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A British man jailed in Iran after being accused of spying has had two years added to his decade-long sentence, according to family members.Craig Foreman was arrested with his wife, Lindsay, in January last year while passing through Iran on a motorcycle journey from Europe to Australia. Both adamantly deny espionage.In February they were each sentenced to 10 years in jail, but relatives of Craig Foreman said he had been told his punishment is being extended for talking to the media from his cell in Tehran’s Evin prison.The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) said the department was “urgently following…

London City Lionesses have signed France forward Kadidiatou Diani on a three-year deal for a fee exceeding £500,000.The 31-year-old announced her departure from European giants Lyon on Monday despite having a year remaining on her contract.London City had been in advanced discussions for several weeks and, while other European clubs were interested, Diani chose a move to the Women’s Super League (WSL).Diani spent three seasons at Lyon after moving from Paris St-Germain in 2023 and scored 41 goals in 93 appearances.”It is an opportunity for me to discover a new country, a new city, a new team, and I can’t…

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A major bridge on the M42 has been closed after drivers repeatedly ignored a safety weight limit put in place to protect the ageing structure.National Highways shut the North Bridge at Junction 6 near Birmingham Airport from 4pm on Monday after engineers found serious structural damage and warned the bridge could no longer remain open safely.The bridge had already been reduced to one lane before a 7.5-tonne weight restriction was introduced to reduce pressure on the structure. However, National Highways said there had been “repeated breaches of the weight limit, which was put in place to safeguard the bridge”.Following further…

Thames Water has returned to a full-year profit after hiking its customers bills by 40% last year.The UK’s largest water company reported post-tax income of £113m for the 12 months to the end of March, swinging from a £1.51bn post-tax loss the previous year.However, the firm’s net debt also swelled to £18.5bn from £16.8bn as it said it “continued to fund the business through… debt and internally generated cash flows”.Chief executive Chris Weston said: “The progress we have made in turning the company around has meant we are now performing better.”The publication of Thames Water’s results comes after the government…

Six-time Olympic medallist Suni Lee has announced she is coming back to gymnastics after not competing since the 2024 Olympics.The 23-year-old took team gold with the USA in Paris along with all-around and uneven bars bronzes.She claimed all-around gold, team silver and uneven bars bronze at Tokyo 2020.Lee’s return, revealed in a video on Instagram,, external comes two years before the Los Angeles 2028 Games.Commenting “I’m back”, she said in a voiceover: “I know what I’m capable of. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get there. Back in the gym. We’ll see.”The video ends with the words: “This…

“We’re all fed up of hearing about these incidents,” Trevor Cooper, solicitor and dog law specialist, said. “There are victims who deserve better and the law that we have is a complete mess.”It is high time the Dangerous Dogs Act was perhaps thrown away and let’s start again with something that is fit for purpose.”The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government body responsible for providing guidance for police and local authorities on enforcing dog control laws.”We recognise that attacks on pets can have a devastating impact on owners and we take these incidents seriously,” a…

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Firefighters have said it could take days to extinguish a large fire on moorland in Greater Manchester, which broke out on Saturday.Officers said the blaze at Dove Stone Reservoir in Greenfield, Saddleworth, had now merged with one several miles away at Tintwistle Moor near Glossop.Clive Stanbrook, from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service (DFRS), said it was spreading because of the tinder-dry conditions and the “ever changing winds”. He said crews were “doing all we possibly can to try and stop this fire from spreading any further”, including dropping water from helicopters and carrying out reconnaissance with drones and aircraft. A…

It is a question that has been repeatedly asked. Not least at the various reunions to mark Leeds’ title triumph in 1992 or Blackburn Rovers’ Premier League win three years later.Batty was involved in both of those landmark achievements, but ex-Blackburn midfielder Mark Atkins has not caught up with him since their playing days.”We have tried to get him to the dos we have had, but nobody can get hold of him,” he said.”He’s not that type of person. Even if he was living five miles away, he wouldn’t turn up because he’s a very personal guy, really.”Aside from a…