Category: Football

Rishi Sunak has delivered a speech outside Number 10 after losing the election to Sir Keir Starmer. Here it is in full. “Good morning. I will shortly be seeing His Majesty The King to offer my resignation as prime minister. “To the country, I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry. I...

Reuters Labour has won the 2024 general election. So what happens next? Here’s your quick guide to the comings and goings in the transition of power from Conservative to Labour. Who is prime minister now? Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, is the prime minister after Labour won the 2024 general election. In...

Chris Mason, the top dog of the BBC’s political team, has said Labour has achieved a “spectacular victory”. Their result after the last election was their worst since 1935 he explained, and they faced a mountain of a task to win even by a small margin. But they’ve done it, and “Sir Keir Starmer will...

5 days ago By Chris Binding, Local Democracy Reporting Service LDRS Sunderland AFC has stated it wants to be one of the first net zero clubs in the country A football club has submitted an application for a solar farm. If approved, it will be constructed on a 48-hectare (118-acre) site to the east and west of...

1 hour ago By Tom McArthur & Lucy Clarke-Billings, BBC News Election 2024: Pooches at polling stations across the UK It’s become an expected feature of every election – as people make the way to polling stations, so do their dogs (and other animals). For some, the trip to exercise their right to vote doubles up as...

Promoted Yeovil Town have signed goalkeeper player-coach Matt Gould, 30, from fellow National League side Altrincham on a two-year contract. Dagenham & Redbridge have made Christian N’Guessan, 25, and Harrison Day, 18, their eighth and ninth signings of the summer transfer window. Former Sutton United midfielder N’Guessan has signed a two-year contract. Striker Day, who...

England midfielder Phil Foden will return to Germany on Thursday after travelling to the United Kingdom for the birth of his third child. The 24-year-old left the England camp for what the Football Association said on Wednesday was a “pressing family matter”. Foden, who has 37 caps, has started all three of England’s group games...

5 days ago By James Cook, Scotland editor Getty Images When Scotland declared its independence from England, the words came from the heart. “It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” Seven centuries have passed since...

Getty Images Almost 184,000 people in Scotland identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, census data has revealed for the first time. The census, conducted in 2022, found that 80,100 (1.76% of those aged over 16) identified as gay or lesbian while 80,260 (1.76%) identified as bisexual. A further 23,500 (0.51% of over-16s) people chose another...

A security guard checked out an abandoned stud farm to keep Holly Willoughby as part of a plan to kidnap her, a court heard. Gavin Plumb, 37, has denied plotting to kidnap, rape and murder the television celebrity. He allegedly told another man online Ms Willoughby would be put in a van before being taken...

Heritage Party candidates are standing in six of the 32 Welsh constituencies in next week’s UK general election, around a fifth of Welsh seats. But how did the party emerge and what does it represent? Heritage is a small, right-wing party describing itself as socially conservative. It has been registered as a British political party...

The top stories and transfer rumours from Wednesday’s newspapers… THE GUARDIAN Jonathan David is the subject of a Premier League tug-of-war with Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham and West Ham all interested in the Canada forward. Manchester United are moving their women’s team into portable buildings at their Carrington training complex this season to allow the...