Legendary British cyclist Bradley Wiggins has suffered financial difficulties following his retirement from the sport in 2016 after enjoying a career that saw Olympic and Tour de France successTour de France winner Bradley Wiggins could lose his Olympic gold medals after being declared bankrupt. The five-times gold medalist, who was also the first Briton to win Le Tour, was declared bankrupt by Lancaster county court on June 3, per The Times. The ex-Sky rider saw his professional development cycling group, Team Wiggins enter liquidation in September 2020 before going defunct. Wiggins Rights Limited, which owns the trademarks to Bradley Wiggins, Wiggo and Wiggins, saw debts of £650,000 when entering liquidation in 2020. Wiggins described the financial difficulties as “a very historical matter that involves professional negligence from [others] that has left a s***pile with my name at the front of it to deal with.

The paper calls it "the biggest mis-step yet of an already faltering election campaign". The Guardian reports Tory officials as saying internal WhatsApp groups were full of horrified responses to Mr Sunak leaving Normandy and recording a TV interview. He goes on to accuse Mr Sunak of "handing a gift" to the Reform UK Party of Nigel Farage. The Daily Mirror strikes a similar tone, saying Mr Sunak's election campaign is "in tatters", external. It discusses Mr Sunak's D-Day gaffe further down the article - describing the Conservative campaign as having been "plunged into chaos".

And we just need to hope the wheels are still on the Scotland wagon as the squad set off on the road to Germany. Conceding a harsh penalty for the second wasn’t part of his final script – and it wasn’t what the 41-year-old hero deserved. Even Tommy Conway was denied a stunning winner at the death that would’ve changed the mood music for the Tartan Army. It was fair to say the big man looked a tad rusty at times early on. Shankland held off his man to sneak in behind and all of a sudden we had a proper sing-song on the go.

Who knew that when Rishi Sunak insisted he ‘had a plan’ it was to conduct the most inept political campaign in British electoral history? This is an election with little choice, as elections in capitalist democracies are meant to be. Swathes of Scottish voters will, I suspect, choose Labour at this election without losing the aspiration to independence. Research from Declassified UK shows that one quarter of all British MPs have received funding from the Israel lobby. For all its farce this general election is doing more than any I can remember to expose the failure of the Union and the uselessness of electoral democracy under capitalism.

A video shared on social media shows the moment when the Israeli hostage Noa Argamani is reunited with her father after being rescued from central Gaza by Israeli forces. Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on 7 Oct and had appeared in video footage, verified by her father, that showed her being taken away on a motorbike. She was rescued along with three other hostages: Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv. All four have been taken to hospital for medical checks

Something went wrong, please try again later. Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inboxSomething went wrong, please try again later. Recent reports have speculated that Benfica star Joao Neves is also a target for the Reds this summer. It remains to be seen if the interest from United in both Thuram and Neves proves to be genuine.

Facing financial challenges and political division, several of America’s largest news organizations have turned over the reins to editors who prize relentless reporting on a budget. Will Lewis, a veteran of London’s Daily Telegraph and News UK, is now the chief executive of The Washington Post, where reporters have raised questions about his Fleet Street ethics. He recently ousted the paper’s American editor and replaced her with a former colleague from The Telegraph, dumbfounding American reporters who had never heard of him. Michael Bloomberg, a noted Anglophile, hired John Micklethwait (former editor of the London-based Economist) in 2015 to run Bloomberg News. Rupert Murdoch tapped Keith Poole (The Sun and The Daily Mail) to edit The New York Post in 2021, the same year that The Associated Press named an Englishwoman, Daisy Veerasingham, as its chief executive.

