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LaLiga president Javier Tebas has called for Manchester City to face the strongest possible sanction available to the Premier League if they have breached financial rules. News broke on Friday that City had been found guilty of the majority of 115 charges laid against them, although chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak is “confident” they will prove their innocence. The most severe punishment available to the Premier League is expulsion, an outcome […]

A leader of a major trade union has said scrapping the pension triple lock to fund social care would be “morally wrong”. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham issued the warning amid speculation that the Government could change the way pensions are increased to partly fund an NHS-style social care system, which Andy Burnham has said he wants to set up after the next general election. Ministers have refused to confirm […]

The number of mortgage approvals made to home buyers has slipped to its lowest level since the end of 2023, figures show, as elevated borrowing and living costs weighed on housing demand. Some 54,900 mortgages were approved for a house purchase in August, decreasing from 55,900 in July, according to the Bank of England’s latest money and credit data. It means UK mortgage approvals, which are looked to as an […]

Madame Tussauds London has added a cloak to its wax figure of The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey, who will appear in the upcoming series of The Celebrity Traitors. The 23-year-old will take part in the BBC reality gameshow, presented by Claudia Winkleman, when it returns on Thursday, with fans yet to be told who will be traitors and who will be faithfuls. Steve Blackburn, general manager at Madame […]

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school-age children. The 49-year-old subjected a girl and a boy to multiple incidents of abuse, with the girl targeted between 1993 and 1996 and the boy between 2006 and 2010. Dott appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, where judge Lord Harrower told him he […]

A suspected terror plot against an RAF base used by American forces “clearly involves the hand of a foreign actor”, US secretary of state Marco Rubio has claimed, but refused to provide further details. In a TV interview, the top diplomat mentioned Iran by name, pointing out it had threatened to attack US interests, but did not directly blame it for the weekend incident. Tehran has strongly denied any involvement. […]

Andy Burnham will pledge to tackle the issues politicians “usually avoid” in his first leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference amid mounting speculation the pensions triple lock could be reformed to fund social care. The Prime Minister is expected to use his address to set out a new course for a “Britain where people feel the country has their back again”. He will flesh out his plans for free […]

OpenAI has said it is delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model over security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company’s effort to decelerate the pace of the technology’s advance. OpenAI’s decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, comes amid a broader push within the industry to slow the development of increasingly autonomous systems until safety measures can catch up. The announcement came […]

SpaceX has launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft re-entered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas. The company had been aiming for a 10-hour flight, spanning six full laps around Earth, to prove its readiness for Nasa’s Artemis Moon […]