Sue Grey has resigned because the chief of employees to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. This resignation got here alongside the drip drip of details about donations to key members of the interior circle of the Labour authorities, together with to Starmer himself.

Utilizing materials from the British official file, broadly outlined because the sum whole of fabric created because of the operations of the British state, we will hint Grey’s profession to see each why she was chosen to work for Starmer and why she ended up having to give up so quickly. Her time in authorities has coincided with some key moments in current British political historical past and adjustments on the high of the British state.

Previous to extra high-profile roles, Grey labored within the Division for Transport, the Division of Well being and the Division for Work and Pensions. Throughout a profession break, she was additionally a publican in Northern Eire.

Grey first labored for the Cupboard Workplace within the late Nineteen Nineties, and labored as director common for propriety and ethics there for six years from 2012. From 2018 to 2021 she went on secondment to develop into the everlasting secretary on the Northern Eire Govt’s Division of Finance. In Might 2021 Grey moved again to the Cupboard Workplace to develop into everlasting secretary with duty for the Union and Structure Directorate.

Following media reporting on gatherings held on the division of training and 10 Downing Avenue which will have contravened COVID-19 laws in early December 2021, an investigation was launched.

This was initially led by cupboard secretary Simon Case however he quickly recused himself after being caught up within the allegations himself. It was Grey who was tasked to take over what turned referred to as the partygate investigation.

Partygate report and Johnson resignation

Grey first revealed an replace on her work wanting into partygate in January 2022, adopted by a full report in Might of that yr.

Amongst different issues, she discovered that no less than among the gatherings amounted to “a severe failure to watch not simply the excessive requirements anticipated of these working on the coronary heart of Authorities but in addition of the requirements anticipated of the complete British inhabitants on the time”. She wrote that “failures of management and judgment by completely different components of No 10 and the Cupboard Workplace” had occurred.

Lower than two weeks after Grey’s ultimate report was revealed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a vote of no confidence, though 148 Conservative MPs (41%) voted towards him. Many MPs cited Johnson’s lack of repentance as justification for his or her votes towards him. By July, Johnson had been satisfied to resign when dozens of members of his authorities walked out en masse throughout the course of 1 24-hour interval.

Becoming a member of and leaving Labour

In March 2023, Grey resigned from the civil service. She had been recruited by the opposition to organize Labour for presidency when it began to seem like the occasion might actually take energy.

Nonetheless, after in search of authorized recommendation from the advisory committee on enterprise appointments, she took six months out to make sure a “clear break” between working for the civil service and a political occasion.

However, Grey’s determination to alter roles led a authorities investigation to accuse her of breaching the civil service code. Labour rejected this declare and accused the federal government of “losing time on this Mickey Mouse nonsense”.

As Labour entered authorities in early July, Grey transitioned to being chief of employees for Starmer. Nonetheless, simply over two months later, particulars of how a lot Grey was being paid had been leaked to the BBC.

At £170,000, Grey’s wage was £3,000 greater than Starmer’s. An fascinating query right here is why that is truly an issue. Maybe some had been sad concerning the distinction between the wage of Grey and their very own wage. Or perhaps the story that she earned greater than the prime minister was simply too tempting to leak trying to trigger bother for different causes.

This story broke as particulars about how Starmer and others within the central Labour workforce had taken presents and hospitality from occasion donors additionally emerged. As occurred in the direction of the top of the Conservative interval in energy in recent times, a number of tales and scandals, together with the small print about Grey’s wage, began to been seen as a part of a single narrative.

It could even be the case that, after 14 years out of presidency, these on the high of the Labour occasion had been unprepared for the larger stage of scrutiny that comes with being in energy.

On October 6, two-and-a-half weeks after particulars of her wage had been leaked, Grey resigned. In her resignation assertion, Grey mentioned: “It has develop into clear to me that intense commentary round my place risked changing into a distraction to the federal government’s very important work of change.”

Past the wage story, considerations had additionally been raised about energy and decision-making being concentrated in Grey’s palms. Her case additionally raises questions on how doable it’s to easily transition from the civil service to a political submit.

