Amy Merricks, Head Coach of Birmingham Metropolis, speaks with the workforce following their Barclays Girls’s Championship match vs Sheffield United at Bramall Lane (Photograph by George Wooden/Getty Pictures)
Birmingham Metropolis are the leaders within the Championship desk going into the worldwide break. The Blues sit proudly atop the second tier standings on 16 factors, with the league trying aggressive as ever.
Elsewhere, Charlton Athletic got here again from the lifeless to assert a degree and there was an enormous first win of the season for Sheffield United. Let’s dive into the most recent Championship motion.
Southampton 0-2 Birmingham Metropolis
Birmingham enter the worldwide break on the prime of the Championship following a wonderful away win at Southampton on a wet and windy afternoon at St. Mary’s. Lucy Quinn gave the guests the lead on 11 minutes with a again put up header.
After Southampton have been denied a penalty declare, Simone Magill shot over, however the Blues prolonged their lead shortly after half-time. The spectacular Tegan McGowan created the prospect for Lily Agg to complete and make it 2-0.
Southampton by no means actually regarded like getting again into the sport regardless of a flurry of corners. Ultimately, it was Birmingham taking dwelling the factors and a spot on the Championship summit.
Newcastle United 3-3 Charlton Athletic
Charlton misplaced their grip on prime spot however did come again from 3-1 down to assert a degree at Newcastle. The house aspect have been two up throughout the opening quarter-hour as Shania Hayles netted a brace. Charlton had regarded to manage possession nevertheless it took them till 4 minutes into the second half to get again into the sport.
Newcastle didn’t clear their traces and Katie Bradley took the prospect to halve the deficit. The Magpies have been awarded a penalty when Lois Joel went down and Hayles stepped ahead to finish her hat-trick.
It regarded like a irritating afternoon for the Addicks till the hosts have been diminished to 10 gamers. Amber-Keegan Stobbs obtained a second yellow card with seven minutes to go for delaying a restart. With the sport deep into stoppage time, Kayleigh Barton headed in for 3-2 earlier than a dramatic Bradley equaliser. After related scenes at Sunderland a number of weeks prior, this was one other efficiency to point out we must always by no means write this Charlton aspect off.
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Durham 1-2 Sunderland
Sunderland got here from behind to assert an necessary win at neighbours Durham. Having misplaced the derby final weekend in opposition to Newcastle, the Lasses fell behind at Maiden Fort when Carly Johns did nicely to arrange Hannah Blake for the opener after 10 minutes. The guests have been stage with ten minutes of the primary half to go, as Eleanor Dale gained and scored a penalty.
Mary McAteer gave Sunderland the lead within the 51st minute when she adopted up a shot from Katie Kitching to fit it dwelling. Sunderland settled and had the higher of the sport from that time on, seeing it out for an enormous three factors. This was solely Durham’s second defeat of the season and so they nonetheless sit throughout the prime 4 of the desk going into the break.
Sheffield United picked up their first league win of the season by edging out Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. Maria Farrugia was the hero for the Blades as she scored a brace both aspect of a Maria Edwards purpose. Farrugia completed nicely after some good particular person work to present her aspect the lead halfway by the primary half.
Edwards levelled simply after half-time following numerous Rovers blocked pictures. An excellent recreation was settled late on as Farrugia smashed the ball into the highest nook from shut vary. Niamh Murphy had an opportunity for Rovers within the closing couple of minutes however the away workforce held on for an enormous victory. Each groups now sit on three factors, with Blackburn having performed a recreation much less.
“I am delighted. To be sincere, I do not suppose it was our greatest efficiency, I believe we have had higher performances to date this season however we knew how essential getting factors on the board was…”
A battle between the relegated membership and a type of promoted final season ended with Bristol Metropolis nicking a slender win. Emily Syme may have put Metropolis in entrance inside two minutes however shot vast from a Jesse Woolley in the reduction of.
The house aspect have been in entrance shortly afterwards as Ffion Morgan received on the tip of a by ball from Amy Rodgers to calmly around the goalkeeper Eve Annets and rating. Lexi Lloyd-Smith nearly made it two after pinching the ball from Annets and seeing her shot blocked on the road by Hannah Conn. Metropolis additionally may have had extra all through the sport.
Morgan had one other probability when despatched by on purpose. Sille Struck headed vast from a nook, Lloyd-Smith noticed a shot saved and Syme curled one vast as they regarded to increase their lead. Jamie-Lee Napier shot vast in one other huge second however there was no actual doubt that Bristol Metropolis would take dwelling all three factors and so they’re now as much as sixth within the desk.
What’s subsequent?
A world break is now upon us so the Championship takes a break till the league reconvenes on November 2nd.
El Actual Madrid caía 0-2 en casa ante el Borussia Dortmund, y con un segundo tiempo espectacular comandado por Vinícius que hizo un triplete, remontó y goleó.
Actual Madrid y la Champions League son uno mismo. En una nueva noche mágica en el Bernabéu se impuso 5-2 al Borussia Dortmund pese a estar en desventada 0-2.
Fue un primer tiempo parejo hasta el minuto 30’, sin un claro dominador ni oportunidades manifiestas de gol, hasta que el conjunto alemán hizo gala de precisión y contundencia.
