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Oasis reunion tour sells out in ten hours as thousands left frustrated

Oasis reunion tour sells out in ten hours as thousands left frustrated

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free Oasis’s long-awaited reunion proved to be one of the most in-demand tours of the decade, as websites were reported to have crashed and thousands of fans were left dejected after failing to get their hands on tickets which have sold out. Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher announced last week that they would join one another onstage for the first time in 16 years, for a string of stadium shows taking place in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Dublin in 2025. The tour will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the band’s record-breaking second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, and was announced shortly before the band marked three decades since their seminal debut, Definitely Maybe. It was a morning of mixed emotions on Saturday as tickets were released first for Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, at 8am, then in the …

Ten principles to guide Labour’s review of assessment

Ten principles to guide Labour’s review of assessment

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More from this theme Recent articles Everyone’s talking about the new government’s curriculum and assessment review, but few have commented on the assessment aspect. I will take it as read that the review leads to a principled, coherent, well-balanced iteration of the national curriculum, grounded in the best evidence on curriculum and pedagogy, a huge challenge in itself. However, having overseen the Ofqual part of the last round of assessment reforms, and recognising the strengths and flaws in that process, I want to offer ten principles to guide the review away from pitfalls. Clear assessment purposes Be really clear about the purposes of assessment: who they are for and what they are meant to achieve. An assessment is only good if it is designed in a way that works well for its intended purposes. For example, good stand-alone graded certification exams, competency tests, selection tests and accountability tests look very different from each other. They sample content domains in different ways, have different mark distributions and grading models and different levels of reliability. Conflicts between …

Erik ten Hag to stay as Manchester United manager | UK News

Erik ten Hag to stay as Manchester United manager | UK News

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Erik ten Hag is to stay as Manchester United manager, Sky News understands. The Dutchman has been the subject of intense speculation over his future at the club after a disappointing Premier League campaign, which saw United finish eighth. However they beat rivals Manchester City – the Premier League champions – to win the FA Cup final in a surprise 2-1 victory at Wembley at the end of the season. Image: Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes lifts the FA Cup. Pic: PA United have spent the past fortnight reviewing the 2023-24 campaign and overall first-team operation, leading to more questions over Ten Hag‘s position. But United have decided the 54-year-old will stay in his post after considering all eventualities, it is understood. Sky News sports correspondent Rob Harris said Ten Hag, who has been at the club for two seasons during which time United won the League Cup in 2023, is now in talks over a new contract. He signed a three-year deal with United in 2022 – which is due to expire next summer – …

Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors struggle to rebuild lives | Genocide News

Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors struggle to rebuild lives | Genocide News

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Ten years on from ISIL’s massacre against the Yazidi people, hundreds of thousands of displaced survivors are unable to safely return to their former homes in Iraq, two NGOs say in a new report. The report published on Friday by Refugees International and Voice of Ezidis, has warned that those making the dangerous journey to Europe are living in legal limbo. It called on European countries to launch a humanitarian visa for genocide survivors that would enable Yazidis to reach Europe safely, and to apply EU-wide measures that would enable them to settle in countries where they have relatives. The Yazidis, a long-persecuted group whose faith is rooted in Zoroastrianism, are still recovering from the horrors of ISIL’s onslaught on their community in Iraq’s Sinjar district in 2014. Within days, nearly 10,000 people were killed – either shot, beheaded or burned alive – or kidnapped, according to the Public Library of Science journal PLOS Medicine in 2017. Some villages in Sinjar are mass graveyards – yet to be exhumed. More than 2,800 women and children …

Ten years after the Flint water crisis, distrust and anger linger

Ten years after the Flint water crisis, distrust and anger linger

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Flint, Michigan, is less than 70 miles from the Great Lakes, the most abundant fresh water on the face of the planet. It’s laced with creeks and a broad river that bears its name. Yet in 2014, Flint’s drinking water became a threat — not because of scarcity, or a natural disaster, or even a familiar tale of corporate pollution. Ten years ago this spring, public officials made catastrophic changes in the city’s water source and treatment, then used testing practices that hid dangers. As problems emerged, they failed to appropriately change course. Residents raised repeated concerns about the color, odor and taste of the water but struggled to get a sufficiently serious response, especially from state and federal authorities. Dr. Jacquinne Reynolds stands for a portrait inside her classroom in Flint, Michigan on Feb. 7, 2024. (Sarahbeth Maney/ProPublica) It didn’t help that the distressed city was under the authority of state-appointed emergency managers, an unusually expansive oversight system that residents decried. For a crucial period of about 3 1/2 years, local decision-making was not …

