Category: Football

22 hours ago By Craig Williams, BBC Scotland News PA Media Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer launched his party’s manifesto on Thursday Labour has promised to change the way Westminster and Holyrood co-operate as part of a wide-ranging set of constitutional reforms. The party’s UK manifesto – which was launched in Manchester on Thursday – includes plans...

2 days ago By David Deans, Political reporter, BBC Wales News BBC Rhun ap Iorwerth has been Plaid Cymru’s leader since last year The next prime minister of the United Kingdom will be Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of Plaid Cymru has said. In a Panorama interview with Nick Robinson, Rhun ap Iorwerth predicted that Labour will...

A consortium of international investors, which involves a member of the Saudi royal family, has made a £400m offer to buy Premier League club Everton. Farhad Moshiri agreed to sell his 94% stake to 777 Partners in September, but the investment firm could not complete the deal, opening the way for others to make a...

How many times have you found yourself complaining about the weather this week? The lack of summer-like weather seemingly continues to be part of the national conversation. While temperatures creep up closer to the average for June in the coming days, it won’t feel like it because of rain and strong wind. And there are...

The UEFA European Championship returns this summer, running from June 14 until July 14. The prestigious international tournament, which sees the best 24 national teams from across Europe battle it out over four weeks of fixtures, is being hosted by three-time winners Germany, who will get the ball rolling against Scotland in the opening fixture....

Former Liverpool and Scotland centre-back Alan Hansen, 68, is “seriously ill”. The Anfield club announced on Sunday their “legendary” former captain is in hospital. “The thoughts and support of everyone at Liverpool FC are with our legendary former captain Alan Hansen, who is currently seriously ill in hospital,” a statement read. Hansen won promotion to...

Reuters Standard Chartered Bank has its headquarters in the City of London A British bank that escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars of transactions for funders of terrorist groups, US court papers allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s largest banks, avoided prosecution by the US Department of Justice after Lord...

4 days ago By Josh Parry, LGBT & Identity Producer • Henry Zeffman, Chief political correspondent ‘Sex in the law is biological sex’ – Badenoch on Tories pledge to rewrite equality law The Conservatives have promised to rewrite the Equality Act so that protections it enshrines on the basis of a person’s sex apply only to their biological sex. Prime...

2 June 2024 By Marianna Spring, Disinformation reporter and social media correspondent BBC Misinformation about Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak is among the content promoted to young voters’ TikTok feeds Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being recommended fake AI-generated videos featuring party leaders, misinformation, and clips littered with abusive comments, the BBC has found....

The Liberal Democrats are pledging to make 10 English Premier League football matches per season free to watch on TV for everyone, if they win the election. The party said the promise was in response to rising ticket prices and streaming subscription costs. The Lib Dems said fans who wanted to watch games on TV...