Grey has now moved into the newly created, and seemingly ill-defined, function of “envoy for the areas and nations”. This can embrace work on the brand new Council of Nations and Areas, the physique Starmer has set as much as concentrate on delivering extra equitable devolution.

It’s not clear whether or not this new function is a means of massaging Grey out of frontline roles completely, if it’s a task with actual tooth that may enable Grey the power to impression occasions in a means she has prior to now, or a placeholder till one other outstanding place extra suited to her expertise is accessible. For the latter to be doable although, the political winds might want to change.

The title of Charli xcx’s Brat remix album, Brat and it’s fully totally different but additionally nonetheless brat, applies neatly to the pop-up listening celebration she hosted Thursday at Storm King Artwork Heart in upstate New York. It was Charli—actually, her, dancing for a couple of hundred followers beneath the solar, flanked by colossal sculptures—the place we’d by no means seen her earlier than.

Brat, each the album and the idea behind it, is—if you happen to by some means missed it—an angle and a setting. The angle being ‘okay? (¬_¬)’ and the locale being a hedonistic hangout along with your sizzling buddies, or extra not too long ago, Madison Sq. Backyard. Storm King, nevertheless, is none of these issues. The 64-year-old 500-acre outside museum within the Hudson Valley is the steward of a world-class sculpture assortment, with works by Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Maya Lin, and Louise Bourgeois, and different titans of the medium. Usually, it offers an undulating sea of inexperienced, hushed save the birds, besides this previous Thursday from 3:30 p.m., when the attendees arrived, to about 5:30 p.m., when the iconoclast wrapped her one hour(ish) DJ set. The membership, we all know, is a moveable feast, whether or not its lights strobe or descend from the sky.

“I wasn’t certain what the vibe was going to be,” Charli mentioned right into a microphone after climbing atop the DJ sales space. Nestled within the criminal of a tall, two-sided set up wrapped in inexperienced vinyl and stamped with the brat monitor names, the construction had the magnetism of Kubrick’s monolith, drawing employees and friends alike to its toes.

I can’t touch upon the again of the gang, however close to the ad-hoc stage, the scents of oak and maple ceded to a extra pungent flower, whereas fingers dipped into plastic baggage and poppers did as they do. With a twist of Charli’s aux, the “360” remix blasted from the bass. The group, a mixture of late teenagers to pensioners, screamed. “Not hyped sufficient,” the star screamed again. 

The Storm King staff remains to be tallying the ultimate headcount, however they mentioned that as of this morning, greater than 200 RSVP-holders attended with plus ones, and that’s not together with employees and distributors. Capability, the organizers additionally confirmed, was capped at 1,000. Phrase on the day was that some 26,000 hopeful followers who RSVP’d to the occasion did not make the minimize. In protection of the (theoretical) 25,000 losers, it was a cruel rollout. The present was teased for the primary time in a TikTok on Monday. On Tuesday, Charli posted a hyperlink to the registration on her Instagram story (for context, she has 6.4 million followers on the social media platform). Regardless of the quick discover, the ticket-holders boarded the 12:30 p.m. Metro-North practice out of Grand Central—informally dubbed the bratmobile—to the confusion of commuters. One lady, who out of all 365 calendar days selected October 10 to put on a brilliant inexperienced sweater, mentioned she and her companion didn’t even know Charli xcx was enjoying in New Windsor. 

“Our greatest concern was why is [the train] so goddamn crowded,” the person mentioned. 

The followers disembarked quickly after at Beacon. There was an extended beat, earlier than the gang was shepherded by Storm King employees into shuttle buses, the place they milled concerning the station and sidewalk, incongruous of their pageant apparel with the crisp midafternoon. Black leather-based matched black sun shades (each of which stayed on); glitter under eyes and alongside the brows; some guys wore denims, some wore skirts, and one wore a minion costume as a result of, ‘why not?’

