Sarina Wiegman has signed a two-year England contract extension through Euro 2029, the FA announced on Monday. What the Lionesses manager's new deal means for the World Cup play-off against Ukraine, her rebuilt backroom team, and the rebuild of an ageing golden generation.
Jurors at Southwark Crown Court heard a third complainant describe Russell Brand's alleged 2004 Soho bar assault — the 'maniacal grin', being dragged into toilets, and her reply to the defence: 'I was not charmed in the slightest'. Brand denies all seven charges.
Chancellor John Healey is poised to hit banks with a tax rise in the 28 October Budget — most likely reversing the bank surcharge cut from 3% back to 8%, raising £2bn a year. Shares in NatWest and Lloyds fell, the IMF warned him off, and the TUC wants him to go further.
Hundreds of British troops will join 1,500 French, German and Polish personnel in Poland next month to rehearse a post-ceasefire deployment to Ukraine — the first exercise of its kind, announced by Wes Streeting in Washington as Trump splits with Europe on Russia.
Johan Manzambi's 36th-minute header — the player Newcastle nearly signed this summer — deepened the Magpies' crisis with a 1-0 defeat at St James' Park, a new club record of 16 games without a clean sheet, and boos from the Gallowgate.
The Metropolitan Police will take no action against Sarah Helm, wife of national security adviser Jonathan Powell, ruling her X post about Palestine Action "did not meet the criminal threshold" — but the wider row over the proscribed group, 3,700 arrests and a looming Supreme Court challenge is far from over.
Bird flu is back in Britain for the 2026-27 season, with fresh cases in Orkney and on Lewis this week, Brussels halting poultry imports from the affected zones, and the country stripped of its disease-free status just as autumn migration peaks.
Erling Haaland's brace fired Manchester City to a 3-2 win over Ipswich — a club-record seventh straight win to open the season, making Enzo Maresca the first manager in PL history to win his first seven in charge, days after the club's guilty verdict on 100+ financial charges.
The UK government quietly pitched London as a new home for UBS's headquarters and stock listing if the Swiss giant walks out over capital rules. At CHF129 billion, the bank would instantly become one of the FTSE 100's biggest companies.