Spurs have added Jan Paul van Hecke, Andy Robertson, Sandro Tonali, Marcos Senesi, Martin Dubravka and Mateus Fernandes to their first-team crop, but De Zerbi wants more before the transfer deadline passes, eying further additions in his frontline. Savinho and Cody Gakpo of Manchester City and Liverpool respectively have been linked. Keep up to date with all the latest from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with our live blog below.

Hundreds of troops have been deployed to Spanish enclave Ceuta’s border with Morocco, amid fears of another surge of people attempting to cross as early as today. 

Spain has beefed up police and military presence in the North African enclave while Morocco also deployed troops amid social media messages encouraging migrants to attempt another mass border breach on Saturday.

Groups of migrants have been pictured roaming the hills outside Ceuta as security forces stand watch. 

Law enforcement officers can be seen wearing protective gear, including helmets, and carrying riot gear in anticipation of disorder. 

Meanwhile soldiers have been pictured driving around in military vehicles at the border.

It comes just two weeks after more than 72,000 people made the dangerous crossing, with many swimming around a border fence that juts out into the sea.

At least 100 people are known to have died amid the crisis, which overwhelmed border officials and led to widespread panic across Europe.

Within days, however, around 70,000 of those who made the crossing had returned to Morocco amid reports of shuttered shops, food shortages and violence.

The incident took place in a mountainous area on the outskirts of Castillejos, southwest of Ceuta, Moroccan security forces have said 

A Spanish military vehicle arrives at the border with Morocco, following the mass crossings

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Migrants are pictured taking shade beneath a tree as temperatures are set to reach 32C on Saturday, as authorities stand watch

Moroccan security forces monitor dozens of sub-Saharan migrants who have gathered on the outskirts of the border town of Castillejos, Morocco

Moroccan security personnel secure the beach on the border with Spain in Ceuta, on Saturday

A heavy police and army deployment prepare at the border between Morocco and Spain today, after fresh social media calls for people to attempt the crossing

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Police and military personnel from Spain and Morocco were both deployed early on Saturday

A boat passes by the sea barrier that the Spanish government installed on the border with Morocco in Ceuta following last month’s mass crossing

Security has been beefed up in the area, including by installing barbed wire on border fences

Those who made the perilous trip to Ceuta then found they were also not eligible to freedom of movement that would allow them to enter the rest of Europe, due to the enclave lying outside of the Schengen area.

Soldiers in combat fatigues stood watch outside supermarkets and official buildings on Friday evening, while police cars heavily patrolled the enclave’s main avenues. 

Still, outdoor cafes were packed with diners and the downtown area was calm compared to the tense scenes from the days following the 48-hour deadly rush which began on July 30.

On the other side of the border, dozens of black-clad Moroccan security personnel surveilled the beach in Fnideq, from which many migrants who swam around Ceuta’s Tarajal breakwater departed. 

Ceuta President Juan Jesús Vivas declared a ‘humanitarian emergency’ as the enclave became overwhelmed with new arrivals. 

While the vast majority of them voluntarily returned to Morocco, the crisis sparked a rift within the European Union as Italy temporarily suspended the Schengen agreement with Spain and fuelled anti-immigration rhetoric among far-Right parties worldwide.

Spain has since installed a maritime barrier and sent over 500 additional police officers from the mainland. The Interior Ministry said they would remain as long as the situation required.

‘We’ll continue to deploy whatever personnel are necessary to restore normality as soon as possible and prevent events like those of July 30 from happening again,’ Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters in Ceuta on Thursday.

Currently up to 5,000 migrants remain in Ceuta, the minister said. Officials have started screening adults and ruled on more than 500 asylum cases, most of them rejected.

Mr Grande-Marlaska added that people who entered irregularly would not be allowed to stay in the enclave, travel to mainland Spain or obtain legal status, except in rare cases of extreme vulnerability. Spain would return to Morocco those without a right to remain, he said.

Earlier this week, Rabat said it was monitoring ‘the circulation of social media posts and messages of unknown origin’ calling for a mass crossing on August 15, warning it would prosecute organisers and participants.

According to El Pais, one message posted to online forums in which migrants discuss mobilising read: ‘The Ceuta border will be open on the 15th [of August], a public holiday in Spain.’ 

