The Bluebirds boss spoke after the 1-0 win over Port Vale in their penultimate home fixture of the campaign

Brian Barry-Murphy said Cardiff City will deal with the transfer and contract situations surrounding Nathan Trott, Perry Ng, Ryan Wintle and Joel Bagan at the end of the season and branded any speculation “a waste of time”.

As things stand, Saturday will be the last time all four play in front of Cardiff fans, with the quartet having played a huge part in this promotion campaign.

Ng, Wintle and Bagan, of course, have been with City for a number of years and have racked up hundreds of appearances in a blue shirt between them.

But ahead of Saturday’s final home match of the season against Northampton Town, Barry-Murphy played it with the straightest of bats when asked about the trio’s contract situations. Join the Cardiff City breaking news and top stories WhatsApp community.

“They’ve all had incredible seasons and they’ll all be under consideration for Saturday,” he said.

“We’ll pick the team on Friday based on who is in the best condition and who gives us the best chance of winning. There’s nothing definitive to update at the moment. It’s been a very busy period.”

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On his own personal involvement in said contract talks, he added: “Not a huge amount of input from me in contracts.

“The recruitment team have been excellent since I came in. They do a lot of work behind the scenes and are prepared for all eventualities.”

Trott has been one of the standouts this season and produced a fine save in Cardiff’s 1-0 win over Port Vale on Wednesday night, denying Valiants captain Ben Garrity after a dangerous header.

Cardiff are understood to have a clause in Trott’s contract which triggers a purchase option upon promotion back to the Championship, which the Bluebirds achieved following their win over Reading last weekend.

But amid reports in Denmark suggesting initial talks between Cardiff and Trott have not resulted in a deal, Barry-Murphy said “speculation is a waste of time”.

“I think he’s done great over the course of the season and we’re very grateful to have him,” he said of Trott.

“Like I said on the other players, there are so many different moving parts to those things. Speculation is a waste of time. If something happens, then it happens.

“The focus is on these remaining games. Once the season finishes, those situations between players and clubs will be dealt with.”

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On the pitch, Cardiff just about managed to get over the line thanks to a well-taken header from Rubin Colwill late on in a 1-0 win over Port Vale.

After Saturday’s promotion celebrations, the Irishman admitted he was unsure what to expect from his players.

“It’s difficult to predict what level of performance you can reach after the euphoria of Saturday,” he said. “But I’m very pleased with the players. We managed to create chances in the second half and played well enough to win.

“The players should savour every moment with their families, friends and each other, because it’s not always common to get promotion so early. But when it comes to games, there has to be a real focus on playing well and trying to win. That’s what our supporters expect and deserve.”

And he hopes Saturday’s clash with the Cobblers will represent another opportunity for a big day of celebration with the supporters, as well as the players and their families, as just reward for their promotion-winning campaign. Sign up to our daily Cardiff City newsletter here.

“It’s very important we enjoy these moments,” he said. “The reality is that when a season ends, it’s unlikely the same group will all be together again. So you have to treasure it, enjoy it and take stock of what the players have achieved.

“Hopefully we get a big crowd at Cardiff City Stadium and deliver a great performance.

“It’s important the players’ families and friends can come onto the pitch afterwards and share in it. They’ve played a huge role. Without them, it wouldn’t be possible.”

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I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here fans were divided after Adam Thomas, who has been in Waterloo Road and Emmerdale, became locked in a feud with Jimmy Bullard, a former Premiership footballer

Jimmy Bullard is said to still be “seething” at Adam Thomas following their row on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here.

The former professional footballer, 47, is reportedly “devastated” after he and Adam became locked in a bitter feud on the ITV show. Viewers were divided when they rowed after Jimmy decided to quit the Rancid Run trial, which saw campmates retrieve a series of cogs from a giant, ant-infested abacus using only their mouths.