Primero Donyell Malen finalizó con un disparo poderoso una gran jugada colectiva para vencer a Courtois, y cuatro minutos más tarde Jamie Gittens llegó oportuno para cerrar la pinza y colocar el 0-2 (34’) que silenció al Santiago Bernabéu.
Los merengues intentaron reaccionar de inmediato, pero de forma increíble Jude Bellingham se perdió el descuento frente al arco al disparar al travesaño y el balón, caprichoso, se negó a entrar al pegar en la línea de gol.
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En el complemento la historia fue totalmente distinta. Es de sobra conocido que al Actual Madrid nunca hay que darlo por muerto y menos en su competencia, la Champions League.
Arrancó la segunda parte con un monólogo blanco hasta que cayó el descuento por conducto de un cabezazo de Rüdiger tras un centro de Mbappé (60’).
Tan sólo dos minutos más tarde (62’) Vinícius se encontró con un regalo de la zaga del Dortmund que se barrió para despojar a Mbappé, y el brasileño empujó el 2-2. La acción se revisó pero no existió fuera de juego.
Faltaba el espectáculo de Vinícius. Primero Lucas Vázquez firmó la remontada y desató la locura, para que posteriormente el brasileño con dos arrancadas llenas de poder sellara su triplete y un 5-2 espectacular.
El Madrid está listo para el Clásico del próximo sábado ante el Barcelona tras cumplir en la Champiions en donde suma dos victorias y una derrota.
Now that the Junior Championship has come to an finish, we all know who sits on the high of our scorching pictures checklist for 2024. It took a replay and further time to lastly discover a winner of the Junior Championship, with Collegeland getting over the road.
They noticed off outdated rivals An Port Mor with only one level to spare final Saturday night, after additional time. The groups had tied 0-11 apiece within the first sport, however Collegeland edged by in the long run, 1-12 to 1-11.
An Port Mor sharpshooter Ryan Gorman finishes the marketing campaign as the highest scorer within the Junior Championship. Gorman was a relentless menace for his facet proper all through the course of the competitors.
He kicked 0-13 throughout the 2 finals, displaying his accuracy from each positioned balls and open play. Gorman completed the championship with 2-47 to his identify, with each his objectives coming throughout the group levels.
Collegeland attacker Caolan McQuade, who topped the scoring charts forward of the ultimate, ending in second place. McQuade claimed a private haul of 7-22 as Collegeland obtained their arms on the Sean Quinn Cup.
Cormac Kieran is in third place having hit a grand complete of 7-17 as An Port Mor reached the decider. Kieran claimed six objectives towards Madden IIs within the group levels and hit the online towards Killean as nicely.
Middletown man Fionnan O’Braonain comes just under that, and he hit 5-21 on their method to the semi-finals. Likewise, Jemar Corridor struck off 3-23 as Forkhill made it to the final 4 of the competitors as nicely.
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James McCormack, who completed final 12 months as the highest scorer within the Junior Championship, is in sixth place this 12 months. The Ballyhegan man chalked up a complete of 4-17 for his facet as they reached the ultimate eight.
Collegeland ahead Jason Kelly claimed 1-21 all through the championship, together with 0-3 in final week’s ultimate. Kelly’s objective got here within the opening spherical of the group levels as his facet defeated Redmond O’Hanlon’s.
Forkhill’s Conall McGeough completed with 4-11 after his first season with the senior staff. Sean Og McGuinness nailed 1-18 for Middletown, though he missed the semi-final by damage, whereas Stephen Sheridan (Forkhill) hit 4-7.
The previous Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested on Tuesday as a part of a legal intercourse trafficking investigation by federal prosecutors, the FBI in Brooklyn and the New York police division have introduced.
Authorities allege that Jeffries, his British associate Matthew Smith and a 3rd man, Jim Jacobson, ran an “worldwide intercourse trafficking group” that coerced “dozens and dozens” of males into sexual acts, usually for the promise of a modeling profession with the clothes retailer.
“Highly effective people for too lengthy have trafficked and abused, for their very own sexual pleasure, younger folks with few sources and a dream – the dream of securing a profitable profession in style or leisure,” the US lawyer in Brooklyn, Breon Peace, mentioned at a information convention discussing the indictments of Jeffries, Smith and Jacobson.
“To anybody who thinks they’ll exploit others through the use of the so-called casting sofa system – this case ought to function a warning,” Peace mentioned. “Put together to commerce that sofa for a mattress in federal jail.”
Authorities announce arrest of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO over alleged intercourse trafficking – video
Prosecutors mentioned 15 victims got here ahead to accuse the lads of operating a world intercourse trafficking group from late 2008 to 2015. Prosecutors mentioned victims have been flown all over the world to worldwide lodges in London, Italy and St Bart’s, amongst others – and to Jeffries’ houses in New York Metropolis and the unique Hamptons on Lengthy Island.
Jacobson acted because the recruiter, in accordance with investigators, usually forcing males into sexual “tryouts” earlier than bringing them to Smith and Jeffries.
The pair would then decide males for intercourse events, at occasions coercing them to drink alcohol, take the erectile dysfunction medicine Viagra, or muscle relaxant medication identified colloquially as “poppers”. At occasions, Jeffries and Smith would additionally forcibly inject the lads with an “erection inducing substance”.
