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Marvin Bartley has taken over as Livingston manager with David Martindale moving to a new role as sporting director at the Scottish Premiership bottom club.Martindale moves upstairs after five years as manager, with the club winless in 24 games and six points adrift at the foot of the table.The West Lothian’s sole league victory this season came in August and Martindale is now replaced by his assistant Bartley following Saturday’s 2-0 home loss to Motherwell.Livingston’s run of 22 games without a league victory is only matched by one top-flight team this century – Hamilton in the 2010-11 season.Bartley’s only previous…

Residents of the Welsh seaside town of Barmouth are growing increasingly alarmed as the full extent of proposed flood defence works becomes clear.A two-year coastal protection project along the north promenade is set to commence this summer, with Cyngor Gwynedd finalising designs for new defences, including a 1.2 kilometres secondary wall reaching heights of up to 1.7 metres.Local construction worker Kye Smith, 38, has emerged as a vocal critic of the plans.”Residents will feel like they are in a maximum security prison,” he said.Mr Smith argues the towering concrete structure will block light and obstruct views for those living on…

Newly released files have revealed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent considerable time with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, according to emails from convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.The correspondence forms part of more than three million Epstein-related documents published by the US Department of Justice.These fresh disclosures intensify existing questions about whether the former Duke of York’s high-level connections to the Chinese state represented a threat to national security.The documents suggest the former royal had substantial contact with senior Chinese officials.New Epstein files have claimed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had substantial contact with senior Chinese officials | GETTYIn a November 2015 email to…

Watford head coach Javi Gracia has resigned after just over three months in the job following their 2-0 defeat by Swansea City.Gracia, who only returned for a second spell at Vicarage Road in October, called for a meeting with club owner Gino Pozzo following Saturday’s loss, saying the team were in a “very difficult moment”.”We retain the belief Javi was the right man to lead the club towards its push for promotion, but Javi felt he no longer had the motivation and was not the right man to continue coaching this exciting group of young players,” a club statement said.,…

Patrick Matthews and Emma Fernandez have secured a victory in their fight against eviction from three beloved north London cafes, after their legal challenge halted plans to remove them tomorrow.The couple, who operate venues at Parliament Hill Lido on Hampstead Heath, Queen’s Park and Highgate Wood through their company Hoxton Beach, were notified shortly before Christmas that they had lost a retendering process.Their landlord, the City of London Corporation, had instructed them to leave the premises by February 2. However, lawyers have now confirmed the pair will not be required to vacate their sites next week.The Corporation, which governs the…

The son of imprisoned Hong Kong journalist Jimmy Lai has slammed Keir Starmer’s trip to China, saying his father is suffering in solitary confinement while politicians focus on diplomatic relations.Sebastian Lai described the ongoing ordeal of his 78-year-old father, who has been held since 2020 for his pro-democracy journalism. Jimmy Lai, a British citizen, is the most high-profile figure charged under Hong Kong’s controversial National Security Law, introduced in 2020 following mass pro-democracy protests.Beijing insists the law is necessary to maintain stability, but critics say it has effectively criminalised dissent.Mr Lai was accused of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions…

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History was on the line for both superstars in a highly anticipated final which ensured a rather underwhelming Australian Open ended with a flourish.Following their gruelling semi-final victories on Friday, neither player trained on Saturday and left everyone wondering how they would pull up on Sunday.Djokovic pointed out Alcaraz had the advantage in that regard – given he was 16 years younger – but the veteran made a mockery of the age difference in a blistering start.Moving sharply, Djokovic used his superior tennis IQ to carefully construct points in a way which Alcaraz could not compute – similar to how…

A woman has been stabbed to death in a busy area of north London, police have said.Officers were called to reports of a stabbing in Pound Lane, Willesden, at around 4pm on Saturday. A 50-year-old woman was found with stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.A 30-year-old man, believed to have been known to the victim, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody at a north London police station, the Metropolitan Police confirmed.Detective Superintendent Tony Bellis, responsible for local policing in Brent, said: “An incident of this nature is tragic and deeply concerning, and…

Tomatoes are set for a culling under a new Labour initiative to crackdown on junk food in a move which has been blasted as “nonsensical” by industry leaders.The Government unveiled plans last week to update the Nutrient Profiling Model, which determines what counts as healthy or unhealthy food.Under the revised system, “free sugars” released when fruits and vegetables are pureed or mashed would be counted in nutritional calculations.This could mean that tomatoes and other natural ingredients could be removed from everyday products like pasta sauces and ready meals.Should ministers apply these new criteria to existing advertising restrictions, products including pasta…