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Adelaide’s Reilly O’Brien and Collingwood’s Darcy Cameron stand opposite each other before both leap high toward a perfectly bounced ball as the 2025 AFL final series gets under way at Adelaide Oval.
Both sides line up for the Welcome to Country and national anthem with no sign of Adelaide’s infamous power stance. Feels like a missed opportunity to double down, a mere eight years later.
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Chancellor offers unequivocal backing to colleague following stamp duty error
Graffiti calling Angela Rayner a “tax evader” has appeared at her Hove flat, PA Media reports. PA says:
The word “bitch” along with a much larger sign saying “tax evader!” have been pictured on a white wall on the outside of the property.
Across the road, “Tax evader Rayner” and “Rayner tax avoidance” have been graffitied on construction chipboard.
The council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels over the use of the Essex hotel as accommodation for asylum seekers and had a temporary injunction granted by the high court last month overturned by the court of appeal on Friday.
A full trial of the claim is scheduled for October, after which an injunction could be issued, but barristers for the Home Office asked the court today to push the case back by six weeks to allow the council and Somani Hotels to “reflect on the legal position now established by the court of appeal”.
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© Photograph: Cameron Smith/PA
At times, the latest episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s comedy feels like it’s running out of ammo when tackling the US President. But might it just be sowing the seeds of what’s to come?
So far, South Park’s 27th season has had one clear goal: to provoke Donald Trump into a tantrum. Every episode has managed to pick on a new and different facet of his authoritarian rule – the silencing of his media critics, his use of Ice agents as an intimidation tactic – while simultaneously telling everyone what a tiny penis he has.
So the anticipation levels were off the charts for this week’s episode, entitled Wok Is Dead, which promised to take on Trump’s tariff policy. And in fairness it did do this, but only in a couple of scenes where a Chinese character with an uncomfortably Mickey Rooney-esque accent complained about them. The rest of the episode just settled for a bunch of jokes about Labubu dolls, as well as calling Donald Trump “Satan” as many times as it feasibly could.
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Pollution entering waterways from 25,000 road outflows is not monitored or regulated by Environment Agency, committee hears
Toxic, carcinogenic pollution that pours from 25,000 road outflows into rivers in England is being ignored by politicians and regulators, MPs have been told.
Road runoff containing toxic particles from tyres and brakes, and pollution from fuel and oil spills – which washes into rivers after rainfall – can devastate aquatic life and, by increasing toxicity, reduce the overall health of waterways. It is responsible for 18% of the reason all rivers fail to meet good ecological and chemical standards.
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Fifty-three-year-old was arrested after car was driven into crowd of people during football celebration in May
A man has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges, including dangerous driving and causing grievous bodily harm with intent, after a car was driven into a crowd of people in Liverpool in May.
Paul Doyle, 53, was arrested on 29 May after driving through a crowd of Liverpool football club supporters during the team’s Premier League trophy parade in the city centre on the evening of 26 May.
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© Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA
Driver and pedestrians hurt when bus mounted pavement near Victoria station
A number of pedestrians have been taken to hospital after a bus mounted a pavement near Victoria station in central London.
Several people, including the driver of the route 24 bus, are understood to have been injured in the crash on Victoria Street on Thursday morning.
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© Photograph: James Manning/PA