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  • Shoplifter who struck 10 times is banned from Co-ops in her home town

    Shoplifter who struck 10 times is banned from Co-ops in her home town



    A shoplifter has been banned from Co-ops in her home town for two years.Alison Edwards, 53, of Parsons Lane, Littleport, was handed the Criminal Behaviour Order at Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court last Thursday (16 July), along with a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.Alison Edwards, 53, of Parsons Lane, Littleport, was handed a Criminal Behaviour Order on 16 July barring her from Littleport Co-ops, along with a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 monthsShe pleaded guilty to 10 counts of theft after stealing items including alcohol and food from Waitrose in Ely and the Co-op, in Main Street, Littleport, on 10 occasions between 1 June and 9 July.PC Alex Thake, from the spree offender team, said: “Shoplifting has a significant impact on businesses, staff and the wider community, and we will continue to take action against those who repeatedly commit these offences.“This order has been put in place to prevent further offending and protect local retailers who have been affected by Edwards’ behaviour.“We recognise that there can often be underlying issues which contribute to offending, and while that does not excuse criminal activity, we hope Edwards engages with the support available to her to help address those issues and prevent further offences in the future.”

  • Car crashes into block of flats in Leeds after police chase through city

    Car crashes into block of flats in Leeds after police chase through city



    The car crashed into a block of flats on Devonshire GardensPolice are searching for the driver of a car that crashed into flats in Leeds.The car crashed into a block of flats on Devonshire Gardens. | GoogleShortly after 7.50pm on Sunday evening (July 19), the driver of a black Audi A4 made off from a marked police car on The Calls at the junction with Crown Point Road, Leeds.A police pursuit was authorised, but the pursuit was called off and officers lost sight of the vehicle a short time before it was involved in a collision with a block of flats on Devonshire Gardens in the Woodhouse areas of the city.“No one within the flats was injured and enquiries are ongoing to identify the driver of the vehicle,” a West Yorkshire Police spokesperson confirmed.Continue Reading

  • You can’t park there mate! Car on the rocks near Cannock

    You can’t park there mate! Car on the rocks near Cannock



    A car ended up atop rocks near a main road in StaffordshireA car driver found themselves between a rock and a hard place after the vehicle left the road and came to rest on a big rock.Car on the rocks near Cannock | Local LibraryPassing motorists couldn’t quite believe their eyes when they spotted the white car ‘parked up’ on the stone off the A34 Stafford Road at Pottal Pool between Cannock and Stafford over the weekend.The car has since been removed but images of it were shared widely on social media.Continue Reading

  • What’s failing? Our Prime Ministers or the UK?

    What’s failing? Our Prime Ministers or the UK?



    Why have seven Prime Ministers come and gone in little more than a decade? Is Britain simply producing weaker political leaders, or is something much deeper going wrong?
    In this video, I argue that the real story is not about personalities or competence. Instead, I suggest that the United Kingdom has been trying to govern with a political and economic model that effectively collapsed after the financial crisis of 2008.
    The banking crisis did not just expose failures in the City of London. It also revealed the limits of an economic system built around finance, tax havens, neoliberalism and the legacy of Britain’s imperial past. Since then, every Prime Minister has inherited impossible political constraints:

    promises of growth without investment,
    better public services without funding, and
    national unity while the four nations of the UK increasingly pursue different political futures.

    I also explore why the constitutional settlement is beginning to unravel, why Westminster seems unable to respond, and why simply replacing one Prime Minister with another will not solve Britain’s problems.
    If the UK is to thrive again, I argue that we need a new constitutional settlement, an economy that works for people rather than finance, and a new politics built around care and hope.

