The narrow street is also described as a ‘charming’ place to visit

Cambridge is full of many unique streets. Each street is seeping with history, with Cambridge being such a historic city due to its famous university.

One street in Cambridge, while narrow, is known to be “charming”. Green Street runs between St John’s Street and Trinity Street, as well as Sidney Street on the eastern end.

It’s close to Trinity College and Sidney Sussex College. The street is most famous for its independent shops. The CB Travel Guide said this street is “often missed”.

The CB Travel Guide added: “Green Street has always been one of our favourites, and through the efforts of Gonville & Caius, it has become a street full of indie shops. Small bespoke and quirky shops.”

It’s the place to buy bespoke jewellery, as well as enjoy a Cornish monkfish. The street was named after Dr Oliver Green from Caius College.

Some of the must visit places along Green Street include 40 Green Street, which boasts “one of the prettiest window displays in the city”, according to Love Cambridge.

Love Cambridge also recommends Bill’s, which is the “ultimate feel-good eatery”. One of the most famous shops along Green Street is Mercado Central.

This is inspired by Spain’s historic markets and restaurants, and offers seasonal cooked food inspired by the Spanish country. Green Street is also home to the Cambridge Gin Laboratory.

Here, people get the chance to take part in cocktail making sessions. It’s described as a “haven for enthusiasts to celebrate the art and science of gin”, according to Love Cambridge.

Anyone who loves to explore new places and discover new tastes, Green Street is worth a visit on a day out to Cambridge.

By KATIE HIND, CONSULTANT EDITOR SHOWBUSINESS

Published: 23:05 BST, 4 July 2026 | Updated: 00:06 BST, 5 July 2026

When Harper Beckham turns 15 on Friday, her parents will inevitably lavish her with gifts and celebrations to mark her special day.

But underneath the joy, Sir David and Lady Beckham fear that their only daughter’s birthday will be marred because they can’t give her the one thing she must be hoping for – to be reunited with her eldest brother, Brooklyn.

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Last year, amid a vicious family feud, he did not send his sister best wishes privately. Instead, there was a public and performative Instagram post.

In fact, since his fall-out with his parents, Brooklyn, 27, hasn’t spoken to Harper, to whom he was once so close.

‘Harper is heartbroken and devastated at her brother’s decision not to speak to her and now her birthday is just days away it becomes a difficult scenario once again,’ says a source.

‘They were so close. Now he won’t speak to her and she can’t understand why. There is nothing worse for Harper than him ignoring her on her birthday.

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‘All she wants is to have a relationship with her big brother. It is so horrifying and awful for David and Victoria to see.

‘Of course, everyone else in the family shows Harper so much love. But for the second year running it’s likely there will be nothing from Brooklyn. It’s not her fault that he is estranged. They’ve never had a cross word.’

Harper Beckham will turn 15 on Friday – but her wish to be reunited with older brother Brooklyn does not seem on the cards

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Last year, Brooklyn and Nicola both posted on Instagram wishing Harper a happy birthday

Since his fall-out with his parents, Brooklyn, hasn’t spoken to Harper, to whom he was once so close

Last year both Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz, 31, posted on Instagram, using the same photograph of the three of them. 

But it is understood that they haven’t spoken to her since before the feud erupted on April 25 last year in the run up to David’s 50th birthday celebrations.

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Brooklyn and Nicola snubbed all of the celebrations.

It has been suggested that Brooklyn doesn’t want to speak to his sister as he believes it will put her in a difficult situation. But friends of Posh and Becks debunk that as a ‘stupid and insulting excuse’.

Last month, Harper turned up at Brooklyn and Nicola’s house in Beverly Hills alone after her father David received his Hollywood Walk of Fame star just five miles away. Neither was home and she had to leave a letter instead.

Harper was photographed by American paparazzi, prompting Brooklyn to later accuse his parents of ‘setting up’ the picture opportunity, something they profusely deny.

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Their names are Kate and Megan. 

One is a modest, pitch-perfect stickler for the rules, perennially at her husband’s side and never putting a foot wrong. The other has a cheeky, naughty side and adores a designer frock and an expensive holiday almost as much as she does having a camera there to capture every moment.

No, I’m not talking about those two, but a couple of namesakes who are playing out parallel story at the World Cup: Kate Kane, wife of captain Harry, and Megan Pickford, other half of goalkeeper Jordan.

They are the longest-serving England partners, veterans of three World Cups, and indisputably the WAG queen bees. But their tactics are very different.

