TheUK parking app is using the partnership to support the club, connect with more local people and make everyday journeys simpler for supporters and residents alike.

The three-year partnership, first announced in May, sees the Evology name appear on the back of the Bolton Wanderers shirt throughout the 2026/27 season.

As the new campaign begins, the sponsorship moves from announcement to action, placing Evology at the heart of every matchday.

Evology is used by two million drivers across the UK (Image: Supplied)

Used by two million drivers across the UK, Evology brings parking, pre-booking and electric vehicle charging together through technology developed by its in-house team.

The partnership reflects Evology’s long-term commitment to Bolton, where the company already operates parking across numerous locations throughout the town, including the Toughsheet Community Stadium, Royal Bolton Hospital and other key destinations.

Supporters are already experiencing the benefits of Evology’s technology on matchdays. Whether pre-booking parking in advance or paying through the app on arrival, fans can skip payment machine queues, while EV drivers can also recharge through the Evology Charging network.

As one of the UK’s fastest-growing parking apps, Evology sees the partnership as an opportunity to introduce more local drivers to a simpler way to park, while continuing to invest in services that improve everyday travel across Bolton.

Adrian Cunliffe, Chief Product Officer at Evology, said: “Putting our name on the back of the Bolton Wanderers shirt is only part of the story. Bolton is already an important town for Evology and this partnership reflects our commitment to investing in communities where our technology makes a real difference.

“Every day, people use Evology to park for work, healthcare, shopping and football. Supporting Bolton Wanderers helps us reach even more people while reinforcing what we’re all about – making everyday journeys easier through simple, reliable technology.

“We’re proud to be growing quickly as a business, but we want that growth to go hand in hand with supporting the communities we operate in. We hope supporters see Evology as more than a logo on a shirt. We want to become a trusted part of life in Bolton.”

Carl Sanderson, Head of Commercial at Bolton Wanderers, said: “Evology has already become an important part of the supporter experience through its parking platform and EV charging infrastructure, so this partnership is about much more than branding.

“They share our commitment to the local community and are investing in services that make life easier for supporters. We’re delighted to have them alongside us as we begin our Championship campaign.”

Bolton Wanderers supporter Adam Taylor, from Leyland said: “Match days are always busy, so being able to sort my parking through the Evology app takes one less thing off my mind. I don’t have to queue at a payment machine and can just get on with enjoying the day – whether that’s grabbing some food or meeting friends before the game.

“It’s brilliant to see a company that’s already making the matchday experience easier making a long-term commitment to Bolton Wanderers and the wider community.”

The Evology app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

The new shirts are available to buy online and at the BWFC Club Shop at the Toughsheet Community Stadium.

Ben Stonehouse, 46, who works at the Talbot Hotel in Malton, took home the Duty Manager of the Year title from The Coaching Inn Group.

The group, which currently holds the title of the UK’s Which Best Large Hotel Chain, operates 42 hotels and inns across the country.

Mr Stonehouse received the award in front of more than 300 colleagues at a black-tie dinner at The Engine Shed in Lincoln.

He said: “I love my role and being a member of the Talbot team, who all work together like one large extended family, and receiving this award was like the icing on the cake and was certainly an occasion I will never forget.”

A father of three, he grew up in Brawby and attended Malton Secondary School.

He added: “I started out as a litter picker and graduated to a customer service role, which I thoroughly enjoyed because, then as now, I simply love meeting people.

“Then when the opportunity came along to become a Duty Manager back at The Talbot in my hometown, I jumped at it and have never looked back.”

After shifting into hospitality, Mr Stonehouse worked as a bar barista before becoming Front of House Manager at the 15th-century Plough Inn in Wombledon.

Adam Charity, managing director of The Coaching Inn Group, said: “Ben, with his great enthusiasm for working as a member of the Talbot team, was a most worthy winner of the Duty Manager of the Year Award.”

A paedophile who was spotted by a passenger watching child abuse videos on a train to London also tried to buy a 13-year-old girl – and was paying for her in instalments. 

David Johnson, 35, was caught viewing videos of young children being abused while on a train from Stafford to London on September 23, 2025.

Messages from a supplier read: ‘I got all videos. Don’t worry, sweetheart [I] supply all kinds of videos.[sic]’ The vile predator responded: ‘Just kids videos’.