Prosecutors mentioned the previous CEO and his associate spent hundreds of thousands on the enterprise – paying Jacobson’s wage, hiring employees for intercourse events, renting lodges, and shopping for tickets for home and worldwide journey.
“Throughout that interval the defendants employed dozens of males and transported them to New York and across the globe,” Peace mentioned. Peace added that Jeffries and Smith “spent hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on an enormous infrastructure to help this exercise and keep it’s secrecy” – and spent “a whole lot of hundreds” in money for business intercourse acts.
The indictment comes after eight males instructed a 2023 BBC investigation that that they had been exploited and recruited for intercourse occasions by the previous style boss. Federal prosecutors started an investigation in January 2024, following a civil swimsuit filed by victims final 12 months.
One of many plaintiffs within the civil lawsuit, David Bradberry, mentioned Jeffries compelled fashions to take medication and have interaction in intercourse for an opportunity to seem in Abercrombie catalogs whereas the corporate paid off individuals who accused Jeffries of sexual abuse or harassment.
Jeffries led Abercrombie from 1992 to 2014, making it a profitable teen attire maker identified for cologne-filled shops and adverts that includes semi-nude fashions. He resigned amid criticism that he didn’t sustain with altering tastes of stripling customers.
An lawyer for Bradberry, Brad Edwards of the Edwards Henderson regulation agency, instructed ABC Information in an announcement: “As we specified by our lawsuit, this was an Abercrombie-run, intercourse trafficking group that permeated all through the corporate and allowed the three people arrested right this moment to victimize dozens and dozens of younger, aspiring male fashions.”
The brand new federal legal case in opposition to Jeffries, Smith and Jacobson follows lots of the identical accusations first lodged in civil court docket, together with that Jeffries exploited younger males for intercourse between 2009 to 2015 in cities all over the world. Some males alleged they have been abused or injected with medication. Jeffries and his associate denied all allegations in a court docket submitting in response to the lawsuit.
Earlier than Jeffries stepped down, his tenure had additionally drawn scrutiny over its exclusionary advertising and marketing, specializing in skinny, engaging clients.
“We are going to reply intimately to the allegations after the indictment is unsealed, and when acceptable, however plan to take action within the courthouse – not the media,” Brian Bieber, a lawyer for Jeffries, instructed the Wall Road Journal.
Legal professionals for Smith didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. A lawyer for Jacobson couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Jeffries was launched on a $10m bond, Jacobson on a $500,000 bond, and Smith was detained. They are going to be arraigned on Friday.
Peace mentioned: “I encourage anybody with details about this case, together with anybody who was a sufferer of the defendants’ alleged crimes, to contact the FBI.”
The case in opposition to Jeffries and his co-defendants is amongst a number of high-profile intercourse trafficking instances which have been pursued by federal prosecutors in New York Metropolis lately. Others have resulted in fees in opposition to music mogul Sean Combs in addition to Jeffrey Epstein, the late disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender.
The defending champs will have fun their 2024 NBA title with a banner and ring ceremony previous to Knicks-Celtics at TD Backyard in Boston.
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics have raised Banner 18 to the rafters.
The NBA’s most-decorated franchise celebrated its newest championship on Tuesday evening in a ceremony earlier than opening evening towards the New York Knicks. The gamers additionally acquired their championship rings.
The sold-out crowd on the TD Backyard settled into its seats to see the Celtics take the courtroom in particular warmup jackets trimmed in gold, with 18 championship trophies embroidered on the sleeve.
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A few of the gamers paused their taking pictures to observe the video tracing their title journey, from the drafting of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum by the acquisition of Jrue Vacation and Kristaps Porzingis.
One other video featured highlights of John Havlicek and Invoice Russell successful titles within the Nineteen Fifties and ‘60s by the ultimate seconds of the Celtics’ Sport 5 win over the Dallas Mavericks final spring.
Six-time champion Bob Cousy got here out in a wheelchair, adopted by Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen to see the 2024 championship banner go up subsequent to the one they gained in 2008. Gov. Maura Healey proclaimed Tuesday “Celtics Banner 18 Day” in Massachusetts.
After a courtroom look on Tuesday, Mr Jeffries was launched on a $10m (£7.7m) bond, whereas Mr Jacobson was launched on a $500,000 bond. They’re subsequent due in courtroom on Friday.
Mr Smith was ordered detained.
Mr Peace, the federal prosecutor, confirmed at a press convention on Tuesday that authorities had been initially tipped off by media stories.
Following the BBC’s reporting, a civil lawsuit was additionally filed in New York accusing Mr Jeffries and Mr Smith of sex-trafficking, rape and sexual assault.
The lawsuit additionally accused Abercrombie & Fitch of getting funded a sex-trafficking operation led by its former CEO over the 20 years he was in cost.
Earlier on Tuesday, Brad Edwards of Edwards Henderson, a civil lawyer representing a number of the alleged victims, mentioned: “These arrests are an enormous first step in the direction of acquiring justice for the numerous victims who had been exploited and abused by way of this sex-trafficking scheme that operated for a few years below the respectable cowl Abercrombie supplied.