Extremely, John Stern, the president and CEO of Storm King, informed ARTnews that the occasion got here collectively in simply “a couple of weeks.” Stern mentioned Charli’s folks reached out first a few collaboration between the museum and the reside streaming platform Twitch. Apparently, the Cambridge, UK-native “loves” Storm King; “I had no thought,” he added. Storm King has hosted classical music performances up to now, however Stern mentioned his staff hopes extra pop-art crossovers are forward.

Press didn’t have a possibility to talk with the singer on Thursday, and he or she dove right into a stalling automobile after the final track ended, anyway. A minimum of one artist was round to talk. 

“All people had been hounding me, they thought I had entry to tickets,” Arlene Shechet mentioned. “I want I did! My studio and gallery folks have been like ahh,” she added, miming an expression of longing. The sculptor has a studio an hour away in Woodstock, however stopped by Storm King since her solo exhibition, “Lady Group”,  is at present on view by means of November 10. (Artwork in America featured Shechet’s present in its Could 2024 “Icons” challenge.)

Her six large-scale works, variably product of metal, wooden, paper, and ceramic, have been a welcome pop of coloration, because the establishment’s everlasting assortment, save a couple of crimson Calders, favors unadorned metal, stone, and aluminum. They appeared of a spirit with the odd sight of lime treading strains within the yellow-green grass.

“Storm King is wonderful, and have a look at at the present time,” Shechet mentioned, gesturing on the blue sky, altering leaves, and other people, two pairs of whom mentioned it was their anniversary. “It might be good if folks would wander across the artwork, too.”

Shechet’s want was granted. The group dispersed in waves after the star attraction dipped. A weary procession walked down the gravel highway to the exit, the place the shuttle buses waited. Others ventured onto a winding grass path deeper into the grounds, rising smaller by distance and scale as they ascended the hill host to an amazing Mark di Suvero abstraction. Like Charli mentioned initially, “We’re effective artwork bitches now.”

If you throw within the Storm King ingredient, it is much more thoughts boggling that that is all occurring. Who knew this was a factor, that somebody—even Charli XCX—might simply commandeer the run of Storm King, a one-of-a-kind vacation spot that homes items by over 150 artists all through rolling fields? After I coincidentally meet John Stern, the president of Storm King and nice grandson of its founder, within the tee-shirt handout line, he tells me “the artist reached out” and requested if the middle might pull it off. Wanting round on the lug sole boots and bleached curly mullets, it is a new crowd, he admits, which is thrilling. “We have achieved plenty of occasions, particularly music, since we opened in 1960,” Stern says. “However that is normally extra classical music, or jazz.” He is questioning if this occasion could kick off a brand new development in visitorship. When TV present Grasp of None filmed an episode on the park in 2017, entrances spiked by 40% instantly following the airing, he says, and it was largely individuals of their 20s and 30s on dates, similar to the present depicted. I pray that if I return to Storm King later this fall, I will discover myself surrounded by a crowd with “365 Celebration Lady” shirts and an affinity for poppers. (Appears like Stern does, too?)

When Charli’s black Escalade lastly rolls by means of the fields, stopping beside the stage, my eardrums practically rupture from the cheers. A guttural “MOTHERRRRRRRR” is screamed by the individual proper subsequent to me, as we glimpse her furry coat and signature curls bouncing towards her rightful place on the helm of the mania. “How motherfuckin’ sick is that this?” Charli shouts into the microphone, whereas climbing onto the stage, to a different explosion of cheers. “I’ll play you some songs from the album, though I do know it leaked—like ha, ha—however I do know that nobody right here listened, and if you happen to’re singing alongside, I will know you probably did,” she winks on the crowd. (At this precise second, I get a textual content from my buddy Brett in California, with a ZIP file sharing the title of the not-yet-released album.) On stage, Charli merely hits play from her cellphone—the brattiest transfer of all—and her remix of “Von dutch” that includes Addison Rae booms by means of the house, reverberating off the auburn bushes round us. Everyone seems to be out of the blue leaping, telephones are swaying within the air, and fellow brats are glancing at their buddies, unable to consider their luck.

