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Erik ten Hag insisted that Manchester United should have scored more goals after a 2-2 draw in their Europa League play off first leg against Barcelona at the Camp Nou. The Dutchman also complained that Barcelona had escaped a gamechanging clear red card and a penalty after Jules Koundé bundled over Marcus Rashford near the edge of the area at 2-1 to the visitors, suggesting that the atmosphere might have influenced the referee, Maurizio Mariani. “It was 2-1, a clear foul on Marcus Rashford and a penalty,” Ten Hag said. “If it’s in the box or just outside the box, it’s definitely a red…

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband is facing calls to step down from his own role in the SNP, as the party faces a wider scandal over “missing” funds. Peter Murrell, the party’s chief executive officer, is planning to stay in his role during the election of his wife’s successor. However, one of the SNP’s own MPs at Westminster called on Mr Murrell to step aside on Wednesday and called for a “neutral caretaker CEO” to take his place. Joanna Cherry, the MP for Edinburgh South West, wrote on Twitter: The leadership contest comes in the midst of a financial row after the party raised £600,000 during…

Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation could prompt a major rethink around her plans to fight the next UK general election as a de facto referendum on independence, the Scottish National party’s leader in Westminster has suggested. After the shock announcement of the first minister’s departure on Wednesday, Stephen Flynn said the special conference due to be held next month on Sturgeon’s plan should be pushed back to give the new leader time to set out their intentions. “I think it’s sensible that we do hit the pause button on that conference and allow the new leader the opportunity to set out their vision,” he…

BRITISH GAS OWNERS CENTRICA REPORT RECORD PROFITS £3.3bn Was Recorded At The Company, Up From £948m In 2021 Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, has reported record profits for the 2022 financial year. Operating profits of £3.3bn were recorded at the company, up from £948m in 2021, and surpassing the firm’s previous highest ever yearly profit of £2.7bn, posted in 2012. Profit at the oil and gas producer has been helped by high energy prices. Wholesale gas costs had risen to new highs in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. Supplies have been limited since it began, and the…

It is threatening to become a Premier League truism. When Manchester City face Arsenal, they always win. But never in a meeting as loaded as this. City’s 11th straight victory over Arsenal in the competition carried them above their opponents on goal difference at the top of the table, although they have played an extra game. As a statement of intent about a fifth title in six years, it was red hot. Arsenal were the better team in the first half, running on passion, showing character to recover from Kevin De Bruyne’s wonderful opener. It was Bukayo Saka who equalised with the…

KING CHARLES MEETS VOLUNTEERS SENDING AID TO TURKEY, SYRIA – Gathering items to send including sleeping bags And items of clothing King Charles met with volunteers in London on Tuesday who were collecting aid to be sent to earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. Last week the two countries were hit by devastating earthquakes which has left at least 37,000 people dead. Charles spoke with volunteers who were gathering items to send including sleeping bags and items of clothing. In Trafalgar Square, the British monarch spoke with a member of the White Helmets, a humanitarian organisation who have been involved in…

For the last few weeks Paris has been gripped by stories of superstar players wanting to leave this place. For an hour at the Parc des Princes it was easy to sympathise, as a Paris Saint-Germain team with Neymar and Lionel Messi installed as a walking-football front two produced a horribly constipated performance en route to a 1-0 defeat by Bayern Munich that threatens to deadhead their season before the end of February. The emir of Qatar was in Paris to watch this last-16 first leg, hotfooting it from Rome, and perhaps, who knows, with half an eye on opportunities in the…

Nicola Sturgeon is to quit as Scotland’s first minister in a shock decision. A source confirmed Sturgeon, who has been the country’s longest-serving first minister, will announce her resignation at 11am on Wednesday in Edinburgh. The Scottish National party leader has suffered a series of political setbacks recently, including the UK supreme court defeat of her plans for a fresh independence referendum and a damaging row over a double rapist being sent to a female jail after announcing she was a trans woman. It remains unclear when she will leave office, and she may announce a long process to allow her party,…

The European Commission is being sued over its refusal to release text messages between its president and the boss of Pfizer, which manufactured a coronavirus vaccine. Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Bourla exchanged personal messages, which the commission suggests may have been deleted, at the height of the pandemic. The commission and pharmaceutical firm bosses were locked in negotiations for billions of euros worth of jabs, while the EU faced a major shortfall in deliveries of the new AstraZeneca vaccine. Lawyers for The New York Times will argue in the EU’s top court that the failure to disclose the smartphone communications, dubbed…

An investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has been quietly shelved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), it has emerged. Since the start of the pandemic, there has been speculation that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, which had been collecting and manipulating bat viruses. An initial inquiry by the WHO concluded in 2021 that Covid-19 emerged from an animal spillover event, but it was later shown that investigators had been forced to report a lab leak was unlikely to avoid arguments with China. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, later acknowledged it had been premature to rule out a leak from laboratories in…