“The unprecedented reporting of the BBC, coupled with the lawsuit our agency filed detailing the operation, are to credit score for these monumental arrests. This was the results of spectacular investigative journalism.”
In its preliminary investigation, the BBC spoke to 12 males who described attending or organising occasions involving intercourse acts run for Mr Jeffries, 80, and his British companion Mr Smith, 61, between 2009 and 2015.
The eight males who attended the occasions mentioned they had been recruited by a intermediary who the BBC recognized as James Jacobson.
Then, extra males got here ahead final month. Some alleged Mr Jeffries’ assistants had injected them within the penis with what they had been instructed was liquid Viagra.
Mr Jacobson, 71, beforehand instructed the BBC in an announcement by way of his lawyer that he took offence on the suggestion of “any coercive, misleading or forceful behaviour on my half” and had “no information of any such conduct by others”.
The BBC additionally interviewed dozens of different sources, together with former family employees.
A number of the males the BBC spoke to mentioned they had been misled concerning the nature of the occasions or not instructed intercourse was concerned. Others mentioned they understood the occasions can be sexual, however not precisely what was anticipated of them. All had been paid.
A number of instructed the BBC the intermediary or different recruiters raised the potential for modelling alternatives with A&F.
David Bradberry, then 23 and an aspiring mannequin, mentioned that it was “made clear” to him that with out performing oral intercourse on Mr Jacobson, he wouldn’t be assembly A&F CEO Mr Jeffries.
“It was like he was promoting fame. And the value was compliance,” Mr Bradberry instructed the BBC.
Mr Bradberry mentioned he later attended a celebration at Mr Jeffries’s mansion within the Hamptons in Lengthy Island the place he met Mr Jeffries and had intercourse with him.
He mentioned the “secluded” location and presence of Mr Jeffries’ private employees, wearing A&F uniforms, supervising occasions meant he “did not really feel secure to say ‘no’ or ‘I do not really feel comfy with this'”.
After the BBC’s preliminary investigation was printed final 12 months, A&F introduced it was opening an unbiased investigation into the allegations raised. Once we lately requested when this report will likely be accomplished – and if the findings can be made public – the corporate declined to reply.
Like Mr Jeffries and Mr Smith, the model has been making an attempt to get the civil lawsuit towards it dismissed, arguing it had no information of “the supposed sex-trafficking enterprise” led by its former CEO – which it has been accused of getting funded.
Earlier this 12 months, a US courtroom dominated that A&F should cowl the price of Mike Jeffries’ authorized defence as he continues to battle the civil allegations of sex-trafficking and rape. The choose dominated the allegations had been tied to his company function after he sued the model for refusing to pay his authorized charges.
The model mentioned it didn’t touch upon authorized issues. Nonetheless, in its defence submitted to courtroom, A&F mentioned its present management group was “beforehand unaware of” the allegations till the BBC contacted it, including the corporate “abhors sexual abuse and condemns the alleged conduct” by Mr Jeffries and others.
In 2014, Mr Jeffries stepped down as CEO following declining gross sales and left with a retirement bundle valued at round $25m (£20.5m), in accordance with firm filings on the time.
As soon as one in every of America’s highest-paid CEOs, he was a controversial determine who confronted claims of discrimination towards employees, considerations about his lavish bills and complaints concerning the unofficial affect of his life companion, Matthew Smith, inside A&F.
The crash occurred close to the village of Llanbrynmair, in Powys
A passenger has died following a crash involving two trains in mid Wales.
4 different individuals had been critically injured within the crash and an additional eleven required hospital remedy, based on the Rail Accidents Investigations Department (RAIB), which is trying into the Powys collision.
The person who died was in his 60s and travelling from Shrewsbury.
His reason behind loss of life has not been revealed however British Transport Police mentioned in the intervening time they didn’t imagine it was on account of accidents sustained within the crash.
Shell-shocked passenger recounts collision
The BBC has been advised the 18:31 westbound service from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth continued for about 1,000 metres (3,280ft) past the place it ought to have stopped, earlier than hitting a stationary 19:09 practice from Machynlleth to Shrewsbury on Monday night.
The RAIB mentioned an preliminary inspection discovered that the practice might have entered into wheel slide when braking.
It added that preliminary proof prompt that the collision occurred at a velocity of roughly 24 km/h (15 mph).
It occurred close to the village of Llanbrynmair at about 19:30 BST.
British Transport Police mentioned a legal investigation was not in the intervening time underway.
The Welsh Ambulance Service mentioned it took seven sufferers to hospital by ambulance.
Anthony Hurford, a passenger on the Shrewsbury-bound practice, mentioned he felt “fairly shell-shocked”.
“The phrase that retains coming to my head is simply brutal actually.
“Simply going from, I do not know the way quick we had been going, possibly 40, 50, 60mph (64-96km/h) , to nothing within the blink of a watch,” he advised BBC Breakfast.
“By some means my physique bent the leg of a desk and ripped it off its bolts connected to the wall.
“Abruptly I used to be on the ground with my laptop computer strewn forward of me, questioning what the hell had occurred,” he mentioned.
“He [the driver of the other train] tried to cease on the lights. On the high of the hill there is a sign that I assume would have been a passing place and for no matter cause the practice would not cease.