‘Kate is the first lady of the WAGs,’ says my snitch in the gang. ‘She takes the role very seriously. She’s a big support to the others and is able to show how the role is done. She doesn’t put her head above the parapet for the sake of it.

‘Megan, on the other hand, is loving the limelight. She’s a right laugh, a lot less serious and does the WAG thing her way. 

‘She’s out there for all to see and loves to enjoy herself. She’s been at the forefront of the girls-on-tour gang who have been loving their time cheering on their partners.’

Sources tell me that while many of them, including Megan, Olly Watkins’ wife Ellie, Jude Bellingham’s girlfriend Ashlyn Castro and Tolami Benson, Buyako Saka’s partner, have been immersing themselves in the WAG lifestyle in the US, Kate, 32, prefers to stay at home at the family’s £30 million mansion in Germany, where her husband has just completed his third season with Bayern Munich.

Kate, who is apparently a ‘little stricter’ than the other WAGs, is pictured celebrating while watching England vs DR Congo on July 1

Jordan Pickford’s glamorous wife Megan, is allegedly ‘loving the limelight’ of the World Cup

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While she jetted to Dallas to watch Harry score twice in England’s 4-2 win against Croatia in their opening game, she left the children – Ivy, nine, Vivienne, eight, Louis, six, and two-year-old Henry – at home, as she didn’t want the older children to miss school or for Henry to miss his bedtime.

Nor were any flashy outfits on show during the 24 hours she was in town. She was seen in a classy, but plain, dark denim dress with an understated black £2,000 Chanel crossbody phone case bag.

She also flew in for the game against Panama last Saturday – again without the children. 

But Kate couldn’t resist breaking the school-night rules on Monday, when all four were there to watch their heroic dad score twice to take England through the first knockout round against DR Congo.

Her presence in the stands was again muted, in a silver/grey co-ord set by label Totem – a snip, by WAG standards, at £1,000. Harry melted hearts as he was reunited with his children after three weeks and joyfully lifted Henry into the air for a kiss, watched over by an adoring Kate.

‘Kate is on the stricter side of things,’ says a source. ‘She has young children who needed to be at school so she decided to fly in and out for the individual matches. She didn’t want to join the circus. The kids had to watch at home.

‘She knows she’s not cool, she isn’t a party animal. Like Harry, she’s a pro.’

Back in Germany, where the family have been since Harry’s move from Tottenham at the end of 2023, I’m told that Kate’s approach to WAG life is similarly low-key.

Kate and Harry (pictured) are childhood sweethearts and grew up together in Chingford in Essex 

The Kanes were spotted in traditional outfits enjoying Oktoberfest last year, and she is popular on the school-mum circuit. 

Kate has posted on Instagram: ‘Since moving to Munich we’ve loved being part of the culture and traditions of the club and Bavaria, made us feel so at home.’

Harry and Kate are childhood sweethearts, having grown up just streets apart in Chingford, in Essex, and attended school together. 

They even visited David Beckham’s now defunct football academy in Stratford, East London, in 2005 as star-struck 12-year-olds.

Living in a hilltop mansion in Grünwald – ‘the Beverly Hills of Bavaria’ – the children are learning German, which is ‘very important’ to Kate, I’m told. She and Harry are also giving it a go, though are not as fluent as their offspring.

They also enjoy regular skiing trips and golfing holidays – while the children love football as much as their father.

Things are different for Megan and Jordan’s three children, Arlo, seven, Ostara, two, and one-year-old Misty. Arlo has been the envy of all his classmates back in Cheshire, as he accompanied his mother on their tour of the US.

They flew out in June, long before schools break up, but only after Megan had enjoyed a day shopping at Selfridges to ensure her wardrobe was perfect.

Megan is undoubtedly the archetypal WAG, writes Katie Hind 

Megan and Everton goalkeeper Jordan married in June 2022 and share three children together

She entrusted a personal shopper to curate a collection of designer clothes and bags, determined to recreate the iconic WAG culture that woke up the sleepy German town of Baden Baden 20 years ago. 

However, she was dealt a huge blow when her suitcase was lost on route to Dallas.

Arlo has enjoyed a holiday of a lifetime. Staying in a £3,000-a-night suite at the Ritz-Carlton, New York, the children have been treated to trips to the Jellycat Diner, Barbie shop and the Build-A-Bear Workshop. 

Last week, his mother took him to see Harry Potter And The Cursed Child on Broadway, while there was also time for some important learning, with a visit to the 9/11 Museum.

‘Megan likes to go big,’ says a source. ‘She and Jordan didn’t have a lot growing up, so they take the view that they are going to take every opportunity to have a great time and treat their kids to what they didn’t have.’

