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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out on Monday the legal steps she will take to deport the freed ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang. Shabir Ahmed, jailed for 22 years in 2012 for multiple counts of child sexual offences including rape, was released from prison on licence earlier this month.Calls have mounted across the political spectrum for the deportation of Ahmed, who was stripped of his British citizenship following his conviction, leaving him with only Pakistani nationality. But he cannot be deported due to a 1971 law that forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth citizens who…
Welcome to our Who am I? game.The rules are simple. Each day there’s a new footballer and the challenge is to guess who they are in as few attempts as possible.After each wrong guess you unlock a new clue. Guess the answer after as few clues as possible to score more points.Three is a good score, four or five points is exceptional.So take part and return for more tomorrow.Today’s player and clues set by BBC Sport’s Adam Millington.After more quizzes? Go to our dedicated Football Quizzes and Sports Quizzes pages and sign up for notifications to get the latest quizzes…
Chester Zoo is hosting a summit to try and tackle misleading weather apps costing it up to £137,000 per day in lost visitor income. It launched a campaign to tackle the problem in March, when chief operating officer Dom Strange said the sight of a single rain icon – which could mean a brief shower was forecast – was deterring some visitors.”Since then, we’ve had constructive conversations with the Met Office and this summit is the next step,” he said. The zoo, which is holding the summit with the Met Office, government officials and 16 major UK attractions, wants a…
Tens of thousands of people are set to march in Northern Ireland today for the Orange Order’s annual Twelfth parades.The celebrations mark 336 years since the Battle of the Boyne, when the Protestant King William of Orange defeated Catholic King James II.Events are set to take place in 18 main locations throughout the region – though because July 12 landed on a Sunday this year, the traditional parades have been moved to Monday.Forecasters are predicting warm and sunny conditions for the day’s festivities, while the Orange Order’s Grand Master Harold Henning has praised today as a celebration of 230 years…
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On Saturday and Sunday night, hundreds of bonfires were lit to mark Eleventh night – a tradition observed by many unionist communities on the eve of the Twelfth.The bonfires commemorate the actions of King William III’s supporters in 1690, who lit fires across the countryside to welcome him and guide him to the battle site.Most Eleventh night bonfires pass without incident, but some are controversial due to their height or location, or because they contain symbols considered offensive.This year the bonfire in Moygashel in County Tyrone caused controversy again when an effigy of a mosque was burnt on Thursday night.A…
Wales showed spirit to stay in the contest against Argentina and were hunting a pair of bonus points with the clock in the red.But the Pumas were convincing winners when responding to an opening round defeat by Scotland.”We were just slightly off it around our physicality, first time tackles, speed around the ruck – the basics where you need to be at it at this level,” said Adams.”We still managed to find ourselves in the Test match and it was going back and forth until they pulled away with a couple of scores before half-time.”Argentina are a good team when…
May temperatures, meanwhile, hit a new UK high of 35.1C at Kew Gardens on May 26 – a significant increase on the previous high mark of 32.8C, which had been set back in 1922 and equalled in 1944.Both heatwaves were caused by a “heat dome” – a stalled area of high pressure that trapped hot air over the region, say experts.The heat dome was made worse by human-induced climate change, the researchers say. This has warmed the planet by around 1.4C since pre-industrial times and scientists believe it added between 3 and 4C to the maximum temperatures recorded in May…
The rising sun bathes the rolling Herefordshire hillsides in a warm glow as birds gently chirp and sheep graze in the fields.But this rural idyll is shattered by the sound of explosions, followed by plumes of smoke and ear-splitting screams.Six camouflaged men rush to the scene to find a soldier howling for help as he clutches his bloodied leg, half of which appears to have been blown off.Thankfully, the blood is fake and this is an actor – albeit a former soldier and amputee – and the first responders are a group of football coaches studying for their Uefa Pro…
In the fifth year of its full-scale war with Russia, Ukraine is about to see its fifth UK prime minister. There is some concern in Kyiv about the risk of political instability in Britain. Ukraine needs its allies to remain focused on the giant war in the heart of Europe; it needs the UK to keep up its military aid, its drone deliveries and its economic support for “as long as it takes”, as it promised. But from PM No 1, Boris Johnson – so popular he had a cake named after him here – right through to No 4,…