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Lionel Messi has donated money to help restore an area outside Madrid that has been affected by wildfires. Isabel Diaz Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid, revealed the former Barcelona star has given 80,000 euros (approximately £68,500) to the cause. Writing on X, Diaz Ayuso said: “Leo Messi has donated €80,000 for the reconstruction of the Sierra Oeste de Madrid. “I want to thank him and tell him that the […]

Boyzlife will perform a mix of Boyzone and Westlife’s classic songs and some of their own original music when they tour the UK in May 2027. The group, made up of Boyzone star Keith Duffy and former Westlife member Brian McFadden, will embark on a 12-date tour beginning in St Albans on May 6 and ending in Northampton on May 23. Duffy and McFadden said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to announce […]

Ariana Grande has said her decision to take a break from the spotlight was “not a reactive or impulsive thing” and has been planned for a long time. The singer, 33, announced she will take a break from public life after she wraps up her current tour and has dropped out of the upcoming London revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday In The Park With George, in which she […]

Ben Stokes insisted he has “definitely” played for England for the last time but outlined ambitions to return to the dressing room in a coaching capacity in the future. Stokes ended his international career after a 2-1 Test series defeat by New Zealand in June, admitting then that four years as captain had exhausted him and that he did not have “any more fight left in me”. He reversed his […]

FIFA’s chief of global football development Arsene Wenger says Gianni Infantino’s decision to withdraw from a plan to sell stakes in a World Cup company to private investors was “absolutely necessary and beyond question”. Former Arsenal manager Wenger issued a statement on Tuesday morning a week on from the first reports emerging about Infantino’s plan to create FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) and sell a 20 per cent stake in it […]

The development of Gatwick Airport’s second runway is set to begin after the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling that the plans could go ahead. The £2.2 billion expansion, approved by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander in September, will see the West Sussex airport move its emergency runway 12 metres north to accommodate around 100,000 more flights a year. It will allow the site to be used for the departures […]

The Government has apologised to the family of Pc Andrew Harper as two of his killers remain eligible for early release Justice Secretary Alex Norris acknowledged that the decision had “created harm” but said the alternative was seeing prisons cease to function. Some 5,000 people are expected to be released early under sentencing changes, down from 6,000 after ministers exempted rapists and child sex offenders as part of the scheme […]

The Prime Minister has said rape, serious child sex offences and grooming are to be excluded from upcoming cuts to prison sentences. It comes after Andy Burnham paused plans to release prisoners early in September to ease overcrowding in jails. The scheme will now be delayed until October. Mr Burnham said he “wanted to go even further”, but that it is not possible without the prison system collapsing and putting the public “at much […]

Donald Trump has said he thinks he and Andy Burnham are “going to have a very good relationship” as he again stressed the need for the UK to tackle immigration and open up North Sea oil, claiming Britain was currently “a bankrupt country”. The US president said the nation was “sitting on top of gold”, and that in a phone call on his first day in office the Prime Minister […]