    This is the audio version:

    The Debate Ammunition for this video is available here.
    This is the transcript:

    I have now lived through sixteen Prime Ministers. Andy Burnham is the sixteenth, but the seventh in the last decade. And of those sixteen Prime Ministers, nine, like Andy Burnham, have arrived on the job without ever having won an election. There are lots of questions that arise from that, but the obvious and most important one, which many people are asking, is: are we now producing worse leaders because we seem to get through them at a rate of knots?
    A poor Prime Minister, like John Major, who was generally considered to be second-rate, served for seven years in the 1990s and won a general election.
    Now they don’t seem to be able to last two years at best. Liz Truss only managed weeks.
    So, is there something deeply wrong with the people who are becoming Prime Minister, or is there something else that is deeper and more seriously broken in the UK? I think we need to look at that and answer that second question because it’s more important than the first.
    I’m not talking here about competence. We know we have had good, bad, and indifferent Prime Ministers over my lifetime. Good ones? Well, most people would say Margaret Thatcher, certainly the most influential. Tony Blair won three general elections. In my lifetime, Harold Wilson won four, and so there are Prime Ministers who have, in their own terms, been highly successful.
    There’ve also been the weak ones. I’ve already mentioned John Major. Jim Callaghan was another one. But Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, they’ve been outright disasters. And as for Keir Starmer, well, his own party has turfed him out after two years, after winning what was called a landslide general election.
    Competence is an issue, but I think there is something much more important to look at. It is not just the issue of competence that explains today’s instability. There is something more fundamental that has changed in the last decade or so, and I think it all changed after 2008. That was the real turning point as far as I’m concerned. The global financial crisis of that year changed far more than our banking system here in the UK.
    It didn’t just change our economy either. It exposed deep weaknesses in the UK’s economic and political model. Those weaknesses were hidden before 2008. They’ve become more obvious as time has passed ever since, and now they’re impossible to ignore. Every Prime Minister since 2008 has inherited the legacy of that debacle, that meltdown, that failure of the City of London to manage its own affairs, and the subsequent need for the state to bail it out. And none of them has known what to do as a consequence. This is the failure that we are really talking about.
    The reality was that the old British constitutional settlement was exhausted by 2008.
    Britain had relied on the legacy of empire.
    It had relied on the dominance of the City of London as the hub of finance, not for the whole world maybe, but a major part of it.
    It had relied on tax havens to keep its old economic reach and to control large money flows that had previously come from colonies.
    It had relied on a belief in British exceptionalism, and those foundations were all shattered in 2008.
    The world turned on tax havens. The world realised that the City of London was not good for its word, and it was the government that had to bail it out. The world realised that we were no longer a major economic or colonial power. The illusions were shattered, and yet politicians still govern as though everything remains as it was before that crash happened.
    But the reality is, there have been signs of this change. Let’s take one example. The union that underpins the United Kingdom is changing. Scotland has increasingly followed its own political path since 2008, and Wales is now doing the same. Northern Ireland has its own constitutional dynamic. And in all three of these countries, three of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, there are governments now led by parties committed to leaving the United Kingdom.
    That was unthinkable in 2008, and now it’s reality. What that means is that England can no longer assume one political future fits everyone inside this supposed United Kingdom, which feels anything but that the moment you leave England.
    2008 also exposed the weaknesses in the neoliberal model. Whatever the upside had been before 2008, neoliberalism made everything worse at that time and since. Since 2008, governments have relied on austerity. Public services have steadily weakened. Inequality has grown. Living standards have stagnated. Hope has become harder to find.
    But the neoliberal constraints have not been relaxed. British Prime Ministers since 2015, when all of these changes were becoming clear, have inherited impossible choices.
