after falling from a mountain in Glacier National Park

A 42-year-old Utah man has died after he fell while descending a mountainside in Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana

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34 h. ago Truck smashes through barrier and plunges off a bridge into the Delaware River

A tractor-trailer cab plunged off the Delaware Memorial Bridge into the Delaware River near Wilmington

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35 h. ago Colombian man accused of Clifton suspension bridge murders tells court he was blackmailed and forced into degrading sexual acts by victim

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is said to have repeatedly knifed Albert Alfonso, 62, during sex after he allegedly bludgeoned his partner Paul Longworth, 71, with a hammer.

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35 h. ago Air India plane crash investigation suggests pilots may have made a fatal mistake just after takeoff and plunged 241 people to their deaths

Preliminary findings suggest switches that control fuel flow to the aircraft's twin engines were turned off shortly after takeoff.

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35 h. ago Schoolboy Harvey Willgoose told friend 'If he tries anything I'll smash him all over'

The 15-year-old died after he was stabbed by another boy at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on February 3.

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