Adam, who is in Waterloo Road, was seen yelling at Jimmy, shouting: “Are you f***ing taking the p***?… I am in there getting covered in f***ing ants.” Father-of-two Adam, 37, later appeared distressed as he attempted to talk to the camera following the trial.

But now an insider has claimed it is Jimmy who still remains upset by the spat even now, several months after the spin-off was pre-recorded in South Africa. The source said: “Jimmy is devastated by it all, it was supposed to be a celebration of I’m A Celeb, but Adam appeared to have let his temper get the better of him.” They said Jimmy, who played football for Wigan Athletic and Fulham among other sides, is “seething” following the argument.

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Hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were forced to step in and break Jimmy and Adam’s row. However, the clash — described as the programme’s biggest ever — was watched by millions, including former contestants. One of whom, Carol Vorderman, branded Jimmy “disgraceful” and said the scenes made her “angry, furious, crying”. The source, though, supported Jimmy, telling the Daily Mail: “Adam just completely lost it and went for Jimmy.”

Jimmy and former Emmerdale star Adam — brother of former Coronation Street actor Ryan — were joined by the likes of ex-Corrie star Beverley Callard, former The Only Way Is Essex’s Gemma Collins, Olympian Mo Farah and footballing legend Harry Redknapp for the second series of the I’m A Celeb spin-off — which features stars who have competed in previous series.

Although the rest of the series was pre-recorded, the finale is live — but it is thought Jimmy is unhappy about returning for this. The dad of two, from east London, was notably absent from the launch earlier this month too.

It is believed Adam and Jimmy have not spoken since the row. Those familiar with both men say that it is unlikely they ever be on good terms again. One insider said: “It’s got really, really bad. They know one another through mutual friends, but this has put paid to any kind of friendship now.”

After Sir Olly Robbins appeared before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday to give damning evidence about the role Downing Street played in the appointment of Lord Mandelson as British ambassador to Washington, it will be the turn of Cat Little, the most senior Cabinet Office official, to appear before the same group of MPs on Thursday morning.

Eden Camp is hosting the event on Sunday, April 26, in support of Drive It Day—a national celebration of classic cars and motoring heritage.

The event, run in partnership with Coast and County Radio, includes a display of classic vehicles and raises funds for NSPCC’s Childline.

Eden Camp Drive It Day event (Image: Jonny Pye)

Luke Hudman, marketing manager at Eden Camp, said: “Drive It Day is a fantastic opportunity to bring people together through a shared passion for classic vehicles whilst supporting an incredibly important cause.

“We’re glad to be working with Coast and County Radio again, and look forward to welcoming classic car owners and enthusiasts for a brilliant day at Eden Camp.”

Drive It Day was established in 2005, and is now an opportunity to celebrate transport heritage.

Classic car owners are invited to join the display and can enjoy discounted museum entry for just £5 per person.

Eden Camp in North Yorkshire will host a Drive It Day event, inviting car enthusiasts to enjoy vintage vehicles and celebrate classic motoring heritage (Image: Jonny Pye)

All entry fees will be donated to Childline.

Attendees can also support the cause by purchasing official Drive It Day fundraising plaques, available from the official Drive It Day shop.

John Hodgson, station director at Coast and County Radio, said: “We’re delighted to be partnering with Eden Camp for Drive It Day and to support such a worthwhile cause.

“It’s a great opportunity to bring the community together, celebrate classic cars at this iconic museum in North Yorkshire.

“We hope you can join us.”

Tickets can be booked online, with adult admission priced at £17 in advance (£20 on the day) and children at £15 (£18 on the day).

Children under five go free.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating wounds to her upper body, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday.

Her death was ruled a homicide in the report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office that had been blocked from release for months.

The autopsy was limited by “extensive postmortem changes” to the body that was dismembered and decomposing when it was found in two bags in the trunk of a Tesla parked in the Hollywood Hills in September.