But unbeknownst to him, a horrified passenger sitting behind him witnessed the disturbing exchange as well as the videos that followed. 

After moving to another carriage, he alerted British Transport Police, who swooped in to arrest Johnson as soon as the train arrived at London Euston. 

Officers seized his phone, which was found to have an indecent image of a child saved as the wallpaper, but the CPS said more evidence was required to charge him. 

While in custody, brazen Johnson even asked officers for his phone back because he ‘needed to delete some stuff’. 

Further analysis of 150 electronic items belonging to Johnson, where they uncovered nearly 200 indecent images, including 105 Category A pictures – the most serious.

In an episode of Channel 4’s 999: What Happened Next, it was also uncovered that Johnson was trying to buy who he believed was a 13-year-old girl named Lola. 

Unbeknownst to him, a horrified passenger sitting behind him witnessed the disturbing exchange about child abuse content as well as the videos that followed

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Officers found Johnson had been sending disturbing and explicit messages to the teen across several apps. 

Messages found by police implied Lola was owned by an individual named ‘Shanelle’ and that Johnson would have to pay a fee to meet her.

In correspondence between Johnson and Shanelle, she describes herself as the teenager’s ‘guardian’. 

She claimed the 13-year-old had been abandoned by her biological mother outside of a ‘crack house’ when she was a baby. 

Shanelle then alleged they never heard from Lola’s mother again and that she had taken her own life. 

Johnson later responded: ‘Okay, and I am sorry to hear that and you know I will look after her.’ 

Shanelle then asked: ‘Are you interested in sleeping with her, or [do] you wanna have her forever?’ To which Johnson responded: ‘Both.’ 

She then drew up a contract setting out a payment plan for Johnson to pay £4,500 in increments over a number of months.

Johnson had planned to meet the 13-year-old girl at her home on the day of his arrest and had condoms and a train ticket in his possession at the time.

Police went to an address in Wolverhampton where they believed Lola was living; however, people living there did not know anything about the child. 

It was later uncovered that neither Lola nor Shanelle were real and were fake personas created by scammers in Nigeria to whom he was sending money. 

Johnson had previously gone to Wolverhampton to pick Lola up but was told she was sick and was asked to return at a later date to get her. 

Johnson offered no comment during police interviews, and devices were seized from two addresses linked to him.

Paedophile Johnson pictured being arrested by police who swooped in after a fellow train passenger saw him watching child abuse videos

At Inner London Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to six counts of making indecent images of children, two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and arranging a child sex offence.

He was sentenced to two years and three months behind bars last April. He was also handed a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Johnson will remain on the sex offenders’ register for a decade.

Detective Constable Victoria Lowth said: ‘The quick thinking and courage of the man who saw Johnson’s phone meant that we were able to quickly arrest him and uncover the scale of his offending.

‘I’d like to offer our sincerest thanks to that man, whose actions have directly led to Johnson’s imprisonment.

‘Behind every image and video Johnson owned is a vulnerable child that has been exploited and abused.

‘He is clearly a danger to children and has rightly been handed a substantial jail sentence, and stringent conditions have been put in place to prevent him from offending further.

‘We will always do everything we can to make the railway a hostile place for criminals, and especially those whose offending targets children.’

The issue is impacting flight departures from multiple airports, including Heathrow, Manchester and Edinburgh.

NATS (National Air Traffic Services), the UK’s air traffic control provider, confirmed the problem and is currently working to resolve it.

In an update to passengers, NATS said, “We are investigating a technical issue which is causing some disruption to flight departures.”

Full list of UK airports affected by traffic control delays

Here is a full list of all the airports facing delays and groundings:

• London Heathrow
• London Gatwick
• Stansted Airport
• Manchester Airport
• Birmingham Airport
• Belfast City Airport
• Edinburgh Airport
• Aberdeen Airport
• Glasgow Airport
• Southampton Airport
• East Midlands Airport
• Jersey Airport

Around 200 flights were cancelled on Tuesday afternoon because of the air traffic control issue, with that number expected to rise, flight monitoring website Flightradar24 said.

Heathrow Airport confirmed the disruption in a statement, emphasising that only departing flights are affected.

A Heathrow spokesperson said: “The air traffic control service Nats is experiencing a technical issue which is impacting departing flights at UK airports.