You only need four moves and ten minutes to build a stronger core

You only need four moves and ten minutes to build a stronger core

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If you want a stronger core, you can’t just do sit-ups every day. While the floor-based exercise is great for targeting the muscles on the front of your stomach, it misses out other important components of your core. A varied exercise regime is crucial to building comprehensive core strength, which is why we like this workout from NASM-certified personal trainer Sadielee Thomas. It targets a range of core muscles in four moves, including those found along the sides of your abdomen and in your lower back. How to do Sadielee Thomas’ core workout Aim for 12 to 15 reps of each movement, moving through the entire workout two to three times depending on your fitness level. Thomas wears a pair of 2lb ankle weights to increase the difficulty of the workout, which you can also do to challenge yourself. But it’s always best to do the workout without weights first and then progress by adding a load. Benefits of core training The core is a group of muscles within your trunk area that connects your …

Erik ten Hag’s exit may be near but when will the Manchester United cycle stop? | Erik ten Hag

Erik ten Hag’s exit may be near but when will the Manchester United cycle stop? | Erik ten Hag

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Erik ten Hag arrived at Manchester United promising to inspire flowing, thrilling transition football. And, you have to say, mission accomplished. You only had to watch Crystal Palace pouring forward at speed on Monday night, or Sheffield United bombing up the pitch at Old Trafford a couple of weeks ago, or indeed Coventry City in the recent FA Cup semi-final. Thanks to Ten Hag, United fans are being treated to sumptuous counterattacking fare on a near-weekly basis, even if – unhappily for Ten Hag’s job prospects – most of it these days seems to be getting played by the opposition. Yes: it’s an even-numbered year, so we’re discussing whether the Manchester United manager should be sacked. And so to David Moyes (2014), Louis van Gaal (2016), José Mourinho (2018), Ole Gunnar Solskjær (a pandemic-delayed 2021) and Ralf Rangnick (2022) can almost certainly be added Ten Hag (2024), another well-credentialled manager who just didn’t have what it takes to manage a massive club like United. Seriously unlucky! How do they keep ending up with these guys? Ten …

Erik ten Hag’s Ming the Merciless act has given United only flashes of glory | Erik ten Hag

Erik ten Hag’s Ming the Merciless act has given United only flashes of glory | Erik ten Hag

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And so the real business begins. The four months since Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos bought a little over a quarter of Manchester United have been the phoney war. No transfers could be done, so little could be changed on the pitch. The task of Ratcliffe and his advisers was to watch and learn and rejig the executive tier so that when the window opens they are ready to act. That rejig has been more dramatic than many anticipated. The chief executive, Richard Arnold, and the football director, John Murtough, are just the highest profile departures. Omar Berrada will come in as chief executive from Manchester City when his notice period expires on 13 July while Murtough has effectively been replaced by Jason Wilcox, the new technical director, and Dan Ashworth, who will come in once the terms of his severance from Newcastle have been agreed. Other changes were announced on Tuesday in what feels like a general process of Ineos-ification, suggesting Ratcliffe may have a far bigger hand in the business side of United’s …

Martin Kemp, 62, fears he has ‘ten years left to live’

Martin Kemp, 62, fears he has ‘ten years left to live’

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Martin Kemp has opened up about his fears that he might have “ten years to live” following the diagnosis of two benign brain tumours in his 30s. Speaking on the podcast he shares with son Roman Kemp, FFS! My Dad Is Martin Kemp, in an episode titled ‘Death’, the former Spandau Ballet performer shared: “I’ll be really honest with you, 10 years,” when asked about how much longer he believed he’d be alive. © GettyMartin spoke on the podcast he shares with his son, Roman The 62-year-old added: “I don’t know how long I’ve got left, but I will tell you, since I was the age of 34, when I went through all of that brain tumour scare, I spent two years of my life thinking I was going to die. And I think after that, everything else, every day, every year, every month that I’ve lived, every experience that I’ve had has been a bonus.” Speaking about accepting his fate, Martin continued: “And I will tell you something, it’s really strange that when I …

Polestar shows off 5 GT charging capabilities, 10-80% in ten mins

Polestar shows off 5 GT charging capabilities, 10-80% in ten mins

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Polestar is showcasing the charging capabilities of the upcoming Polestar 5 sports sedan using a prototype model and StoreDot’s Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) technology. This is the first EV to test StoreDot’s ultra-fast charging technology, and the initial tests are quite promising. When it arrives, the Polestar 5 will be—you guessed it—the fifth model in the Geely-owned automaker’s EV portfolio. The all-electric sports sedan’s inception stems from the Precept concept, and Polestar continues to be one of the few automakers that actually evolves its concepts into production vehicles. The production prototype version of the Polestar 5 debuted in late 2021, equipped with carriage doors and a “Smart Zone” grille that houses many of the sensors for the EV’s ADAS. In July 2023, a camouflaged prototype of the 5 appeared publicly at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, touting 884 horsepower and Polestar’s 800V architecture that will enable ultra-fast charging speeds. By November 2023, we learned that EV battery specialist StoreDot would trial its new 100in5 battery technology in the Polestar 5, giving the 4-door GT charging capabilities …