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Chancellor John Healey has announced the date of his first Budget will be Wednesday, 28 October.In a video message,  he said: “This will be a Budget that moves money and power out of Westminster, and into every postcode around Britain.”It will be built on fiscal discipline. It will meet our fiscal rules. It’ll give businesses and families some of the stability they need to plan for the future. Now, let’s get on with the job.”Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said his government will stick to Labour’s fiscal rules on spending and borrowing as well as the party’s 2024 manifesto pledges not…

Georgia Hunter Bell is eyeing an ambitious sweep of gold medals in 2026 after winning the 800m Commonwealth Games title in Glasgow.England’s Hunter Bell dominated the field to add Commonwealth gold to the 1500m world indoor title she won earlier this year in Poland.The 32-year-old, a training partner of 800m Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, will also race at next month’s European Championships and the inaugural Ultimate Championships in September.”There are four opportunities to win gold this year,” Hunter Bell told BBC Sport.”I am two golds down and two more to go.”Hunter Bell is blossoming later in her career. Having taken…

Tranmere Rovers v Rochdale – Saturday, 1 August (15:00 BST)Rochdale’s return to the EFL after three seasons away proved to be every bit as gripping as York’s.After dusting themselves down from their final-day disappointment, Dale beat Scunthorpe in the play-offs to set up a promotion final against Boreham Wood at Wembley.Goals from Matt Rush and Abdul Abdulmalik had Wood on course for a first-ever EFL promotion before Tyler Smith pulled one back with 13 minutes to go and, in the seventh minute of stoppage time, Dieseruvwe popped up again to send the game to extra time.After a goalless 30 additional…

The funeral industry in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is self-regulating, relying on voluntary codes and inspections by trade associations. Anyone can set up as a funeral director without formal training, registration or mandatory oversight.Bush himself highlighted the lack of regulation during his interviews with Humberside Police.In footage released by the force, an officer asks: “Has it ever happened in your experience that someone from Bereavement Services, for example, has turned up to ask to inspect your fridges to make sure they are in order?”Bush replies: “No, nobody.”The officer asks: “Is [inspection] a thing that happens?””When you join the National…

Former Rangers striker Steven Thompson agreed with McInnes that there is no need to panic.”It’s not the result Rangers wanted, but it is a point away from home at a difficult venue,” he said on BBC Radio Scotland. “Other teams will come here and find it very difficult.”At this point in the season, there’s no knee-jerk [reaction] or anything here.”It’s not what McInnes wants, but it’s the first game of the season. There will be time to judge once he gets the players he wants and once he gets more work done on the training ground.”He will have learned a…

“And to have the resounding victory that we’ve had just fills me the confidence, really, that people in Greater Manchester believe that we have been making a great difference and want to see us building on the legacy of what we’ve created and go even further,” she said.She also reiterated policy commitments – namely free buses for 11 to 18-year-olds, which would “give families up to £500 each”.”You know, these are practical things that I don’t think are driven by ideology, but are driven by the fact that everybody in every tiny village and city in Greater Manchester wants to…

A woman has been left with memory loss and seizures and has to take 18 tablets a day after a tick bite on a Greek holiday left her in a coma for nearly six weeks.Victoria Stellas, from Anglesey, had flu-like symptoms while on the island of Syros in 2019, then – once back home – started having night seizures.She went to hospital but “no-one knew what was wrong” so had an MRI scan and was flown by helicopter to Liverpool’s Walton Centre, external, where she was put in an induced coma for 42 days.From there Victoria was diagnosed with tick-borne…

European football’s 55 member associations, Uefa, voted on Thursday to boycott World Cups if the plans went ahead.Fifa’s chief operating officer Kevin Lamour said the governing body’s own administration had been “deceived” about the project.Carlos Cordeiro – Infantino’s senior adviser on global strategy and governance – resigned over the mater, saying the proposal was “a bad deal for football” and would “mortgage football’s future”.That came after two other major confederations spoke out against the plans.Concacaf, which governs football in North, Central America and the Caribbean – and hosted this summer’s World Cup – said its members “rejected” the proposal, with…

A controlling and abusive husband who stabbed his wife 40 times after she told him she wanted a divorce has been jailed for life.Syed Rafay Ahmad, 45, attacked Anam Rafay, 36, with a kitchen knife in their home in Lulworth Gardens in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester on the morning of 27 January.He then sent a message to his family’s WhatsApp group, as well as to Anam’s father, saying: “I have killed my wife.”Ahmad, who denied murder but dramatically changed his plea at Manchester Crown Court after three days of giving evidence, has been jailed for a minimum of 27…

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