In response, Moroccan authorities are deploying hundreds of soldiers and police officers to the border.

Migrants attempting to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta gather on a hilltop during clashes with Moroccan security forces near the town of Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border, on July 31, 2026

Migrants gather along the fence close to the site of clashes near Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border, on July 31, 2026

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Relatives and friends wait by a fence topped with barbed-wire for the return of people who had previously crossed into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, at Morocca’s Bab Sebta border crossing on the outskirts of Fnideq on August 2, 2026

A woman is escorted by Moroccan security forces during clashes with migrants attempting to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta near the town of Fnideq, on the Morocco-Spain border, on July 31, 2026

Police vehicles are seen parked close to the Ceuta border ahead of a possible fresh incursion today

Hundreds of soldiers and police peronnel have been deployed by both sides

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Images online have also shown the installation of barbed wire on the Moroccan side of the fences.

Rachid el-Jalfi, a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, said on Wednesday: ‘All necessary measures have been taken to prevent any attempt at illegal crossing and to intercept anyone attempting to participate.’

He urged those who planned to go to Ceuta or Melilla to ignore online messages that looked ‘suspicious and deceptive’, adding that crossings pose ‘serious risks to people’s safety’. 

Local media showed a reinforced security apparatus near the border with Ceuta and Spain’s other African enclave, Melilla.

Morocco says it spends around €500million a year on border control in the north and it steps up frontier checks when calls for collective crossings are detected on social media. 

Spain has also been bolstering its border, according to government data.

Since the crisis began in late July, the number of police officers and Civil Guard members deployed has increased from around 1,100 to nearly 1,600.

On top of this, 2,000 Spanish soldiers have been reassigned to support roles.

Authorities prevented several groups from boarding trains and buses to the north of Morocco in cities such as Casablanca, Fez and Kenitra. 

However, witnesses said that some groups from sub-Saharan Africa were sidestepping security checks on the road to Fnideq, taking mountainous routes instead.

Young men are arrested after attempting to storm the Bab Sebta border crossing near Fnideq, Morocco, July 31 2026

Most of the migrants who entered Ceuta have now left, authorities say

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One witness said the schools in Fnideq had been turned into dormitories for security forces deployed near the border.

Many of those who entered Ceuta on July 30 were fishing, swimming or showering at Ceuta’s Tarajal beach on Friday.

Fez native Driss Sadik, 22, swam for five hours to reach Ceuta. He warned against others emulating him.

‘The important thing I would advise people trying to cross: Don’t cross now, my brothers. You’re only going to suffer,’ he said.

The sentiment was echoed by 17-year-old Adil Jamil.

‘Those who enter aren’t going to benefit from anything. There will just be more and more of us, and they won’t find a solution for all,’ he said.

Mr Jamil added that the mass border rushes were ‘planned by the people’ after choosing a day, gathering in Fnideq and crossing together to find strength in numbers.

‘If I had stayed with my parents, I would’ve died slowly. But if I risk my life, arrive and build my future… it will be better,’ he said.

Early last month, the top judicial body ruled that a Spanish procedure for returning illegal migrants only applied if they breached a physical border, not if they arrived by sea.

Under the ruling migrants can still be returned after crossing an unmarked maritime border, but only under a separate formal return procedure.

The Ceuta migrant crisis began on July 30. A day later, Sanchez’s government announced it would establish a maritime containment barrier, and began building it off the coast of Ceuta and Morocco on August 1.

The crisis also frayed Spain’s relationship with the rest of the European Union.

Italy announced almost immediately that it was suspending its Schengen arrangements with Spain, claiming this was necessary to ‘to protect the security of our citizens and defend Europe’s borders’.

The suspension of Schengen arrangements, which allows the 450million people of the EU to travel freely to any state in the bloc, was established on July 31, initially for a one-month period.

It means that Italy will perform checks on people travelling from Spain by air or sea.

The country’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni said the ‘uncontrolled immigration’ from Morocco to Ceuta was a national security threat.

Spain furiously summoned the Italian ambassador for a meeting, and its foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares said his nation expected ‘European solidarity and not partisan demagoguery’.

