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Combined losses across Premier League clubs in the 2022-23 season grew by 16% despite a rise in revenue to £6bn for the first time, according to a closely-watched annual review of football finances.The report by Deloitte's Sports Business Group showed pre-tax losses for top flight clubs of £685m over the period - a season won by Manchester City. Wages and costs associated with player transfers were blamed for the red […]

Being a footballer or a gamer are the most popular career choices for children, according to a new survey - with being prime minister coming bottom of the list.Of 1,306 children aged six to 17 asked across the UK, almost a fifth (17%) said they wanted to be a footballer, with the same percentage choosing gamer or streamer - a type of social media influencer - as a career. Just […]

Lucy Letby - the former nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to murder six others while working in a hospital neonatal unit - has told a court she is "not the sort of person that kills babies" and was "not guilty of what I was found guilty of".The 34-year-old is facing a retrial over the 2016 attempted murder of a baby girl, known as Child K, by dislodging […]

A 19-year-old has died after he was shot in Liverpool on Sunday evening, Merseyside Police has said.Officers and paramedics were called to the Liver Industrial Estate in Aintree shortly after 11.10pm. The teenager was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.Head of the investigation Mark Baker urged anyone with information to come forward to help officers give the victim's family "answers" and "bring his killer […]

Trevor is too scared to sleep in a tent at night like the other rough sleepers.He sleeps on a park bench or in a doorway. It's safer. "Some people come along and set your tent on fire," he tells me.He says no one ever zips up their sleeping bags or tent doors in case they need to escape quickly.This shocking story of the dangers faced by being homeless on the […]

With betting an unexpected theme of this election, we've taken our parliamentary bench to the Sheffield dog track.Bookies are lined up beside the arena and the people of Sheffield have come for a perfectly legal flutter on which greyhound can run fastest, while chasing a mechanical hare that they will never catch. Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough is one of the most working-class constituencies in the UK - the seventh most […]

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England captain Harry Kane has said he is feeling as "fit as I have all season" and is "getting fitter with each game" as he responded to criticism of the national team's performances at Euro 2024.Kane's comments come after Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate suggested his players are not fit enough following flat performances against Serbia and Denmark. On Tuesday, they face Slovenia in their final Group C match. Image: […]

Home Secretary James Cleverly has told Sky News his aide called the Rwanda policy "crap" for dramatic effect but is in support of it.James Sunderland, who has been the MP for Bracknell since 2019 and is standing there again, was recorded at a private event in April saying: "I have been part of this for the last two years, and I'm immersed in it and I probably shouldn't say too […]