“There will need to have been 30/40 individuals from fireplace [service]. There was British Transport Police who had come from Birmingham, there have been three helicopters, individuals had come from north and south Wales so far as I am conscious. I used to be checked by three or 4 totally different medics.”
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Fifteen individuals had been taken to hospital with accidents
Ifan Edwards, a witness who lives close to the scene of the crash, mentioned he noticed quite a few ambulances passing, an air ambulance and two coastguard helicopters.
He mentioned it appeared that one of many trains had didn’t cease within the regular place on a hill “and from what we will collect he simply slid and he could not cease the practice”.
Engineers had been engaged on the road on Tuesday afternoon
Transport Minister Ken Skates advised the Senedd that security was the Welsh authorities’s “prime concern”.
Plaid Cymru’s Senedd member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor, mentioned he had acquired messages from constituents nervous a crash may occur once more.
Skates promised classes could be discovered “as quickly as doable”.
Community Rail and Transtport for Wales (TfW) mentioned in a joint assertion it was a “low-speed collision”.
TfW chief working officer Jan Chaudhry van der Velde mentioned he couldn’t talk about the causes of the accident however mentioned its rail accident investigation department arrived on the scene on Monday night time and remained there.
A full report would take a number of months to be processed, he mentioned.
“The road is basically made up of stretches of single line the place trains use one line to journey in two instructions and the place trains must go one another, now we have passing loops,” he mentioned.
“The place the collision occurred there may be one in every of these passing loops,” he added.
Native councillor Elwyn Vaughan mentioned the crash was “a shock and a shock”.
“It’s a single monitor line, in order that’s uncommon in lots of contexts, however there are devoted passing locations,” he mentioned.
“The norm could be one practice parks there, and the opposite passes. The elemental query is, why that did not occur final night time?”
He mentioned a brand new digital system to cease trains is perhaps guilty, or leaves on the road, given the steep incline on the location of the crash.
The Rail Accident Investigation Department (RAIB) deployed a staff of inspectors to the positioning of the crash and as soon as inspected, choices will likely be made on the necessity for additional sources.
Steve Witherden, MP for Montgomeryshire, described it as “tragic”.
“I feel the individuals concerned and their households will need solutions as quickly as doable however I additionally suppose it is vital that we do not speculate and we let the investigation perform its work,” he mentioned.
The Cambrian railway east of Machynlleth will likely be closed whereas investigations proceed, Community Rail and Transport for Wales mentioned, urging passengers to not journey on that a part of the community.
Witherden mentioned he had heard it may take “a number of days” earlier than the monitor was secure to reopen.
Earlier on Monday TfW suggested passengers its companies had been working at lowered speeds by way of Dovey Junction station – which is on the identical line – as a result of earlier trains reported the monitor was “extraordinarily slippery”.
The operator suspended all companies on the separate Coronary heart of Wales line on Tuesday “till additional discover” as a consequence of “poor rail circumstances”.
Questions encompass reason behind deadly Wales practice crash
Site visitors Wales mentioned the A470 was closed in each instructions between Caersws and Glantwymyn, whereas Transport for Wales mentioned rail substitute companies had been in operation.
The incident was attended by the ambulance and fireplace companies, native police, and the coastguard, with assist from the rail business, BTP mentioned in a press release.
Residents reported seeing an air ambulance on the scene.
BTP mentioned the household of the person who died had been knowledgeable and was being supported by specialist officers.
Emergency companies remained on the scene on Tuesday morning
It additionally mentioned residents would see an elevated police presence within the coming days as officers labored to know the circumstances main as much as the collision.
Writing on X earlier, Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan mentioned: “My ideas are with all these concerned within the rail incident in Powys earlier this night.
“I wish to thank the emergency companies for his or her response and have requested to be stored knowledgeable of any developments all through the night time.”
UK authorities Transport Secretary Louise Haigh mentioned she was “extremely sorry” to listen to concerning the crash.
“Security on our railways is my absolute precedence and we’re working at tempo with Transport for Wales and Community Rail to know what occurred and the way we will higher stop it going ahead.”
BOSTON — The Celtics and New York Knicks took the court docket for the opening sport of the NBA season Tuesday evening, a conflict that Jalen Brunson mentioned Tuesday morning was a good barometer — regardless of being the primary sport — for the place the new-look Knicks stand in opposition to the defending champions.
However as an alternative of a tense, dramatic affair, the one drama on this evening at TD Backyard, the place the Celtics raised their record-setting 18th NBA championship banner to the rafters, was watching Boston spend the ultimate 8:54 of the 132-109 win over New York attempting — and, in the end, failing — to interrupt the NBA document for 3-pointers made in a sport.
After Al Horford had Boston’s third straight make to begin the fourth quarter with 8:54 remaining — pushing Boston right into a tie with the Milwaukee Bucks for the NBA document with 29 makes in a sport — the Celtics missed 13 consecutive makes an attempt, together with three air balls and a number of other different ugly misses, in what turned out to be the one factor that did not go Boston’s method.
“It was virtually like we obtained jinxed or one thing,” Celtics ahead Jaylen Brown mentioned. “It was like once we have been simply enjoying, having enjoyable, enjoying our type of basketball, all the things was getting into. After which as soon as the group obtained into it and we began searching them, we could not even hit the broad aspect of the barn. Every thing was off. We obtained a bunch of nice seems, and it was like a lid on the basket.
