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James Maddison is ready to return for Leicester’s crunch relegation battle at Southampton. The forward has recovered from the illness which kept him out of last week’s 1-0 defeat to Arsenal. He also missed Tuesday’s 2-1 FA Cup defeat to Blackburn but has trained ahead of Saturday’s trip to St Mary’s. Maddison’s season has been hampered by knee injuries since November but he is primed to help lead the Foxes

The Manchester Arena terror attack might have been prevented if MI5 had acted on key intelligence received in the months before the attack, an inquiry has found. Two pieces of information about suicide bomber Salman Abedi were assessed at the time by the security service to not relate to terrorism. But inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said having heard from MI5 witnesses at the hearings into the May 2017 atrocity

Paul Hurst thought Grimsby fans travelling to Southampton expecting an upset were “mad” before his spirited team pulled off a history-making FA Cup success at St Mary’s. The League Two side reached the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time since the Second World War with a stunning 2-1 win over the Premier League’s bottom club. Hurst’s men were backed by more than 4,200 boisterous supporters waving inflatable fish

Eurovision tickets for nine live shows will go on sale next week. Fans hoping to see one of six previews and three televised shows at the Liverpool ACC will need to head to Ticketmaster’s website from noon on Tuesday. Tickets range from £30 to £290 for the semi-final shows and from £80 to £380 for the grand final shows, which are being hosted in the city after the UK was chosen

The chief executive of ITV said Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about the Duchess of Sussex “do not wash over” and negatively impact the brand. Dame Carolyn McCall said the broadcaster has “handled” criticism of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? presenter’s column for The Sun newspaper “quite well”. She also echoed a statement from the broadcaster on Wednesday after his reported exit from the ITV show hit the headlines. When

Teaching unions have hit out at “contemptible” comments by Sir Gavin Williamson, after leaked messages showed the then education secretary appearing to accuse staff of looking for an “excuse” not to work during the Covid pandemic. The comments emerged in the latest set of leaked messages from Matt Hancock, published by the Daily Telegraph, and show the two ministers hitting out at the attitude of teaching unions. On October 1

The Premier League has been urged to re-examine assurances given by Newcastle’s Saudi owners that the Middle East state would not have control of the club following the filing of a new court document in the United States. The document filed earlier this week has raised fresh questions about the level of separation between the Saudi state and the Public Investment Fund (PIF), whose governor Yasir Al Rumayyan is also

Broadcaster ITV has revealed falling annual profits and warned over tumbling advertising revenues as wider economic woes impact marketing spend. The group behind hit shows Love Island and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! reported underlying pre-tax profits of £672 million for 2022, down from £774 million in 2021, as total advertising revenues fell 1% and it spent heavily on content and its ITVX online hub. ITV cautioned

Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford from the Metropolitan Police told reporters that remains had been found in a wooded area A major search for the missing two-month-old child of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon has ended in tragedy as police announced they had found the remains of a baby. Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford from the Metropolitan Police, who led the investigation, told reporters that remains had been found in a wooded