70 m. ago Aston Villa ‘killed’ by spending rules in transfer window, says Ezri Konsa

Club affected by Premier League and Uefa financial fair play‘It’s crazy. We’re going to have to deal with what we’ve got’Ezri Konsa has said that football’s spending regulations “killed” Aston Villa during a difficult summer transfer window. The club, who have started the season badly with one point from three games and no goals scored, were hemmed in by the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules and the equivalent in Uefa competition.Villa paid out one major fee – £30.5m to Nice for Evann Guessand – and made only four further first-team additions, Marco Bizot being followed in on deadline day by Victor Lindelöf, Harvey Elliott and Jadon Sancho. The club were open to selling Emiliano Martínez only for there to be no buyer and moved Jacob Ramsey to Newcastle for £39m despite Unai Emery preferring to keep him. As a homegrown player, Ramsey counted as pure profit on the books. Continue reading...

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79 m. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK and declares ‘Tory party is dead’

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK

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85 m. ago Hollyoaks star first to be killed off soap now has a different career and famous husband

Shebah Ronay was the first regular character to be killed off in Hollyoaks, with her character Natasha Andersen dying of an ecstasy overdose.

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95 m. ago Ministers urged not to meet Israeli president during UK visit

Isaac Herzog is understood to be visiting London next week.

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1 hour ago Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama

Toronto film festival: the star fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024The singer Charli xcx is, by her own admission, a workaholic – no sooner had she released Brat, the most dominant pop album and aesthetic of 2024, than she began work on its sequel, dropped just four months later. Insouciant and party-centric as her image may be, the pop star born Charlotte Aitchison is a sharp student of pop culture; she knows the audience demand for pop stars’ constant reinvention. The next career phase, it seems, is acting, with no less prodigiousness than music; the 33-year-old has seven films in the pipeline as a supporting or lead actor.Charli is neither the full star nor the anchor of Erupcja (Eruption), directed by Pete Ohs, but she will inevitably be the reason most English speakers hear of it. Filmed over a few weeks in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2024, in the heat of Brat summer, Erupcja seems, on paper, like a ...

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3 h. ago Writing on the wall for Angela Rayner after vandalism and lawyer denying tax advice

Yobs attack Rayner flat with cruel two word slogan to mark a terrible day for Labour Deputy Prime Minister who has faced increasingly probing questions about the £800,000 flat

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3 h. ago Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK and declares ‘I’m 100% behind Nigel Farage’

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK

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3 h. ago Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform

Dorries said "the Tory Party is dead"

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3 h. ago Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform as she declares: 'The Tory Party is dead'

Nadine Dorries has become the latest high-profile Conservative to defect to Reform UK, declaring: “The Tory Party is dead.”

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3 h. ago Swinney’s independence referendum push is ‘diversion tactic’ – Starmer

The Prime Minister said the First Minister was using the constitution to distract from his record in Government.

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4 h. ago Football club owners could face prison under Independent Football Regulator's new powers

The Independent Football Regulator will have a new licensing system to protect clubs from financial ruin or bad owners after Morecambe FC came within days of closure

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4 h. ago DWP minister issues update over controversial benefit reforms during Greater Manchester visit

The Manchester Evening News has covered at least two suicides in recent years linked to dire DWP benefits system failings, including one woman who had received disability payments

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4 h. ago Rayner firm denies giving tax advice as PM refuses to say if he would sack her

The conveyancer used by the Deputy Prime Minister to purchase her Hove flat said it did not give advice on trust and tax matters.

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4 h. ago Chelsea Women poised to sign Alyssa Thompson from Angel City for £1.1m fee

20-year-old USWNT winger agrees five-year contractChelsea have until 11pm BST to complete club-record dealChelsea are on the verge of signing the United States winger Alyssa Thompson from Angel City on the Women’s Super League’s transfer deadline day, for an upfront fee understood to be just shy of $1.5m (£1.1m), which sources say could climb close to a world-record sum with potential add-ons.The 20-year-old completed a medical on Thursday in London, after boarding a flight from Los Angeles late on Wednesday night, amid extensive negotiations between the two clubs. All parties are increasingly confident the move will be finalised in time for the 11pm BST transfer deadline. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago ‘Rogue owners’ risk forced sales under new independent football regulator

Football’s new independent regulator has proposed a significant tightening of rules on ownership

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5 h. ago Keir Starmer vows 'I will act' in Angela Rayner statement amid stamp duty admission

The Prime Minister has declined to say if he would sack his deputy following an investigation

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6 h. ago The Labour ministers ousted in scandals as pressure builds on PM to sack Angela Rayner

If Angela Rayner resigns over her stamp duty scandal, she will become the fifth Labour minister to lose their job over allegations of wrongdoing in just over a year

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6 h. ago Pressure mounts on Rayner as Starmer refuses to back her staying in post as tax dodge crisis deepens

Sir Keir condemns 'appalling' graffiti attack outside Ms Rayner’s Hove flat – as the Commons watchdog prepares to give its verdict on whether she broke ministerial code

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6 h. ago Giorgio Armani reveals secret to staying ahead of the curve in the fashion industry in resurfaced clip

Giorgio Armani revealed how he stayed ahead of the curve in the fashion industry in a resurfaced clip following the designer’s death on Thursday (4 September).

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6 h. ago 'Angela Rayner's biggest crime is that she's Labour's most powerful weapon'

The claws have been out for Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner since she strode into Downing Street in a mint green trouser suit - a gobby working-class woman with ideas above her station... who just happens to embody everything the Labour Party stands for

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