Ollie Watkins and Jhon Duran: Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says, ‘Maybe we have to sell some players’
It is no secret that the Gunners are in need of a striker. Gabriel Jesus is out with an injury while their highest scoring player is Kai Havertz, who has been converted into being an out-and-out forward since joining the Gunners and has done a commendable job in that role. However, his tally of eight…
“It’s boom or bust!” reads the Metro headline as it – like many of Thursday’s papers – looks at Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ “plan for rapid growth” as laid out in her speech on Wednesday. Her plans include backing for a third runway at Heathrow airport, and creating “Britain’s Silicon Valley” between Oxford and Cambridge. The…
Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the capital Tokyo, swallowing a truck. Rescue efforts have been hampered by road collapses, and officials have ordered scores of households in…
Nick Eardley, Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify PA Media The Royal Navy released images of the Sparta II (centre) as it moved through international waters in late December, before arriving in Syria Russia has stepped up its military withdrawal from Syria, removing vehicles and containers from its key Tartous port on the country’s…
Even in victory here, City were too often vulnerable on the counter-attack, with too many spaces in midfield for Club Brugge to exploit, but they dug deep when it mattered and clawed themselves out of the hole they were in. City will somehow have to fashion a vast improvement in the short period between this…
Lord Alan Sugar, star of the BBC show the Apprentice, wants to see real life apprentices, and all other workers for that matter, back in the workplace. “They’ve got to get their bums back into the office,” he has told the BBC. The businessman-turned-TV-personality, has launched into the debate which has been ongoing since working…
A small aircraft has crashed near Washington DC’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, according to local officials. It came down in the Potomac River, officials said, and search and rescue boats have been deployed to the area. Takeoffs and landings have been halted at the airport as emergency personnel respond to the incident, the airport wrote…
Colletta Smith and Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondents Getty Images Households in England and Wales will pay £123 more on average on their annual water bills from April, final figures show. The rise – higher than stated last month – will see the average annual bill rise to £603, but there are significant variations…
Watch: Trump directs construction of Guantanamo Bay detention centre for 30,000 migrants US President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay which he said would hold as many as 30,000 people. He said the facility at the US Navy base in Cuba, which would be separate from its…
Higher borrowing costs for the government may mean tax rises or spending cuts if it wants to stick to its own self-imposed rules, a leading economic think tank has warned. According to a report from the Resolution Foundation, the government is spending £7bn a year more paying interest on its debt than it was at…