    They promise growth, but they can’t change the economy.
    They promise better services, but they can’t provide the investment required.
    They promise unity, but the nations of the United Kingdom are drifting apart, and we’ve left the European Union.
    They promised hope whilst managing decline.
    No Prime Minister can succeed on these terms, but they are the ones that the neoliberal dogma requires of them. Neoliberalism has been designed to stop Prime Ministers functioning in the way that is necessary to ensure that they can govern this very weird combination of states that makes up the United Kingdom. Their task is now impossible within the framework in which we are sitting.
    And let’s be clear, we have, as a consequence, a full-blown identity crisis in the UK. Britain no longer has a shared national purpose. The old political sentiment has run its course. We’ve seen that. We’ve seen the rise of Nigel Farage and his populist parties. We have seen the challenges to government that that has given rise to. We’ve seen the rise of the Greens.
    The question is no longer: who governs? The question is, what is Britain? What should it become, and what does it want to achieve? That debate can no longer be avoided. But every single Prime Minister since 2010 has done their very best to avoid every aspect of those questions, denying the fact that there are questions which are more important than the ones they have chosen to look at, and that is why they’ve failed.
    Any Prime Minister who does not talk about the issues that I’ve just outlined is going to fail.
    We do need a different future.
    We do need to talk about it.
    We need a new constitutional settlement; we need to talk about that.
    We might need to be a different country. And that issue is never addressed by Prime Ministers in Westminster. It might be in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, but not here.
    And we need, at the same time, to recognise that whatever the state that emerges from this situation might be, it will have a very different place in the world.
    We need, at the same time, an economy that works for everyone. An economy that works for everyone in England, in Wales, in Scotland, and in Northern Ireland, and what works for everyone in each of those places might be different.
    Most of all, we need to replace neoliberalism because the dominance of finance within our economies only makes sense within the United Kingdom and only makes sense in a country dominated by the City of London. And it doesn’t seem as though any of the countries that make up the United Kingdom want such a structure anymore. We need a politics of care. We need an economics of hope.
    Prime Minister number sixteen is not then the real story today. The real story is of a political settlement that has reached the end of the line. Its limits have been appreciated. We know we must move on. And we know that unless we confront that reality, Prime Minister number seventeen will face exactly the same crises as Prime Minister number sixteen, oh, and 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 have done as well.
    Unless Andy Burnham realises this, Prime Minister number seventeen is waiting in the wings, looking for their chance to fail as he will unless he addresses these issues.
    So, what is the next chapter?
    The identity question has to be resolved. What country are we? We do need independence referendums to resolve that issue, and we need them more than once in some cases, because Wales might not be ready for independence now, but to pretend that this is a decision that can be made once and once only is quite ridiculous. We live in a fast-moving world. These decisions will change over time. We need to be able to address the reality of whether we are a single country or not.
    Each of our nations does need to choose its own future. If it wants to be in the United Kingdom, so be it. That’s fine. Let the people decide. That’s the point. The age of one Westminster solution is, however, ending, whatever happens. There do need to be strong devolved governments, even if there isn’t independence, and politics must always put people before finance. Without a doubt, that is the biggest change that we need of all.
    Every nation deserves the opportunity to build the future its people choose, and until Prime Ministers address that desire, we’re stuck in this continual flow of failed Prime Ministers, none of whom will put their heads above the parapet and ask the essential question: what are we going to do to address the problems we have? How many more will it take before we do finally get to the point where we will really talk about what is necessary? I would love it if Andy Burnham did this, but I’m not living in hope.
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  • Tate brothers fight UK extradition after Miami arrest on rape, sex trafficking charges

