Bournemouth have agreed a deal value within the area of €47million (£40.3m; $51.7m) to signal striker Evanilson from Porto.

The Premier League facet are out there for a ahead to exchange Dominic Solanke after the Englishman accomplished a £65m transfer to Tottenham Hotspur.

Evanilson, 24, has spent the final 4 seasons at Porto, scoring 60 objectives and offering 21 assists in 154 video games for the Portuguese facet.

Bournemouth had additionally focused Arsenal’s Eddie Nketiah as a possible Solanke alternative.

Evanilson joined Porto in September 2020 Tombense and the Brazil worldwide broke into the Porto senior crew through the 2021-22 marketing campaign.

Final season, he had his most prolific marketing campaign thus far, scoring 25 objectives and offering seven assists in 42 video games. 4 of these objectives got here within the Champions League as Porto reached the spherical of 16. He has gained six trophies with Porto together with three Portuguese Cups and the Liga Portugal in 2022.

Evanilson’s type led to him incomes his first of his two senior caps for Brazil in June 2024 and he was included in Dorival Junior’s provisional squad for the 2024 Copa America match.

Bournemouth start their Premier League season towards Nottingham Forest on the Metropolis Floor on Saturday.

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Bournemouth have moved to exchange Dominic Solanke by agreeing a club-record £40m price for the Porto striker Evanilson. The Brazilian, who scored 13 league objectives in 27 league appearances final season, is predicted to journey to England within the subsequent 24 hours to finalise the transfer. The 24-year-old made his Brazil debut in June, in a pleasant in opposition to Mexico.

Solanke joined Tottenham final week for £55m and Andoni Iraola has wasted no time in snapping up his substitute as they put together to open their season at Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

Bournemouth’s earlier report signing was Jefferson Lerma, who price £25m when he joined from Levante in 2018. Evanilson was known as into the Brazil squad for this summer season’s Copa América and has received two caps.

Bournemouth have had a busy summer season, with seven signings already, together with Luis Sinisterra making his transfer from Leeds everlasting for a price of £20m, Enes Ünal becoming a member of from Getafe in a £14m deal and Dean Huijsen arriving from Juventus for £12.8m. Earlier this week the Barcelona defender Julián Araujo signed a five-year deal.

In the meantime, Brighton have confirmed the signing of Brajan Gruda for £25m from Mainz and have activated the £40m launch clause for the Leeds ahead Georginio Rutter. Gruda, a Germany Underneath-21s winger, has agreed a four-year deal.

“I wouldn’t say he’s a typical German. He’s like a boy from the road, he likes the ball at his ft. He can do particular issues like all our offensive gamers,” stated Brighton’s new supervisor, Fabian Hürzeler.

“He wants time, he’s come from Germany and he’s very younger. The Premier League is the most effective league on this planet and we’ll attempt to combine him and make him prepared.”

Brighton are additionally hoping to seal the signing of Rutter after assembly his launch clause, with the France Underneath-21s ahead deciding his future. “If there’s a match then we’ll see what occurs,” stated Hürzeler. “I’ll by no means say something.”

Brighton have additionally confirmed that new signing Ibrahim Osman has joined Feyenoord on mortgage for the remainder of the season.

Colin Kaepernick isn’t becoming a member of the Chargers as a coach or a participant this season.

Coach Jim Harbaugh ended all hypothesis relating to his former quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers whereas talking with reporters Thursday afternoon.

“I like Colin,” stated Harbaugh, who coached the 49ers from 2011-14. “However he’s not going to be on my teaching employees this yr, and he’s not going to be on the roster both.”

A report this week indicated that Harbaugh wished Kaepernick on his teaching employees and that the 2 of them mentioned the likelihood again in January.

“Yeah, we talked a little bit bit about it,” Harbaugh informed USA As we speak. “He’s contemplating it. He was in another country. He stated he was going to get again to me. We haven’t reconnected since then.”

Chargers linebackers coach NaVorro Bowman and assistant defensive position coach Will Tukuafu performed for the 49ers underneath Harbaugh. Each are first-year coaches. Retired tight finish Delanie Walker, one other former 49er from the Harbaugh years, additionally has joined the Chargers employees for coaching camp.

Harbaugh stated Thursday that his resolution to supply Kaepernick a training place stems from a possibility late Raiders proprietor Al Davis gave him as quarterbacks coach in 2002.

“Al Davis noticed one thing in me that made him assume I might be a fantastic coach,” Harbaugh stated. “I see these qualities in Colin.”