“In order that simply exhibits, like, we’re not a group that is searching 3s. We play the sport and we do what we’re presupposed to do, however I feel in direction of the tip it was powerful as a result of we wasn’t enjoying the best way we had usually performed. However we nonetheless had a bunch of nice seems.”
Earlier than Boston’s chilly streak, the Celtics had gone 29-for-48 from behind the arc — a part of a teamwide offensive show that noticed the Celtics end with 33 assists in comparison with simply three turnovers. Jayson Tatum, recent off tweaking his jumper this summer season, completed with 37 factors on 14-for-18 capturing, together with 8-for-11 from 3-point vary.
However for as sizzling because the Celtics have been for many of the sport, that is how chilly they grew to become down the stretch. Regardless of the group chanting “Another 3” on a number of events, it wasn’t sufficient for Boston to recover from the road because the Celtics spoiled the Knicks debuts of big-name offseason acquisitions Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Cities.
“I requested round, like, 26 what [the record] was,” Celtics guard Derrick White mentioned, “after which somebody informed me. After which once we have been tied, I used to be like, ‘Oh, we’re one away from the document.’
“I should not have mentioned something. It is type of like a no-hitter, huh. I blame myself for that one.”
The Knicks blamed themselves — and, particularly, their protection — for permitting the sport to get away from them as rapidly and completely because it did. From coach Tom Thibodeau to Cities to Brunson, each a part of New York’s franchise made it clear that it may take a much better effort at that finish of the court docket to compete with Boston for Jap Convention supremacy.
“We will discuss offense all y’all need,” mentioned Cities, who had 12 factors and seven rebounds in 23 minutes. “I am going to go away that to y’all when y’all go house and write the tales. However I do know for us we obtained to play protection.”
Boston appeared to repeatedly catch New York off-guard with fast seems in transition — one other factor many gamers pointed to as an issue. And, in line with Second Spectrum, the Celtics made 15 3-pointers on half-court units that got here inside the first 12 seconds, tied for his or her most in a sport since participant monitoring started in 2013-14.
“We have been in rotation,” mentioned Brunson, who led the Knicks with 22 factors in 24 minutes. “It began with Jayson flattening a whole lot of photographs off the pick-and-roll after which us adjusting and him making the proper play, getting us in rotation.
“So obtained to present the credit score to them. They are a good group. What they do is exclusive, and we have been simply on our heels all evening.”
What gamers on each side agreed on, nonetheless, was that this was only one sport of 82. And whereas Boston fulfilled its said mandate to attempt to strategy this season as if it was a group difficult for the title, relatively than one coming off claiming its 18th NBA championship, New York now sees simply how a lot work it has to do in an effort to attain the degrees it hopes to this season.
“It is Sport 1,” Thibodeau mentioned. “We did not have that a lot time but. Nevertheless it’s early, and you bought to study from it. So our factor is get higher from this and watch movie, and I feel it was an ideal check for a group like this, who’re already up there.
“It is a good check, and we’ll study from that and attempt to construct on what we obtained to do with our habits and all the things.”
Rail investigators imagine a prepare concerned within the first head-on collision within the UK this century, which killed a passenger in his 60s, “might have entered right into a wheel slide when braking”.
An additional 15 individuals have been handled in hospital after the collision between the Welsh villages of Talerddig and Llanbrynmair on the largely single-track Cambrian line.
It seems that the prepare that ought to have stopped was unable to take action – however the collision was gradual sufficient that neither prepare derailed.
Leaves on the road on this closely wooded space is one avenue of investigation. Community Rail spends hundreds of thousands clearing foliage from tracks throughout the autumn months – relating to leaves because the equal of black ice on roads.
Community Rail confirmed its leaf-busting rail head therapy prepare had operated on the traces as scheduled on Sunday.
The Rail Accident Investigation Department (RAIB) mentioned preliminary inspection of the monitor “discovered proof that wheel-rail adhesion was comparatively low, suggesting that the prepare might have entered into wheel slide when braking” and that will “be an space of ongoing investigation”.
The crash investigators may also study the prepare’s knowledge recorder and analyse knowledge from the railway’s signalling and radio methods. The Cambrian line was used because the pilot for the introduction of digital signalling and prepare management methods which might be designed to scale back the possibility of human error.
Elwyn Vaughan, an area Plaid Cymru councillor, mentioned: “There are devoted passing locations. The norm can be one prepare parks there, and the opposite passes. The elemental query is: why that didn’t occur?
“There are a few theories. One component is there’s a brand new digital system to cease trains. So did that work, have been there any points with that?
“And the opposite one is, after all, leaves on the road, as a result of there’s a steep incline right here. There’s a deep reduce into the rock face right here and a gradual incline, so as soon as a prepare begins sliding it could proceed in the direction of the underside.”
It’s believed that some passengers suffered damaged bones, though police mentioned their accidents weren’t believed to be life-changing.
One rail insider who mentioned he had seen the management centre incident log of the crash claimed the prepare travelling west from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth went right into a 22mph slide. It had apparently been signalled to tug into the Talerddig loop however hit an space of “contamination”, in all probability leaves, and slid again out of the loop on to the road and into the trail of the opposite prepare.
