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Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has named US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former UK prime minister Sir Tony Blair as two of the founding members of its “Board of Peace” for Gaza.Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also sit on the “founding executive board”, the White House said in a statement on Friday.Trump will act as chairman of the board, which forms part of his 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas.It is expected to temporarily oversee the running of Gaza and manage its reconstruction.Also on the founding executive…
Plans to stage the most attended event in boxing history have been announced by live sports entertainment organisation iVisit Boxing (iVB).San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza will be turned into an open-air boxing arena with the card being streamed on YouTube on 11 July.The current record for the largest attendance at a boxing event stands at 135,132 – when Tony Zale and Billy Pryor fought at Juneau Park, Milwaukee in 1941.”This world-record attempt will belong to San Francisco,” said iVB chief executive Ed Pereira. “It belongs to its fans, its fighters and its communities.””San Francisco’s commitment to community and public engagement…
A landlord has sought permission to keep a St George’s cross mural on his 17th century pub after the council launched an investigation into the paint job.Jerry Kunkler first arranged for the cross to be painted on The Moonrakers Inn in the village of Pewsey, Wiltshire, in 2016 for the Fifa Club World Cup Final.He told GB News it had been there “been up there for eight or nine years” and “nothing” had been said about it until Wiltshire Council received a complaint and launched an investigation into the paint job in November last year. The local authority said that…
Half of Kemi Badenoch’s shadow Cabinet do not want to leave the European Convention of Human Rights, Robert Jenrick has told GB News.The former Shadow Justice Secretary said he realised he had to quit the Conservative Party when he asked over the Christmas break how he would vote if there were a general election tomorrow, to which he replied: “Reform.”In a damning assessment of Mrs Badenoch’s chances of winning power back from Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Jenrick told the People’s Channel the Tory leader “cannot handle the truth” about the state of the country and that the Tories.He added:…
Michael Carrick has branded the noise generated around Manchester United by former players “irrelevant” and says Roy Keane’s personal comments “did not bother” him.Carrick inherited Keane’s number 16 shirt when he joined United from Tottenham in 2006.He went on to win five Premier League titles and the Champions League but United were at the start of their downward spiral when they were beaten by Olympiakos in Europe’s top-tier competition in 2014.Carrick gave what Keane felt was a dour interview after that match and the Irishman’s assessment triggered a fierce response from Carrick’s wife Lisa at the time.Although she quickly deleted…
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Universal Credit claimants are being reminded the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could snoop in their bank accounts this year under new powers to clampdown on benefit fraud.The DWP has gained the authority to scrutinise the bank accounts of benefit recipients following the implementation of powers contained within the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.These measures, which only came into effect this year, enable the DWP to issue what are termed Eligibility Verification Notices to financial institutions. The powers form part of the government’s broader strategy to tackle benefit fraud and identify incorrect payments made to claimants.Initially targeting…
Alan Simpson PhotographyA young man was photographed in Rose Street carrying what appeared to be a macheteTwo teenage boys have been arrested after police received reports of people carrying bladed weapons in Edinburgh city centre.A photo taken in Rose Street showed a young man walking with what appeared to be large machete in his hand, just a short distance from other pedestrians. Police – including specialist firearms officers – were called to the street at about 14:55 on Friday and two male youths, aged 17 and 15, were arrested. No one was reported to have been injured and Police Scotland…
Bath: De Glanville; Cokanasiga, Ojomoh, Lawrence, Arundell; Russell, Spencer (capt); Obano, Dunn, Du Toit, Roux, Molony, Pepper, Underhill, Barbeary.Replacements: Frost, Van Wyk, Griffin, Hill, Reid, Carr-Smith, Carreras, RedpathEdinburgh: Paterson; Graham, O’Conor, Lang, Satala; Thompson, Vellacott (capt); Whitcombe, Ashman, Blyth-Lafferty, Hunter-Hill, Young, Dodd, Douglas, Muncaster.Replacements: Morris, Jones, Hill, McVie, Boyle, Shiel, Healy, Brown.
“The first battle for the future of London starts today, but it is won on May 7,” Reform UK’s mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham told an electric ExCel Centre last Friday.The Westminster councillor’s rabble-rousing speech, which reverberated around the corridors of the east London venue, was much more than a local election launch.From Chancellors visiting seaside coffee shops to Prime Ministers popping into pharmaceutical distribution centres, local campaign launches usually steer clear of box office moments.But Nigel Farage’s party, which is always willing to buck the trend, opted for something different.“Nobody does pyrotechnics like Reform,” a gleeful Mr Farage said.As the…