67 h. ago Big name absent and more talking points from Benjamin Sesko's first Man United training session

Benjamin Sesko trained with his new Manchester United teammates for the first time on Sunday, seven days before they play Arsenal.

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4 d. ago What time to see the Red Arrows near Greater Manchester on Sunday

The Red Arrows will be visible in the skies above the North West as they appear at the Blackpool Airshow

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4 d. ago What time the Red Arrows are at Blackpool Airshow 2025 on Sunday

The RAF Red Arrows will be performing at Blackpool Airshow, along with the RAF Typhoon display team

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5 d. ago What time to see the Red Arrows near Greater Manchester on Saturday

The iconic RAF Red Arrows will fly over the North West ahead of their appearance at the Blackpool Airshow

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5 d. ago What time the Red Arrows are at Blackpool Airshow 2025 on Saturday

The world-famous RAF Red Arrows will perform at Blackpool Airshow this weekend

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6 d. ago Exact date and time you can watch Red Arrows fly over Scotland's skies

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo runs from August 1 to 23, and even without tickets, crowds can enjoy the flyovers from spots around Edinburgh

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9 d. ago Analyzing preseason friendlies is maddening, but right now it’s all we have | Jonathan Wilson

Every team enters preseason at a different stage of readiness and with different goals, making results hard to decipherSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereGlory for Manchester United, who lifted the Premier League summer series on Sunday despite twice being pegged back by Everton to draw 2-2 in Atlanta. A degree of relief for West Ham, who beat Bournemouth to finish second in the competition despite all the gloomy prognostications about their campaign to come. In Seoul, meanwhile, there was a very Tottenham moment as they followed the glee of last week’s 1-0 win over Arsenal with a 1-1 draw against Newcastle in which James Maddison was stretchered off with a knee injury described by his manager Thomas Frank as “bad”.It all looks real, it sounds real and yet everybody knows it isn’t real. That even now, in this age of data and minute analysis, there remains an element of randomness, is one of soccer’s great joys as a sport. But that tendency is magnified in pre-season. Contin...

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3 w. ago ‘I’d had 28 years of depression – now it was gone’: Comic Paul Foot on three seconds that changed his life

Driving through Manchester one Sunday, at the wheel of a Nissan Micra, Foot suddenly woke from decades of anxiety, anger and misery. He talks about the friends who tried to help him, and the forgiveness he struggled to findFor three years and four months, Paul Foot has been living in a state of joy. He is in it now, he says, sitting across a table, overlooking London’s Regent’s canal. He’s wearing one of his trademark blue LF Markey boilersuits, and seems serene rather than ecstatic, half smiling. But that’s because the joy doesn’t spike or yo-yo. It’s a “constant”, so reliable that even when someone he knows dies, “there’s still a peace beneath it and a joy in it as well”.Life was not always like this, and the story of how Foot, 51, overturned 28 years of “crushing, all-encompassing depression and anxiety” is told in his critically acclaimed 2023 show Dissolve, the filmed special of which is released this week. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Lazy Sunday Quiz: Test your general knowledge with these 10 questions

Can you get the answers right in our quiz?

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4 w. ago AD FEATURE: Kabinet to hold Summer Fair with fun, bargains, and one

Join Kabinet for a jam-packed Summer Fair at the Manchester showroom on Sunday, July 27

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