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The deputy prime minister is serious about her ambition but, like Brown, she will have to wait, says John Rentoul
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Arsenal will play their biggest game in a generation as Barcelona target a hat-trick of titles
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It is not just a warm afternoon here, it’s that type of dry heat with sun traps that saps your energy, without the cool breeze that had freshened the air at the World Sevens Football event along the coast over the past three days. The temperature is officially 28 degrees right now here in Lisbon but somebody standing pitchside has just told me it feels a lot, lot warmer than that within the bowl of the stadium, where the air is just cooking in the sunshine. The heat could certainly be a factor in this game. Barcelona will be used to it, that’s for sure.
Back in 2007 the first iPhone was released, the final Harry Potter book was published and Tony Blair stood down as Prime Minister. It also happens to be the year Arsenal last won the Women’s Champions League. What were you up to that year? Get in touch and let me know! I was in primary school and a huge Girls Aloud fan, email me yours.
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F1 heads to its traditional crown jewel event, the Monaco Grand Prix, this weekend
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Still will be confirmed as the next Saints boss this weekend and will be tasked with earning an immediate return to the Premier League
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Follow live F1 reaction from Monaco as Norris steals pole position from Charles Leclerc at the death
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Police said the incident was ‘another stark reminder of the dangers that our police and emergency service colleagues face on a daily basis’
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Sheffield United 1-2 Sunderland: The Black Cats staged the late show once again in the play-offs to return to the top-flight
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Was there a better sight than Luke O’Nien, his right arm cradled in a sling, racing down the touchline, punching the air with his left to celebrate Tommy Watson’s stoppage-time winner? Sunderland stormed back from a goal down after Tyrese Campbell’s first-half opener to return to the Premier League after eight years away.
Sunderland’s performance was something of a slow-burner but ultimately found two big moments. The first was courtesy of Eliezer Mayenda, who scored with their second shot on goal, and the second will live long in the memory for both the goalscorer and those here to witness it. Watson, the 19-year-old forward who joined his boyhood club as an under-nine, stroked a wonderful shot into the bottom corner in stoppage time, extra time looming. Eventually, with 102 minutes showing on the big screens, confirmation: Sunderland are back in the big time.
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The daughter is the couple’s fourth child together – and the ex-prime minister’s ninth
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Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer
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Final: Northampton 20-28 Bordeaux Bègles
French side claim their first Champions Cup title
Beneath the roof of Welsh rugby’s noisiest cathedral here was a game to raise anybody’s blood pressure. There have been some extraordinary finals in this tournament but none as breathless or frenetic for such long periods. This was rugby on fast forward, a blink-and-you-miss-it thriller that finally ended with Bordeaux winning the first Champions Cup title in their history.
They just about deserved their special vintage but what a contest. Northampton, reduced to 13 players at one stage with two men in the sin-bin, were heroically brave and insanely committed. Every single Saint refused to bend the knee despite a worsening casualty list and collectively played a full part in a final that rocked and rolled from start to finish.
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Norris’s masterful drive narrowly edges out Leclerc
Hamilton may face grid penalty after coming fourth
Lando Norris claimed pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix, producing a masterful display to thread the needle on the streets of Monte Carlo for McLaren. After a thrilling and highly competitive qualifying session that went down to the final lap, he took his first Monaco pole by beating the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc by 0.109sec into second place and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri into third.
Lewis Hamilton had looked quick at times over the weekend but had lost his rear at Massenet and crashed into the barriers during FP3. Ferrari were able to repair the damage and he recovered to a strong fourth place. The British driver is under investigation for impeding Max Verstappen in Q1, however, and may face a grid penalty, with Hamilton frustrated his race engineer had told him the Dutchman had been slowing as he approached from behind, also at Massenet. Verstappen was fifth for Red Bull.
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Carrie Johnson has shared a heartwarming video on Instagram to announce the birth of her fourth child, Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson, with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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The Nature Restoration Fund came under the microscope during a talk at the 2025 Hay Festival of Literature and Arts
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Exclusive: The Guardian and Liberty Investigates find police in England and Wales believe expansion is likely after 4.7m faces scanned in 2024
Police believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year.
A joint investigation by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates highlights the speed at which the technology is becoming a staple of British policing.
Police forces scanned nearly 4.7m faces with live facial recognition cameras last year – more than twice as many as in 2023. Live facial recognition vans were deployed at least 256 times in 2024, according to official deployment records, up from 63 the year before.
A roving unit of 10 live facial recognition vans that can be sent anywhere in the country will be made available within days – increasing national capacity. Eight police forces have deployed the technology. The Met has four vans.
Police forces have considered fixed infrastructure creating a “zone of safety” by covering the West End of London with a network of live facial recognition cameras. Met officials said this remained a possibility.
Forces almost doubled the number of retrospective facial recognition searches made last year using the police national database (PND) from 138,720 in 2023 to 252,798. The PND contains custody mug shots, millions of which have been found to be stored unlawfully of people who have never been charged with or convicted of an offence.
More than 1,000 facial recognition searches using the UK passport database were carried out in the last two years, and officers are increasingly searching for matches on the Home Office immigration database, with requests up last year, to 110. Officials have concluded that using the passport database for facial recognition is “not high risk” and “is not controversial”, according to internal documents.
The Home Office is now working with the police to establish a new national facial recognition system, known as strategic facial matcher. The platform will be capable of searching a range of databases including custody images and immigration records.
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