“Arriving flights are not currently impacted.

“We are supporting our local Nats team in their efforts to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

“We will provide updated information when we have it.”

Passengers have been advised to check with their airlines for the latest information before travelling to the airport.

Heathrow apologised to affected customers and said it is supporting Nats in resolving the issue.

Passengers have been advised to check the latest flight information with their airlines.

It is understood that a fix is now in place.

Have you been affected by the issue? Let us know in the comments.

Airports have warned of further disruption on Wednesday after more than 1,000 flights to and from the UK were cancelled due to a “technical issue”.

Tens of thousands of passengers at airports including Heathrow and Gatwick faced travel chaos on Tuesday, with departures severely delayed because planes could not take off safely.

Bristol Airport has told passengers to expect more disruption on Wednesday, while Heathrow has also warned passengers of potential delays.

About four hours after the disruption began, the National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said engineers had identified the problem and had fixed it.

However, it was not clear how long it would take for systems to return to normal after the widespread delays and cancellations.

A Nats spokesperson apologised for the delays and advised passengers to check with their airline before travelling to airports.

Ryanair and Wizz Air slammed Nats as “not fit for purpose” and called for urgent reform of the group.

“A critical national infrastructure provider should not repeatedly bring the aviation system to a standstill. Nats is simply not fit for purpose in its current form,” a Wizz Air spokesperson said.

Nats says system issues ‘will take time to recover’

In its latest update, Nats said work is continuing to assist airlines and airports in recovering from yesterday’s disruption.

“This has been a very complex recovery and has created difficulties for the whole aviation network, from which it will take time to recover,” it said.

It apologised for the disruptions and urged people to check their flight’s status before leaving.

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Flightradar24 says 1,300 flights cancelled

Flight monitoring website Flightradar24 said 1,300 flights had been cancelled to and from UK airports on Tuesday after a system issue hit Nats, which provides air traffic control services to 15 UK airports.

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The website added that 177 flights were cancelled early on Wednesday, nearly all of which were at Heathrow Airport.

Ryanair said more than 65,000 of its passengers had been disrupted and it had cancelled more than 50 scheduled flights.

The boss of an air traffic control provider will speak to the Transport Secretary on Wednesday as disruption is set to continue.

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Former F1 driver made to wait nine hours on BA flight

Great work BA and Heathrow 😡 Nine hours and counting sitting on a plane which has travelled nowhere. At a remote parking bay, no food throughout, and mother/baby and a person with a medical condition desperate to get off. As is everyone else. Toilets no longer available as…

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Air traffic boss insists Nats is fit for purpose

Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of Nats, has said the organisation’s systems are fit for purpose follow calls for a review.

He told the BBC that the focus was now “about recovery” and they are “having a full investigation” into what went wrong.

Asked if an incident like this showed Nats’ systems aren’t fit for purpose, he responds: “I don’t think so, no.

“Whilst we never want these things to happen – and I absolutely apologise for the fact it has happened today – I do think we’re fit for purpose.”

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He has faced calls from Ryanair’s chief operating officer.

Asked if he was considering his position, he told the broadcaster: “I’m obviously focusing on making sure that we get this solved.

“My focus today has been making sure the team’s in the right place, we have the right resources, the technical issues are being investigated, and the recovery happens.

“There’ll be lots of time for that later, but that’s not now.”

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Heathrow suspends arrivals for rest of night

Heathrow said it has suspended arrivals for the rest of Tuesday after technical issues at an air traffic control provider caused huge disruption to flights.

Nats, which provides air traffic control services to 15 UK airports, said in a statement that recovery had “taken longer than we had hoped” but the issues had been resolved.

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In a statement on X, Heathrow said: “Arrivals into Heathrow have been suspended for the remainder of Tuesday 8 September to ensure the safety of our passengers and colleagues.

“Departures have resumed, but disruption is expected to continue, so we advise passengers to check with their airline for the latest flight information before travelling to the airport.

“We apologise to those affected and are supporting our local NATS team and airline partners as they work through the resulting disruption.”

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Air traffic boss takes ‘full responsibility’ after thousands face flight chaos

The boss of Nats has said he accepts “full responsibility” for the technical issue that caused mass disruption to flights across the UK on Tuesday.

