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However Shanahan’s decision paid off in the pool, and she was seen fighting back tears after securing silver on Friday night.Having been inspired by seeing Hannah Miley in action at the 2014 Games, Shanahan told BBC Scotland News she hoped future generations might have be likewise inspired by watching her in the pool this time around.”I’ve always said that if I can inspire the next generation of athletes coming through, then my job has been done,” she explained.”I know after 2014 watching Hannah I felt inspired, and it would be nice to think that maybe there’s some younger girls watching…
An “attention-seeking” illegal migrant has been jailed after turning up at a school armed with a hammer, hatchet and kitchen knife.South Sudanese national Both Douk Deng, 21, had become “increasingly frustrated” that immigration authorities were not helping him stay in Britain.Deng, who has a wife and child, was arrested after workmen confronted the South Sudanese at Edgar Wood Academy in Heywood, Greater Manchester, on August 6 last year.He was seen “mumbling” as he walked a “full circuit” around the school with a hammer, hatcher, seven-inch kitchen knife, and jerry can containing half a litre of petrol, Manchester Minshull Street Crown…
Mr Polanski was reported to the police by Reform for sharing the post, with Mr Farage declaring: “If I were to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski.”“These creatures that they’ve got no place in politics,” Mr Anderson said. “I don’t like to report people to the police for making stupid comments and sharing stuff, but the bar’s been set on this. “We saw that with Lucy Connelly; she made an awful tweet, she apologised and deleted it. But she went to prison for three years for that. So that’s where the…
Scores of Britons are turning to American streamers over the BBC, a new Ofcom report has revealed, amid “growing challenges” for the national broadcaster.According to the regulator’s annual Media Nations report, Netflix has now eclipsed the BBC as British viewers’ go-to platform when it comes to looking for something to watch – at 26 per cent vs 25 per cent. The review also found that 15 per cent of audiences opt for ITV when deciding what to watch. The amount of time people spend watching YouTube on television sets has doubled since 2022 to an average 19 minutes a day…
Zack Polanski has refused three times to apologise to Nigel Farage for re-posting a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slogan “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, said the image showed a “photo of man calling for the beheading of Nigel Farage”, which he said could be an “incitement to murder”.The Green Party of England and Wales leader was reported to the Met over the photo, which he quickly deleted, but told the he had not been contacted by police.Speaking to Newsnight, he said he…
Despite conceding six goals across two legs, Hearts impressed going forward in spells but lacked a clinical touch in front of goal, failing to score from a combined expected goals value of 2.6.With only a couple of competitive games under their belt, there was a sense of unease around Tynecastle, where many fans left well before the final whistle.The defeat was Hearts’ first at home in 15 months and supporters can be forgiven for expecting more from a side assembled with the aid of lauded recruitment tool Jamestown Analytics.Regardless, it is still just two games into the season for a…
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Rachel Diamond, 23, moved from her family home in Oldham to Portsmouth to follow her dream job as a graduate engineer. She earns in the early £30,000s and says: “I was quite lucky when I got my job straight after uni. So I’ve kind of done everything right, but still I’m not saving any money from my paycheck, like months and months, just because it’s so expensive with renting and bills. I don’t think people realise how expensive it is to rent. “That’s the thing, like council tax, you only get 25% discount, so that’s expensive on my own. Again,…
Some athletes struggled in the conditions.England’s Morgan Lake did not clear the bar with any of her three efforts in the high jump. Similarly, Scotland’s Steven Stone had attempts with his glasses on his face and the top of his head in the men’s T20 long jump but did not register a clean effort.Northern Ireland’s Kate O’Connor said she was “gutted” with her throw of 12.85m in the heptathlon shot put.”It just kept slipping out of my hands,” she said.”When your chalk gets wet, it’s like you might as well have dish soap on your hands and I just probably…
Zack Polanski has refused to apologise for sharing an image of a man wearing a t-shirt that called for the decapitation of Nigel Farage.The Green Party leader was hauled in for a BBC Newsnight grilling over the row on Tuesday night – but claimed it was “quite obvious” he had not “done anything wrong, other than make an inadvertent mistake”.He then said it would be “odd” for police to question him over the image of a man in a black t-shirt emblazoned with the words: “We’re only making plans for Nigel,” alongside a guillotine.Mr Polanski had “collaborated” on the post…