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That’s one way to shut people up. Don’t score enough goals for £85million? Score one 11 minutes after coming on to the pitch. Don’t create enough? Grab an assist three minutes later. As debut cameos go, Savio and Roberto De Zerbi could have asked for little more.’Savio is a player who brings energy, imagination and quality in wide positions,’ declared the Tottenham Hotspur boss earlier this week. ‘He has the courage to attack defenders and the ability to change a game with his creativity.’The sceptics in the Spurs fanbase may have been tempted, amid the excitement of a monster double…

Jamie Carragher faces being declared bankrupt over an unpaid tax bill.HMRC filed a petition at the High Court in London on Wednesday.A spokesperson for HMRC told Daily Mail Sport: ‘We take a supportive approach to dealing with customers who have tax debts and do everything we can to help those who engage with us to get out of debt, such as offering instalment plans. We only petition for bankruptcy as a last resort.’HMRC added that it does not comment on individual cases. Daily Mail Sport has contacted Carragher’s management for comment. On Companies House, the 38-year-old is listed as a director at four firms and…

Thursday morning sees a T20 fixture which has many Irish cricket followers licking their lips.A tasty encounter between sides called the Dublin Guardians and the Belfast Wolves will give bragging rights to those in Leinster and the Northern union who believe they have the better players.Except it is not that simple: there’s only six Irish players on each side, and in Belfast half of that contingent is from Dublin, while two of the Guardians play for clubs up north.The Dublin side also includes players from Scotland, USA, Greece, UAE, New Zealand, India and England. The four players from the other…

The BBC is set to bring back Top Gear four years after it was shelved following Freddie Flintoff’s crash.The news was confirmed by the BBC Director of Entertainment Ed Havard at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday, amid reports that comedian Jimmy Carr, 53, is in talks to replace Freddie.Harvard said: ‘I know there’s been lots of speculation about this, but we can confirm that Top Gear is coming back.’And while he said he was ‘not going to talk about talent today,’ he did admit that Carr would be a great choice. BBC Studios have reportedly already started work on the revamped show…

Lake District bosses have vowed to crack down on illegal campers who leave litter and light dangerous fires on the hottest days of the year.Photographs show people pitching tents in the beauty spot while discarding beer cans, plastic bottles and furniture.Westmorland and Furness Council and Cumberland Council say they are enforcing powers ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend to fine people involved in ‘anti-social behaviour’.It comes after one group of flycampers were caught burning fires on tinderbox grass during the heatwave – posing a risk of wildfires.The councils have also increased police patrols which dispatch wardens to roam shorelines on…

A conference aimed at consultants in breastfeeding has been criticised for hosting a man who specialises in helping men lactate for ‘curiosity, fun, or sexual gratification’.US-based Jacob Engelsman will lecture on ‘lactation support for gender diverse families’ at the Galway conference being held in October by the Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland (ALCI).Catherine Monaghan, an Irish women’s rights activist and founding member of Wicklow Women 4 Women, said: ‘Surely ALCI can provide inclusive and compassionate lactation support to women, regardless of how they identify, without surrendering sex-based boundaries or accepting the proposition that male lactation is equivalent to the…

Dame Emma Thompson’s family have endured a heartbreaking week following the death of their beloved matriarch, actress Phyllida Law, who ‘died supremely peacefully at home,’ aged 94 surrounded by all of the clan.But as they mourn the loss of the Love Actually star’s mother, I can reveal there has been a double dose of heartache for Dame Emma’s and Strictly star Greg Wise’s actress daughter Gaia.Gaia, I hear, appears to have split from actor Basil Eidenbenz, 33, who stars in Netflix hit The Witcher. The pair, who started dating in 2022, haven’t been seen together since February, prompting speculation that…

Washington — President Trump’s investment accounts have continued to purchase and sell stock holdings in oil and natural gas companies while he oversees the U.S. war with Iran, according to his financial disclosure filings through the second quarter of 2026. As the Iran war continued, paused for a ceasefire and then restarted, Mr. Trump has purchased and sold oil and gas stocks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,  according to the most recently available data from the Office of Government Ethics. Mr. Trump has a vast portfolio with holdings in all 11 sectors, and a CBS News investigation showed that in the…

The first time I encountered Harry Potter was around the turn of the millennium. I was on an aeroplane and couldn’t believe my eyes when a grown woman beside me pulled out what appeared to be a children’s book and barely looked up from its pages for the rest of the transatlantic flight.After that, each new title was greeted by long queues of both adults and children snaking around bookshops overnight, followed by shelves filled with the charming volumes in supermarkets.Three decades, 600 million sales, eight blockbuster films, seven flagship shops, four theme parks and a multi-billion-dollar franchise later, the…

Nepal is facing what officials are describing as ‘devastation beyond imagination’ after flash floods wiped out buildings and bridges along the Nepal–Tibet border.Horrifying footage shows the moment rushing waters – reportedly reaching up to 650ft high – swept the region yesterday, leaving at least 177 dead. While details are still emerging, one key question is already being asked: was climate change to blame?Now, the Daily Mail has uncovered an ominous study published just one month ago that warned global warming could spark glacial collapse in the region. The study, led by researchers at Kathmandu University, explained: ‘Across the Himalayan region, warming rates…