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MARCUS RASHFORD hailed the revamped Nou Camp as “beautiful” after Barcelona edged closer to returning home. The Spanish giants – who have not played at their iconic ground since 2023 due to a £1.25BILLION refurb – staged an open training session. Now the first test event has been completed, Barca hope the team can host…

SMALL boat migrants could be forced to repay their hotel and benefit costs if granted asylum. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is said to be considering a payback requirement for those who stay. The total cost of migrant accommodation is expected to hit £15billion in the next five years. Labour MPs under threat from Reform are…

THIS is the terrifying moment a car towing a caravan loses control on a motorway as it overtakes a lorry before flipping onto the hard shoulder. Shocking dashcam footage was captured by a lorry driver while driving down the motorway in Worcestershire when the horror unfolded last month. The footage shows Lee Flower, from Trowbridge,…

PRINCE William hailed the Princess of Pop Kylie Minogue as she joined him at his £50million Earthshot Prize event in Brazil. Wills later also heaped praise on King Charles at the COP30 eco talks — in his first speech on behalf of his father. The 6ft 3in heir to the throne towered over 5ft Kylie…

MIGRANTS joined hands as they made their way to a small boat off the French coast — only to return wrapped in foil blankets after it collapsed in the Channel. All 94 people fell into the water as the vessel fell apart four nautical miles out to sea yesterday, prompting maritime officials to broadcast a…

REMEMBER those big rectangular pre-digital VHS tapes?   Well, Shooter Jennings, son of late country music great Waylon, has held on to a few of them.  Now I’ll explain why they’re so precious to him.   They contain episodes of a TV show almost as popular as Dallas in the early Eighties — The Dukes Of Hazzard.  As the opening credits roll, you see “The General Lee”, a…

PREDATOR: BADLANDS (12A) 107mins ★★★☆☆ WHAT happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? That’s the question in this latest outing for the marauding monster franchise. And for the first time it’s a Predator and not a person who is our protagonist. This fundamental plot twist takes the action into pure sci-fi territory, too. While Badlands…

SAINSBURY’S has upped its annual earnings outlook to more than £1billion after a better-than-expected half-year performance. The supermarket reported an underlying operating profit of £504million for the 28 weeks to September 13. It was up on last year’s £503million and better than the group expected. Pre-tax profits also rose by 5 per cent to £271million….

BUDGET retailer Lidl is planning to roll out scan and shop handsets in a bid to save shoppers time at the checkout. The firm has filed a trademark in Europe and the UK for “Lidl & Go” to apply to digital payment systems. These include customer-operated electronic terminals, according to The Grocer. Lidl said the…

SINCE taking over as Justice Secretary, David Lammy has presided over a circus.  This year, 262 prisoners were released early — more than double the year before.  Yet Calamity Lammy won’t tell us how many of those have been returned to prison, how many are violent or sexual offenders, and how many are still on…