Swansea City can confirm defender Ricardo Santos has joined Sheffield Wednesday for an undisclosed fee, subject to the relevant approval.
Everyone at the club wishes Rico all the best for the future 🦢
I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.
I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.
Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.
Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.
However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.
Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.
I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.
Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.
ENDS
Man makes a mistake over council tax on a boat and apologises and is paying it back (and rightly so).
(Boat council tax depends on your mooring and how often you are there, it’s not as straight forward)
It would be about £1,000 a year
Meanwhile, Farage’s Stamp duty would have been 10s of thousands. He continues to dodge questions about it and his £5,000,000 donations, has never apologised and will never pay anything back ever. Gutter press are raking through Zack’s bins before reporting on Farage.
457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
@schmidty_x@SThingsSpoilers Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. The whole point of her character is to show that Els life is going to be hiding because they're always going to want to exploit her. I get we didn't get any closure to her character
@schmidty_x@SThingsSpoilers They literally provide Els motivation for sacrificing herself. She's constantly been chased by the government who want to exploit her. Linda Hamiltons character is just a more dislikeable Brenner. She has to die to end the cycle
If the Stranger Things writers wrote Lord of the Rings:
GANDALF: OK, so we've got to put the smackdown on this Ring thing. It can only be destroyed -
GIMLI: Don't worry - I got this. *hits it with an axe and falls* Ow.
GANDALF: - in the fires of Mount Doom.
BOROMIR: I just don't get it. Why can't we just fire this bad boy up and use it against Sauron? Boom. Headshot.
GANDALF: OK, so, think of Sauron like this Atari. *Clears off pedestal and slaps down an Atari and a copy of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.*
GANDALF: Now, if we destroy this copy of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we might think it's gone forever. But -
ELROND: - but Atari still has the source code.
GANDALF: Right. *starts drawing on a transparent whiteboard* - But, if we destroy the source code -
LEGOLAS: ... the existing copies could be buried in a landfill, and they'd eventually go bad from corrosion.
GANDALF: Exactly. Destroy the source code -
ELROND: - destroy Sauron.
BOROMIR: Great. So how do we destroy this Source Code Ring? It's not like we can just hop on our skateboards and shred into Mordor.
LEGOLAS: Hang on though. If we gave the Ring to someone small enough -
GIMLI: - Sauron wouldn't be expecting it -
ELROND: - and we could chuck it right into the fire while he's busy trippin' over Minas Tirith.
GANDALF: - and then -
LEGOLAS: - no more E.T. *finger guns*
BOROMOR: It sounds crazy, but it just might work.
FRODO: Guys, I'm gay.