We have also seen Megan’s colourful style at the matches. While she opted for a replica England shirt for the DR Congo game, to cheer Jordan on against Ghana she wore a £125 Club L white mini dress teamed with a £6,000 Hermes mini Kelly bag, which adhered to the US stadium’s strict bag size policy, and a vintage 1980s brooch.

Megan has also been seen with a £2,500 Lady Dior handbag. ‘Megan has made no secret of wanting to recreate Baden Baden,’ says an insider. ‘She’s doing her best.’

Megan is undoubtedly the archetypal WAG. After meeting Jordan at St Robert of Newminster Catholic School in Sunderland when she was 14 and he 15, they moved to Cheshire in 2019 when he signed for Everton. 

They bought a modern five-bedroom mansion with a home cinema and bar close to the footballers’ wives capital, Alderley Edge. She hangs around with Jack Grealish’s fiancee Sasha Attwood and Harry Maguire’s wife Fern.

‘Megan has WAG written all over her,’ says a source. ‘The absolute antithesis to Kate.’

She adores a good holiday, and she and Jordan were pictured on eight in 2018, when they visited Portugal, Barbados, Milan and Ibiza twice, as well as Dubai and the Bahamas. In Barbados, Megan was pictured necking champagne at the exclusive Sandy Lane resort, while a romantic break to the Bahamas in July 2017 set them back £2,500 a night.

They also chartered a private jet for a weekend in London for the Anthony Joshua fight in April that year, costing at least £10,000. And her hen do in 2022 was at the Nikki Beach Resort in Dubai, where villas cost up to £7,700 a night.

There is, however, one vital difference between this Kate and Megan and their royal counterparts: Mrs Kane and Mrs Pickford absolutely adore each other.

‘They recognise they are very different from one another,’ says a source. ‘There is a bond there, they have both watched their husbands go through so much.

‘Kate might not want to party like Megan does but she enjoys watching it all… from a distance.’

Rangers romped to victory in a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly

Rangers demolished Raith Rovers 5-1 in a private friendly match as manager Derek McInnes intensified his squad’s preparations ahead of the upcoming campaign.

The new Ibrox boss assessed his players during Saturday’s practice fixture, which saw recent acquisitions Ross McCrorie and Dan Neil both take part.

However, £6million goalkeeper Ivor Pandur was absent, as he won’t return until later this month following Croatia’s World Cup elimination by Portugal on Friday.

Scottish internationals Liam Kelly, John Souttar, Findlay Curtis and Lawrence Shankland were also missing from the match-day squad.

Belgian midfielder Nicolas Raskin and Norway international Thelo Aasgaard continue their World Cup commitments as their nations battle through the knockout stages.

McInnes plans to relocate his squad to Spain for a warm-weather training camp, having cancelled the Austrian trip that had been organised by previous boss Danny Rohl.

Rangers’ players seized another opportunity to showcase their abilities on Saturday, securing a comprehensive win against the Championship side, according to reports from the Rangers Review.

The Gers established a commanding two-goal advantage by half-time through efforts from Lyall Cameron and Tuur Rommens.

McCrorie celebrated his comeback with a goal following the interval, while Nedim Bajrami and Ryan Naderi also scored before Raith secured a late penalty consolation.

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Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged that Ukraine’s relentless drone attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure are having an effect.

Speaking to the ruling United Russia party on June 28, the Russian president confirmed that his country is facing “a certain shortage” of fuel and that “strikes on our infrastructure sites are creating problems”.

In fact, the situation is far worse that Putin admits.

Russia has hit back hard at Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine, launching massive strikes over night on July 1 with a combination of drones as well as cruise and ballistic missiles, killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens more.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, had warned that the Kremlin was planning another massive attack in retaliation after a month in which a Ukrainian air offensive has put considerable pressure on Russian defences and morale.

Throughout June, Ukraine stepped up its strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure deep in the heart of European Russia, far from the front lines of the war in eastern Ukraine. Oil refineries in Moscow itself have been hit. All regions of Russia now report fuel shortages and knock-on effects are emerging with delays in the delivery of food and other goods.

Russian-occupied Crimea has been a particular target, with regional authorities declaring a state of emergency on June 26 amid power outages, food shortages and fuel rationing that includes banning the sale of petrol to civilians.

Crimea has been a focal point for Ukraine’s strategy in part because it has played a vital role in Russia’s war effort. It has been an important route for military equipment and supplies heading to the combat zone in Ukraine’s Donbas region. Control of the port of Sevastopol provides Russia with a foothold in the Black Sea, even though around 30% of the vessels in Russia’s Black Sea fleet have been damaged or destroyed by Ukraine since 2022 and large parts of the fleet were relocated further east in 2023 under pressure from Ukrainian strikes.