Prince William has continued to share vague cancer-treatment updates about his wife, Catherine, when greeting the public. Prince William continues to have a positive outlook on his wife’s health. In a video filmed at the D-Day anniversary service in France, a veteran asked William if his wife was “getting any better” amid her treatment. The princess has not participated in any public royal engagements since Christmas Day. During that time, Catherine, an upper-middle-class commoner who married into the British royal family in 2011, had also been plagued by rumors about trouble in her marriage.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was roundly criticised by political rivals on Friday, hours after apologising for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early in the latest self-inflicted setback to his stuttering general election campaign. "What happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised," she said, before adding it should not become "a political football". In his apology, Sunak insisted he "cares deeply about veterans" and noted his attendance at two D-Day memorial events this week. But it's also a very important moment to show that you're being prime ministerial," Craig Oliver, the former adviser to Cameron when he was prime minister, told BBC radio. Sunak, an internal Tory appointee as prime minister in October 2022, called the election in a widely-mocked, rain-sodden speech from Downing Street last month.

The two judges’ resignation came after the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation on May 14 released a report with the title “Lending prestige to persecution: how foreign judges are undermining Hong Kong’s Freedoms and why they should quit.” Alistair Carmichael, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong, hosted the report launch. It called on the Congress to pass the Hong Kong Judicial Sanctions Act, which was introduced by several US Representatives to hold Hong Kong officials accountable for human rights violations. In March 2022, serving UK Supreme Court justices Robert Reed and Patrick Hodge resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court under pressure from the British government. In July 2023, last Hong Kong governor Chris Patten called for the withdrawal of British judges from Hong Kong’s top court. Chan Chak-ming, president of the Law Society of Hong Kong, said the society supports keeping overseas non-permanent judges in Hong Kong, as stated in the Basic Law.

Analysis: Sunak struggles to change the weather after unstable opening fortnight of campaignQuestion. If a prime minister is heckled at a rally and there's no backdrop scandal to imbue it with meaning, should it still end up on the news? Exhibit A - the torrid two days Rishi Sunak has had after his early departure from the D-Day commemorations. This was inevitably seen as another blow for the embattled campaign, despite the prime minister giving a fairly convincing defence of his policy. So how can Rishi Sunak change the weather?

During the BBC’s live TV election debate, Penny Mordaunt said the election was about the cost of living crisis and claimed ‘Labour will put up your taxes by £2,000’, repeating a line made days earlier by Rishi Sunak during ITV’s debate. Labour’s Angela Rayner responded quickly, repeating ‘that is a lie’, and claimed the Conservatives had raised taxes to record levels, which Mordaunt accepted. The Tories said the £2,000 figure was drawn from independent Treasury data, but the Treasury’s top mandarin, James Bowler, told the government that the figure ‘should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service’. Labour say the claim is inaccurate. The BBC debate included key figures from seven parties and is the second live debate in the run up to the general election on 4 July

Even in Surrey, a historic stronghold of UK Conservatives, voters are tempted to give opposition parties a chance at the July 4 general election, saying successive governments have "made a mess of it". Many of the town's 20,000 residents are retirees and from wealthy backgrounds, and have always sent a Conservative MP to the UK parliament at Westminster. Forrester, who now cares for her disabled daughter, is disappointed by the Conservatives' 14 years in power. Most disgruntled voters say they will vote for Liberal Democrat Paul Follows, a local figure unknown at the national level. "What has changed is Jeremy (Hunt) and what has changed is the Conservative party."

In 2011, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, News Corporation, faced a grave threat in Britain. Reporters at one of his tabloid newspapers were exposed for hacking the phones of celebrities, private citizens and, in one case, a murdered child for information. Other misdeeds soon emerged, including the revelation that for years, tabloid reporters had paid for information from police officers and government officials. In his telling, he cooperated with the authorities, revealed wrongdoing and helped set the operation on a new course. Some former colleagues and hacking victims, though, long believed that he helped News Corp cover up the extent of the wrongdoing.

Wayne Bridge and Jose Mourinho had an up and down relationship at ChelseaFormer Chelsea star Wayne Bridge has revealed an intriguing offer from Jose Mourinho following his premature retirement. Despite this, Mourinho showed a different side to Bridge, offering him a job at Chelsea in an undefined role. Mourinho left Chelsea for the first time in 2007, a couple of years before Bridge departed for Manchester City. He is now back in management with Fenerbahce and Bridge reckons he will do a good job in Turkey. You can't say that going to Turkey is a bad thing because he loves the game of football and he may go there and do a good job."