It then suspended its Schengen arrangements with Italy.

Spain is now dealing with the migrants by holding any remaining people in warehouses in Ceuta as they await deportation.

Spain’s government will be using a warehouse in Tarajal, yards from the Moroccan border, and another in the enclave to temporarily house them.

Officials are hoping to return the migrants within 72 hours of finding them, during which time they will be sent to the warehouses to be formally identified and processed.

It comes after the revelation that several young migrant girls have allegedly been raped since arriving in Ceuta.

The victims, all under the age of 14, sought treatment at the University Hospital of Ceuta (HUCE) this past week, health services told the El Pueblo de Ceuta newspaper.

Judicial sources said many of the alleged rapes were prevented by the direct intervention of residents of Ceuta.

Some residents of the autonomous city were also among the accused, however.

The Ceuta Prosecutor’s Office previously said it was aware of two of the cases of alleged sexual assault and had opened preliminary proceedings.

It confirmed that no arrests had yet been made.

His friend had spoken to him yesterday morning

Former University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday told a friend he felt he “couldn’t go on” hours before he died. Prof Arday, who resigned after a plagiarism row, was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to Daley Thompson Way, in Battersea, just after 3pm on Friday August 14 to reports that a man had been found unresponsive inside a property.

The Metropolitan Police said his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious. University of Cambridge professor, and director of the Autism Research Centre, Sir Simon Baron-Cohen told the BBC he spoke to Prof Arday on Friday morning.

Sir Simon told Radio 4’s Today programme: “He was being subjected to relentless scrutiny, including ridicule, discrediting absolutely every detail of his life, and he wasn’t coping with the loss of his career, the loss of his reputation, and he felt he couldn’t go on.

“He used those words in voice notes. At the heart of all of this was a man who’d been diagnosed in childhood with disabilities that included autism and language delay and learning differences. He was a vulnerable child, a vulnerable teenager, and a vulnerable adult, so he needed and deserved safeguarding and support and reasonable adjustment every step of the way.”

Sir Simon said Prof Arday was a “kind and gentle” man who had been “bombarded by every media outlet” and used as a “lightning rod” to examine diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Prof Arday, a professor of sociology of education who became Cambridge’s youngest black professor in 2023, quit following a series of media reports alleging he plagiarised his PhD thesis – completed at Liverpool John Moores University – and other research.

Further questions were asked in the press about the truth of other claims he made, including saying he ran 600 miles in six days and that he had raised £5.5 million for charity. An investigation at Liverpool John Moores University cleared Prof Arday of wrongdoing.

Sir Simon added: “Jason was being used as almost like a lightning rod to examine this policy of DEI, and Jason was bombarded by every media outlet to paint him as a fraud.” The cognitive neuroscientist said he had grown concerned about the mental health of Prof Arday, a “vulnerable autistic man” that he could see was struggling.

He said: “In the last 10 days, I’ve witnessed his mental health getting worse and worse, as the media didn’t stop ridiculing him, humiliating him, discrediting him. As I said, yesterday morning, his last voice note was that he just couldn’t go on. We need to let the investigations proceed, we need to understand how this tragedy has happened, but there has to be accountability at lots of levels.”

Marvel Studios has announced a host of new actors for its X-Men reboot – including Stranger Things star Sadie Sink and Adam Driver.

The stars taking on the roles of seven characters in the new movie were unveiled at Disney’s D23 fan event in the US on Friday.

Speaking at the event, Sink told the crowd it was “so wonderful” to be there and to “finally talk about the character after months of speculation”

Star Wars actor Driver joined via video-link as his character was revealed as the villainous Nathaniel Milbury, who will also been known as Mr Sinister.

He told fans he’d been talking “for years about maybe joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I think we finally found the perfect film at the perfect time”.

The new X-Men film, which is currently untitled, will be directed by Jake Schreier and is out in cinemas in May 2028.

Sink will play Jean Grey, a character revealed to fans when she appeared in Spiderman: Brand New Day last month.

The other stars announced for X-Men were Heartstopper actor Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier or X, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Storm.

Professor X has previously been played by Sir Patrick Stewart in other Marvel movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Stewart will also appear as Professor X in the much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday which is out later this year, before Abbott plays the role in X-Men.

