Wave of migrant hotel protests to be held across UK including London this weekend
A wave of protests outside hotels used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers is set to take place over the weekend.
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Roberts Murphy
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Roberts Murphy
How Arsenal silently hijacked Spurs’ Eberechi Eze transfer well before anyone knew
Just hours before Arsenal clinched a deal for Eberechi Eze, in an even crueller twist, Tottenham Hotspur finally put in the offer they felt would be acceptable to Crystal Palace.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/eze-arsenal-transfer-latest-spurs-hijack-b2811373.html
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Roberts Murphy
The Isle of Wight is an England that time forgot
‘August for the people and their favourite islands,’ wrote W.H. Auden. My own favourite island in Britain is the Isle of Wight, even though my introduction to it was less than ideal.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-isle-of-wight-is-an-england-that-time-forgot/
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Davies
Fleet Street’s local newspaper goes out of business
Free monthly newspaper City Matters has entered voluntary liquidation and put its assets up for sale, citing rising costs of “running a print business” and declining print ad revenue as reasons for closure.
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Roberts Murphy
Scientists comb through research for milestone cure for male baldness
Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the US, famously joked that two things in life were certain: death and taxes.
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Roberts Murphy
Man Utd or Arsenal? Only one team exceeded expectations
On the face of it, it was depressingly familiar. Another home defeat without scoring. More big-money forwards misfiring.
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/man-utd-arsenal-only-one-team-exceeded-expectations-3864912
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Martin Brown
The pretty UK seaside village where locals ‘have been scared for years’
People living in a pretty seaside village revealed they “have been scared for years” after the death of a man rocked their community. Leysdown-on-Sea, on the Isle of Sheppey on the northern coast of Kent, might be ideal for beachgoers and nature lovers, but residents there say they are “scared, frustrated, and losing faith that anything will change”.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2095899/uk-seaside-village-scared-for-years
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Roberts Murphy
Brazil aim to make waves at their first Women’s Rugby World Cup
Sixteen. That is how many Tests Brazil’s women’s rugby team has played, just six more than England played in 2024 alone.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/19/rugby-union-womens-world-cup-brazil-edna-santini
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Roberts Murphy
Great British Bake Off 2025: Meet The Cast Of This Year’s Series
The line-up for the upcoming season of Great British Bake Off has been unveiled – and we’re pleased to report that Channel 4 certainly hasn’t lost its knack for seeking out some of the country’s most wacky and wonderful amateur bakers.
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Roberts Murphy
Fleet Street’s local newspaper goes out of business
The paper, which launched in 2016, aimed to “fill a local news gap” for the City of London which, at the time, had “no dedicated title”.
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