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Wrexham star Andy Cannon given oxygen on pitch and carried off on stretcher in terrifying injury scare
WREXHAM star Andy Cannon was given oxygen and stretchered off during his side’s League One clash with Mansfield.
The midfielder, 28, appeared to awkwardly twist his ankle after clashing with Stag star Louis Reed.
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Newcastle 4 Nottingham Forest 3: Toon score four times in 11 minutes but almost pegged back in very nervy second half
NEWCASTLE blew top four rivals Nottingham Forest away with a blistering 11-minute turnaround.
But they nearly threw all their good work away as they managed to cling on despite a late Forest flurry.
Callum Hudson-Odoi silenced St James’ in the opening moments as the Magpies looked set for a third-straight top-flight home defeat.
Though those fears were short-lived as they wrapped up the points before half time in a stunning comeback.
Alexander Isak helped himself to a brace after goals from Lewis Miley and Jacob Murphy ignited the transformation.
Nikola Milenkovic pulled one back before Ryan Yates set up a nervy ending, but Toon held on just to close the gap on Forest to just three points.
Things could not have started any worse for Newcastle as they gift-wrapped Nuno Espirito Santo’s men the lead.
Less than six minutes were on the clock when Jacob Murphy’s attempted turn inside from Tino Livramento’s throw was pounced on by Callum Hudson-Odoi.
The Forest winger raced away from the desperate Murphy towards goal and hit a low strike from 25 yards straight into the bottom corner.
You could feel the frustration around the ground mounting as the away fans up in the heavens celebrated wildly.
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However, instead of folding like they did at the Etihad against Manchester City the week previous, the Toon roared back in thunderous fashion.
Lewis Miley, making his first Premier League start of the season, firstly had a shot deflected wide but the teen was not to be denied moments later.
Forest could only clear Lewis Hall’s free-kick to the midfielder, in for Sandro Tonali, and he showed great calmness to move the ball out of his feet before drilling through TWO defender’s legs and in to equalise.
It was a great moment for the local lad, made even better by the fact he is now the first player to score more than once in the top-flight for the club aged 18 or younger.
The equaliser was deserved, as Newcastle’s second to take the lead shortly after.
And it was redemption for Murphy after more great work from the impressive Hall.
The left-back powered down the left after meeting Isak’s backheel and into the box.
His attempted cross deflected off a defender, looped over Matz Sels, and fell for Murphy to bundle home at the back post.
Isak’s part in the build-up was the first flash of brilliance from the Swede and when the goals are flowing his name is never far from the scoresheet.
And it was not long before he had taken his tally to 20 for the season from the penalty spot.
Hall was right at the heart of it again, this time his cross being stopped by the arm of Oli Aina, and after a VAR check, a spot-kick was awarded.
They say fortune favours the brave, but it was perhaps more sheer luck that was on Isak’s side as he added the third.
He seemed to be caught in two minds whether to smash it or go for the Panenka and ended up having a bit of both.
Sels, who had been getting pelters on his return to St James’, almost recovered to save it only to agonisingly tip it up into the net.
Forest were crumbling and it got even worse as they conceded a fourth and it was another landmark for Isak.
Joe Willock was the architect on this occasion, and he slipped in the red-hot forward to finish, albeit with the help of a deflection, for his 50th Premier League goal for Newcastle.
Toon were running riot with just one minute and 51 seconds between Isak’s strikes.
If this was a boxing match then Espirito Santo would have seriously been considering throwing the towel in.
Morgan Gibbs-White blasted straight at Nick Pope but there looked to be little hope for the visitors at the break as they slumped off.
Anthony Elanga is best advised to avoid X as he embarrassingly blew a huge opportunity to get one back for Forest after the restart,
Neco Williams did brilliantly to head Gibbs-White’s cross back across, but somehow, from under the crossbar and with the goal gaping, unmarked Swedish winger Elanga somehow fired over.
Newcastle had lost all of their intensity since the break, and their passiveness was eventually punished just after the hour mark.
A Forest corner was passed back into the mixer from Chris Wood, and Nikola Milenkovic managed to flick home.
Suddenly the whole atmosphere had changed as another ex-Magpies, Elliot Anderson, had an effort blocked as pressure started to build.