The last X-Men movie Dark Phoenix, which featured the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Sophie Turner, came out in June 2019.

It was released under 20th Century Fox, but earlier that year, Disney, which owns Marvel, acquired the rights to the franchise.

Speaking at D23, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said there was a lot more X-Men casting news to come.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban rulers and other officials gathered at Afghanistan’s traditional Loya Jirga assembly hall on Saturday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their return to power, touting having brought stability and an end to conflict after decades of upheaval.

A top United Nations official, however, warned of a grave human rights crisis in the country where girls above the age of 12 are denied an education.

The Taliban seized power on Aug. 15, 2021, as the U.S. and other NATO troops withdrew following a costly two-decade war. The U.S. withdrawal led to chaos at Kabul airport as crowds of people tried to flee the country in desperation.

Soon after taking power, the Taliban administration imposed a ban on girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and later also banned higher education for women, despite having pledged before the takeover that women would be allowed access to education, employment and public participation.

Women have also been banned from public spaces such as gyms and parks, from taking part in sports and traveling to distant locations without a male guardian.

Taliban hails ‘liberation’ from American forces

At the Loya Jirga, high-ranking officials were joined by some foreign representatives and thousands of ordinary citizens for speeches marking what they said was Afghanistan’s liberation from American forces.

“We pray to Almighty God to forever protect our homeland from occupation, aggression, wars, and insecurity, and to enable our people to enjoy peace, tranquility, and prosperity under the auspices of the Sharia-based government,” the Taliban government’s deputy spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, said during the ceremony.

There were no women present.

Five years on, the Taliban government remains isolated internationally, with Russia being the only country to have recognized it formally.

Top Taliban official calls for more international engagement

Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that countries that have engaged with the administration have gained from doing so and called on others that have not established contacts to reconsider their approach.

“Those that engaged and interacted with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan benefited,” he said. “As for the countries that have not engaged with the Islamic Emirate, let them state what they have gained or what benefit they have derived.”

“They should move towards a policy of engagement and mutual interaction,” he said.

Celebrations held under tight security

In Kabul, men took to the squares carrying Taliban flags and chanting slogans in support of the government. Convoys of vehicles wound their way through the city, causing traffic jams.

Security was tight, with heavy Taliban security force presence and several check points on a main road leading to the Loya Jirga.

Celebrations were also held in provinces across Afghanistan, where Taliban flags and posters emblazoned with slogans in praise of the Taliban’s return to power were displayed along major roads and marketplaces.

In a video message, Richard Bennett, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, said the country was undergoing a deep human rights crisis.

The U.N. agency on education and culture, UNESCO, estimates that some 2.4 million girls have been excluded from secondary education. The U.N. World Food Program said child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen due to funding shortfalls.

The world body’s agency on women’s rights, U.N. Women, said this week that women and girls are facing the harshest restriction in the world and that the bans are damaging Afghanistan’s future, with the lack of teachers, doctors, nurses and midwives threatening the country’s social and economic foundations.

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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.

The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as “Project Panama.”

The documents indicated the company’s aim was to “destructively scan all the books in the world”.

Destructive scanning is the process of shipping books to locations where they can be digitised at an industrial scale.

It includes removing a book’s spine so all the pages can be scanned rapidly – and the remains recycled.

“A lot of mystery surrounds Project Panama,” Manley, from Barter Books, says.

“The name is new to me, but the reality of the project is not, and has been the subject of much discussion on the bookseller forums.”

He does not know that his books are being bought for it or similar projects by other AI firms.

But he says it’s also difficult to account for the sales, which appear random with “no rhyme or reason.”

They have varied from obscure Latin texts to cowboy novels.

Experts say the diverse subject matter also points to AI, as unusual and rare texts could provide fresh material to improve the training of large language models, the tech which underpins generative AI tools like chatbots.

Professor Emily Hudson, intellectual property specialist at Oxford University, says copyright laws in the UK are different to those in the US.

“The starting point in the UK is that all these acts of copying – creating the training library and doing the training – require the permission of the copyright owner,” she says.

The hot dog stand is offering 50% off its hot dogs during its anniversary week

While Cambridge has a range of independent and chain restaurants, there are also food vans and stalls dotted around the city. Hundreds of people walk past these food vans everyday, but many of those simply keep walking.