We vibe for an hour, as as soon as synthy track clicks to the subsequent. Charli performs the “Sympathy is a knife” remix with Ariana Grande. We hear “Imply ladies” redone with Julian Casablanca. We get by means of virtually your complete album earlier than Charli screams into the microphone, “Guys, I’ve received to go to Denver!” cackling on the madness of all of it, and performs herself out with “Lady, so complicated” that includes Lorde. Quickly sufficient, the music will shut off and the remainder of us will repeat our personal journeys in reverse, submitting again into shuttles and trains and site visitors strains and actuality. But it surely was price it for this shared second of “Are you able to consider we did that?”—even whereas understanding we’ll go simply as far for a present the subsequent likelihood we get.

The US singer and actress rose to fame as a baby star on Disney sequence Wizards Of Waverly Place, earlier than gaining plaudits for her position in Disney+ sequence Solely Murders In The Constructing alongside comedy stars Steve Martin and Martin Quick.

The 32-year-old will subsequent be seen in Emilia Perez, a Spanish-language French musical following a Mexican Cartel chief (performed by Karla Sofia Gascon), who asks a high-powered lawyer named Rita Moro Castro (Zoe Saldana) to assist pretend their very own loss of life and bear sex-reassignment operations.

Gomez, who performs the drug lord’s spouse, Jessi Del Monte, appeared on the BFI London Movie Competition gala screening of the movie alongside her co-stars on the Royal Competition Corridor, Southbank Centre in London.

“I believe that my style in movie and dealing with filmmakers has advanced, and I solely need to stretch extra in that space,” Gomez instructed the PA information company on the purple carpet.

“I do know it’s most likely arduous for individuals to take me significantly, I get why.

“But in addition on the similar time, (director) Jacques Audiard noticed one thing in me, and I then noticed one thing in myself, and I’m thrilled.”

Gomez stated she felt “actually proud” to be concerned within the Spanish-speaking mission.

“I liked talking in Spanish, and it felt like I might connect with the character in a completely deeper, significant approach,” she stated.

“It means lots that I can do this, particularly given my tradition, my background and my household.”

In the meantime, Avatar star Saldana spoke concerning the vitality on the movie set, describing the expertise as “proper up there” amongst her favourites.

“It was palpable and it was thrilling,” she stated on the purple carpet.

“Generally it was intense, however in essentially the most passionate (of) methods, as a result of on the finish of the day, we have been all coming with our hearts fully open and dedicated to simply give one of the best of ourselves.”

Saldana stated the ladies got here collectively eager to work with their “dream director” however understanding it was a “area of interest of a distinct segment of a distinct segment film”.

“It’s a movie about 4 Hispanic ladies. It’s in Spanish, it’s a musical with tones of opera,” she stated.

“We knew that it was going to cater to all of the accumulative followers of every of us, respectively.

“What we didn’t think about was that it was going to have such a heat and impactful impression on individuals.

“So each pageant that we’ve been to, the reception has been actually stunning and unimaginably unbelievable and I really feel like what’s most rewarding in my coronary heart is that persons are going to get to see a narrative that they most likely by no means would have thought of seeing in any other case.”

Emilia Perez can be launched on Netflix on November 13.

To mark World Psychological Well being Day as we speak (Thursday 10 October 2023), Shropshire Council’s public well being crew are encouraging folks throughout Shropshire to take motion to help their psychological well being.

World Psychological Well being Day graphic

The worldwide marketing campaign initiated by the World Federation for Psychological Well being (WFMH), goals to boost world consciousness of psychological well being points, mobilise efforts in help of psychological well being, and cut back stigma.

This yr’s theme is emphasising the significance of prioritising psychological well being within the office.

Statistics

• 1 in 4 folks has been affected by a psychological well being drawback.
• 9 in 10 UK adults skilled excessive or excessive stress up to now yr (Psychological Well being UK report 2024).
• Nearly 1 / 4 of UK adults really feel unable to handle stress and strain ranges of their lives (Psychological Well being UK report 2024).
• A fifth of staff hit burnout level (Psychological Well being UK report 2024).
• Whereas 73% of adults really feel in a position to handle stress, 24% really feel they’re unable to take action (Psychological Well being UK report 2024).

