Maxence Lacroix: ‘One day I will be in the France team – but right now I want to win this Cup’ | Crystal Palace

Maxence Lacroix is treating Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley as just another game but the same can’t be said of his mother. “She’s more stressed than me right now,” the Crystal Palace defender says. “But I think it’s really good for a mother or father to see their son running his dream and playing […]

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Only three people prosecuted for covering up illegal sewage spills | Environment Agency

Water company bosses have entirely escaped punishment for covering up illegal sewage spills, government figures show, as ministers prepare to bring in a new law threatening them with up to two years in prison for doing so. Only three people have ever been prosecuted for obstructing the Environment Agency in its investigations into sewage spills, […]

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Littler blows lead in Liverpool quarter-final to hand victory to Van Gerwen | Darts

Luke Littler threw away the chance to silence the baying Liverpool crowd by collapsing against Michael van Gerwen in the quarter-finals of the latest round of the Premier League. Littler, booed on to stage at the M&S Bank Arena owing to his allegiance to Manchester United, looked like he would let his darts do the […]

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Sunny skies forecast for London Marathon as warm spell comes to UK | UK weather

Sunny skies are expected for runners crossing the finish line of the London Marathon on Sunday as forecasters anticipate the beginning of a warm and settled spell across much of the UK. The Met Office said temperatures in the capital were expected to peak at about 22C on race day. Early conditions are likely to […]

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Google to report earnings amid justice department lawsuits and Trump tariffs | Alphabet

Google’s parent company Alphabet will report its first quarter earnings on Thursday, which come as the tech giant is embroiled in antitrust lawsuits brought by the US government and a 17% drop in its stock price since the beginning of the year. It’s also the company’s first earnings report since Donald Trump levied tariffs on […]

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Campaigners criticise Farage’s claims that UK is ‘massively overdiagnosing’ mental illness | Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage says the UK is “massively overdiagnosing those with mental illness problems” and creating a “class of victims”. In comments, which have drawn criticism from campaigners and charities, the leader of Reform UK said it was too easy to get a mental health diagnosis from a GP. “It’s a massive problem. I have to […]

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The anti-Benítez: how Giráldez unleashed Celta’s youth and spirit | Celta Vigo

“Claudio has changed my life,” Borja Iglesias said and all around him, as they jumped and sang and smiled and hugged, his teammates felt the same; he has changed all of their lives. At the end of Celta Vigo’s victory over Villarreal on Wednesday, players and staff crouched low before fans and for the first […]

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In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore | US television

In the new and final season of Andor, an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media who instead paint the victims as terrorist threats to public safety. Meanwhile, the politicians who have enough backbone to speak out, and use the word “genocide” to describe these aggressions, are met […]

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Student killed and three injured in stabbing attack at French high school | France

A student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school on Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said. The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. A national police official said it had taken place at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Nantes […]

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