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Team buses trundling up to stadiums are these days afforded the same amount of coverage, and imbued with similar levels of importance, as red-carpet arrivals at Cannes. So we can exclusively reveal that the Tottenham Hostpur carriage has made it through a thousands-strong throng of wellwishers to dispatch the team at the front door, ready for work. Some atmosphere outside the ground. Expect similar inside it.

Oh Tottenham. How has it come to this? Champions League finalists in 2019, and Europa League winners just 12 months ago, one of the grandest clubs in England are now possibly 90 minutes plus fingernail-and-artery-bothering add-ons away from relegation to the second tier for the first time in nearly half a century.

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Holidays offering the newly-in-love stress tests are missing the point. Strife is inevitable, it’s how you deal with it over the long term that matters

‘Turbulence test” trips are a “romantic travel trend” for new couples, according to US Vogue. The magazine spoke to two women who had decided to stress-test fledgling relationships with trips, and a hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, that aims to “lean into couples’ curiosity about their connection” by offering a “turbulence test” package. It includes $100 (£74) of cocktails and a pack of conversation cards, which does indeed sound like a recipe for brewing trouble in paradise.

I can’t fault travel as a trial for new romance: coffin-sized shared spaces, upset schedules, tricky interactions, destination disappointments – and the unhelpful accepted wisdom that holidays should be better than real life when they’re less comfortable and way more expensive than staying home – make them into a Soltan-scented pressure cooker for couples. My husband and I nearly split after a horrific trip to Italy in our second year together – it started with unsuccessfully trying to hitchhike 20 miles in a thunderstorm after discovering no trains ran on 15 August and continued with a fortnight of rain, recriminations, tinned soup and cheap wine-fuelled fights.

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So, today is the day. No more procrastination, an end to doubt and vacillation. The single remaining relegation spot is by a margin the most significant position to be decided, and the crux of it is this: West Ham will go down if they don’t beat Leeds at home. They will also go down if Tottenham beat Everton at home, or if Spurs draw and West Ham win by fewer than 12 (twelve) goals. (The biggest margin of victory in the history of the Premier League is 9-0; in the history of the entire Football League there have been four victories by a margin big enough to save West Ham should Spurs win today, the most recent 80 years ago).

Meanwhile, though we know that Arsenal will finish first, Manchester City second and Manchester United third, no other position in the entire league is already determined. Liverpool need a point to seal a Champions League place, but if they beat Brentford at home and fourth-placed Aston Villa lose at Manchester City they would go to fourth, Villa drop to fifth and, thanks to Villa’s Europa League victory, a sixth Champions League spot will open up.

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Een aanranding ’s nachts in de trein. Een 21-jarige vrouw stapt op 30 augustus 2025 rond 0.50 uur op Rotterdam Centraal in de trein. Ze moet naar Gouda. Naast haar komt een man zitten die niet alleen tegen haar praat, maar ook twee keer aan haar billen zit en er bovendien in knijpt.

Al maanden broeide er een machtsstrijd tussen president Bassirou Diomaye Faye en zijn premier Ousmane Sonko. Met Sonko’s ontslag is de breuk een feit en dreigt er voor Senegal, te midden van financiële crisis, nu ook een politieke crisis.

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