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Michael Carrick had a spell as caretaker manager of Manchester United in 2021 (Picture: Getty) Championship club Middlesbrough have held talks over former Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick becoming their new manager. Carrick had a spell as caretaker manager of United in 2021 following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, before Ralf Rangnick stepped in for the rest of 2021-22. The 41-year-old took charge of three games for United, beating Villarreal in the Champions League before a draw with Chelsea and a victory over Arsenal. The Athletic are now reporting that Middlesbrough have held talks over Carrick regarding their vacant…

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Rosie Jones called out the tweet (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock) Rosie Jones has slammed a vile tweet full of ‘entitlement, misogyny and homophobia’ shortly after a powerful post celebrating World Lesbian Day. The 32-year-old comedian has been open about her sexuality and she was left mortified by a reply on Twitter. Reflecting on the way she’s grown over the years Rosie, who has cerebral palsy, wrote: ‘I can’t be a lesbian, I love wearing dresses. I have long hair. I’m disabled. For ages I didn’t accept my sexuality. I couldn’t relate to any of the archaic stereotypes associated with the word.…

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The mum-of-five felt ‘ashamed’ to talk about it until now (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock) Kerry Katona has spoken out about the ‘rebound fling’ she had following the death of George Kay. Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry, 42, married Kay in 2014 before they split three years later. The Rugby League player then died in 2019 at the age of 39, after he reportedly ate ‘a ball of cocaine’ while at a Holiday Inn in Cheshire. Kerry recently lifted the lid on the violence that consumed their relationship, writing in her memoir, Kerry Katona: Whole Again, that he would ‘kick’ and ‘spit’ at her…

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Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez announced she would resign her leadership position after an audio clip of her making racist comments circulated online (Picture: Getty Images) The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned after an audio recording of her making racist comments about another council member’s son leaked. City Councilmember Nury Martinez stepped down from her post as president on Monday after the audio recording was published by the Los Angeles Times the night before. It was not clear whether Martinez would also resign from her seat on the council. The recording was from an October…

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​British spy agency director to say in rare public address that Ukraine is ‘turning the tide’ against RussiaVladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership, the head of the British spy agency GCHQ will say in a speech on Tuesday.Russia’s soldiers are running out of supplies and munitions and initial gains made by Moscow are being reversed, Jeremy Fleming is expected to add in a rare public address. Continue reading… 

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Katie Piper’s attacker Stefan Sylvestre was recalled to prison (Picture: Getty Images/Met Police) The man who attacked Katie Piper with acid in 2008 fled the UK in August, police have said, as they warn people to stay away from him after he was recalled to prison. Stefan Sylvestre, who was an accomplice of Piper’s ex-boyfriend, attacked the TV presenter in 2008, throwing sulphuric acid in her face and leaving her with severe burns and blind in one eye.  Piper, 38, almost lost her life and spent agonising months in intensive care, undergoing multiple surgeries for facial disfigurement, some of which are ongoing…

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Dennis Peek (right) was fired from a Wendy’s restaurant in Stanley, North Carolina, apparently for being ‘unable to perform the duties’ that a normal person could on the job (Picture: Getty Images/Twitter) A man with down syndrome who worked for a Wendy’s restaurant for 20 years was fired from the job he dreamed of retiring from. Dennis Peek was terminated from the fast food chain’s location in Stanley, North Carolina, because he was ‘unable to perform the duties of a normal persons job’, his sister Cona Young Turner shared on Facebook. ‘My brother Dennis has worked at Wendy’s in Stanley…

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Two people were rescued by the Coast Guard while fending off sharks after a fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Three lucky fishermen were rescued on Sunday roughly 25 miles south of the small town of Empire, Louisiana. Two of them were set upon by sharks when the Coast Guard arrived. Family members reported the men missing when they failed to return home from a fishing trip on Saturday. The Coast Guard initiated a search of an area of 1250…

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Ant Middleton has hit out at the ‘woke patrol’ for making Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins ‘easy’ following his departure. The TV star became one of the most prominent figures on the brutal Channel 4 show but, as of 2022, he’s no longer part of it. It was announced last March that he would not be returning to his role as chief instructor due to ‘personal conduct.’ Ant was replaced by martial arts instructor Rudy Reyes, but the former instructor hasn’t exactly…

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Adam Porter, 42, has been dismissed from the Army after the assault (Picture: Solent/PA) A sergeant has been dismissed from the British Army after he put his hand up a female soldier’s dress before squeezing her bottom on a night out. Adam Porter, 42, had knocked back a bottle of wine, several tequila shots and had cracked open a bottle of port at a pub as soldiers from the regiment enjoyed their first post-Covid work celebration. Intoxicated, the dad-of-four spotted the woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – in a knee length floaty dress and told her,…

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Members of the public who intervened to help were branded ‘heroes’ (Picture: REX) A man has been arrested following a triple stabbing in central London which saw members of the public try to foil a phone robbery. The 25-year-old was detained in Islington, north London this morning, following the incident in Bishopsgate last Thursday. Witnesses said they watched a group of two or three masked knifemen attacking a pedestrian just before 10am. Members of the public, later described as ‘heroes’ by one passerby, tried to stop the attackers. The victims needed hospital treatment but did not suffer life-threatening injuries. Police…

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