Right on 90 minutes Ryan Yates punished sloppy marking to set up a tense finish but they were unable to find a late leveller.
They remain in the top four and above Newcastle, but a third defeat in four has seriously dented their momentum in the chase for Champions League football.
‘Has it landed yet’ – Eagle-eyed fans spot Ezri Konsa’s bonkers celebration after Aston Villa’s late winner vs Chelsea
ASTON VILLA ace Ezri Konsa went viral after a hilarious celebration against Chelsea.
Villa defeated the Blues 2-1 on Saturday at Villa Park thanks to Marco Asensio’s brace, which cancelled out Enzo Fernandez’s opener.
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Asensio completed the Villans’ comeback just a minute before full-time with a fine strike that the West Londoners’ goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen couldn’t hold on to.
All eyes were on the Paris Saint-Germain loanee passionately celebrating his finest performance since joining Unai Emery’s side last month.
However, the camera caught Konsa, 27, doing the most peculiar thing in the background.
The ecstatic centre-back appeared to be removing his boot and lobbing it up in the air as he celebrated Villa‘s incredible comeback.
Fans were left in stitches with that bonkers sight against Chelsea as they stormed social media.
One fan tweeted: “Has the boot landed yet?!”
Another commented: “On the roof of the North Stand.”
A third wrote: “Hilarious. Think that should be his celebration for every goal we score from now on.”
This fan said: “It landed back on Earth with snow on it apparently.”
And that one made a hilarious reference to The Office’s character Chris Finch: “I bet he couldn’t throw it over the pub… That’s the real celebration!”
Villa are now eighth in the Premier League table with two points separating them from fourth place.
Molly-Mae beams as she hides hand amid Tommy Fury reunion rumours while enjoying day out with adorable daughter Bambi
MOLLY-Mae kept her hands undercover on a day out with Bambi after speculation she has reunited with Tommy Fury.
The dutiful mum kept a keen eye on her two-year-old daughter keeping her hand hidden under her coat sleeve as she helped the tot walk alongside her.
Molly clearly had her hands full, with her other arm juggling her phone, coffee, and Bambi’s toys, including an adorable stuffed deer which is the little one’s namesake.
The Maebe founder and fashion mogul was seen smiling with pride at her toddler, who is now firmly on her feet and walking.
The pair matched in co-ord tracksuits, with Bambi keeping warm in an olive green puffer jacket while Molly wore a brown corduroy jacket.
Rumours have been rife since New Year’s that Molly has reunited with her Love Island love Tommy following their shock split last year.
Despite this, the couple were spotted kissing at a party to celebrate the turn of the New Year, and were later caught on a romantic Valentine’s Day trip together last week.
Molly has also been spotted with a ‘B’ diamond ring on her wedding finger, an initial for her daughter.
A source told The Sun: “Tommy’s pulling out all the stops and whisking Molly away for a night to somewhere they’ve stayed before in happier times.
“He’s clearly hoping it’ll work its magic on Valentine’s night and she’ll remember how happy they used to be.”
The couple were engaged to be married when Molly broke the news they had gone their separate ways after four years.
In the first part of her new warts-and-all Prime Video documentary, Molly Mae: Behind It All, Molly revealed Tommy’s problems with alcohol were behind their split.
As a result, her friends and family are concerned that they’re now working on their relationship.
A source told The Sun: “Molly-Mae’s closest friends and members of her family think this is a terrible idea and that it is all going to end in tears again.
“Zoe [Molly’s sister] is fiercely protective and will never forget what Tommy put her through, let alone forgive him
“They have been waving the red flags but Molly-Mae is staunchly independent and is pushing on regardless.
“As far as she is concerned, Tommy is the love of her life and the story ends with them being together. No matter what.
“It is a nightmare for those around her to watch. They fear it will crash and burn. For them it’s not a case of if it implodes again, it’s a case of when.”
Town once dubbed 70s hotspot is now 3rd WORST in England where shoplifters and balaclava-clad bikers rule the streets
ONCE dubbed a glittering hotspot of the 1970s, Dudley’s decline is seemingly severe.