    Tate brothers fight UK extradition after Miami arrest on rape, sex trafficking charges



    (TNND) — Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate vowed Monday to fight extradition to the United Kingdom after appearing in federal court in Miami on rape, sex trafficking and other charges.The brothers, who were arrested Saturday by U.S. Marshals in Florida, appeared before a federal magistrate wearing tan jail uniforms and handcuffs. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis scheduled another hearing for next Monday, while a U.S. district judge will ultimately decide whether they can be extradited.”Our clients are innocent men,” attorney Joseph McBride told the court, calling the allegations “filth and slander.” He has said he expects the extradition request to be denied.MIAMI, FLORIDA – JULY 20: Joseph McBride, lead counsel for Andrew and Tristan Tate, speaks to reporters outside of the C. Clyde Atkins United States Courthouse on July 20, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are scheduled to appear in court before a federal magistrate after they were arrested to face rape and sex trafficking charges in the United Kingdom. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)The arrests stem from a Bedfordshire Police investigation in England. British authorities recently authorized 38 new charges involving four additional alleged victims, bringing the total number of charges the brothers face in the U.K. to 59.According to Bedfordshire Police, Andrew Tate faces seven additional counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 offenses involving indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.Tristan Tate faces two additional counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.The new allegations span from 2010 to 2017. The brothers were already facing 21 previously authorized charges, including rape, causing bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain involving three other alleged victims between 2012 and 2015.McBride previously suggested the arrests had been approved by a lower-level Justice Department official without input from department leadership. The Justice Department told The Associated Press that leadership in its Criminal Division approved the arrests.The case is the latest chapter in a yearslong international legal battle involving the brothers in Britain, Romania and the United States.FILE – Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan arrive at an event, April 11, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool, File)The Tate brothers, who hold dual U.S. and British citizenship, moved to Romania in 2016. They were arrested there in 2022 on allegations they recruited women for sexual exploitation through an organized crime group. They have denied those accusations, and the Romanian case has stalled because of legal and procedural issues.Romania later lifted travel restrictions, allowing the brothers to leave the country. They traveled to Florida earlier this year before being arrested Saturday on the U.K.’s extradition request.Andrew Tate built a massive online following by promoting wealth, masculinity and controversial views about women, making the brothers among the world’s most polarizing social media personalities. They have repeatedly denied all wrongdoing in both the U.K. and Romania._____Editor’s note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.

  • David Dimbleby ‘appalled’ by BBC making ‘very bad call’ to cut up to 2,000 jobs

    David Dimbleby ‘appalled’ by BBC making ‘very bad call’ to cut up to 2,000 jobs



    David DimblebyThe national broadcaster aims to make £500 million in savings over two years.David Dimbleby has said he is “appalled” by cuts at the BBC which will result in up to 2,000 people losing their jobs.The national broadcaster aims to make £500 million in savings over two years, with job cuts announced in April set to take place over the next three years.Speaking to Radio Times, the former Question Time host, 87, expressed his dismay at the decision.“Why on earth have they done that? The best analysis of politics, both national and international… I’m appalled. Very bad, bad, bad, bad, bad call,” he said.The former BBC journalist, who also presented Panorama, also criticised cuts made to BBC Studios Events.The team responsible for coverage of national occasions such as Remembrance Day and state funerals was told all but one of its members will be axed to cut costs.“And my God, BBC Events being closed,” Dimbleby, who provided commentary on Cenotaph services in Whitehall for more than 25 years and came out of retirement to lead the BBC’s coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, said.“It takes months of connections to make friends with the people at the Palace, with Westminster Abbey, with the police, to know what’s going on with Downing Street so that when the day comes, everybody helps you.“It’s a BBC gold standard to cover big national events. It’s at the heart of the BBC, and I cannot understand what they’re up to.“But I have no power in the BBC.”In a statement, the BBC said: “The BBC has to make at least £500 million of savings and BBC News, like all of the BBC, needs to play its part.“We have tried to mitigate the impact on audiences as much as possible, so The World Tonight will be replaced by BBC World Service’s Newshour, another high-quality news analysis programme made by the same production team, preceded by a domestic news bulletin.”It was previously announced BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight will be axed after more than 50 years, one of the first victims of the broadcaster’s savings drive.Dimbleby joined the BBC as a news reporter in Bristol in the 1960s and presented Question Time from 1994 to 2018.In other changes, the Sunday morning edition of BBC Breakfast will be cut from September, and the production teams for Newsnight and Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg will be merged.BBC director-general Matt Brittin said in a note to staff that the corporation will “review our broadcast TV channels and radio network portfolio as audiences move online”.He also said up to 10% of “senior leaders” will be cut from the organisation.Continue Reading

