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Today, whether it’s pre-season or a winter break, most Premier League clubs who take their players away go first-class and enjoy great hotels, great facilities and wonderful food.Wherever the team bus goes, it is followed by an even bigger bus with all the non-playing staff on it.It is very different to my experiences in my early years as a player, when we would be taken to Blackpool for three days’ pre-season training.Again, the idea was to bring the lads closer together, but that happened in a different way than today’s professionals are used to.We stayed in a guest house with…

Sentebale’s most recent accounts paint a stark picture of financial decline. Total income fell from £2.345million over 16 months in 2024 to £2.024million across 12 months in 2025, a drop the charity’s annual report attributed to “lower event income, reduced gifts in kind and lower donations from trusts and foundations.”The collapse in event revenue was particularly dramatic, plummeting from £715,000 to just £70,000. This almost certainly reflects the end of Prince Harry’s annual polo fundraisers, which had been a reliable source of funds for the organisation.Contributions from trusts and foundations fell from £221,000 to £85,000, while institutional funding declined from…

The suspected murder of a mother and her five children in a house fire is now being treated as a cold case, the has learned.Dr Sabah Usmani and her five children – Hira, 12, Sohaib, 11, Muneeb, nine, Rayyan, six, and Maheen, three – were killed by the blaze at their home in Harlow in October 2012.Detectives say there are no longer any viable lines to investigate but will “continue to assess any new information”.The children’s father Dr Abdul Shakoor, who was the only survivor that night, says he fears he will die before the case is solved.Inquiries become cold…

Smith has long been regarded as one of British boxing’s leading prospects, but victory over Matias moved him onto the world stage and a successful first defence would strengthen his claim to be one of the best fighters in the division.It could also open the door to much bigger fights. Shakur Stevenson holds the WBO title, while Russell is the WBA champion. The IBF title is vacant.There is also a domestic rivalry developing with unbeaten Londoner Adam Azim.Azim is 15-0 and has been talked about as a future world champion, but Smith has, for now, moved ahead of him in…

John Healey is eyeing yet another tax raid on family businesses, with experts warning it could push them “to extinction”.The Chancellor is said to be weighing up plans that could see business owners hit with income tax when passing their companies down to the next generation.Under the proposals, the existing capital gains tax would be replaced with income tax, potentially leaving some business owners facing a significantly higher bill.Currently, families can restructure their businesses using “redeemable shares”, allowing ownership to be transferred while attracting capital gains tax at a rate of up to 24 per cent.However, under the changes, such…

This year marks 100 years since Wythenshawe Hall was donated to Manchester Corporation.At the time, the city was in urgent need of more housing.In 1920 an urban planner called Patrick Abercrombie identified Wythenshawe as the only undeveloped land suitable for building a housing estate close to Manchester.To turn his proposal into a reality, Ernest and Shena Simon bought Wythenshawe Hall from Robert Henry Grenville Tatton in 1926, which they donated to the city’s corporation (now known as the council).The surrounding land became Wythenshawe Park.The idea was that people could be rehoused away from industrial Manchester into what became known as…

Gaynor described the heartbreaking decision her family faced after their mother died.”Taking them down, you’re not taking a painting, you’re taking them,” she said.The portraits were buried alongside their mother.”We buried them with Mam in a white box, like a little coffin.”We placed them facing each other.”It felt like burying them again.”For Jeanette, the future of Edwina’s portrait is a source of concern.”I worry about what will happen to the painting,” she said. “I want people to see them.”Denise feels the same pull between preservation and possession.”It’s a treasure,” she said. “I could never part with it.”Nearly six decades after…

One of the more criticised aspects of the new, smaller format is the lack of goalkeepers, with some concerns over how that might impact their development.The 3v3 format only lasts for 12 months, so goalkeepers do return from under-8 level when the game progresses to 5v5.”When you make decisions like this, there are obvious trade-offs but we don’t believe it is going to be detrimental to the development of future goalkeepers,” Folwell added.”Obviously playing 3v3, players can’t use their hands but they are still going to be developing skills of blocking, sliding across, needing to get between the ball and…

Reform UK Councillor Matthew Caton, the Portfolio Holder for Children & Young People at Wakefield Council, told GB News that he is deeply concerned about the recent criminal allegations.He said: “Urban House has been operating in various guises since 2007 – it shut down in 2011, we believe, for health and safety and living concerns, and reopened again a few months later as asylum seeker accommodation.””The capacity of this place is three hundred or more beds, and the current occupation is between 200 and 260, so it’s a substantial facility. It’s the largest of its type in the Yorkshire and…

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