The West Midlands district was recently ranked the third worst place to live in England, with locals only shocked it didn’t score lower.
The stats, put together by The Sunday Times, considered factors like local crime rates, Ofsted school reports, GP waiting times, car parks and community assets.
In total, only Rushmoor in Hampshire and Basildon in Essex scored worse than Dudley – a result which stunned those who live there.
“I thought we’d be first,” said 54-year-old shopkeeper Anna Shahmani, as she scrolled through her CCTV to look at another case of suspected shoplifting.
“I’m surprised there are two worse than this.”
Nearby Lye – a town in Dudley district – was recently dubbed a ghetto where sex is flogged openly from cars and yobs are fined for pooing in the street.
Dudley itself was also last year ranked the unhappiest town in the West Midlands while Stourbridge, seven miles down the road and part of the same Metropolitan Borough, was ranked the happiest.
But, just as everyone moans about the place, anyone over 60 will also tell you what a fantastic town it used to be.
Proud and thriving, the town that gave us Sir Lenny Henry, Sue Lawley and Sam Allardyce, remains the unofficial capital of the Black Country.
And the Black Country’s distinctive flag is flown permanently from its Council House, a grand, neo-Georgian from the 1930s.
Only now, in a visual symbol of decline, the flag is not distinctive at all, appearing more like a rat’s tail floating in the sky.
Robert Bennett, 66, has officially worked on Dudley Marketplace since he was 15 but, he says, it’s actually a lot longer than that.
“Back in the 70s people were fighting to get a pitch on the market,” he said. “It was all hustle and bustle and so vibrant. It has gone downhill.”
His stall is the only one open and customers are few and far between, mostly people picking up a few bits.
“Whatever the Council do ends up being wrong,” he added.
“They have big plans but for the last year we have had no bus terminal so everyone is being dropped off further away and the older people don’t want to walk the extra distance carrying shopping.
“At the same time, they put in car parking charges, when that had offered free parking to help get over Covid but now they’ve got no money.”
Last August, the council admitted a £37 million funding gap over the next three years.
But there is precious little sympathy for the local politicians.
One shop owner, who asked not to be named, said they’d recently opened a “fancy bistro” in the Town Hall, only for it to make huge losses.
Last summer, Brooke’s Bar and Bistro closed less than two years after it opened having recorded an annual loss of £200,000.
Locals say the downhill slide has been a steady one with most people pointing to the late 1980s and the development of the Merry Hill (aka Merry Hell) Shopping Centre in nearby Brierley Hill as the start.
“The Dudley of years ago was brilliant,” said retired warehouse worker John Darby, 83. “And then along came Merry Hill and things slowly started falling apart.”
Helped by a local cobbler, he rattles off a list of the big brands who had made Dudley their home – Thornton’s, WHSmith, M&S, H Samuel, to name a few…all went.
“Now what is there to come into Dudley for,” went on John. “It’s like downtown Beirut towards the church, three Turkish barbers, some charity shops and homeless people everywhere.
“The market had one stall on today. Later on it will smell of weed because the kids will be there after school.
“The bus doesn’t drop you off at the right place anymore and on the road, we’ve got more lights than Blackpool only ours don’t twinkle, they just hold up the traffic.
“Our museum and gallery went bankrupt, our football team has no ground, the main post office became a big Balti restaurant, there’s no trade at all and our politicians talk about city status or turning Dudley College into a University.
“They have lost the plot and don’t get me started on the local health service – 47 ambulances waiting the other day.
“If my mother could come back and see Dudley now, she’d weep.”
John Massey, 40, a radiographer from the town, said: “As people I’d say we are the best but as for investment and decisions about investment, that’s a different story altogether.
“There is always something happening but very little progress being made.
“As a kid, I could come here and spend the day. You could do your shopping, have something to eat, now you can see it all in 10 to 15 minutes. The town has lost its character.”
Mary Hollyhead, 70, agreed: “It’s not just the town centre, it’s the surgeries.
“If you need to see a doctor, you’d be quicker getting a bus to the surgery than ringing them up.
“You can wait and wait and then all the appointments have gone.”
