Club gets boost for development of Racecourse Ground, but move comes months after it received £14m state aid The Wrexham AFC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have sold a stake in the company to the US private equity investors Apollo, less than three months after the football club was...
Fernandes at the double as Manchester United ease past Wolves amid fan unrest
For Manchester United, a soothing return to winning ways to avert any sense another mini-crisis was brewing. Victories are scarcely this comfortable, even if Ruben Amorim’s side needed to navigate the briefest of scares when Wolves equalised with half-time looming. United turned on the style after the break, the manager...
Sabastian Sawe: the marathon runner on a mission to be drug tested as much as possible | Sean Ingle
This year’s London Marathon winner deserves credit for offering more than enough proof he is clean while setting a new standard for other athletes to follow Last week the world’s best marathon runner, Sabastian Sawe, looked me straight in the eye and told me “doping is a cancer”. Then he...
Arne Slot has ‘no clue’ if Mohamed Salah will play for Liverpool again
Head coach also insisted he is not ‘weak’ amid row Egyptian left out of squad for game at Inter Arne Slot has cast further doubt on Mohamed Salah’s future at Liverpool by admitting that he has “no clue” whether the forward has played his last game for the club. The...
England dealt fresh Ashes blow with Mark Wood ruled out for rest of series
Bowler suffers recurrence of knee injury from first Test Seamer Fisher added to squad before Adelaide match England fast bowler Mark Wood has been ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes following a recurrence of a left knee injury sustained during the first Test in Perth. Wood will return...
Emile Heskey: ‘Gone are the times when you just ignore abuse. No. Why should we?’
The former England striker on stepping up to tackle racism, protecting his sons and Liverpool’s woes Emile Heskey was about 14 years old when he was chased from Leicester City’s old Filbert Street stadium all the way into town by a man shouting racist abuse. He was a Leicester fan...
F1 2025 awards: Lando Norris justifies favourite tag after gruelling three-way tussle
McLaren were the obvious choice for team of the year but Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari were a big disappointment while Williams exceeded expectations Lando Norris had gone into the season as favourite and he emerged on top after a gruelling contest. Securing his maiden world drivers’ title was no easy...
Anatomical exhibition includes rare Victorian-era drawing of a black body
The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds It is an image of an unnamed black man with his eyes closed and his innards exposed. Drawn with care and precision, the image may be the only...
Can you solve it? The forgotten Dutch invention that created the modern world
You saw it here first UPDATE: Read the solution here There are many contenders for “world’s greatest invention.” The wheel. The printing press. The steam engine. According to a new book, however, that title should go to the mechanised sawmill invented by Dutchman Cornelis Corneliszoon in 1593. Continue reading...
Starwatch: Brave the cold and the enjoy the Geminids meteor shower
Observers in dark locations away from street lighting can expect to see more than 100 meteors an hour The Perseid meteor shower in August often catches the headlines because of the warmer conditions associated with watching the display, but to many astronomers the Geminids put on the better show. The...