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- Burnley 1-4 Newcastle, Sheffield United 1-3 Nottm Forest: Premier League clockwatch – liveby Tom Davies on 4 May 2024 at 15:59
Updates from the 3pm BST Premier League gamesLive scoreboard | And feel free to mail TomThe Blues are in the third tier for the first time since Barry Fry took them up in 95 as a result of Plymouth, Blackburn and Wednesday winning, despite their own 1-0 win over Norwich. A penny for John […]
- Somerset v Essex, Yorkshire v Glamorgan and more: County cricket day two – liveby Tanya Aldred at Old Trafford on 4 May 2024 at 15:53
Day two action updates from the 11am BST startGet in touch! Email Tanya or have your say in the commentsPatel and Harris rattling away at Lord’s, Ryan Higgins meanwhile, named player of the month.At Old Trafford, the Lancashire players are kicking a ball around, a groundsman is brushing the pitch […]
- Manchester City v Wolves: Premier League – liveby Rob Smyth on 4 May 2024 at 15:53
Updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-off at the EtihadRice drives Arsenal past Bournemouth to maintain title pushThe last time City didn’t win the league, in 2019-20, Wolves did the double over them. Mind you so did Manchester United and that definitely isn’t happening this season.Pre-match reading […]
- Sadiq Khan elected London mayor for third term in further boost for Labourby Aletha Adu Political correspondent on 4 May 2024 at 15:52
Labour incumbent beat Tory candidate Susan Hall, despite inaccurate claims by ‘excited Tories’ that she could winUK politics – latest updatesSadiq Khan has been elected mayor of London, winning a historic third term in a dramatic contest.Khan secured victory over the Conservative candidate, […]
- Sadiq Khan wins historic third term as London mayor after Andy Burnham takes Manchester – liveby Nadeem Badshah (now) Amy Sedghi, Hamish Mackay and Geneva Abdul (earlier) on 4 May 2024 at 15:49
Labour has secured mayoral victories in London, Greater Manchester, Salford, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Liverpool todayLocal elections 2024: full council results for EnglandRishi Sunak is braced for the result of key mayoral elections in London and the West Midlands, after the […]
- South Dakota governor Kristi Noem continues to be plagued by book controversiesby Michael Sainato on 4 May 2024 at 15:40
As she tries to limit the fallout from her dog- and goat-killing anecdotes, factual inaccuracies in her book are coming to lightAs she entered a second consecutive weekend trying to manage fallout from revelations in her upcoming memoir that she shot her dog to death, South Dakota’s governor, […]
- Local elections 2024: full mayoral and council results for Englandby Niels de Hoog, Seán Clarke, Anna Leach, Antonio Voce, Pablo Gutiérrez, Harry Fischer, Rich Cousins and Ashley Kirk on 4 May 2024 at 15:17
Sadiq Khan has won a historic third term as London mayor, while a partial recount has been ordered in Birmingham for the West Midlands contest. From councils to mayoralties, find out what happened in your areaLocal and mayoral election results – liveCouncil results – visual analysis Continue […]
- ‘They’re sending a message’: harsh police tactics questioned amid US campus protest crackdownsby Lois Beckett on 4 May 2024 at 15:11
More than 1,400 people have been arrested as police dismantle campus encampments – but are the tactics used too brutal?More than 1,400 people have been arrested across the US during a week of intense police crackdowns on a sprawling campus movement of pro-Palestine student demonstrations.As Joe […]
- Family of Hainault attack victim Daniel Anjorin pay tribute to ‘beloved son’by Guardian staff and agency on 4 May 2024 at 15:08
Family say they are ‘devastated’ by fatal stabbing of 14-year-old, as his favourite football team, Arsenal, remember him at Emirates StadiumThe family of Daniel Anjorin have issued a statement paying tribute to their son, who was fatally stabbed as he walked to school, as Arsenal football club […]
- We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices | Columbia College Student Council and Columbia Engineering Student Councilby Columbia College Student Council on 4 May 2024 at 15:00
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided mediaOn Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists, and lacerations – all […]
- The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding | John Naughtonby John Naughton on 4 May 2024 at 15:00
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must endBrowsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph from 1989 or 1990. It shows the world’s first web server. It was […]
- A successful woman in her 40s with a toyboy pop star? Great on screen in The Idea of You, scary in reality | Bidisha Mamataby Bidisha Mamata on 4 May 2024 at 15:00
It’s far less bother to stream romcoms, like the latest Anne Hathaway film, into my living room than play them out in real lifeAnyone for a toyboy? The hit of the season has been The Idea of You, the film adaptation of Robinne Lee’s bestseller in which a woman in her 40s (played by Anne […]
- Notable Speech wins 2,000 Guineas as favourite City Of Troy slumpsby Greg Wood at Newmarket on 4 May 2024 at 14:55
Charlie Appleby’s 16-1 shot takes first Classic of 2024City Of Troy drifts to 6-1 for Derby as he flagging after halfwaySix months of anticipation and expectation evaporated in the space of 100 seconds here on Saturday, as City Of Troy, the hot favourite for the 2,000 Guineas, could beat only two […]
- Headteachers demand end to ‘inhumane’ school ratings in Englandby Richard Adams Education editor on 4 May 2024 at 14:50
Union to campaign against single-phrase Ofsted judgments, threatening possible strike actionHeadteachers in England are to launch a campaign for the abolition of “inhumane and unreliable” single-phrase school inspection judgments, threatening legal challenges and possible strike action if the […]
- Neon, kilts, cricket bats: artisans gather to shine a light on Britain’s endangered craftsby Alice Fisher on 4 May 2024 at 14:00
Numbers of specialist makers are dwindling but one charity plans to save this vital part of our cultural heritageNick Malyon was seduced by neon lighting at the end of the 1980s while travelling in America. He left home after failing his A-levels and doing a disastrous four-year stint as a vintage […]
- Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards | Simon Tisdallby Simon Tisdall on 4 May 2024 at 14:00
As elections loom across the continent, Italy’s prime minister and the commission’s president are in a dubious allianceIt’s rare that an Italian prime minister tops the table in Europe. But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home, Spain’s Pedro […]
- The Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling fails to fly in vacuous stuntman action comedyby Wendy Ide on 4 May 2024 at 14:00
The combined star power of Gosling and Emily Blunt can’t lift Bullet Train director David Leitch’s action-heavy spectacle into meaningful entertainmentLike the Lee Majors-starring 80s TV show on which this bombastic action comedy is based, The Fall Guy is pitched as a celebration of the work of […]
- On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlightsby Andrew O'Hagan on 4 May 2024 at 14:00
The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational appAndrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968, grew up in a working-class Ayrshire family and studied English at Strathclyde University. His first book was The Missing (1995), which told the […]
- Declan Rice drives Arsenal past Bournemouth to maintain title pushby David Hytner at the Emirates Stadium on 4 May 2024 at 13:53
Mikel Arteta had wanted something less stressful than Arsenal’s previous home win over Bournemouth and he got his wish. In March of last year, his team had needed a 97th-minute Reiss Nelson goal to complete a wild 3-2 victory from 2-0 down.Here, there was glory in the general sense of comfort and […]
- Ipswich seal stunning promotion to Premier League as Huddersfield dropby Jonathan Liew at Portman Road on 4 May 2024 at 13:37
Someone has brought an actual tractor. Someone has brought a flag the height of a small house. Someone has brought about two dozen smoke bombs and is letting them off one by one, like rounds of gunfire. Someone is holding a giant drum and someone else is beating it with all his might. A wheelchair […]