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- Rushmoor
- Basildon
- Dudley
- Castle Point
- Boston
- Fenland
- Central Bedfordshire
- Tameside
- Mansfield
- East Lindsey
Despite its current malaise, reminders of its glorious past are everywhere.
There is the now defunct Museum and Art Gallery (1883 to 2016) and the statue on the marketplace honouring local hero Duncan Edwards, the boy wonder who scored 151 times for Manchester United before dying in the Munich air disaster aged just 21.
And then there are the long overdue bits of unfinished business – the Metrolink extension that began in March 2020 and is still unfinished; the Hippodrome building where Laurel and Hardy played to capacity crowds, empty since Gala Bingo left in 2009.
Such things leave the town with a cluttered look and a feeling of decay.
“It is such a shame,” said Jayne, of recently opened Saturday Books down the retro-looking Fountain Arcade. “We have a lot to offer visitors with a Castle, a popular zoo and the Black Country Museum which gets a lot of tourists from American coming to study their ancestry.
“But I have lived in Dudley all my life and there seem to be more desperate people around these days.
“And it is sad to lose things like the Museum and Art Gallery which went back to the 1800s. Now they want it as a big play centre but you’ll need money to go to a place like that.”
There is nothing much for kids to do around here except hanging around and getting into trouble.
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Stacey Jones, a mother of two, has recently moved back to Dudley from Dorset.
She said: “I’m not surprised it’s one of the worst. The town centre has nothing, just kids on bikes wearing balaclavas.
“And my experience of the schools is not good. My friend had to pull her son out of school because he has mobility issues and there was no supervision.
“She had to report the school to the Trust just to get an appointment.”
Among Dudley’s 80,000 inhabitants are plenty who have come from elsewhere to make it their home.
Mario, 63, moved from Naples after love blossomed on a holiday romance.
He said: “In the last 10 years all the heart has been ripped out of the place. When the shops go, so does the community spirit.
“There is still community spirit where I live and it’s not a bad place really but the town centre is not good.
“I can’t fault the health service though as I recently had a diagnosis of prostate cancer and they saw me within 12 hours.’
Majid, 70, who came to Dudley 47 years ago, said: “I feel more like a foreigner than ever. It doesn’t feel like a safe place to me.”
Shop worker Zarina Aleksandraviciute, 31, added: “There is nothing much for kids to do around here except hanging around and getting into trouble.
“I hardly ever see the police.”
Her boss, shopkeeper Anna Shahmani, wonders why they are bothering with the Metrolink as who would want to come to Dudley.
“You aren’t going to come all the way here for chicken and chips or pizza are you,” she said.
“It is bad. The community has broken down because if you don’t physically need to be somewhere, like having your nails done or hair done, you shop online.
“That breaks the community spirit. Now we have homeless people causing a lot of trouble to shopkeepers.
“Dudley people tend to be a bit over friendly if anything but now I don’t see many smiling faces.
“It’s miserable and dreary.”
The Sun has reached out to Dudley Council and West Midlands Police for a comment.
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- Sutton
- Chorley
- Bath and North East Somerset
Man City vs Liverpool LIVE SCORE: Erling Haaland NOT in City squad as Reds look to extend lead at top – latest updates
LIVERPOOL travel to the Etihad to take on Manchester City in a blockbuster clash TODAY.
The headline team news is that Erling Haaland is not in the City squad this afternoon.
Liverpool can go an incredible 11 points clear at the top of the table after second-placed Arsenal slipped to a 1-0 defeat to West Ham yesterday.
The Reds face a wounded City side following their Champions League exit to Real Madrid on Wednesday night.
- Kick-off time: 4:30pm GMT
- TV channel: Sky Sports Main Event/Premier League
- Live stream: NOW/Sky Sports app
- Man City XI: Ederson, Lewis, Khusanov, Ake, Gvardiol, Nico, De Bruyne, Savinho, Foden, Doku, Marmoush
- Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Diaz, Salah
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‘Lovely bargain’ cry shoppers as major supermarket slashes price of Quality Street to just 49p
A MAJOR supermarket has slashed the price of Quality Street to just 49p this week.
Aldi has cut the cost of 300g pouches of the popular festive chocolates, dropping them from £1.99 to an incredible 49p.
