Author: News Desk

England head coach Gareth Southgate has named his squad for the side’s upcoming Euro 2024 warm-up friendlies against Brazil and Belgium, with uncapped trio Anthony Gordon, Jarrad Branthwaite and Ezri Konsa in line to make their debuts.

Stefan Savic laughs off Marcus Thuram’s ‘strange’ decision to grab his privates in Atletico Madrid’s win over Inter Milan Stefan Savic has laughed off Marcus Thuram’s ‘strange’ decision to grab his privates during Atletico Madrid’s Champions League last-16 victory over Inter Milan, insisting it was ‘not so important’. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Atleti were up against it after Federico Dimarco further increased the deficit with a cool finish past Jan Oblak in the 33rd minute at the Metropolitano Stadium on Wednesday evening. But Antoine Griezmann immediately hit back with his sixth goal in the competition to give the…

Arsenal star Amanda Ilestedt announces pregnancy Arsenal WFC defender Amanda Ilestedt has announced that she is pregnant with her first child and is set to miss the remainder of the Women’s Super League (WSL) season. The Sweden centre-back and partner Rainer Muller took to social media to announce the news that they are expecting on Wednesday, while Arsenal confirmed that the 31-year-old will not feature for Jonas Eidevall’s side until after she has given birth. Ilestedt joined Arsenal from Paris Saint-Germain last year and has since made 12 WSL appearances for the Gunners, adding one goal. She has not featured…

Urgent hunt for missing mum and her baby wearing a pink hat A search has been launched after concerns for a mum who went missing with her baby in Glasgow. The woman and the infant were last seen together on Wednesday March 13 leaving a supermarket in the Jamaica Street area in Glasgow city centre at about 4.20pm and walking north towards a bus stop. The baby is believed to be between four and six months and last seen wearing a red snow suit with a hood and pink hat. The woman is described as white Eastern European, with blonde…

British man, 45, falls to his death from hotel balcony hours after proposing A British holidaymaker plummeted to his death after falling from a balcony just hours after proposing to his girlfriend. Stephen Willits, 45, suffered fatal injuries after the tragic fall in Corfu, an inquest has heard. On the night of his death, Stephen had been celebrating his engagement to his fiancee with dinner and drinks in August 2020. They later returned to their third-floor hotel room and had been happily messaging friends and family about the good news.

Body of student, 19, pulled from river after she went missing three weeks ago A body recovered from the River Thames last month is believed to be that of missing SOAS University student Samaria Ayanle, the Metropolitan Police has said. Ayanle, 19, was last seen at her accommodation near Marble Arch in the early hours of February 22. Only hours later, officers received reports of a body on the north foreshore near Putney Pier about five miles southwest. At the time, no missing person reports matched the recovered body. Detectives uploaded her details to the UK Missing Persons database in…

Mum choked to death while cooking dinner for family A ‘tender and loving’ mum died after choking on food while cooking her family dinner in Dover last month. Siobhan Rose Simmonds, 33, was found on the kitchen floor by her two-year-old daughter, her partner and his son on February 24. She was taken to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford but died at around 2.50pm in intensive care a week later. Doctors told Siobhan’s loved ones she would likely not recover, but her decision to donate her organs left the family with some ‘solace’.

Christian Horner’s accuser ‘can’t get over’ being suspended by Red Bull over Formula 1 scandal The woman at the centre of the Christian Horner scandal is ‘disappointed’ and feels ‘very let down’ by Red Bull after she was suspended by the Formula 1 team. Horner was cleared after an investigation into ‘inappropriate behaviour’ allegations made against the team principal by a female employee of Red Bull. The saga has overshadowed the start of the 2024 season, with leaked texts and images supposedly from the probe and fiery comments from Max Verstappen’s father Jos only adding fuel to the fire. An…

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has pulled out of the Belgium squad for their upcoming friendlies due to a groin injury.

Ed Sheeran welcomes guilty verdicts of ‘greedy’ ticket touts in £6,500,000 reselling scheme Ed Sheeran has welcomed a guilty verdict in the case of ticket touts who ‘exploited’ fans of his music. Two people, Lynda Chenery and Mark Woods, have been found guilty of fraudulent activity over their involvement in touting firm TQ Tickets Ltd, which sold on tickets to the tune of more than £6.5 million pounds in just two and a half years. Maria Chenery-Woods – who is Woods’s wife and Chenery’s sister – and Chenery’s ex-husband Paul Douglas pleaded guilty to the offences at an earlier hearing.…