1/2 After 7 eventful and successful years, this week I have decided to step down as 1st team manager of @worcesterparkfc
My thanks for the unbelievable commitment and efforts of all players and coaching staff during my tenure. So many highlights, trophies…
🚨 BREAKING: Manchester United are set to appoint Gareth Southgate as their new manager TODAY on a three-year contract.
Southgate will replace Michael Carrick, with the former England boss viewed as the man to restore the culture at Old Trafford and bring the dressing room closer together.
United’s hierarchy reportedly believe Southgate’s leadership, man-management and experience make him the ideal candidate to lead the club into a new era.
An official announcement is expected at 3pm today.
More to follow.
🚨WILD SCENES in Istanbul at the end of a very sloppy Heavyweight fight between Mourad Aliev and Umut Camkiran as a mass riot ignites in the ring, with chairs and tables flying across the arena
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A murder investigation has been launched after 26-year-old Ezekiel Williams, from London, died in hospital on Monday following an assault in Milton Keynes city centre in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Our thoughts are with his family.
🚨 SUMMARY: The OBR forecasts following John Healey's Budget
- Welfare spending will rise to £431.3bn by 2030/31 - an increase of £97.5bn a year in cash terms
- This includes £209.8bn on pensioner benefits, £110.7bn on Universal Credit, £69.6bn on disability benefits, £13.9bn on Child Benefit and £27.2bn on other welfare
- Inflation will peak at 3.75% in early 2027, up from the earlier prediction of 2%
- UK GDP growth will slow from around 1.25% in 2026 to 1% in 2027, before climbing to 1.6% in 2031
- Average UK unemployment will rise to 5.1% across 2026 and 2027
- The Employment Rights Act will "likely" have a negative economic impact because of reduced flexibility and greater uncertainty for businesses
- The landlord tax increases (property income) could contribute to a long-term rise in private rents and discourage landlords from entering the market
- Real household disposable income per person will be around 0.75% lower in 2030-31 than it expected in March 2026
- Higher earnings and frozen tax thresholds will increase income tax and National Insurance receipts by £9bn in 2026-27 and around £8bn on average in subsequent forecast years compared with March
- Net migration is forecast to fall to 120,000 in the year to mid-2026, then gradually rise to 230,000 by the year to mid-2031
- Nominal weekly earnings growth will slow to around 3.5% in 2026, then average roughly 2.25% a year
- Andy Burnham's first-time buyer scheme could raise house prices by increasing demand without enough new homes being built