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Transfer news: All of the done deals on deadline day BBC Sport says The transfer window for the Premier League and EFL closes at 23:00 GMT on 1 September, while the Scottish Premiership window shuts at 23:59. All the completed deals will be listed on this page. For all of the latest rumours check out today’s gossip column, and for a full list of transfers made in August visit this page. 1 September Premier League 10:30 Matheus Nunes [Wolves – Manchester City] £55m 10:01 Nuno Tavares [Arsenal – Nottingham Forest] Loan 10:00 Tommy Doyle [Manchester City – Wolves] Loan 09:30…

House prices see biggest yearly decline since 2009 Nationwide’s latest figures show house prices are 5.3% lower compared to August last year – the biggest annual decline since 2009. Nationwide said the drop represented a fall of £14,600 on a typical home in the UK since house prices peaked in August 2022. The building society said higher borrowing costs for buyers had led to a slowdown in activity in the housing market. Mortgage approvals are also about 20% below pre-Covid levels. The Bank of England has lifted interest rates 14 times in a row, since December 2021, in a bid…

The reviews may have been mixed, but Starfield is already proving very popular according to data from Steam and Twitch.

It didn’t go as expected.

She remained defiant and said she won’t be covering up.

Sarina Wiegman dedicates Uefa Women’s Coach of the Year award to Spain players Lioness boss Sarina Wiegman has won the Uefa Women’s Coach of the Year award. She dedicated it to World Cup winners Spain. Spain’s World Cup victory – beating England 1-0 in the final, was overshadowed by the behaviour of Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales who kissed a player on the lips without consent. The behaviour of Rubiales and those around him since the incident has only added to the criticism. Wiegman said the victorious Spain players “deserve to be listened to”. Rubiales was suspended by world…

‘When she fell asleep she would scream and wake calling her killers’ names’.

Train strikes start ahead of weekend disruption Friday will see large parts of the country without train services as the latest strike action starts. Members of Aslef union – who work at more than a dozen train companies are striking and refusing to work overtime on Saturday. Saturday will also see up to 20,000 RMT union members at 14 operators also strike in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Operators running no services on Friday, 1 September include Northern, Avanti West Coast, Transpennine, Southern and Thameslink. On Saturday, 2 September, fewer than half of the trains will be…

Ecuador prison violence: At least 50 of guards taken hostage According to officials, more than 50 prison guards and seven police officers have been taken hostage in several jails in Ecuador. Two car bombs also went off in the capital Quito, both targeting the country’s prison authority (SNAI). There were no injuries from the bombings and at least six people have been arrested. Authorities say they believe at least one of the incidents could be retaliation for a police weapons search at one of the country’s biggest jails. Ecuador is facing growing violence linked to drug trafficking gangs, which has…

Jet ski tourists shot dead off coast of Algeria Two tourists – holidaying in Morocco – have been shot dead by the Algerian coastguard, after they reportedly strayed into Algerian waters on their jet skis. The two tourists were among four French-Moroccan dual nationals who had set off from the Moroccan resort of Saidia.  A third member of the group was arrested by the coastguard which patrols the two states’ closed border. There have been years of tensions between the two countries – with the border between them closing in 1994. The shooting has sparked anger in Morocco, with only…