Understanding Burnout

Burnout is recognised by the World Well being Group (WHO) as an occupational phenomenon ensuing from power office stress that has not been efficiently managed. It’s characterised by emotions of power depletion or exhaustion, elevated psychological distance from one’s job, and lowered skilled efficacy.

Cecilia Motley, Shropshire Council’s Cupboard member for grownup social care and public well being, stated:

“World Psychological Well being Day is the proper alternative to take a while to assume and discuss psychological well being – and most significantly of all, to take motion to help our psychological well being.

“This yr’s theme is specializing in the office, and we name on everybody—from employers to staff, executives to managers—to take shared accountability for office psychological well being.

“By educating ourselves and one another to recognise the indicators of poor psychological well being and offering mutual help, we will create more healthy, extra resilient workplaces the place psychological wellbeing is a precedence for all.

“To help the day, we’d additionally like to focus on the various native sources our public well being crew and companions have created. I’d encourage anybody who perhaps feeling burnt out or typically low or wants some recommendation to help their psychological well being and wellbeing, to utilise these.”

Feeling low or anxious? Attain out to somebody

There are lots of easy issues we will all do to take care of our psychological wellbeing. It’s additionally necessary to be open about how we’re feeling and to succeed in out for assist after we want it.

Shropshire’s Council’s psychological well being and wellbeing webpages provide a variety of help and instruments to help folks’s psychological well being. These embody:

• Psychological well being and wellbeing help in Shropshire useful resource pack – This new useful resource comprises numerous helpful native and nationwide contacts to help psychological well being and wellbeing together with supported employment, help for folks with well being and social care wants, help for sexual abuse, help for household and unpaid carers and help for youngsters and younger folks.
• Listening ear, emotional wellbeing and group help for Shropshire Residents and Workforce – Emotional wellbeing and group help.
• Shropshire’s Social Prescribing programme – It is a non-medical programme designed to assist folks with a variety of social, emotional, or sensible wants that helps them resolve their issues at an early stage and put them again accountable for their wellbeing.
• TogetherAll is a web-based group for any Shropshire resident aged 16 and over, for people who find themselves burdened, anxious or feeling low. The service has an lively discussion board with round the clock help from skilled professionals. You possibly can discuss anonymously and confidentially to different members.
• Help for youngsters, younger folks, and younger adults – there’s a variety of recommendation, data and help for youngsters and younger folks. This contains NHS Shropshire, Telford Wrekin web site More healthy Collectively which provides recommendation for folks, younger folks, and pregnant girls, in addition to scientific sources to help healthcare professionals. Our kids’s Social Prescribing programme provides kids and younger folks, aged 11 (at school 12 months 7) and above. a non-medical strategy to help for a variety of social, emotional, and sensible wants.
• Each Thoughts Issues– is a nationwide NHS marketing campaign stuffed with tailor-made suggestions and recommendation that will help you handle stress, sleep higher, and enhance your temper.

Additionally many workplaces provide Worker Help Programmes (EAPs) that present counselling providers. We propose contacting your HR division at work to investigate about what help providers they’ve in place, similar to an EAP or different service. The counselling provided could solely be short-term (i.e., as much as six classes), if that is so contemplate talking to your GP for longer-term help.

Stress and nervousness about work and cash can have an effect on folks’s psychological well being and wellbeing and, for many folks, this has been heightened by the rising value of dwelling lately. The council’s value of dwelling webpages provide a variety of recommendation and help to make sure you are maximising your earnings.

Pressing assist – Name NHS 111 choose psychological well being

In case you or any person you understand is in disaster and desires pressing psychological well being help now you can contact your native disaster service in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin by calling NHS 111 or visiting www.111.nhs.uk and choosing the psychological well being possibility.

Additional data

Discover out extra about World Psychological Well being Day at: World Psychological Well being Day 2024 | Psychological Well being Basis

For Brook, who admitted he was merely making an attempt to beat his father David’s highest rating of 210, it was additionally testomony to a health regime carried out when he missed England’s tour of India earlier this yr.

