Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave

Reform’s deputy leader has dismissed efforts to tackle climate breakdown as futile, as he urged British people to “enjoy” the warmth of the recent heatwaves.

Richard Tice told a press conference on Monday he believed it was “arrogant” to try to stop the climate emergency and added that politicians should focus instead on adaptation efforts, while encouraging people to focus on upsides such as better English wine.

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When Berti Vogts was unveiled as Scotland’s first foreign manager, back in 2002, he had a simple instruction. “When we are playing,” he said, “you can call me Berti McVogts!” Scotland fans preferred a slightly courser sobriquet when, six months later, Scotland went 2-0 down to the Faroe Islands before scrambling a 2-2 draw. Vogts left after two-and-a-half ultimately unsuccessful years, and since then Scotland have preferred homegrown managers. But it’s good to try everything twice, except maybe Gigli, and the Scottish FA has appointed one of European football’s most interesting young managers: Sébastien Pocognoli, who was unveiled at a press conference on Monday.

Watching Manchester City under new management for the first time, it’s kind of spooky how much Enzo Maresca channels the ghost of Pep Guardiola on the touchline. Except they are losing” – Chris Jersan.

Dave Hill’s letter [Friday’s Football Daily] made me feel old. My immediate reaction was: ‘Too much money sloshing around at the top; there should be a salary cap.’ Then I realised that I could just about remember the campaign for a minimum wage for footballers. All in the span of one lifetime” – Trevor Townson.

Re: your mention in Friday’s Football Daily of Graeme Souness being sent off in the first half of his first game as Rangers player-manager v Hibs. This event led to pubs popular with Celtic fans in the east end of Glasgow being inundated with requests for a new drink: ‘I’ll have a Souness please … mine’s a half and then I’m off’” – Danny Sullivan.

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She starred in her first soap opera at 4 – then the hit show Heroes was totally reworked to allow her character, Claire the regenerating cheerleader, to live on. We celebrate the star, who has died age 36

• Hayden Panettiere – a life in pictures

When Hayden Panettiere arrived as Claire Bennet in Heroes, in 2006, she was 17 but not a newcomer. She’d starred in Tiger Cruise, a Disney Channel movie, two years before and was the pin-perfect image of that teen-star world – blond, cute, perky, resourceful and all-American. Bennet the superhero was all those things, amped up to the point of fascinating distortion. She was a cheerleader who could endlessly regenerate. It was a topic of hot debate on fan sites whether or not she could feel pain, a question that was resolved piecemeal through the series. She could, but could instantly overcome it with her superpower – that fact partly informed the view of one academic, professor Olvido Andújar Molina, that Bennet was standing in for the American dream, its core components being strength, resilience and a sweet-natured homeliness.

In Tiger Cruise, Panettiere had filled a similar role, the cute-as-a-button daughter of a naval commander, producing this elemental, almost mournful Oz-like message: “Everything you long for is right here at home.” She was from a showbiz family, her mother, Lesley Vogel, was a soap actor, and her brother, Jansen, who also possessed those perfectly symmetrical features, co-starred in Tiger Cruise, and later, in 2011, in The Forger (better known as the last film Lauren Bacall ever made). Jansen also died horribly young, of complications from an engorged heart, in 2023 aged 28. Panettiere got her first soap opera gig, in One Life to Live, at the age of four, and went on to a recurring role into Guiding Light before she was 10. She was the voice of Dot in A Bug’s Life, and was nominated for a Grammy for her work on the film.

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Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft maandag tbs met dwangverpleging geëist tegen Anne Romke van der H. (33) uit het Groningse Uithuizen, omdat hij plannen zou hebben gehad om prinses Amalia te ontvoeren. Van der H. zou haar hebben willen meenemen naar Polen om met haar te trouwen, meent justitie. Door hem aangeschafte bijlen zouden daarbij dienstbaar zijn.

De officier van justitie zei dat er onvoldoende bewijs is dat de verdachte de prinsessen Amalia en Alexia wilde doden of letsel wilde toebrengen.

Bij zijn aanhouding in januari in een hotel in Den Haag was de verdachte in het bezit van twee bijlen met daarin gekerfd de woorden Alexia, Mossad en Sieg Heil. Daarnaast had hij in zijn agenda een handgeschreven tekst met de woorden Amalia, Alexia en bloedbad.

Van der H. verkeerde volgens justitie in een psychose en was in de veronderstelling dat hij van hogerhand de opdracht had gekregen om met prinses Amalia te gaan survivalen in Polen. Hij had daarvoor ook survivalspullen gekocht. Hij was er daarnaast van overtuigd dat hij een relatie had met Amalia.

The performances will take place on Oct. 10 and 11 at the Gazprom Arena, a venue capable of hosting around 80,000 spectators.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

If you ever find yourself in the East Village in New York City, do yourself a favor and grab a smashburger at Cafe Maude.

You won’t regret it.

It goes well with a Five Boroughs Pilsner.

Op de A15 zijn ter hoogte van Papendrecht twee voertuigen op elkaar gebotst. Hierbij belandde de achterste auto op zijn kop. De weg was lange tijd volledig afgesloten richting Rotterdam.

Op de A15 zijn ter hoogte van Papendrecht twee voertuigen op elkaar gebotst. Hierbij belandde de achterste auto op zijn kop. De weg is vanaf Sliedrecht-Oost in de richting van Rotterdam volledig afgesloten.