Posting the find on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook Group, one shopper said: “Still a fair few quality street pouches left in Chichester Aldi.”
Another shopper reacting to the find said: “Lovely bargain. Yum yum!”
A third shopper said: “I paid £1.99 on Tuesday gutted…”
A fourth added: “Not had any in ours for months.”
Shoppers will need to be quick to bag the cheap chocolate as they’re only available in-store.
If you don’t know where your nearest branch is, you can use Aldi’s store locator by visiting stores.aldi.co.uk/store-finder.
You just have to enter your town or postcode and it will bring up the closest store to you.
Aldi isn’t the only supermarket to have slashed the price of Quality Street in recent weeks.
To celebrate 30 years of rewards with Tesco Clubcard, the grocer has cut prices across loads of customer favourites – including the Nestle bestseller.
Tesco cut the cost of the famous hexagonal tubs to just £3.95.
The huge discount on the 600g Quality Street tubs is only available with a Clubcard.
For non-Clubcard holders, the price tag is the usual £6.
One shopper shared a photo of an in-store tower of the chocolate boxes on Foods Find UK Official Facebook page.
Despite the huge saving, customers were not impressed – with one calling them “bloody awful”.
“Thought they would of had great offers for 30 years! Not left over Christmas stock selling it higher than before Christmas!” one grumbled.
“They can’t give them away,” wrote another.
“They are only worth a pound half empty,” echoed a third.
How to compare prices to get the best deal
JUST because something is on offer, or is part of a sale, it doesn't mean it's always a good deal.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that’ll check prices for you – so don’t be left paying more than you have to.
Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
Here are some that we recommend:
- Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
- Price Spy logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets. Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.
- Idealo is another website that lets you compare prices between retailers. All shoppers need to do is search for the item they need and the website will rank them from the cheapest to the most expensive one.
- CamelCamelCamel only works on goods being sold on Amazon. To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
Other Quality Street news
Nestlé recently faced criticism after being accused of shrinking the size of the iconic Purple One chocolate.
The maker of Quality Street later confirmed it had reduced the size of the much-loved hazelnut-filled treat by over 10%, igniting outrage among loyal customers.
Nestlé previously stirred controversy by altering the iconic Brazil nut-shaped design of the caramel treat, replacing it with a circular swirl.
However, fans also picked up on a change in size, with one even weighing both versions to calculate the extent of the “shrinkflation.”
Originally, the chocolate weighed 9.6 grams, but this year’s version tipped the scales at just 8.4 grams—a reduction of 12 per cent.
Quality Street lover Rebecca Gracey said online: “Half of the appeal of Quality Street is/was aesthetic.
“Changing the shape and size of much loved favourites is sacrilege.
“I’ve never forgiven Nestle for changing the diamond of fudge into a most uninteresting shape.
“However, the final straw was changing the shiny cellophane and foil wrappers to dull waxed paper.
“I have not purchased them since that abomination.”
How to save money on chocolate
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don't have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
Body found in River Thames search for missing Oxford University student, 20, who vanished a month ago in the early hours
POLICE searching for a missing university student have found a body in the River Thames.
Benedict, 20 – known as Ben – was last seen in Oxford on January 26 at around 12.50am.
Thames Valley cops previously released CCTV of the Oxford University student from the night he vanished – with him last spotted in the Cripley Road area of Botley, West Oxford.
The grim discovery was made near Iffley Lock today.
The force says “there is nothing to indicate that this was anything other than a tragic accident”.
Formal identity is yet to take place.
Detective Inspector James Blackmore, based at St Aldates police station, said: “Extensive enquiries have been ongoing for Ben since he was reported missing, and very sadly, a body has been located this morning.
“Although formal identification has not yet taken place, we believe this to be Ben. His next-of kin have been informed and officers are supporting them.
“Our thoughts are with them at this very distressing time.
“A file will be prepared for the coroner but there is nothing to indicate that this was anything other than a tragic accident.
“Our thoughts remain with Ben’s family at this difficult time.
“We would like to thank Lowland Rescue Oxfordshire for the support they have provided in our search for Ben.
“We would also extend our thanks to members of the public who also provided support.”