Leaner, extra agile within the subject and with maybe the most secure pair of palms within the England staff, Brook mentioned he would have “bought to 150 and slogged one up within the air” had he not bought into such superb bodily situation.

If Brook was bouncing again from a tough finish of the summer season, he had a associate in Joe Root who is aware of all about having his errors put underneath the microscope.

Root’s reverse-scoop at Jasprit Bumrah within the third Check in Rajkot in February was a second of nationwide disaster, however since then he’s averaging in extra of 90.

Root assured his place in English cricketing historical past by going previous Sir Alastair Prepare dinner because the nation’s all-time main Check run-scorer on day three. In combining with Brook, he picked up one other file, sharing 454 for the fourth wicket for England’s highest partnership in Exams, a stand that challenged Pakistan to match the vacationers’ spirit. It was a problem they failed spectacularly.

Mercurial at the very best of occasions, Pakistan are enduring an abysmal trot. Crushed by the USA on the T20 World Cup in June, winless in 10 residence Exams, together with a 2-0 defeat by Bangladesh a couple of weeks in the past, they have been brittle earlier than this contest started, then damaged by England’s will.

Their fielding fell aside, six of their bowlers shipped greater than 100 runs and their batting was spooked by one Chris Woakes bought to scuttle by Abdullah Shafique from the primary ball of the second innings. Shafique stared on the gap the place his off stump was, all too conscious of what would comply with.

England might have gained by the tip of the fourth day, solely to finish 4 wickets shy.

Nonetheless, they’ll most likely wrap issues up rapidly sufficient for Anderson to be again on the golf course on Friday afternoon, and Stone can toast an England win on Saturday, simply after he is talked about how lovely the bridesmaids look.

The touring quick bowlers have managed loads of relaxation, so have a great probability of being recent for the second Check on Tuesday and Duckett’s thumb was working properly sufficient for him to make 84 on Wednesday.

Even Stokes was prowling laps of the boundary on Thursday, like a caged tiger pawing on the floor.

Data are made to be damaged. It’s the spirit that’s made to final.

24

FIU
FIU

2-4 , 1-1

31

Winner

Liberty
LU

5-0 , 3-0

24

31

Winner

Rating By Quarters

Staff	1st	2nd	third	4th	OT	F
FIU FIU	3	7	0	14	0	24
LU Liberty	3	14	0	7	7	31

Recreation Recap: Soccer | 10/8/2024 10:46:00 PM

Panthers tie recreation at 24-24 with below two minutes left to pressure additional time

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Sophomore quarterback Keyone Jenkins ran for a one-yard landing with 1:42 left in regulation to assist the FIU soccer group erase a 14-point deficit within the fourth quarter and pressure additional time earlier than arising simply brief by a 31-24 margin at Liberty in additional time on Tuesday evening.
 
Liberty escaped with the victory after scoring on a nine-yard run by Kaidon Salter on its first additional time possession after which forcing and recovering a fumble on the Panthers’ possession within the additional interval.
 
The Panthers drove 61 yards in 3:44 to impasse the rating after opening the important drive with 5:36 left and trailing 24-17.  The push was keyed by a pair of catches by junior extensive receiver Eric Rivers – who snagged a 23-yard catch earlier than hauling in a vital 17-yard acquire to transform a fourth and 4 and set the Panthers up on the Liberty four-yard line.
 
Jenkins adopted two performs later with the one-yard scoring run to pressure additional time and after the FIU protection held agency on Liberty’s ultimate possession of regulation.
 
The Panthers trailed by a 17-10 margin getting into the fourth quarter and had a possibility to tie the sport after driving deep into Liberty territory.  FIU got here away empty when the drive was halted on an unsuccessful fourth and 4 strive from the Flames’ 18-yard line.
 
Liberty elevated its lead on the next possession on a nine-yard scoring run by Quinton Cooley that made the rating 24-10 with 10:43 left in regulation.
 
The Panthers stored coming to get inside 24-17 with 6:23 left in regulation on a three-yard dashing landing by Kejon Owens.  The drive was sparked by a 40-yard completion from Jenkins to Rivers.
 
