Brighton hope to secure Nikita Parris signing on WSL deadline day

* Forward has turned down a number of offers
* Parris would join fellow Lioness Kirby at club




Brighton are in advanced talks with Manchester United over the potential signing of the England forward Nikita Parris.

It is understood the 71-times-capped Lioness has turned down a number of offers from other clubs and Brighton, whose opening WSL fixture of the season is at home to one of her former clubs Everton on 21 September, are now the favourites to secure her signature on Friday, the Women’s Super League’s transfer deadline day. Continue reading...


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UK counter-terror police drafted in after Telegraph journalist dies in Gibraltar

David Knowles, who helped make Ukraine: The Latest podcast, died on holiday after suspected cardiac arrest

UK counter-terrorism police are providing support to the investigation into the death of a Daily Telegraph journalist in Gibraltar.

David Knowles died while on holiday on Sunday after what his employers said was believed to be a cardiac arrest. Continue reading...


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Russia retakes swathe of villages from Ukraine in Kursk counteroffensive

Ukrainian president says his country’s incursion still going to ‘plan’, as Russian forces make rapid advances

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukraine’s military incursion into Russia is still going to “plan” after Russian troops recaptured a swathe of villages in the Kursk region, dealing a significant blow to Kyiv.

The Ukrainian president acknowledged the Kremlin had begun a counteroffensive, following Ukraine’s surprise cross-border attack last month into Russia. He said his armed forces had anticipated Moscow’s latest assault. Continue reading...


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‘They put Cork on the map!’: what the kids behind rap sensation The Spark did next

Theirs was the feelgood song of the summer – praised by Stormzy and reaching hundreds of millions of listeners online. But what’s it like to go on the road when you’re still at school?

It may be called Harbour View Road – but there is no harbour and not much of a view in this patch of suburb outside Cork city, just a row of nondescript houses in a sea of housing estates. The doors of the 202 bus, which trundles here from the city centre, emit a little sigh when they open.

And then, as you approach a curve in the road, flashes of colour appear: a repurposed metal container splotched red, yellow, green and blue like an artist’s palette, with two words stencilled in black: Kabin Studio. Continue reading...


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My passionate love affair with Scotland’s largest island

On the surface, little appears to have changed in the 30 years that bestselling author Peter May has been visiting the Isle of Lewis. But tourism has had a big impact – from Sunday opening hours to a deep water port for cruise ships

There was a joke doing the rounds when I was first visiting the Outer Hebrides more than three decades ago. On the flight to Stornoway, halfway across the Minch, the pilot makes an announcement: “We will shortly be arriving on the Isle of Lewis. Don’t forget to turn your watches back two … hundred years.”

And there was, indeed, as you arrived on the islands for the first time, a sense of stepping back in time – to a place and a culture that had changed little in perhaps centuries. Continue reading...


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