There is something slightly strange about being told that it is going to reach 27°C when September is almost over. By this point in the year, we have usually started thinking about darker evenings, jumpers, heating bills and whether it is too early to put the winter duvet back on the bed. The summer clothes have often been pushed towards the back of the wardrobe, the barbecue has been cleaned […]

Manchester City arranged sham contracts with commercial partners to disguise over £830m of secret funding, the Premier League has stated. An independent commission found City guilty of all charges relating to financial rule breaches between 2009 and 2018, ruling the club used sham agreements to artificially inflate revenues and reduce costs. City deny wrongdoing and have until October the second to appeal the decision. The chief executive of the company […]

There was a time when the electricity going off was not an unusual event. It might happen during a storm, after some problem with the local supply or simply for reasons that nobody in the house completely understood. One minute you would be watching television, making a cup of tea or doing something perfectly ordinary, and the next the entire house would suddenly go quiet. For Gen X, a power […]