In a current interview with Sky Sports activities, nevertheless, Kaepernick stated he’s nonetheless searching for one other shot as a participant — although it’s been seven full seasons since he’s taken a snap.

“We’re nonetheless coaching, nonetheless pushing,” Kaepernick stated. “So hopefully we simply gotta get one in all these workforce house owners to open up.

“I might carry loads to a workforce and assist them win a championship.”

Kaepernick took the 49ers to Tremendous Bowl XLVII after the 2012 season and again to the NFC championship sport the following yr. He famously refused to face for the nationwide anthem earlier than video games throughout the 2016 season, then opted out of his contract with the 49ers the next offseason. He by no means landed on one other workforce.

In October 2017, Kaepernick filed a collusion grievance towards the NFL. He and the league reached an settlement to resolve the grievance in February 2019.

Kaepernick repeatedly has expressed an curiosity in a comeback. Final season he despatched a letter to the New York Jets providing to affix the apply squad as a “risk-free contingency plan” behind starter Zach Wilson after a season-ending Achilles tendon damage to Aaron Rodgers.

The Jets didn’t take him up on his supply, leaving Kaepernick nonetheless searching for his subsequent NFL alternative.

“It’s one thing I’ve skilled my complete life for,” Kaepernick, 36, informed Sky Sports activities, “so to have the ability to step again on the sphere, I feel that will be a significant second, main accomplishment for me.”

Throughout the identical interview, Kaepernick was requested if he could be representing the U.S. in flag soccer when the game makes its Olympic debut on the 2028 Los Angeles Video games.

“Hopefully we’ll be on the market,” Kaepernick stated. “We’re gonna work on some issues, see if we are able to make it in there. However we’d like to be on the market.”

The daddy of 17-year-old Spain footballer Lamine Yamal has reportedly been stabbed a number of instances.

Mounir Nasraoui was taken to hospital after being attacked in a carpark in Mataro, close to Barcelona, Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia reported.

His situation is claimed to be critical however secure, the newspaper stated, citing official however unnamed sources.

Some arrests have been made, it added, with out offering additional particulars.

A later report on sports activities web site Relevo, additionally citing official sources, stated Mr Nasraoui had been discharged from hospital.

Native police didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Yamal – Spain’s youngest ever participant – was a part of the Euro 24 crew that beat England within the ultimate in Berlin final month, the right-winger establishing Nico Williams’s opening objective.

Mataro, the place Yamal spent his early childhood years, celebrated following the victory, with followers lining the streets.

Simply minutes after his crew took the trophy, Yamal was named younger participant of the match.

He was additionally the youngest ever participant at a European Championship.

Pictures have emerged displaying Lionel Messi holding him when he was a child.

Seniors, the time has come to metal yourselves for a modest improve in your Social Safety verify subsequent yr.

The annual COLA, or cost-of-living adjustment, is more likely to be 2.6%, lower than the 2024 COLA of three.2%, which bumped up the typical month-to-month profit by greater than $50, and properly beneath the 8.7% improve in advantages acquired two years in the past.

The explanation: easing inflation, which is an effective factor general.

The crystal ball COLA estimate relies on inflation knowledge from the Bureau of Labor Statistics launched Wednesday, which confirmed shopper costs in July rose 2.9% over the prior yr, a tiny downtick from June’s 3% improve.

The COLA is calculated by averaging inflation knowledge for the third quarter of the yr — July, August, and September of 2024 — after which evaluating that determine with the identical knowledge from final yr primarily based on the Client Worth Index (CPI) for all city wage earners and clerical employees (CPI-W).

The Social Safety Administration is anticipated to announce the precise 2025 COLA in mid-October after the discharge of the September CPI knowledge.

We “anticipate a considerably decrease COLA for subsequent yr after the three.2% COLA in 2024,” Shannon Benton, govt director of the Senior Residents League, advised Yahoo Finance.

Learn extra: How one can discover out your 2024 Social Safety COLA improve

Seniors’ inflation nonetheless sticky

The wrench in all of it is that whereas general inflation is easing, the price of issues that gobble up a good portion of many seniors’ checks isn’t cooling on the similar tempo.

Costs for objects resembling shelter, electrical energy, hospital, and outpatient medical companies — main bills for hundreds of thousands of seniors — proceed to outpace the general charge of inflation.

A smaller COLA subsequent yr would pinch the greater than 70 million retired senior residents and disabled employees who’re nonetheless grappling with excessive costs.

