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Reading sale blocked by owner's debt to bank
The Reading owner Dai Yongge's repeated attempts to sell the club are being jeopardised by his failure to repay previously undisclosed debts of more than £55m to a state-backed Chinese bank, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
After the match - I was sexually assaulted on a train while a dad and his sons laughed
Last month I took the overground to sit in my season ticket seat at the best football club in the country, in my home of north London. I sat with the middle-aged men I've learnt to love over the past three seasons, watching a team I've loved since I was a child and celebrated a buoyant 3-1 win over Brentford under the sunshine. So how come, 30 minutes after the final whistle, I was surrounded by police officers, sobbing my eyes out in a Transport for London office at Seven Sisters?
Not all credit goes to Ratan Tata - but he did shape his group's investment in UK steelmaking
In India, Ratan Tata is being mourned as a towering business leader who took the sprawling family-controlled Tata Group into international markets while retaining its founding spirit of capitalism laced with philanthropy. But the UK has its own reasons to be grateful to the chair of the group from 1991 to 2012. Two heavy industries in the UK - steel and carmaking - would almost certainly have shrunk even further without his style of long-termism.
Unilever exits Russia after sustained criticism for 'sponsoring Kremlin's war'
Unilever has sold off its Russian operations to a local manufacturing group after pressure from campaigners who said the presence of the Dove and Ben & Jerry's owner in the country was supporting the war in Ukraine.
Road pricing may be needed to replace fossil fuel tax in EV transition, says expert
Britain must prepare for the widespread use of road pricing to make up a £35bn shortfall in tax revenues from the transition to electric vehicles, the country's top infrastructure adviser has said.
French energy company seeks £4bn to finish Hinkley Point C
The French energy company EDF is reportedly in talks with investors to raise up to £4bn to finish the delayed Hinkley Point C project in Somerset, Britain's first new nuclear reactors in a generation.
'The shift is seismic' - Could younger voters propel Harris to a victory in Michigan?
So few students wanted to join the campus Republican party when Abigail Sefcik began studying at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) that she was rapidly voted in as its president.
Portugal tries to stop brain drain with 100% tax breaks for young
Portugal is proposing a novel way of stemming the country's brain drain: a decade of progressive tax breaks for young people including paying nothing at all during their first year of work.
Tributes paid as social activist Ethel Kennedy dies aged 96
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F Kennedy who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family's legacy for decades thereafter, has died at the age of 96, her family said yesterday.
Trump did send Covid-19 tests to Putin, says Kremlin
The Kremlin has confirmed that Donald Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 tests early in the pandemic, as reported this week in a book by a veteran US political journalist.
North Korea 'supplying missiles and soldiers' to support Russia in Ukraine
North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, with some fighters operating in occupied areas of the war-torn country having already been killed, senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul said.
Asylum seekers' ID and phones 'burned by Croatian officers in border pushbacks'
Croatia's border police force have been accused of burning clothing, mobile phones and passports seized from asylum seekers trying to cross into the European Union before pushing them back to Bosnia.
Spanish couple detained in Singapore over football protest
A Spanish couple have been detained after a man held a banner to protest against Peter Lim, the billionaire Singaporean owner of Valencia football club.
Boy, 15, pleads guilty to murder of teenager in Bristol double stabbing
A 15-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to the murder of another teenager in Bristol who had been mistakenly identified as the perpetrator of an attack on a house, a court has heard.
Endurance - 3D scans show Shackleton's ship on seabed 'like she sank yesterday'
More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its crew to embark on one of the most celebrated survival quests in history, new images have revealed the remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance.
Plaid Cymru must take advantage of Labour's 'chaos', urges its leader
Plaid Cymru can build on its progress at the UK general election and make significant gains in traditional Labour heartlands, says its leader.
CEO wants Post Office stripped of Horizon payouts role
The Post Office's chief executive has said the state-owned company should be stripped of any responsibility for handling financial redress for victims of the Horizon IT scandal.
Four soldiers jailed after selling colleagues £100,000 of cocaine
A group of British army soldiers were yesterday jailed after selling almost £100,000 of cocaine to fellow military personnel.
Man jailed for life for pushing stranger on to tube tracks
A man who pushed a stranger on to the tracks of a London tube line was jailed for life with a minimum term of eight years yesterday.
Deep tones - Mineshaft recording captures carbon
“It was odd, but really fun,” said Adam Cooper of his time spent helping to record the sound of an empty coalmine. “To put it in one word, I’d say it sounds cavernous. But it also has its own complexities and depth.”
Netflix criticised for proposing One Day plaque in Edinburgh
Heritage campaigners have criticised a proposal by Netflix to install a plaque commemorating its hit show One Day on a historic tenement in Edinburgh.
Lucy Letby - Police and CPS handling of case adds to concern over convictions
When the public inquiry into the crimes of the former nurse Lucy Letby opened in Liverpool last month, its chair, Lady Justice Thirlwall, dismissed concerns about the safety of the convictions as “noise”. The judge cautioned that questions being raised were increasing the distress of parents whose children had died or been harmed.
Protection for workers from sexual harassment in new bill
Employers will have to protect their workers from sexual harassment - including from customers and clients - under the government's sweeping employment rights bill.
England's harvest is second worst on record after heavy rain
England has suffered its second worst harvest on record - with fears growing for next year - after heavy rain last winter hit production of important crops including wheat and oats.
The Tories don't want 'normal'. Let the insanity continue with KemiKaze and Honest Bob
A day on from the latest leadership ballot and still no one in the Tory party can quite work out how Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick made it through to the last two. So what chance do the rest of us have? All we can do is applaud them for their comic timing.
Conservatives could split if new leader tries to outflank Reform, centrists warn
Senior Conservatives have warned that the party could split if Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick pursue an overtly populist path as leader, after the party's main centrist group refused to endorse either candidate.
'It's night and day' - How the new broom in No 10 soured the mood and caused a rebellion
Clashes between powerful figures inside Downing Street and special advisers are not new. Dominic Cummings - Boris Johnson's right-hand man inside No 10 - had several high-profile bust-ups with spads, as they are known, which even led to the departure of a cabinet minister.
Gray's new role in doubt after missing first summit with nations
Keir Starmer's inaugural gathering of the council of nations and regions, intended to reset relationships and boost growth, risks being overshadowed by the absence of his new envoy Sue Gray.
Labour Don't amend government bills, whips warn MPs
Labour MPs have been warned that they must not put down any amendments on government bills and must resolve disagreements privately with ministers, in a crackdown on discipline in parliament.
Music review - Pitch-perfect solo set plus the big hits with Wyclef
Lauryn Hill apparently knows what most people in the room are thinking. Punctuating an amped-up Final Hour, she cocks her head towards the front row and announces: \"Lauryn Hill is in Cardiff, it's real.\"