‘You don’t need to be an expert to support someone who’s struggling’: Prince William launches initiative about suicide prevention through the power of sport
The Prince of Wales will today launch a landmark new initiative to raise awareness about suicide prevention through the power of sport.
He has joined forces with stars including England captain Harry Kane, F1’s George Russell, footballer Alan Shearer, Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes and cycling stars Sir Jason and Dame Laura Kenny to create a new On Your Side ‘toolkit’, a practical guide enabling people to spot the warning signs better, as well as build knowledge and confidence to offer more timely support.
Suicide is the single biggest killer of men under the age of 50 in the UK.
And while the future king’s initiative is designed to help both sexes, it is hoped that sport will provide a new way of reaching those men who traditionally find it difficult to talk about their emotions or reach out for help.
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In a speech at Everton football club today, on World Suicide Prevention Day, William will say: ‘My hope is that every sporting organisation in the country will look at what is being launched today and ask a question: “What more can we do?”
‘Because the opportunity before us is enormous. Sport has the ability to reach people who may never walk through the door of a mental healthcare service.
‘People who may never seek support themselves and may be struggling in silence. The sporting community can change that.’
As well as the practical guide, which will be distributed to sporting organisations both grassroots and professional the length and breadth of the country, stars including Kane and Russell have recorded a special film with the prince showcasing the power of having a conversation about suicide.
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Prince William pictured on World Suicide Prevention Day at Principality Stadium on September 10, 2025 in Cardiff, Wales
Today William will host an event at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool, the home of Everton Football Club, attended by representatives from across the sports world and well-known figures including Dame Kelly Holmes, Gabby Logan, Campbell Hatton, Jill Scott and Dame Laura Kenny
Leaders from major sports organisations will also announce details of their commitments to the initiative.
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The Football Association, of which the prince is Patron, will commit to embedding the toolkit across its entire organisation, as well as its community and grassroots football network.
The Premier League and British Cycling will announce their commitment to prioritising suicide prevention across their organisations, and Team GB will use the resource with all athletes and staff.
In addition, over a dozen other sports organisations have signed up to become champions of the toolkit, committing to embedding practical, evidence-based suicide prevention techniques across their organisation, using the resource to strengthen their approach and help inspire wider action across all sports.
The initiative is the result of a collaboration between William’s charitable arm, The Royal Foundation, the British Standards Institution and the charity Chasing the Stigma.
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Hazel Detsiny, Executive Director of The Royal Foundation, said: ‘This toolkit is the first of its kind, uniting the sector across all sports and at every level, with the aim of bringing about meaningful change.
‘Sport can be a powerful force for connection and support, and everyone engaged in sport has the power to make a difference to those at risk of suicide.
‘Research commissioned by The Royal Foundation shows that the sports sector has the potential to be a powerful platform for suicide prevention but is hampered by stigma – particularly among men and elite athletes – as well as gaps in skills, knowledge and resources.
‘The findings show strong goodwill and pockets of effective practice across sport, but that the sector’s scale and diversity mean activity is often siloed, inconsistent, and unevenly resourced. At grassroots level, many clubs lack clear guidance on how to recognise risk and respond appropriately.’
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The toolkit explains how to create safe and supportive environments where people feel able to speak up and support others in distress, including outlining appropriate language and providing conversation starters.
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It also hopes to make suicide prevention part of everyday practice, including policies and ways of working.
Footballer Alan Shearer suddenly lost his best friend and ex-Newcastle teammate, Gary Speed, in 2011.
The two men had seen each other just hours before his death and had been planning a holiday together when Wales manager Speed apparently took his own life at the age of just 42.
He said: ‘For me this is obviously very personal and it feels particularly poignant that it is being launched at Everton, a club that meant so much to Gary Speed.
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‘We can’t all know when somebody is struggling but we can all be better at asking and listening and helping someone find the right support.
‘That’s what On Your Side is all about, giving people across sport practical advice to help start those conversations. Prince William has done a huge amount around mental health and support.
‘You don’t have to be an expert, you don’t have to have all the answers, but I hope that everyone in sport will use the toolkit. We can all be on the same side.’
A spokesman for the Prince of Wales said it was well known that he has worked for many years to support changing the national conversation on mental health and this was a development of that.
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‘The prince is very passionate about sport and truly believes in its ability to bring people together,’ they said.
He has already invested £1 million of his charity’s funds to set up a national suicide prevention network.
Pelicans have resided in St James’s Park, London for 360 years. But the current flock have been a summer sensation due to the first hatching of chicks in the park’s history.
Pelican breeding in zoos is demanding for these birds, because the right environmental and social conditions need to come together. Rather than simply being comfortable, the birds need to encounter and respond to cues that stimulate courtship, nesting and reproduction.
This unusual nesting at St James’s Park provides an interesting example of how responding to biologically relevant stressors is a positive part of an animal’s life. Multiple factors are likely to have contributed to the pelican nesting. The heatwave, the flock’s dynamics and the compatibility of the individual birds seem to have created the right conditions for the first time in centuries.