The Flames floor recreation proved to be a difficulty for the Panthers as Liberty totaled 281 dashing yards.  Cooley paced the assault with 174 yards and two touchdowns.
 
The FIU protection was led by junior linebacker Travion Barnes, who recorded a career-high 16 tackles, together with two sacks and three TFLs.  He additionally recovered a fumble within the loss.  Barnes now has recorded double-figure stops in 4 of the final 5 video games total.

Jenkins completed 19-for-29 by way of the air for 245 yards.  His high receiver was Rivers who hauled in 5 catches for 95 yards.  Junior Dean Patterson snagged six receptions for a career-high 90 yards.
 
Liberty (5-0, 3-0 CUSA) jumped in entrance on a 28-yard subject purpose from Colin Karhu – to make the rating 3-0 with 8:34 left within the first.  The rating was arrange by a 44-yard completion from Salter to Reese Smith to get the Flames right down to the FIU 18.  The Panthers’ protection stiffened after that – forcing the Flames to accept the three factors.
 
FIU (2-4, 1-1 CUSA) answered with a 10-play, 48-yard drive on its subsequent possession – leading to a 31-yard subject purpose by Alejandro Prado which tied the rating at 3-3 at 4:16 of the primary.  Jenkins accomplished three passes for 39 yards on the march, together with a 24-yard completion to Patterson and a key 12-yard strike to Eric Rivers to transform a 3rd and 10.
 
The Panthers scored the sport’s first landing 10 seconds into the second quarter when Lexington Joseph burst by way of the center for a acquire of 17 yards earlier than he was stripped and fumbled on the Liberty five-yard line.  The miscue was recovered in the long run zone for a FIU landing by junior extensive receiver Dean Patterson to make the rating 10-3.
 
The Flames evened the rating at 10-10 with 8:15 left within the second on a 11-play, 59-yard push that noticed all however 4 yards approaching the bottom.  Cooley capped the drive with a four-yard scoring run.
 
Liberty claimed its first lead of the competition on their ultimate possession of the primary half – as soon as once more leaning closely on the bottom recreation.  The Flames posted 55 dashing yards on a 73-yard drive which culminated in a 20-yard TD run by Salters to make the rating 17-10 with 20 ticks left earlier than half.
 
The second half noticed every group commit a turnover on their opening possessions.  Jenkins hit Rivers with a cross that was dropped and intercepted by Liberty’s Amarian Williams. 
 
FIU pressured a important turnover on the Flames’ ensuing drive as CJ Christian made a success that pressured a fumble deep inside FIU territory that was recovered by the Panthers’ Barnes contained in the FIU one-yard line – thwarting  a Liberty scoring alternative.
 
UP NEXT
The Panthers conclude the two-game highway swing with a conflict at UTEP in El Paso’s Solar Bowl on Wednesday, Oct. 16 starting at 9 p.m. ET.
 
The sport will air to a nationwide viewers on CBS Sports activities Community.
 
POSTGAME NOTES

• Tuesday’s recreation marked the primary recreation outdoors of South Florida for the Panthers for the reason that season opener on August 31 at Indiana.
• Tuesday’s recreation was the primary in a stretch of 4 consecutive national-televised weeknight contests for the Panthers within the month of October.
• FIU made its second-ever go to to Liberty and its first since 2020.
• FIU and Liberty every misplaced a turnover on their opening possession of the second half.  Liberty fumbled contained in the FIU one-yard line and it was recovered by the Panthers simply shy of the purpose line.
• The Liberty fumble was pressured by CJ Christian and recovered by Travion Barnes.
• Junior linebacker Barnes completed with a career-high 16 tackles – together with a career-high two sacks and three TFLs.  He has recorded double-figure stops in 4 of the final 5 video games total and has led FIU in tackles in every of the final 5 video games.
• Junior extensive receiver Dean Patterson caught six passes for a career-best 90 yards.
• Liberty entered the sport with the longest present regular-season successful streak amongst all FBS groups nationally at 15 video games.
• FIU is now 8-7 all-time in additional time video games and the loss snapped a three-game win streak in additional time.
   

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