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As the Lionesses prepare for a sixth successive tournament quarter-final, based in plush Zurich surroundings, Janet Bagguley remembers how it all began for the team.It was a very different era. She was a pioneer, lining up in 1972 when England finally played a women's international - 100 years after the men's team launched.Now Lioness No 4 feels generations apart - and worlds apart - from the teenager who had to […]

Ava was heading home from Pizza Hut when she found out her dad had been arrested.  Warning: This article includes references to indecent images of children and suicide that some readers may find distressingIt had been "a really good evening" celebrating her brother's birthday. Ava (not her real name) was just 13, and her brother several years younger. Their parents had divorced a few years earlier and they were living with […]

Antisemitism is a "stain" on British society that "refuses to be consigned to history", a new report into how to root it out of the workplace has said.Commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the review has taken place in the shadow of a massive rise in antisemitism that followed the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023. The report was co-authored by Lord John Mann, the […]

The grandparents of a two-year-old boy have been found guilty of his murder.Ethan Ives-Griffiths was dangerously dehydrated, severely underweight and had 40 visible bruises or marks when he collapsed with a catastrophic head injury at his grandparents' home in Flintshire, North Wales, on 14 August 2021. Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, were convicted of his murder and of cruelty to a child under 16. Image: Kerry and Michael […]

The taxpayer is to help drive the switch to non-polluting vehicles through a new grant of up to £3,750, but some of the cheapest electric cars are to be excluded.The Department for Transport (DfT) said a £650m fund was being made available for the Electric Car Grant, which is due to get into gear from Wednesday. Users of the scheme - the first of its kind since the last Conservative […]

The owner of Brentford Football Club has clinched a deal to sell a minority stake in the Premier League side to new investors at a valuation of roughly £400m.Sky News has learnt that an agreement that will involve current owner Matthew Benham offloading a chunk of his holding to Gary Lubner - the wealthy businessman who ran Autoglass-owner Belron - is expected to be announced as early as Tuesday. Matthew […]

If you've ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each week, our Money team speaks to someone from a different profession to discover what it's really like.Today, we chat to James Constantinou, owner of pawnbroker chain Prestige Pawn. Read all the latest Money news here You can't train for it… I was born into wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, […]

Thames Water is introducing a hosepipe ban across Swindon, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire.It comes after the Environment Agency placed the Thames area into its Prolonged Dry Weather category. The Temporary Use Ban, in areas with a postcode starting with OX, GL, SN and RG4, RG8 and RG9, will come into operation at one minute past midnight on Tuesday 22 July.Customers living in areas affected by the ban are asked […]

Talk to economists and they will tell you that the cost of living crisis is over.They will point towards charts showing that while inflation is still above the Bank of England's 2% target, it has come down considerably in recent years, and is now "only" hovering between 3% and 4%. So why does the cost of living still feel like such a pressing issue for so many households? The short […]