“Although the speed of inflation has slowed significantly, we dwell in a courageous new world of inflated costs for issues retirees depend on resembling housing, hospital, and in-home healthcare that appear caught on excessive for now,” Mary Johnson, Social Safety and Medicare coverage analyst, advised Yahoo Finance.

“And all of us are battling the excessive value of retaining cool as temperatures set highs,” she added. “The value of electrical energy went up throughout the inflation years and hasn’t come down that a lot.”

Housing takes as much as 50% of budgets. The shelter index elevated 0.4% in July, up 5.1% yr over yr.

It’s fairly powerful for seniors to get a grip on their funds when the 2 largest bills — housing and healthcare — hold ticking up.

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Advantages fall quick for seniors

The issue is that Social Safety’s annual will increase haven’t all the time been sufficient, Benton stated. For instance, whereas there was a 5.9% COLA bump in 2022, inflation clocked in at 7% in 2021 and 6.5% in 2022, in accordance with the CPI.

Between 2010 and 2024, Social Safety COLAs elevated advantages 3.9% per yr on common.

Within the Senior Residents League’s 2024 Retirement Survey, practically half of these surveyed stated they’re “getting by for now” however not assured in regards to the future. And greater than 1 / 4 reported they’re having hassle affording necessities.

For about half of seniors, Social Safety gives no less than half of their earnings, and for about 1 in 4 seniors, it accounts for no less than 90% of earnings.

With an anticipated improve of simply 2.6% subsequent yr, it will not be a lot simpler to make ends meet.

“The projected cost-of-living adjustment for Social Safety recipients is failing to maintain up with the precise rise in dwelling bills,” Benton added. “This leaves many retirees unable to keep up an inexpensive lifestyle.”

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The reported assault passed off close to the Rocafonda neighbourhood the place Yamal grew up.

Earlier within the day, Mr Nasraoui is claimed to have had an argument with a bunch of individuals he had encountered whereas strolling his canine, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.

Hours later, he was approached by the identical group in a parking lot and stabbed “a number of occasions”.

The motivation for the stabbing is at the moment unknown.

A report on sports activities web site Relevo stated Mr Nasraoui was set to stay in hospital for 2 or three days below remark.

Lamine Yamal, Spain’s youngest ever participant, lit up Euro 2024 the place he was named Younger Participant of the Match.

The winger arrange Nico Williams’s opening aim as Spain beat England 2-1 within the remaining in Berlin.

Shortly after Spain lifted the trophy, followers lined the streets of Mataró celebrating their younger star.

After spending his childhood within the city, Yamal spent a few of his teenage years at Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy.

The US pop star, 34, will finish the European leg of her Eras Tour with 5 nights on the London venue.

It comes after the Grammy-winner paid tribute to victims of the Southport assault wherein three younger ladies have been killed in a mass stabbing in July at a vacation membership occasion themed on the singer.

Swift had been touring to packed stadiums throughout the continent this spring and summer season however her three exhibits at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium have been referred to as off final week after police uncovered an alleged plot by suspected terrorists.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan had promised on the time that the UK capital would “keep it up” internet hosting Swift’s live shows, regardless of the menace.

Commander Lou Puddefoot of the Metropolitan Police instructed the PA information company forward of the London gigs: “A sequence of live shows will start at Wembley on Thursday night and we’re wanting ahead to welcoming hundreds of individuals to the capital.

“Over current months, we’ve got been working very intently with the stadium, occasion organisers and different companions, to make sure that all guests have a protected and pleasurable expertise.

“We’re properly ready for this occasion and the general public ought to anticipate to see officers, safety employees and stewards working collectively in and across the venue and at transport hubs.

“The Met is often concerned within the policing of most of these occasions and as at all times, we’ve got a versatile plan in place to make sure everybody can take pleasure in themselves safely.

“Wembley Stadium has supplied detailed recommendation on its web site to make sure ticketholders travelling to the venue have a fantastic expertise.

“We proceed to ask the general public to stay vigilant and if one thing doesn’t really feel proper, to report it to a police officer or in an emergency name 999.”

The stadium has put a information on-line for followers attending the exhibits, which warns them to not carry chains, chain wallets, studded jewelry or spurs, noise-making units corresponding to air horns, bells, bullhorns, thunder sticks or aerosol containers – together with sunscreen, pepper spray, bug spray, or spray paint with them.

Moreover, ticketless supporters will likely be unable to congregate exterior the stadium, thwarting an usually widespread observe among the many singer’s followers often known as “tay-gating”.