Passenger Jonah Evans, 25, mentioned: “There was a prepare that was stopped and the opposite prepare couldn’t cease. And the driving force couldn’t get out the best way with a prepare in entrance.
“The driving force ran in and sat on a chair and mentioned brace yourselves, we’re about to hit a prepare. Somebody misplaced their tooth, cracked ribs. As a result of the driving force instructed us it was occurring, we might sort of prepare.”
Anthony Hurford, who had been travelling to Shrewsbury, instructed the BBC: “The phrase that retains coming to my head is simply brutal actually. Simply going from, I don’t know the way quick we have been going, perhaps 40, 50, 60mph, to nothing within the blink of an eye fixed.
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“By some means my physique bent the leg of a desk and ripped it off its bolts hooked up to the wall. Out of the blue I used to be on the ground with my laptop computer strewn forward of me questioning what the hell had occurred.”
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A person residing near the railway line in Talerddig described listening to a loud bang and a grinding noise as he sat down for his night meal.
Peter Carson, 67, mentioned: “The noise lasted a couple of seconds. We now have a number of navy plane going over so at first I assumed it was a airplane in hassle. I now realise it was the sound of the trains hitting the brakes.”
Earlier than the crash, Transport for Wales suggested passengers that its providers have been working at decreased speeds by way of Dovey Junction station, simply west of the crash web site, as a result of the monitor was “extraordinarily slippery”.
The Cambrian line was used because the pilot for the introduction of digital signalling and prepare management methods referred to as European rail visitors administration system (ERTMS) and European prepare management system (ETCS).
In October 2017, momentary pace restriction knowledge was not despatched to 4 trains travelling on the coastal part of the Cambrian line as a result of a failure with the ERTMS system, although no accident occurred.
Talking on the scene on Tuesday afternoon, Ch Insp Jonathan Cooze, of British Transport Police, mentioned: “Sadly, a person in his 60s has died following the collision. The circumstances resulting in his dying are at present underneath investigation.
“Whereas formal identification has not taken place, he isn’t believed to be a member of rail workers.”
In keeping with Community Rail, leaf fall on tracks each autumn can result in a slippery layer on the rail.
Fourteen individuals have been injured in a prepare collision in Salisbury in October 2021 after engineering work delayed the cleansing of rails.
Observe reside protection as Leeds United face Watford within the Championship at this time.
An more and more aggressive second tier in English soccer stays an intense and thrilling competitors, with the prize of a spot within the Premier League on supply on the finish of the season.
Relegation from the highest flight final time period means Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United are all again within the second tier this time period and will likely be anticipated to push for play-off spots once more not less than, however so too will Norwich Metropolis, an bettering Coventry and crushed play-off finalists Leeds United. On the different finish of the desk, Wayne Rooney is aiming to revive Plymouth’s fortunes after they narrowly averted relegation final yr, with Portsmouth and Derby the groups promoted from League One together with play-off ultimate winners Oxford.
Observe reside updates from at this time’s sport within the reside weblog beneath.
Leeds United FC 2 – 1 Watford FC
Leeds United vs Watford
21:48
Match ends, Leeds United 2, Watford 1.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:47
Second Half ends, Leeds United 2, Watford 1.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:46
Pascal Struijk (Leeds United) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:46
Substitution, Leeds United. Sam Byram replaces Manor Solomon.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:43
Offside, Leeds United. Brenden Aaronson is caught offside.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:41
Daniel James (Leeds United) hits the woodwork with a left footed shot from exterior the field.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:41
Pascal Struijk (Leeds United) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:39
Foul by Manor Solomon (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:38
Try blocked. Pascal Struijk (Leeds United) header from the centre of the field is blocked.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:38
Fourth official has introduced 8 minutes of added time.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:38
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by James Morris.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:41
Try blocked. Manor Solomon (Leeds United) proper footed shot from the left facet of the field is blocked. Assisted by Mateo Joseph.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:38
Try missed. Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left facet of the field misses to the precise. Assisted by Joe Rodon following a nook.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:37
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Daniel Bachmann.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:37
Try saved. Daniel James (Leeds United) proper footed shot from the precise facet of the field is saved within the prime centre of the aim. Assisted by Mateo Joseph.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:36
Jayden Bogle (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the precise wing.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:36
Offside, Watford. Giorgi Chakvetadze is caught offside.