One of those has been running for nearly 40 years – far longer than I’ve been alive. To me, this means the food must be stellar for people to keep coming back – so I had to give it a go.

I spotted the cute little red van of the Hot Sausage Company parked up next to the Holy Trinity Church. I looked over the menu, which offered a regular hot dog and a regular with cheese and onion. You could also get larger hot dogs with the same fillings, or even a footlong if you’re feeling extra hungry.

For Cambridge, the food wasn’t badly priced either. A regular was £3.50 on its own, or £3.80 with cheese. It then cost £4.70 for a large sausage, or £5.40 for a footlong.

I went for the regular with cheese and onion. I went to order and the friendly owner said if I was in Cambridge the week starting August 17, he was offering 50 per cent off orders as the stall was celebrating its 40th anniversary – so if you’re around, you can snap up a discount.

The owner was very chatty while I waited, watching the hot dogs cooking on the steaming grill. When I got my hot dog, I sat on a small bench right opposite the stall and tucked in.

The sausage had a smoky taste to it, and the American-style cheese literally melted on my tongue. The onions added a crisp and sweet taste. Once I finished my hot dog, I wished I’d opted for the large sausage, or even a footlong, as it was simply so delicious.

To go with my hot dog, I enjoyed a crisp cold orange Tango, which cost £1.50. It was just what I needed on a 30C day. Altogether, my meal cost £5.30. I thought this was a reasonable and great price for a small but satisfying lunch.

What made it feel even better was that I was eating from a long-established Cambridge business. The Hot Sausage Company is a part of Cambridge’s modern history, and I’m glad I could experience its tasty hot dogs.

All of our food reviews are paid for by the writer. The establishments do not know we will be reviewing their food, allowing us to make fair judgements on each place.

They were left badly shaken by the ordeal

A member of staff was “dragged to the rear” of an off-licence during a robbery in South Belfast.

Police are investigating the incident which was reported at around 4pm on Friday, August 14, in the Sunnyside Street area when two men, believed to be in their 20s, entered an off-licence and ordered a member of staff to open the tills. A sum of money was taken during the robbery with the men fleeing the scene on foot towards Ava Drive.

A member of staff was left badly shaken and was “dragged to the rear of the premises” during the ordeal.

One of the men has been described as around 6ft in height, well-built and wearing light grey tracksuit bottoms and a tracksuit top. The second man was described as being thin and was wearing light grey tracksuit bottoms and a tracksuit top which was light grey at the top half and dark grey at the bottom half.

Detective Sergeant Faulkner said: “At around 4pm, it was reported to police that two men entered an off-licence in the area. It was reported the men then went behind the till and ordered a member of staff to open the tills. It was reported that a sum of money was taken during the incident, as the men made off on foot via the front of the premises towards the Ava Drive area.

“The staff member, who was dragged to the rear of the premises during the incident, was not injured but left badly shaken.

“One of the males is described as being around 6ft in height, well-built and wearing light grey tracksuit bottoms and a light grey tracksuit top with dark grey patches on the side. The second man is described as being of thin build and wearing light grey tracksuit bottoms and a tracksuit top which was light grey at the top half and dark grey at the bottom half of the top. Both men are described as being aged in their 20s with their hoods up around their faces during the incident.

“Enquiries are continuing and police would ask anyone who might have any information which could assist to contact police using our witness appeal form at https://reporting.psni.police.uk/appeals quoting reference 1132 14/08/26 or call us on 101. Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http://crimestoppers-uk.org/.”

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If you’re a cat owner, one of the biggest questions you face is whether your kitty will be allowed to roam outside or kept safely indoors.

This is a debate that has left pet owners divided, with some claiming it is cruel to confine a cat indoors while others worry about an outdoor cat’s safety.

Now, a group of scientists have put this question to the test.

And their findings suggest that letting your cat roam outdoors could help curb some of its more destructive habits. 

In a paper, published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science, researchers discovered that cats who were allowed unsupervised outside time had lower levels of disruptive behaviour.

While the results were modified by other factors, like the presence of other cats in the house, outdoor cats were much less likely to ruin your furniture by scratching.