A bunch of 4 college students – Reeba Tovee, 19, Imogene Gatherer, 20, Ellie Behan, 19 and Carrie Ferguson, 19 – have been excited concerning the singer’s return to Wembley after she performed three Wembley dates earlier within the tour in June.

Ms Ferguson stated: “I used to be up at 7am in anticipation. We’re so excited for the live performance.”

Ms Behan stated: “I’m additionally so excited for the environment and all the ladies, everybody goes to be there, it’s like girlhood. Once you go to a membership you don’t really feel very protected, however I really feel like this going to be so supportive and protected.”

Ms Tovee stated: “I used to be praying this wasn’t cancelled. I do know they’ve put quite a lot of further safety in now.

“When the information got here out, we have been all very nervous however seeing the additional safety measures which were put in place makes us really feel higher, there have been a lot of accounts on X and TikTok saying what the most secure method to get there’s.”

The Anti-Hero’s August set of exhibits may have a special assist act every day beginning with instrumentalist Sofia Isella and in addition together with Brit Award-winner Raye, Daisy Jones & the Six star Suki Waterhouse and rising stars, Maisie Peters and Holly Humberstone.

Swift’s billion-dollar Eras Tour takes followers by means of her again catalogue, together with hits from albums 1989, Pink and Midnights.

Throughout her first London exhibits of the tour in June, murals, a particular Tube map and a Taylor path have been amongst occasions created for followers.

Forward of her August exhibits, a merchandise web site opened in Inexperienced Automotive Park, close to the stadium, on Wednesday whereas a London Underground service info board situated at Wembley Park station displayed a love story impressed by Swift.

Older People feeling ‘lingering results’ of excessive prices

Taylor Swift’s second spherical of London dates are lastly upon us, with the singer returning to Wembley Stadium for 5 additional dates this August.

Treating followers to 3 hours of a few of her finest beloved hits, Eras Tour songs span her unimaginable 17-year-long profession and all of her 11 albums, from 1989 to Midnights, right through to The Tortured Poets Division.

Along with a packed set of a few of her greatest hits, followers may even get to get pleasure from to a stellar line-up of help acts beforehand too, together with Paramore together with an extra further visitor for every UK date.

Whereas we watched in keen anticipation because the Eras Tour swept the US final yr, now it is UK Swifties’ time to shine, with Tay Tay having additionally unfold the nice vibes throughout Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff on her strategy to London.

So should you managed to safe certainly one of these extremely coveted tickets, this is every part you have to know forward of arriving at Wembley for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, from set instances to the seating plan to (maybe most significantly) the place the merch stand is.

It is price taking into account that Eras tour timings for August have been introduced as much as be barely earlier – this is every part you have to know.

Taylor Swift Wembley dates

Swift is performing eight reveals at London’s Wembley Stadium, with three in June and 5 in August. Her full UK dates are as follows:

June dates

• Friday, June 21
• Saturday, June 22
• Sunday, June 23

August dates

• Thursday, August 15
• Friday, August 16
• Saturday, August 17
• Monday, August, 19
• Tuesday, August 20

What time do doorways open for the Eras Tour Wembley?

Doorways open at barely totally different instances relying on what ticket you opted for, with timings as follows:

McClure knew that Nonna Jean’s childhood was not blissful. Jean had run away from her abusive adoptive mother and father after being handled terribly. But, as McClure explains, Jean continued to face the world with love, constructing a protected, heat, loving household of her personal into which McClure was born in 1983. 

“She had informed us a bit through the years. Not an terrible lot,” says McClure. “It’s not a really good factor to speak about. However she was actually badly handled. 

“Nonna Jean died a few years in the past and I by no means noticed her offended in my complete life. I by no means noticed her unhappy. I by no means noticed her cry. And I by no means noticed her cross,” says McClure. “You couldn’t have requested for someone extra loving and caring and constructive and upbeat. It was very a lot her stance, to guarantee that what occurred to her didn’t bleed into her family and into her personal life.”

As an alternative, Nonna Jean was married for 73 years – and her perspective, that her youngsters would by no means endure as she did – is particularly admirable when extra particulars of her previous are revealed. 

“Actually, I miss her terribly. When somebody passes you mirror much more,” says McClure. “There’s a lot to be offended about on the planet – previous and current. However Nonna was a really, very loving girl. She gave out numerous love. So she deserved numerous love again. And from the minute she met my grandad, she lived a cheerful life. That was her blissful ending. She lived into her 90s, died in her dwelling along with her family members round her. No person deserved that extra.”