  • Shops linked to people smuggler in Blaby closed due to disorder fear

    Shops linked to people smuggler in Blaby closed due to disorder fear



    Manizja Latifi, the barrister representing the Candy Corner stores, told the court Twana Jamal, was not an owner, director or employee at either shop, and said he had “no control whatsoever” at the mini-marts.She told the court Jamal was a “distant relative” of the owner and on the day BBC News visited the store he was assisting the owner due to “childcare responsibilities”. Latifi said the “online hostility” which followed the BBC News coverage was “shocking” and “very distressing”. “We are looking at dozens and dozens of threats being made on Facebook,” she said. The hearing was told the owner had received phone calls and messages from people threatening to “burn the shop down” if it were to reopen.”We say that if a closure order is made it simply delays risk we are facing, it does not address it,” Latifi said.Latifi added those making threats “cannot be given power” over whether a business trades or does not.She suggested a two-week closure order as well as ensuring Twana Jamal never attends or is employed at either premises would address the risk posed.Magistrate Miss Clifton told the court there was “consensus about this unfortunate disorder” which included personal threats and there was “a risk” to residents who lived locally.She said on the “balance of probability” it was necessary for the premises to remain closed.A BBC investigation found Jamal is believed to have been seeking asylum in the UK. He told us he had applied and was “still waiting”. It is not known what name he used on any application.UK law says anyone who has spent 12 months or more in prison overseas should be refused asylum.The Iraqi Kurd was given a five-year jail sentence in France in 2016, where authorities described him as one of the most successful people smugglers ever caught – earning up to £100,000 a week from moving illegal immigrants across the Channel.At that time, the mode of travel preferred by cross-channel smugglers was freight lorries rather than small boats.

  • King opens Cambridge’s £58 million Whittle Laboratory for advanced research

    King opens Cambridge’s £58 million Whittle Laboratory for advanced research



    New facility aims to revolutionise aerospace, energy, and defence sectorsKing Charles at the opening Author: Charlotte BarberPublished 3 hours agoHis Majesty The King officially opened the New Whittle Laboratory in Cambridge on 20th July. This groundbreaking £58 million facility is poised to become the world’s leading research centre for jet engines and power generation.During his visit, the King engaged with researchers, government officials, and industry leaders from aviation and energy sectors to explore the Laboratory’s ambitious mission to condense development timelines for key aerospace and energy technologies from years to weeks. The King’s connection to the Whittle Laboratory spans multiple visits, notably breaking ground in 2023 post-Coronation and attending engagements as Prince of Wales in 2020 and 2022. Comprised of the Bennett Innovation Lab and the National Centre for Propulsion and Power, the Laboratory is designed to launch numerous industry-advancing missions and rapidly test innovative ideas. The facility’s conceptual approach encourages risk-taking and utilises Formula 1-style rapid fabrication and testing to accelerate technology development. Parallel to the opening, the Frank Whittle Summit convened industrial leaders and tech experts, presenting a forum for collaboration within aerospace, energy, and defence innovation. The Summit, supported by the Sustainable Markets Initiative, initiated by the King, gathered key figures from Rolls-Royce, Boeing, Siemens Energy, and others to spearhead transformative missions that integrate AI into hardware development. The innovation guided by the Summit aims to harmonise industrial progress with environmental stewardship, coinciding with the inauguration of the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability at Cambridge, championing the King’s legacy and commitment to sustainability. The Professorship, endowed with £7 million, reflects contributions from Trinity College and the Hatton Trust, enhancing collaboration between academia, industry, and government for sustainable technological advancement. Hear all the latest news from across the UK on the hour, every hour, on Greatest Hits Radio on DAB, smartspeaker, at greatesthitsradio.co.uk, and on the Rayo app.