Asked on Sky News whether he accepted responsibility for the incident, Martin Rolfe, the chief executive officer, said: “I always accept full responsibility.

“I am the CEO of a piece of critical infrastructure, so it is my job to take responsibility for that.“

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What I absolutely take responsibility for is keeping people safe and delivering the best service we possibly can on a day like today.

“You will understand my focus is entirely about how we actually resolve this issue, get things back to normal, help our airlines, our airport customers and the travelling public.”

Mr Rolfe has been under fire from Wizz Air and Ryanair after the latest issue which saw some passengers trapped on planes on runways for hours.

Neal McMahon, Ryanair’s chief operating officer, called on Mr Rolfe to resign, saying: “How many more failures do passengers have to suffer before overpaid failure Nats CEO Martin Rolfe accepts responsibility for his repeated mismanagement and resigns?”

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More than 1,000 flights cancelled across UK

Inbound flights to London airports + Manchester + Birmingham looking very different tonight compared to last Tuesday.

More than 1,000 flights have been canceled at UK airports following a technical failure at a NATS ATC facility earlier today. pic.twitter.com/9HU2Rv7PSY

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) September 8, 2026

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Astronauts who undergo long-duration spaceflight aboard the International Space Station often return with health problems that resemble some age-related conditions in people on Earth.

Remarkably, some of this decline reverses within months of their return but others persist. This raises an intriguing question: what can be learned from these rapid changes and could they help prevent or reverse aspects of age-related decline on Earth?

That question has turned space into a laboratory for ageing research. Spaceflight reproduces many features of ageing. Astronauts also experience unusual conditions, including very low gravity, increased radiation and disrupted sleep. Even so, changes that usually develop over decades on Earth can appear within weeks or months in space, giving scientists an opportunity to observe some ageing-related processes in fast-forward.

A 2026 study, which tracked four astronauts during the nine-day Axiom-2 mission, examined chemical markers attached to DNA that can be used to estimate biological age. This is an estimate of how old the body appears to be based on molecular changes, rather than the number of years a person has lived.

The astronauts’ estimated biological age increased during the mission and began to fall after they returned to Earth. This does not mean that they physically aged by years in a matter of days. With only four participants, the study cannot provide firm conclusions, but it shows how rapidly the body can respond to the conditions of spaceflight.

Why would leaving gravity behind affect the body in ways that resemble ageing? On Earth, muscles, bones, and the cardiovascular system and other organs are adapted to function under the constant pull of gravity. That continual mechanical load helps keep these systems healthy, although their function often declines later in life. In space, many of those demands disappear.

When muscles age in fast-forward

Skeletal muscle provides one of the clearest examples. Astronauts lose muscle mass and strength at a startling rate in very low gravity, even while exercising for around two hours a day to attempt to limit the effects.

Some of the biological processes involved may overlap with those associated with sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle strength and mass that increases the risk of frailty, falls and loss of independence.

Scientists are still working out how closely muscle loss in space resembles sarcopenia, because similar effects can arise through different biological processes. The crucial difference is timescale. That compression is exactly what drew our team to space.

Through our UK Space Agency-funded MicroAge mission, we sent lab-grown human muscle constructs to the International Space Station.

These miniature muscles, roughly the size of a grain of rice, were engineered from human muscle stem cells. Using lab-grown tissue, rather than relying solely on the limited number of astronauts available for study, allowed us to compare muscle adaptations in very low gravity with those seen during ageing on Earth. It also allowed us to carry out early tests of possible ways to protect muscle. If some of the same mechanisms are involved in both settings, space could provide a useful opportunity to study years of biological change over the course of months for a single mission.

Our follow-up mission, MicroAge II, will explore the biology of this decline in greater detail. It focuses on mitochondria, the structures inside cells that produce most of the energy those cells need. Problems with mitochondria are recognised as one process involved in muscle ageing on Earth.

MicroAge II will investigate whether similar changes to their structure and function also contribute to rapid muscle loss in space. Why does any of this have significance beyond the space station?

Loss of muscle mass and function is one of the most consequential aspects of growing older. It underlies frailty, falls and the loss of independence that many people fear, yet effective treatments remain limited. Testing potential interventions in populations that age over decades is inevitably slow. Space research will hopefully help scientists identify relevant biological processes and test early ideas more rapidly.