Delay in match due to an harm Edo Kayembe (Watford).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:32
Try blocked. Junior Firpo (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left facet of the field is blocked.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:31
Try saved. Mateo Joseph (Leeds United) header from the centre of the field is saved within the prime centre of the aim. Assisted by Daniel James with a by means of ball.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:29
Foul by Mateo Joseph (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:28
Try missed. Manor Solomon (Leeds United) proper footed shot from exterior the field misses to the left. Assisted by Jayden Bogle.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:27
Ao Tanaka (Leeds United) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:27
Try missed. Mateo Joseph (Leeds United) header from the centre of the field is simply too excessive. Assisted by Daniel James.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:27
Try saved. Manor Solomon (Leeds United) left footed shot from the left facet of the field is saved within the centre of the aim. Assisted by Brenden Aaronson with a by means of ball.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:25
Offside, Watford. Kwadwo Baah is caught offside.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:23
Foul by Ryan Andrews (Watford).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Ryan Porteous (Watford) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:22
Foul by Manor Solomon (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Mattie Pollock.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Substitution, Leeds United. Mateo Joseph replaces Joël Piroe.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Substitution, Leeds United. Daniel James replaces Wilfried Gnonto.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Substitution, Watford. Ken Sema replaces Yasser Larouci.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Substitution, Watford. Ryan Andrews replaces Festy Ebosele due to an harm.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:21
Delay in match due to an harm Festy Ebosele (Watford).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:15
Try blocked. Manor Solomon (Leeds United) proper footed shot from exterior the field is blocked.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:14
Ao Tanaka (Leeds United) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:13
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:13
Delay in match due to an harm Festy Ebosele (Watford).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:13
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:10
Substitution, Watford. Ryan Porteous replaces Francisco Sierralta.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:13
Delay in match (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:08
Try saved. Joël Piroe (Leeds United) proper footed shot from the centre of the field is saved.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:10
Jayden Bogle (Leeds United) hits the left submit with a proper footed shot from lengthy vary on the precise. Assisted by Brenden Aaronson.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:07
Nook, Watford. Conceded by Illan Meslier.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:07
Try saved. Tom Ince (Watford) left footed shot from a troublesome angle and lengthy vary on the precise is saved.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:07
Junior Firpo (Leeds United) is proven the yellow card for a nasty foul.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:06
Festy Ebosele (Watford) wins a free kick on the precise wing.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:06
Foul by Junior Firpo (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:04
Foul by Kwadwo Baah (Watford).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:02
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
Leeds United vs Watford
21:02
Delay in match (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
21:00
Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:58
Try missed. Yasser Larouci (Watford) left footed shot from the left facet of the field.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:57
Nook, Watford. Conceded by Ao Tanaka.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:59
Try missed. Yasser Larouci (Watford) left footed shot from exterior the field is simply too excessive following a nook.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:57
Try blocked. Yasser Larouci (Watford) proper footed shot from exterior the field is blocked.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:55
Nook, Watford. Conceded by Joe Rodon.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:55
Try saved. Edo Kayembe (Watford) left footed shot from exterior the field is saved.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:55
Objective! Leeds United 2, Watford 1. Kwadwo Baah (Watford) proper footed shot from the precise facet of the six yard field to the centre of the aim.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:52
Second Half begins Leeds United 2, Watford 0.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:37
First Half ends, Leeds United 2, Watford 0.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:36
Joe Rodon (Leeds United) wins a free kick within the defensive half.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:36
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Francisco Sierralta.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:34
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by James Morris.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:36
Try blocked. Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds United) proper footed shot from the precise facet of the field is blocked. Assisted by Brenden Aaronson.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:32
Offside, Leeds United. Joël Piroe is caught offside.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:32
Fourth official has introduced 6 minutes of added time.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:32
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:32
Delay in match due to an harm Ao Tanaka (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
20:31
Offside, Watford. Festy Ebosele is caught offside.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:31
Try saved. Mattie Pollock (Watford) header from very shut vary is saved within the prime left nook. Assisted by Tom Ince with a cross.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:31
Nook, Watford. Conceded by Joe Rodon.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Nook, Watford. Conceded by Illan Meslier.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Try saved. Giorgi Chakvetadze (Watford) proper footed shot from exterior the field is saved.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Ao Tanaka (Leeds United) is proven the yellow card for a nasty foul.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Foul by Ao Tanaka (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Festy Ebosele (Watford) is proven the yellow card for a nasty foul.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Pascal Struijk (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:25
Try missed. Ao Tanaka (Leeds United) header from the precise facet of the six yard field misses to the left. Assisted by Junior Firpo following a nook.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:24
Try missed. Junior Firpo (Leeds United) header from the centre of the field misses to the precise. Assisted by Joe Rothwell with a cross following a nook.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:23
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Francisco Sierralta.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:22
Try blocked. Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds United) proper footed shot from exterior the field is blocked. Assisted by Ao Tanaka.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:20
Try missed. Ao Tanaka (Leeds United) proper footed shot from a troublesome angle on the precise is shut, however misses to the precise. Assisted by Manor Solomon with a cross following a nook.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:19
Try missed. Joe Rodon (Leeds United) header from the centre of the field misses to the left. Assisted by Joe Rothwell with a cross following a nook.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:19
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Daniel Bachmann.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:19
Try saved. Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds United) proper footed shot from the precise facet of the field is saved within the centre of the aim. Assisted by Joël Piroe.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:19
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Festy Ebosele.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:19
Foul by Jayden Bogle (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
20:16
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:14
Delay in match (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
20:09
Try missed. Edo Kayembe (Watford) left footed shot from the left facet of the field is shut, however misses to the precise. Assisted by Giorgi Chakvetadze.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:09
Nook, Leeds United. Conceded by Festy Ebosele.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:09
Foul by Junior Firpo (Leeds United).
Leeds United vs Watford
20:09
Try blocked. Joël Piroe (Leeds United) left footed shot from the precise facet of the field is blocked. Assisted by Brenden Aaronson.
Leeds United vs Watford
20:09
Delay over. They’re able to proceed.
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