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The LA Clippers have been fined $30m (£22.2m) by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for violating salary rules over the acquisition of star player Kawhi Leonard.The Clippers will also have to forfeit five first-round draft picks between 2029 and 2033, while owner Steve Ballmer has been suspended from all league and team activities for 12 months for “knowingly seeking to help Mr Leonard obtain off-court income opportunities”.Two-time NBA champion Leonard has been fined $700,000 (£518,997) by the league.The team’s president of business operations, Gillian Zucker, has been suspended for one year without pay for providing “misleading statements to investigators”.The punishments…

Available for over a yearThe Prime Minister has promised he will save the UK’s largest telescope. Radio Manchester’s Jude Brownhill has all you need to know about the proposed plans to cut funding to the Jodrell Bank Observatory.Programme WebsiteShow less

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A man who pushed over and killed his newly-discovered father in a pub garden on Christmas Eve has been found guilty of manslaughter.Martin Greensmith, 37, only learnt Steven Shevels, 61, was his biological father shortly before their encounter behind The Queen’s Head in Willington, County Durham, on 24 December, Teesside Crown Court heard.Greensmith said he only “gently” pushed Shevels after the victim “intimidated” him, but prosecutors maintained he had caused his death during a fit of anger.The defendant, who told jurors he was “very remorseful” and wanted to apologise to the victim’s family, will be sentenced on 21 October.Judge Jonathan…

LN4 Fusion will be run by Rene Rosin, founder and former boss of Prema, one of the most successful teams in the junior categories over the past two decades.In parallel, Norris is setting up what is described as “an independent, fully funded driver development” scheme, to be called the LN4 Legacy Programme.”I’ve been really lucky to have some amazing people around me throughout my career, and I know that getting to Formula 1 takes so much more than just talent,” Norris said.”You need the right people around you, the right support and the right opportunities at the right time.”That’s what…

The Conservatives have confronted a Labour-run London council with “deep concerns” over the signing off of a school forcing female pupils to wear hijabs.Barnet Hill Academy, an independent Islamic faith school, requires girls from the age of seven to wear hijabs and will become state-funded from the beginning of September after the local authority approved its application last month.Voluntary-aided (VA) schools are maintained and funded by local authorities, while their governing bodies retain control over areas including staffing and admissions.The decision prompted concern from Laura Trott, Shadow Secretary of State for Education, and Joy Morrissey, Shadow Minister for Women and…

King Charles appeared to sidestep a potential gender debate with carefully chosen language when discussing the people who embroidered the Bayeux Tapestry.The monarch referred to the individuals who are believed to have created the famous 11th-century work as “English craftspeople” during a speech at the British Museum on Wednesday evening.King Charles was speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron as the historic tapestry went on display in Britain for the first time.The King highlighted the theory that, despite being commissioned in Normandy, the tapestry was “most likely to have been embroidered in Canterbury by English craftspeople”.The wording is notable given the…

The Bank of England has received more than £9billion in gold after the Netherlands’ central bank relocated the vast sum from North America to London amid surging “geopolitical unrest”.De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) said the transfer, completed between March and August, repositioned some 86 tonnes away from the United States and Canada in favour of London’s more liquid trading environment. The gold is just a piece of the Netherlands’ 612.4-tonne gold stock – valued at £62.02billion at the close of last year.DNB President Olaf Sleijpen explained the move would “strengthen its crisis preparedness” amid “increasing geopolitical unrest”. Mr Sleijpen said: “With…