Experiments in space cannot replace final clinical studies involving older people, however. Any treatment suggested by this work would still require extensive testing on Earth to establish whether it is safe and effective but would identify potential drug candidates far more quickly.

The CEO of the UK’s air traffic control service faced calls to resign last night after a technical issue sent the country’s airports into turmoil. 

More than 1,000 departures and arrivals were cancelled on Tuesday after the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) reported an issue with its ‘flight processing system’. 

It sparked chaos at a dozen major airports – including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham – as scores of planes were grounded and holidaymakers left stranded. 

Pictures showed huge queues spilling out of terminals across the country as passengers scrambled to find alternative routes. 

One instance saw holidaymakers flying from Heathrow to New York stranded on the runway for as long as nine hours.  

British Airways, meanwhile, revealed it was forced to cancel or divert more than 100 flights on Tuesday in a decision which impacted ‘tens of thousands of customers’. 

Disruption is now expected to last for days as airlines try to find alternative routes home for customers, pilots and cabin crew members stuck in hotels abroad. The precise cause of the disruption is, however, yet to have been made clear. 

The ordeal prompted calls for NATS chief Martin Rolfe, who is paid £ 1.5 million a year, to resign after a string of similar issues in previous years cost airlines millions. 

Thousands of passengers were left stranded at Heathrow after having their flights delayed or cancelled

Images showed queues spilling out of terminals across the country after the chaos unfolded yesterday afternoon

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Ryanair COO Neal McMahon said more than 65,000 of the company’s passengers had been affected before dubbing Mr Rolfe an ‘overpaid failure’. 

He fumed: ‘The UK Government, the CAA and the NATS Board must stop making excuses for repeated NATS failures and appoint a new leader capable of running the UK ATC system without repeated failures. It’s time for overpaid failure Martin Rolfe to go.’ 

Wizz Air later joined the Irish airline in its criticism of NATS, saying it was ‘extremely disappointed’ that yet another technical issue had plunged the country’s airports into turmoil. 

‘A critical national infrastructure provider should not repeatedly bring the aviation system to a standstill,’ the airline’s social media page posted. ‘NATS is simply not fit for purpose in its current form.’ 

It came before Shadow Transport Minister Greg Smith also took aim at the service, which is 49 per cent Government-owned. 

He said: ‘Yet again passengers are stuck on the tarmac wondering why Britain cannot keep its own skies open. The Government and NATS must explain what has happened and how they will make sure resilience is improved.’

Mr Rolfe will meet with Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander on Wednesday morning, hours after he appeared on Sky News to apologise for NATS’ latest blunder.

Only last year, more than 150 flights were cancelled when a malfunction left air traffic controllers at a centre in Swanwick, Hampshire, with only a patchy view of the airspace. 

And in August 2023, a NATS technical glitch saw more than 700,000 passengers have their flights delayed or cancelled.

Mr Rolfe apologised for the inconvenience that NATS caused thousands of passengers yesterday during an appearance on Sky News, describing the ordeal as ‘unfortunate’. 

‘I am the CEO of a piece of critical infrastructure,’ he said. ‘So it is my job to take responsibility for that.

A woman is seen rummaging through her suitcase after dozens of flights out of Stansted Airport were cancelled

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British Airways planes are seen grounded at Heathrow on Tuesday afternoon following the technical issue

‘What I absolutely take responsibility for is keeping people safe and delivering the best service we possibly can on a day like today. 

‘You will understand my focus is entirely about how we actually resolve the issue, get things back to normal, help our airlines, our airport customers and the travelling public.’ 

He added that the service does ‘not yet have an idea’ of what caused the disruption. 

It was estimated that 352 flights to and from Heathrow were delayed yesterday out of its daily average of about 1,300, while 281 Gatwick flights were delayed out of an 850 daily average. This was 249 out of 650 for Manchester, and 101 out of 300 for Birmingham.

In its latest statement issued on Tuesday night, NATS admitted that ‘it will take time’ to recover from the disruption its blunder caused. 

It continued: ‘Work is continuing to assist airlines and airports recover from today’s disruption.

‘This has been a very complex recovery and has created difficulties for the whole aviation network, from which it will take time to recover. 

‘We apologise again for the disruption caused. Passengers should check with their airline on the status of their flight tonight or tomorrow.’

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