  • Transfer news: Summer transfer window 2026 – Premier League deals, ins and outs

    Transfer news: Summer transfer window 2026 – Premier League deals, ins and outs


    The summer transfer window opened on June 15 and closes at 11pm UK time on September 1. Find out who is on the move across the Premier League.Check below for a comprehensive list of all the Premier League ins and outs from the 2026 summer transfer window, as clubs confirm released lists and look to make reinforcements around the 2026 World Cup.
    Keep track of all the latest developments with our Transfer Centre blog.
    Fees include potential add-ons.In
    Piero Hincapie – Bayer Leverkusen, £34.5m
    Illan Meslier – Leeds, free
    OutLeandro Trossard – Besiktas, £17mJakub Kiwior – Porto, £19mKerl Hein – Werder Bremen, £2.6mJosh Nichols – Kustosija, freeSamuel Chapman – Georgia Southern Eagles, freeHarrison Dudziak – releasedSebastian Ferdinand – releasedCam’ron Ismail – releasedSamuel Onyekachukwu – releasedAlexei Rojas – releasedWilliam Sweet – releasedInJohan Manzambi – Freiburg, £59.5mJoao Gomes – Wolves, £38mModou Keba Cissa – LASK, undisclosedBlade Earley – Cambridge, freeOutYouri Tielemans – Man Utd, £36mDonyell Malen – Roma, £21.6mLewis Dobbin – Southampton, £10mEnzo Barrenechea – Benfica, undisclosedLouie Barry – Sheffield Wednesday, undisclosedYeimar Mosquera – Vitoria SC, undisclosedSil Swinkels – Sheffield Wednesday, undisclosedAndres Garcia – Getafe, loanZepiqueno Redmond – Annecy, loanKadan Young – Annecy, loanOliwier Zych – Vitoria SC, loanThierry Katsukunya – Cardiff, freeRonnie Hollingshead – King’s Lynn, freeEwan Simpson – Airdrieonians, freeJunior Wilson – Birmingham, freeElijah Briscoe – releasedI-Lani Edwards – releasedJacob Green – releasedMax Lott – releasedCalum Moreland – releasedCharlie Pavey – releasedCole Ramsey – releasedKerr Smith – releasedInAlvaro Rodriguez – Elche, £21mOutHamed Traore – Marseille, £6.5mLuis Sinisterra – Cruzeiro, £5.2mOwen Bevan – Dundee, undisclosedOllie Morgan – Salisbury, freeAshley Clarke – Woking, freeNoa Boutin – Inverness, freeMichael Dacosta – Moreirense, freeJames Davies – UCNA Bulldogs, freeKoby Mottoh – Moreirense, freeMarcos Senesi – Tottenham, freeRomain Faivre – Auxerre, loanAlex Jimenez – Fiorentina, loanAlexander Paulsen – Motherwell, loanZhaviah Campbell – releasedHayden McGhan – releasedMalachi Ogunleye – releasedCharlie Osborne – releasedBen Purches – releasedInJaidon Anthony – Burnley, £17mJannik Schuster – Red Bull Salzburg, £16.5mJoseph Wheeler-Hennry – Chelsea, undisclosedCallum Wilson – West Ham, freeOutTony Yogane – Aberdeen, undisclosedEthan Laidlaw – Falkirk, undisclosedFrank Onyeka – Coventry, undisclosedEthan Brierley – Huddersfield, undisclosedStaitham Bowen – Swansea, freeRomelle Donovan – Sheffield United, loanBen Krauhaus -Falkirk, loanMichael Olakigbe – WSG Tirol, loanGregory Asemokhai – releasedMaxwell McKnight – releasedMichael McSorley – releasedYerime Ouattara – releasedKyrie Pierre – releasedMarley Tavaziva – releasedRyan Trevitt – releasedBrighton transfersInLuka Vuskovic – Tottenham, £50mZadok Yohanna – AIK, £21.5mPascal Struijk – Leeds, £18mCostinha – Olympiacos, £8mMichael Svobada – Venezia, £4mRodrigo Rego – Benfica, undisclosedGeorge Munday – Cambridge, undisclosedOliver Mayer – Fulham, freeOutJan Paul van Hecke – Tottenham, £52mDiego Coppola – Paris FC, £17mJeremy Sarmiento – Middlesbrough, undisclosedZane Albarus – Gillingham, freeBilly-Ray Cullinane – Coventry, freeMatthew Hayden – Eastbourne, freeCharlie Penman – Hartlepool, freeJacob Slater – Tranmere, freeWill Rutter – West Brom, freeDo-young Yoon – Magdeburg, loanBrajan Gruda – RB Leipzig, loanAdam Webster – releasedJoel Veltman – releasedSolly March – releasedNoel Atom – releasedJoe Belmont – releasedSebastian Jensen – releasedHarry Mills – releasedYussif Owusu – releasedFinley Taylor – releasedJames Milner – retiredInGeovany Quenda – Sporting, £43.5mMarco Palestra – Atalanta, £43mDenner – Corinthians, £8.7mDastan Satpaev – Kairat Almaty, £2.1mEmmanuel Emegha – Strasbourg, undisclosedOutMarc Cucurella – Real Madrid, £51.8mAndrey Santos – Man Utd, £50mTyrique George – Everton, £24mJimmy-Jay Morgan – West Brom, £4mFrankie Runham – Ipswich, undisclosedJoseph Wheeler-Henry – Brentford, undisclosedJimi Tauriainen – Horsens, freeJesse Derry – Sporting, loanHarrison Murray-Campbell – Kortrijk, loanJames