Sean Dyche cannot wait for VAR to be used in the Premier League next season. The Burnley manager just wishes it had been around on his biggest day as a player 22 years ago. Dyche was captain of Chesterfield in 1997, then in the third tier, who were playing Middlesbrough in an FA Cup semi-final at Old Trafford. The Spireites were already leading 2-1 when a shot from Jon Howard struck the underside of the bar and bounced over the line. Neither referee David Elleray nor his assistants saw it and the goal was not given. Boro fought back to draw the match 3-3 before winning the replay and Dyche’s dream of playing at Wembley was dashed. Those thoughts came flooding back as he watched the dramatic Champions League tie between Manchester City and Tottenham last Wednesday as VAR ruled out Raheem Sterling’s injury time goal for offside and sent Spurs into the semi-finals. “VAR has to be right,” says the Burnley boss ahead of tonight’s Premier League away at … [Read more...] about Sean Dyche counting down the days until VAR comes to the Premier League
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Journalist Lyra McKee ‘murdered by New IRA’ was going to propose to her girlfriend in just two weeks as mourners asked to wear Harry Potter clothes to her funeral
MURDERED journalist Lyra McKee was planning to propose to the "love of her life" on a romantic getaway to New York in two weeks. The 29-year-old had told pals about her plans and even invited them to a wedding set for 2021 before she was shot dead in Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, earlier this week. Miss McKee told her friend Ann Travers about it - just days before her death. Ann said: "Lyra was going to New York with Sara in two weeks’ time and she was so excited because she was going to propose to her. "Lyra asked if I would come and I said “of course”, then she told me it would be in 2021. I had to stop myself from laughing because that was just so Lyra. She was so enthusiastic about everything, even with the fact that the wedding was in two years. "She was so enthusiastic about everything, even with the fact that the wedding was in two years." Ann Travers "Knowing Lyra, she would have planned the proposal meticulously and had somewhere beautiful to do it. It … [Read more...] about Journalist Lyra McKee ‘murdered by New IRA’ was going to propose to her girlfriend in just two weeks as mourners asked to wear Harry Potter clothes to her funeral
Nearly 1,000 pubs shut down last year with thousands more letting staff go to cut costs
PUBS are calling last orders at an alarming rate with nearly 1,000 shutting down last year. Thousands of staff were also let go as bar bosses tried to stave off closure by cutting costs. Campaigners say the Government must reform the “crippling” business rates. Kate Nicholls of pub trade association UK Hospitality said: “Pubs are being hit with a myriad of cost pressures at a time of unprecedented political uncertainty and unstable consumer confidence. Unless positive action is taken by the Government to address crippling costs, more pubs will be forced out of business.” A total of 914 pubs disappeared in 2018, according to real estate data company Altus Group. BreakingFOREST FIRE Caravan holiday park evacuated after huge wildfire erupts in nearby forest MISSING JOCELYN Cops launch hunt for missing woman, 24, who vanished early on Easter Sunday RIDDEN INTO THE GROUND Two arrested after 'pregnant' horse pulling trap collapses in heat ExclusiveWISH WE WEREN'T HERE … [Read more...] about Nearly 1,000 pubs shut down last year with thousands more letting staff go to cut costs
The growing partnership between Russia’s government and cybercriminals
The release of special counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report last Thursday created new headlines, but did nothing to lessen the country's partisan divide. One fact, however, that at least U.S.intelligence officials agree on is that Russia's cyber espionage efforts constitute one of the greatest threats we face as a nation. Assessing the threats in the new "code war" Tonight, we're going to tell you about one of the most insidious aspects of that threat, one that goes well beyond what Robert Mueller documented in his investigation: it is the growing and unlikely partnership between Russian government spymasters and Russian cybercriminals. One of the first public hints of this unholy alliance came, coincidentally, when President Obama imposed sanctions on Russia's intelligence agencies for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. At the same time, and little noticed, he also sanctioned two big-time Russian criminal hackers. How the FBI came to unmask them is a … [Read more...] about The growing partnership between Russia’s government and cybercriminals
Easter Island’s famous moai statues slowly fading away
On this Easter Sunday, we thought it would be fitting to take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, far into the pacific, 2200 miles due west from the coast of Chile. Why did people stop building statues on Easter Island? Dutch explorers gave it its name after they spotted it on Easter Sunday in 1722. What they found has fascinated and confounded the world ever since, giant stone statues that tower over the island's landscape. They're called moai, and as we learned our first morning on Easter Island, there is nothing quite like them anywhere else in the world. When dawn breaks on Easter Island, it is the moai that first feel the sun. These 15 moai at a site called Tongariki are perhaps the most famous. Carved out of volcanic rock, they're placed on a stone platform called an ahu. The tallest is nearly 30 feet. They stand, strange silent sentinels, facing away from the sea, watching over the land and … [Read more...] about Easter Island’s famous moai statues slowly fading away