Who Do You Assume You Are? has been operating for 20 years, throughout greater than 150 episodes. In addition to being a rankings smash – shifting from BBC Two to BBC One, simply because the McClure-starring Line of Obligation did years later – it has sparked a increase in family tree as an increasing number of of us search to search out out the secrets and techniques of how we got here to exist. By 2011, when census knowledge from a century earlier was launched, it acquired an unimaginable 22 million web page views in its first two days. 

Genealogist Sara Khan has labored on Who Do You Assume You Are? since its fourth sequence. She has been carefully concerned in a few of its most interesting moments.

“The affect of this present is very large,” she says. “And it has coincided with the expansion of the web making genealogical analysis a lot simpler. Now we have delivery and demise information accessible from 1837 and census returns for each 10 years from 1841 to 1921. They offer a extremely good snapshot of what folks’s circumstances are, who their mother and father are, what their occupations are. 

“Folks can do it at dwelling now, whereas I keep in mind spending half a day flicking by large ledgers looking for an index of a delivery.”

Her recommendation for anybody trying into their household historical past is to ask questions. 

“Communicate to all your loved ones members, particularly the older ones,” says Khan. “Begin interviewing them and at all times write issues down. Undergo outdated bins of papers and letters and images, get as a lot data as attainable, then log into one of many web sites. Begin discovering your mother and father or grandparents’ information, delivery, marriage and demise certificates and begin digging.”

Khan remembers discovering one in all Danny Dyer’s ancestors listed in Burke’s Peerage – a publication itemizing landed gentry and noble households – earlier than digging additional to find he was a direct descendent of King Edward III. “An actual Eureka second!” She additionally found one in all Michelle Keegan’s ancestors was listed as a suffragist on the 1911 census.

Then there was Dame Judi Dench. “Her household tree goes again from Eire to Denmark, which is sort of thrilling in itself. However to have the ability to place one in all her ancestors within the court docket the place Hamlet was set by Shakespeare? You couldn’t make that up, might you? She liked that.”

Khan additionally discovered that one in all Billy Connolly’s four-times nice grandparents, who was working in India as a British soldier, was married to an Indian girl, “so he had had a 100% Indian ancestor. He liked that too.”

Flight remembers one other journey to India when requested for a spotlight from throughout the years, citing Anita Rani’s episode in 2017, which confronted the brutal affect that the Partition of India had on her household. 

“It had a unprecedented response from of individuals whose household had the identical historical past however they hadn’t talked about it,” she says. “Anita’s episode opened up these conversations.”

After the massive discoveries comes the arduous work of verifying all the things. For McClure’s present, this included utilizing DNA information to hint the id of her Nonna Jean’s actual father as McClure’s household historical past tour took her away from Nottingham. 

“It was actually unusual – we ended up on the docks in Grimsby and I used to be like, I do know this place. It’s precisely the place we filmed This Is England.”

There was additionally a thriller surrounding the demise of McClure’s maternal great-grandfather in the course of the Second World Conflict. McClure travels 6,000 miles to Taiwan, the place she learns in regards to the destiny of Iris’s dad, Harry.

“My Nonna Iris was at all times a tough girl. In the event you’ve seen the Our Dementia Choir documentaries, we spoke about it then,” she says. “It actually struck me how arduous it could have been for Iris that her dad was killed in a Japanese battle camp, by no means to see him once more. This may very well be an enormous purpose why she was fairly an sad girl at occasions.”

McClure uncover an all-too widespread story: of younger, working-class males shipped off to battle by no means to return – their lives seen as in some way extra expendable. 

“Has that modified? Nope. I don’t assume so,” says McClure. “However that’s the purpose. Everyone’s lives are essential. Regardless of the place you come from.”

It’s a theme that Who Do You Assume You Are? returns to time and again. 

“I knew in my coronary heart that I’m from a really working-class household,” McClure concludes. “Doing Who Do You Assume You Are? made me really feel so fortunate. And tremendous proud to be from good, hardy people who labored arduous and sorted one another. 

“And it made sense of issues – this actual must work arduous, be a part of a neighborhood, and take care of different folks. All that stuff is instilled in me and my household. You discover your folks, don’t you, in life? The folks round me have a really comparable outlook, and that comes down by the generations. 

“The largest factor I took from this was how goddam happy with my household I’m.”

Who Do You Assume You Are? is on BBC One from Thursday 15 August

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