The examination revealed “two penetrating wounds of the torso with smooth edges that may represent sharp force injuries.” One wound on the upper abdomen penetrated the liver. Another on the left chest damaged her ribs. A tube top she was wearing appeared to be cut in three places.

A judge had ordered the report sealed late last year at the request of law enforcement, but prosecutors agreed this week to allow its release.

The 21-year-old alt-pop singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged in the killing Monday. He pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a dead body. Burke’s attorneys said he did not cause Rivas Hernandez’s death and they will vigorously defend his innocence.

The girl’s parents made their first public comments on Tuesday night, thanking investigators for their work and the people of their hometown of Lake Elsinore, California, for their support. Lake Elsinore is about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.

“Celeste was a beautiful, strong girl who loved to sing and dance. Every Friday night was movie night and we spent wonderful times together,” Jesus Rivas and Mercedes Martinez said. “We love her very much and she always told us that she loved us. We miss her deeply. All we want is justice for Celeste.”

Prosecutors allege Burke killed Rivas Hernandez because she threatened to report they had a sexual relationship that began when she was 13 years old and he feared it would ruin his rising career.

A criminal complaint alleges he killed her with a sharp object and dismembered the body about two weeks later.

Medical Examiner’s investigators called to the scene where the body was found discovered her torso and head in a black, zippered body bag in the Tesla’s trunk, with arms and legs in a separate trash bag.

Her body had so degraded that examiners couldn’t even determine her eye color. She had braces at the time of her death, and a tattoo that read “Shhh….” on the inside of a finger, according to the report. Two other fingers were missing — as were parts of her arms and legs.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday concluded a marathon series of hearings with federal lawmakers, during which he deflected blame for measles outbreaks and dwindling vaccination rates across the country and touted several initiatives he says are making health care more affordable.

In his testimony to various committees in both the Senate and the House over multiple days this week and last, Kennedy was tasked with defending President Donald Trump’s proposed 2027 budget, which would boost defense spending while cutting more than 12% of funding from Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services.

With lawmakers of both parties raising concerns about programs and research funding being reduced or eliminated, Kennedy acknowledged the cuts were “painful” but said they were necessary to address the federal government’s record $39 trillion deficit.

When Democrats came out swinging, Kennedy became more defiant, even at times screaming his rebuttals — though some of them didn’t align with the facts. He accused multiple Democratic lawmakers of grandstanding, making things up and seeking sound bites over meaningful responses.

Here are takeaways from Kennedy’s gauntlet of budget hearings:

Kennedy deflects blame for Americans not vaccinating

One of the central fights shaping Kennedy’s interactions with Democratic lawmakers was over who bears responsibility for the decline in childhood vaccination rates and measles outbreaks that have ripped across the country over the past year, threatening the country’s measles elimination status. Kennedy’s refrain was consistent: It’s not my fault.

“It has nothing to do with me,” Kennedy said Tuesday of the uptick in measles across the country over the past year. He noted there is a global rise in measles cases, including in other countries like Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Kennedy, who spent years as an anti-vaccine crusader before entering politics and in 2021 said he urged people to “resist” CDC guidelines on when kids should get vaccines, disputed accusations that he is anti-vaccine, saying he is “pro-science.”

Throughout the hearings, he sought to focus on HHS’s initiatives unrelated to vaccines — part of a broader administration pivot toward less controversial health topics like nutritious eating.

Kennedy argued that fewer Americans are vaccinating because they lost trust in government recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said he was working to restore that trust. In fact, surveys show trust in federal health agencies has continued to decline during Kennedy’s tenure.

Rep. Kim Schrier, a Democrat from Washington, argued Kennedy’s vaccine views have caused a “spillover effect” that has led to mothers not giving their babies vitamin K injections common at birth to prevent brain bleeding.

Kennedy did get credit, however, from Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who said his work was crucial in helping the state manage a troubling measles outbreak over the past year.

“We would not be on the right side of this outbreak without your leadership,” Scott told Kennedy.