Even the remaining command and control units are now believed to be planning to pack up and move to Russia.

But Ukraine has also focused its attention on Crimea as a target because of its symbolic significance as the “jewel in the crown” of Russia’s campaign in Ukraine. Ever since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the peninsula has been used by Moscow as a symbol of the success – and indeed the righteousness – of its efforts to claim Ukrainian territory as its own. The fact that Russia has been unable to protect Crimea from Ukrainian strikes is therefore particularly humiliating for Moscow.

‘Crimea is ours’

The 2014 operation to seize control of Crimea was carried out very efficiently by Russian troops who swiftly occupied key strategic points. Ukrainian and western media labelled the soldiers “little green men” and initially Putin claimed they were “local self-defence units.”

It was later revealed they were Russian troops – and among pro-Russia residents of Crimea they were seen as heroes. Their professional appearance and disciplined behaviour gave Russians a reason to be proud of their armed forces, which had a reputation for brutality and incompetence. Locals flocked to take selfies with them.

The annexation sparked a surge of nationalist sentiment in Russia. The phrase “Crimea is ours” became a social media meme and was was printed on consumer goods.

The Russian film industry was enlisted to reinforce the message. The 2017 blockbuster “Crimea” – made with funding from Russia’s defence ministry – presented the annexation as a demonstration of the country’s status as a great power. The following year, a feel-good romantic comedy Crimean Bridge – Made with Love! was released. Written by Margarita Simonyan, the head of the Russian news outlet RT and a close ally of Putin, it depicted life in the peninsula as a sun-drenched adventure.

While popular culture painted an attractive picture of Crimea, Moscow encouraged Russians not only to spend their holidays there but to take up residence to ensure another, more permanent, form of occupation. As many as 200,000 Russians are believed to have relocated to the peninsula, lured by the warmer climate and the promise of jobs and generous welfare benefits.

Russia struggling to adapt

Moscow’s failure to shield Russian society from the impact of war exposes the myth of Putin’s repeated claims that the war is proceeding according to plan. Even the US president, Donald Trump, who famously told Zelensky in early 2025 that Kyiv did not hold any cards in this conflict, has reportedly acknowledged that Ukraine is “doing pretty well”.

This raises the question of what Russia might do to try to regain the momentum. The mass invasion stage of Russia’s war in Ukraine since 2022 has revealed some clear patterns. Whereas Ukraine has been good at innovating in weapons development and in strategy and tactics, Russia has been slow to adapt to change.

In the short term, Moscow responds to setbacks by intensifying its attacks on civilians in Ukraine, as we have seen with the massive overnight strikes on July 1.

In the medium term, Russia adapts its tactics. For example, responding to Ukraine’s ability to strike large formations of troops on the front lines by dispatching a handful of soldiers at a time, sometimes on horseback, to continue Russia’s advance.

This suggests that we are likely to see continuity rather than radical change in Russia’s approach to this war – for example, putting more emphasis on anti-drone and anti-missile measures. But there are real doubts about whether Russia’s thinly-stretched defences can provide effective protection for the wide range of locations that Ukraine targets.

It is too soon to say whether the tide of the war has turned in Ukraine’s favour. But unless Russia finds a more robust response to the challenges it faces from Ukraine, we may look back on June 2026 as a decisive point in this conflict.

No-one was seriously injured in the crash

A British Transport Police vehicle collided with another car in Harpurhey yesterday evening (July 3) while taking a man into custody for assault, the force has said.

Photos from the scene showed a large cordon in place at the junctions of Queens Road and Rochdale Road in Harpurhey, with vehicles from the North West Ambulance Service and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service in attendance.

A blue Kia Picanto and a police van appear to have been badly damaged in the collision, with the former wrapped around a lamp-post, and the latter appearing to have collided with railings in the middle of the road, its front bumper completely hanging off.

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Now, the British Transport Police have confided that it was one of their vehicles damaged in the incident and that they had been taking a 28-year-old man to custody after had had been arrested on suspicion of assault.

The M.E.N understands that he was later charged with two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and one count of assault, and had since been bailed.

A spokesperson said: “A BTP vehicle was involved in a collision with another car on Rochdale Road in Harpurhey, Greater Manchester, at around 8.45pm on Friday 3 July.

“It occurred while officers were transporting a 28-year-old man to custody who had been arrested on suspicion of assaulting three people.

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