Hillson – releasedBrodi Hughes – releasedRichard Olise – releasedSam Rak-Sakyi – releasedInFrank Onyeka – Brentford, undisclosedLoum Tchaouna – Burnley, undisclosedBilly-Ray Cullinane – Brighton, freeAurele Amenda – Eintracht Frankfurt, £17.2mOutBrad Collins – Bristol City, freeCharlie Finney – Alfreton, freeRylie Siddall – UAB Blazers, freeIsaac Moore – Walsall, loanJamie Allen – releasedConrad Ambursley – releasedJack James – releasedGreg Sandiford – releasedKai Yearn – releasedInOscar Mingueza – Celta Vigo, freeOutAsher Agbinone – Al-Wahda, freeCraig Farquhar – Barnet, freeJemiah Umolu – Gent, freeHindolo Mustapha – Wigan, loanAsher Agbinone – releasedRylan Brownlie – releasedMatteo Dashi – releasedJake Grante – releasedZack Henry – releasedJackson Izquierdo – releasedZach Marsh – releasedJack Mason – releasedJoshua Muwana – releasedDavid Obou – releasedStuart Oduro – releasedAbdul Ouedraogo – releasedDylan Reid – releasedKaden Rodney – releasedHarry Whitworth – releasedInHayden Hackney – Middlesbrough, £24mTyrique George – Chelsea, £24mMerlin Rohl – Freiburg, £19mOutDemi Akarakiri – Cagliari, freeCoby Ebere – Cukaricki, freeGoodness Gospel-Eze – Stockport, freeIsaac Heath – Cambridge, freeFrancis Okoronkwo – Doncaster, freeSeamus Coleman – releasedTyler Onyango – releasedIdrissa Gueye – releasedJacob Beaumont-Clark – releasedKingsford Boakye – releasedRoman Dixon – releasedBradley Moonan – releasedLouis Poland – releasedCharlie Stewart – releasedReece Welch – releasedKean Wren – releasedInJonah Kusi-Asare – Bayern Munich, £5mOutCallum Cliff – Reading, freeRaul Jimenez – Wolves, freeOliver Mayer – Brighton, freeOlly Sanderson – Stevenage, freeHarry Wilson – Leeds, freeSteven Benda – releasedBrad De Jesus – releasedOliver Gofford – releasedMarcell Halll – releasedRuban Khan – releasedHarley Platel – releasedQuinn Schutter – releasedDevan Tanton – releasedJoe Walters – releasedTom Wingate – releasedCharlie Robinson – releasedInJack Butland – Rangers, £3mBen Robinson – Preston, freeOutIvor Pandur – Rangers, £6mKyle Joseph – Middlesbrough, £4mAidon Shehu – Panathinaikos, undisclosedAkin Famewo – Bolton, undisclosedKasey Palmer – Luton, undisclosedHarry Vaughan – Bohemians, freeJames Debayo – Swindon, loanPharell Brown – releasedRocco Coyle – releasedSammy Henia-Kamau – releasedJoao Mendes – releasedHarry Revill – releasedNoah Wadsworth – releasedCallum Yam – releasedInEmersonn – Toulouse, £26.6mChuba Akpom – Ajax, £7mCedric Kipre – Reims, undisclosedFrankie Runham – Chelsea, undisclosedLuca Fletcher – Manchester City, undisclosedChristopher Atherton – Chelsea, undisclosedOutArijanet Muric – Sassuolo, £8.6mElkan Baggott – Millwall, undisclosedLeon Ayinde – Doncaster, freeRyan Carr – St Mirren, freeCieran Slicker – Barnsley, loanHenry Gray – Wellington Phoenix, loanConor Chaplin – Leicester, freeConor Townsend – releasedUsisya Longwe – releasedAbube Onuchukwu – releasedTyler Young – releasedRio Oudnie-Morgan – releasedWill Unadike – releasedAfi Adeabyo – releasedJackson Chuckwu-Nsufor – releasedWilliam Fletcher – releasedDaniel Baab – releasedSteve Brouwers – releasedFraser Heard – releasedLenny O’Sullivan – releasedAshley Young – retiredInHarry Wilson – Fulham, freeTarik Muharemovic – Sassuolo, £34mOutPascal Struijk – Brighton, £18mKarl Darlow – Manchester United, freeIllan Meslier – Arsenal, freeHarry Gray – Sheffield Wednesday, loanDevon Brockie – releasedConnor Douglas – releasedLewis Pirie – releasedMarley Wilson – releasedIsaac Schmidt – Young Boys, undisclosedInJeremy Jacquet – Rennes, £60mVictor Munoz – Osasuna, £34.5mIfeanyi Ndukwe – Austria Wien, undisclosedOutCarter Pinnington – West Brom, undisclosedLuca Stephenson – Bolton, undisclosedAndy Robertson – Tottenham, freeIbrahima Konate – Real Madrid, freeDJ Bernard – Middlesbrough, freeMohamed Salah – releasedRhys Williams – releasedTerence Miles – releasedJosh Davidson – releasedKareem Ahmed – releasedJames Balagizi – releasedOakley Cannonier – releasedEmmanuel Airoboma – releasedJacob Poytress – releasedInElliot Anderson – Nottingham Forest, £116mJeremy Monga – Leicester City, £10mPierce Charles – Sheffield Wednesday – £3mMathys Detourbet – Troyes, undisclosedOutManuel Akanji Inter, undisclosedNathan Ake – Fenerbahce, £8.5mReigan Heskey – 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  • Historic Staffordshire bridge refurbishment completed