Kennedy forcefully denies there are Medicaid cuts – a claim experts call political spin

Nearly every time Democrats brought up the nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade largely being created through new work requirements for enrollees, Kennedy lashed back to argue there are no cuts to Medicaid.

“Only in Washington is it considered a cut,” Kennedy told New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat, on Wednesday.

Kennedy cited a Congressional Budget Office report showing that Medicaid outlays are estimated to increase by about 47% over the next decade. But experts say his analysis of that report is disingenuous, politicized framing and that the increased spending reflects factors like inflation and a growing population.

“This is an old, sort of tired argument that’s been used by conservatives to justify spending cuts by saying, well, if spending is still growing in nominal terms, somehow there wasn’t a cut,” said Edwin Park, a research professor at Georgetown University. “The federal government is spending nearly a trillion dollars less than it otherwise would have in the absence of the legislation.”

Lawmakers of both parties are concerned about affordability

A major concern for voters in the 2026 midterm elections is affordability — including skyrocketing costs for health care and health insurance. That wasn’t lost on those questioning Kennedy, as lawmakers from both parties raised the issue.

On Tuesday, Rep. Cliff Bentz, a Republican from Oregon, shared the story of his brother who pays $26,000 per year for his health coverage.

“What in the world can I go back to him and say? ‘Hey, the administration is working on trying to drive these prices down?’” he asked Kennedy.

Kennedy, for his part, cited several Trump administration initiatives to lower prices, including the White House’s TrumpRx website for discounted drugs and Trump’s so-called most favored nations deals with pharmaceutical companies.

Pressed by senators, Kennedy pledged to provide details of those deals that didn’t include proprietary information or trade secrets. Some Democrats wanted him to do more.

“Why don’t you do an agreement yourself? he said in a jab to Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. “You’ve had power to do that for 20 years and haven’t done it.”

Kennedy acknowledges some HHS cuts are ‘painful’

To achieve a more than 12% cut of the more than $100 billion HHS budget, the Trump administration is proposing slashing some $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and cutting a bevy of other programs and initiatives, including a low-income home energy assistance program.

Several senators asked Kennedy why different areas were being cut. NIH cuts, in particular, raised bipartisan outcry.

“There’s an argument to be made that we’re handing China our lunch,” said Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

Kennedy was candid that neither he nor others at his agency wanted to see the cuts, which he called “painful.”

“There’s a lot of cuts to the agency that nobody wants,” he said.

Newcastle Wine Week, first launched last year, will run from June 19 to 28 and promises exclusive discounts and events at top venues across the city.

The scheme allows people to purchase a wristband, unlocking half-price wines by the glass and bottle at participating bars and restaurants.

Leah Newman, the East Boldon-based wine expert behind the idea, said: “The whole idea was about making great wine more accessible.

Leah Newman, the East Boldon-based wine expert behind Newcastle Wine Week (Image: Supplied)

“It means that people can really experience wines at a price that isn’t often available and hopefully discover a whole new world.”

Her company Whispering Wine organises the event, and Ms Newman is among the few in the UK to hold a prestigious Wine Spirit Education Trust (WSET) diploma.

This year’s line-up of venues includes Michelin-starred House of Tides, The French Quarter, Kaltur (both Dean Street and High Bridge Street), Dobson and Parnell, Gino D’Campo, Victor Indigo November, Dood, and Blackfriars.

Wristbands also unlock offers at Cavavin, Osters at Gosforth High Street, Lovage in Jesmond, Pique, Gosforth Traders, Colonel Porter’s, Hotel du Vin, Jesmond Wines, Angels Share, and Las Casa Delicatessen.

Ellie Pearson Graham, general manager of Blackfriars, said: “We had new customers who had never been to Blackfriars, we were absolutely mobbed on the weekends.

“This year we will put in more outdoor seating to accommodate Newcastle Wine Week participants and look to offer a selected menu for those customers also.

“Financially it was definitely a success and we look forward to being involved again.”

