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And in the Premier League, Leandro Trossard, who came on at half-time has levelled for Arsenal at Aston Villa.
Elsewhere in the Championship, crisis club Leicester are leading 3-0 at Derby.
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We are 15 minutes from the start of qualifying.
Sky are focusing on an also-ran: Lewis Hamilton. It’s reflective of the fact that very little is going on in the buildup to qualifying. On Sunday there will be grid walks and celeb-spotting, but now it’s just a question of waiting.
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Four people arrested after protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power
Part of the Tower of London has been closed to visitors after food was thrown at a display case containing the crown jewels in a protest against inequality in the UK.
Four people were arrested on Saturday after the action, which was claimed by Take Back Power – a self-described non-violent civil-resistance group. It said custard and apple crumble was flung at the case, which contained the imperial state crown.
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The basketball legend says Nascar gives teams too little power with too much risk. His lawsuit could force historic changes to how one of America’s biggest sports is run
Michael Jordan took the stand on Friday in his landmark antitrust fight against Nascar, a case that could reshape how one of America’s biggest sports is run. Jordan’s team, 23XI Racing, and Front Row Motorsports say Nascar holds so much control over everything, from the tracks to the money to the rulebook, that teams have no real bargaining power. Nascar denies that and says the lawsuit threatens to blow up a system that has held the sport together for decades.
The case has already pulled blunt internal messages into public view and laid bare long-running frustrations between teams and Nascar leadership. Denny Hamlin, Jordan’s co-owner, has said the trial will finally “hear the truth” about how the series “really operates”.
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Pentagon press passes once held by credentialed journalists are now in the hands of rightwing pundits and Trump allies
Being a member of the Pentagon press corps was once one of the more prestigious assignments in US journalism, a position reserved for heavy hitters from venerable newspapers and news channels, reporters at the peak of their powers.
Not any more. A press conference last week – held at a crucial time for a Pentagon embroiled in scandal – was instead attended by more than a dozen rightwing activists, with the government being held to account by a close ally of Donald Trump, an employee at Turning Point USA and someone from a pillow salesman’s nascent media company.
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Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillor
Nigel Farage is emboldening attacks on people of colour, according to a journalist allegedly subjected to racial slurs by a Reform UK council leader who the party has been forced to expel.
The broadcaster Sangita Myska, whose long career in British journalism has included presenting shows for the BBC and LBC Radio, said she was told by the former Staffordshire council leader Ian Cooper that she was English “only in your dreams”, because of her south Asian heritage.
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