    Historic Staffordshire bridge refurbishment completed



    Refurbishment of an 18th century Grade II Listed road bridge in South Staffordshire has been completed.
    The scheme at Wodehouse Lane Bridge, A463, Gospel End, Wombourne, is the second and final phase following initial work last year.
    It took just under seven weeks to complete, with final works finishing two days ahead of schedule. Staffordshire County Council invested £350,000 in the whole scheme.
    Work on the masonry arch bridge will improve and protect the structure for future years. This phase included further strengthening, waterproofing, drainage improvements and resurfacing.
    The bridge is an example of one of the many ageing structures in Staffordshire that need proper funding for ongoing preservation and maintenance. Staffordshire County Council’s Roadmap to a Better Network details the issue of ageing structures, and how the county council is calling for better funding from Government so these structures can be saved for the future.
    Daniel Cecil, Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet Support Member for Highways (Operations South) said:
    Wodehouse Lane Bridge is a historical asset to Staffordshire and so this refurbishment scheme had to be carried out in keeping with its Grade II Listed status.
    We’re pleased it’s now complete and the work has been slightly ahead of schedule.
    It’s been a comprehensive project and has taken place in two phases, strengthening and maintaining the bridge structure for generations to come. We’d again like to thank people for their understanding while work has been undertaken.”