In addition to discounted wines, wristband holders will have access to a variety of special events, including half price tasting flights and specially curated pairings.

Ms Newman, who also organises wine tasting tours in Europe, launched Newcastle Wine Week last year to make high-quality wine more accessible.

She said the positive response to last year’s event inspired her to bring it back for a second year.

Wristbands are priced at £14.99 and are available from the official website at www.wine-week.co.uk.

The boxer responded to comments Adam Thomas made to his famous brothers

I’m A Celebrity South Africa star David Haye has called Adam Thomas ‘weak’ and has claimed that the former Emmerdale actor ‘doesn’t need therapy’.

The boxer’s latest comments arrive after Adam revealed that he has seen a therapist over what went down on the pre-recorded ITV reality series. David was seen calling out Adam, who has arthritis, for not feeling well enough to do a Bushtucker Trial.

Having already shared a lengthy Instagram post about David’s comments made him feel, Adam spoke about the series with his brothers Scott and Ryan Thomas on their podcast At Home With The Thomas Bros. Noting that he ‘doesn’t regret’ going on the series, Adam said that there were times he had ‘a bit of a tough time in there with one of the campmates’.

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“I know for a fact, I’m not the same person as I was when I went into the jungle, to when I came out. It’s changed me and that’s no over-exaggeration. It’s changed me. I’m in therapy now because of it. It’s f***ed with me mentally because I just thought, ‘How is this happening? I’m a 37-year-old man’. I’m like, ‘How am I letting some other person do this to me in here?’

“I think, in a different environment, on the outside if this happened to you, you’d go, ‘Oh alright, he doesn’t like me, I’m going to leave the situation’, but because you’re in an environment like that, there’s nowhere to hide. You just have to grin and bear it,” he said.

Adam went on to say that he asked his therapist why he was unable to ‘stick up for himself’. Which led to him learning that he didn’t want to ‘bring attention’ to his struggles, and was more focused on putting others instead of himself.

Going on to say that David was ‘mindf***ing him constantly’, Adam told his brothers that he isolated himself away from the group. When David was eliminated, he felt like ‘a weight had lifted’. “If I saw that happening to anyone else, I would stick up for them but I just couldn’t do it for myself. I just became like a little kid again,” he admitted.

However, David has now said what while he ‘didn’t know’ about Adam’s health struggles, he ‘couldn’t care less’. He told The Sun: “Everyone’s got something. If you go to the doctor and say, I don’t feel well because of this, that, the other, they’ll prescribe you something, give you some pills, and now you’ve got this thing to hold on to.

“So any situation that might be uncomfortable, you go, ‘Look, I’ve got this doctor’s note’ and they’ll all feel sorry for me. Adam was jumping around, dancing. I think whatever the trial was, he didn’t like the sound of it, so he’s lying in bed, so I gave him some s*** about that.

“I don’t think it’s bullying. It was just banter to another guy who was nearly 40 years old. Do I care about people that don’t like me saying what I really think? No, I couldn’t give a s***. If a few comments breaks him, how soft is he? How weak, how brittle-spirited is he?”

Pointing out that he’s ‘grown up in gyms’, David said that if their argument is ‘what breaks him’ then Adam ‘comes from a very soft, padded lifestyle’. He added that ‘life gets way tougher than that’.

Bringing up Adam’s brothers, David said: “Someone sent me a video of him doing some TikTok dance with his brothers and that — it was kind of the feminine thing. I’ve got a really cute little chihuahua, so beautiful.

“And she’s not a guard dog, she doesn’t do anything other than just comfort you. Adam’s like a kind of chihuahua. I’m more of a doberman or a boxer or a pit bull or something. He’s the chihuahua.”

Stating that Adam ‘doesn’t need therapy’, David said that he ‘needs to do some push-ups’ and become more involved with ‘males who are powerful’ and ‘don’t sit there talking all the goddamned time about how hard life is’.