Lead author Dr Lee Neil, a a behavioural biologist from the University of Guelph, Canada, told the Daily Mail: ‘One possibility is that cats who scratch household items have not been provided with their preferred options for scratching indoors.

‘Cats with outdoor access have more opportunities to find these preferred options when outside which might give them an outlet that prevents the behaviour indoors.’ 

As Dr Neil acknowledges, uncontrolled outdoor access for cats is a ‘controversial topic’.

Recent studies suggest that 31 per cent of cats in the UK are exclusively kept indoors, but owners are divided over whether this is healthy. 

One one hand, many cat owners point out that the life expectancy of indoor cats is significantly higher than for outdoor cats, due to the risk of injury and illness.

The lifespan of an indoor cat is 15 to 17 years, while an outdoor cat’s lifespan is two to five years, according to researchers at the University of California-Davis. 

In a post on TikTok, one user said: ‘I don’t want to answer the door to someone telling me he’s been run over.’

‘My baby has always been indoors as she’s safe and happy. I think people who let their cat free roam unsupervised are the neglectful and irresponsible ones,’ added another commenter.

While one cat owner posted: ‘I can’t help but feel bad for having so much control over him but I’ve taken the responsibility to make sure he is safe.’

However, recent research suggests that exclusive indoor cats have higher rates of bad behaviour.

Recent studies suggest that 31 per cent of cats in the UK are exclusively kept indoors, but owners are divided over whether this is healthy

One Spanish study found that indoor cats had a higher risk for owner-reported aggression and were more likely to go to the bathroom outside of the litter tray.

Likewise, many pet owners on social media complain that it is ‘cruel’ or ‘unnatural’ to keep cats indoors.

In this new study, scientist surveyed 7,793 cat owners in America and Canada about their pets habits and behaviour.

Overall, indoor cats had the highest rates of scratching, with 48.5 per cent of owners  reporting that their cat scratched the furniture.

According to Dr Neil, this is likely because indoor cats aren’t finding the right places to work out their natural scratching behaviours.

Dr Neil says: ‘We know that cats need to scratch to condition their nails, to stretch and to leave markings for communication.’

Cats with uncontrolled outdoor access, by contrast, had the lowest reports of scratching and night-time activity, such as running around, and excessive vocalisations, such as yowling.

However, the researchers caution that outdoor access isn’t a ‘fix-all’ for behaviour issues.

Research found that uncontrolled outdoor access reduced scratching and yowling, but experts warn this is not a ‘fix all’ for bad behaviour 

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Dr Neil says: ‘Our data does not support the idea that cats with outdoor access are necessarily better behaved.’

Some negative behaviours decrease as cats spend more time outdoors but other can increase in some situations.

These effects also usually occur through interactions with other factors, such as type of outdoor access, sex of the cat, number of cats in the home and medical issues.

‘The general consensus among cat behaviour experts is that cats have numerous opportunities for natural behaviours when outdoors – but many of these opportunities can also be offered indoors through appropriate enrichment,’ says Dr Neil.

‘It might be easier to meet cats’ needs through outdoor access, but we can also create appropriate indoor spaces and allow controlled outdoor access to meet their needs.’

The researchers, therefore, advise that cat owners try to understand their pets individual needs and find ways to meet them.

That could be through letting them roam outside, if the area is safe, or by providing play and exploration opportunities indoors.

Dr Neil concludes: ‘Uncontrolled outdoor access for cats is a controversial topic with lots of differing opinions and no clear solution, and this study is just one more part of the puzzle.’ 

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR CAT? THE 13 SECRET SIGNALS FELINES GIVE THEIR OWNERS

Cats are often branded aloof and solitary creatures who spend their days plotting their human owner’s demise, but such characterisations could not be further from the truth.

In fact, our feline friends constantly communicate their feelings of affection to us, whether it be through their whiskers, tail, face or body language.

In her eye-opening new book Kitty Language: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Your Cat, author Lili Chin – with the help of animal behaviourists – explains how to interpret your pet’s movements.

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Below are some of the most common behaviours and what they could signal.

Our feline friends constantly communicate their feelings of affection to us, whether it be through their whiskers, tail, face or body language

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