Four pelican chicks have hatched in St. James’s Park, marking the first time the park has ever welcomed the pitter patter of tiny pelican feet. Nick Burnham/Samuel Bonham
In my recent research, I evaluated the importance of positive stress to zoo and aquarium animal welfare and found it is crucial for the wellbeing of captive animals.
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Researchers call the beneficial response to a stressor, “eustress” – eu being the Greek prefix for good.
Courtship, reproduction and chick-rearing are all natural stressors. Priorities change, energetic and physical needs alter, and adults spend more time on offspring. This stress, however, is not necessarily bad. For example it can provide learning opportunities and enhance the animals’ behavioural repertoire.
As we learn more about what good animal welfare is, it is becoming clear that meaningful challenges which reflect an animal’s natural ecology help them have more autonomy over how they live. Eustress also helps animals cope better with averse situations.
Zoos do not need dramatic changes to provide these experiences. Small challenges can be built into everyday care: food can be hidden in different locations, or new scents and natural materials introduced. Animals can encounter new ground materials and surfaces (such as soil, bark and sand), changes to ropes or branches, or vegetation that naturally changes with the seasons. Enrichment can also encourage animals to explore different parts of their existing enclosure or use familiar resources in new ways.
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All pelican chicks start out dark brown/grey, turning white (or the adult colours they are for that species) over a couple of years. Paul Rose, Author provided (no reuse)
Variation is key. If food always appears in the same place, at the same time and in the same way, there is little need for an animal to make decisions or adapt.
Many zoos already provide these opportunities. The next step is to think more deliberately about the challenge itself: is it meaningful, does the animal have a choice about engaging, and can it successfully overcome it? The aim is not to make life unnecessarily difficult but for animals encounter novelty or problems they can solve.
Rather than simply giving an animal what it needs to survive, we should provide opportunities for the animal to use their skills and make decisions.
What might this look like at your local zoo then? Meerkats (Suricata suricatta) are one example. Wild meerkats do not encounter their food neatly presented in a bowl. They need to sniff, dig and investigate their surroundings, while members of the mob keeps watch for danger.
Finding food is also a social challenge for these animals. Young meerkats learn about unfamiliar foods by observing and interacting with more experienced adults. Older meerkats help youngsters acquire important food handling skills.
Zoos can recreate elements of these challenges by scattering or hiding food, providing a sandy floor that encourages digging and creating elevated lookout points. Likewise, zoos can encourage social opportunities by providing complex feeding experiences where animals forage together. A 2021 study found that zoo meerkats retain the sentinel behaviour seen in their wild counterparts, suggesting that opportunities to perform these sort of activity remains important even when predators are absent.
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The same principles apply underwater. Common clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) also encounter environmental and social challenges. On coral reefs, clownfish forage in a complex three-dimensional environment and depend on a host anemone for protection. They live in a strict social hierarchy. The largest fish is the dominant female, followed by the breeding male and then smaller, non-breeding fish. This social group is known as as a “queue”, as subordinate fish can move up through the hierarchy. In the aquarium, recreating this social group by housing a shoal of clownfish around the correct host anemone species allows for more choice and for fish to express a richer behavioural repertoire.
This brings us back to St James’s Park’s pelicans. Successful breeding has introduced perhaps the most natural challenge of all. Finding a partner and rearing young to maturity requires animals to change how they spend their time and respond to altered demands. When animals work for a reward, scientists call this contrafreeloading.
However, zoo animals can experience negative stress when a stressor is prolonged, overwhelming, unnatural or beyond their control. Examples can be excessive noise, incorrect climate conditions or being unable to retreat from something they find threatening.
The lesson for zoos is a good life should not necessarily be an entirely effortless one. Welfare is enhanced when animals can express behaviour their evolutionary history has equipped them to perform. Eustress is not giving every zoo animal the same kind of “challenging enrichment”. The challenge needs to make biological sense for that particular species.
A chaplain who used a sermon to tell pupils they did not have to believe in “LGBT stuff” has reached a legal agreement with the school that dismissed him.
Rev Bernard Randall was sacked by Trent College in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in 2019, two months after the sermon. He appealed and his dismissal, external was overturned, but he was later made redundant after refusing reduced hours.
After losing an unfair dismissal claim, his case had been set for a new tribunal over possible bias on the panel that made the ruling, and Trent College was ordered to pay Randall about £20,000 in costs, according to a court document.
Advocacy group Christian Concern said a confidential settlement had since been reached.
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An employment tribunal heard Randall opposed parts of a programme the school was implementing to try to improve LGBT inclusivity.
Randall told the tribunal he believed elements of the programme – devised by charity Educate and Celebrate – were Marxist, revolutionary, atheist and incompatible with Christian values.
He said some of the terminology within the programme was “ideologically loaded and misleading”, and he highlighted phrases such as “sex assigned at birth” and “cisgender”.
Randall told the tribunal: “Educate and Celebrate went beyond a neutral stance of inclusivity into the implantation of ideas I consider to be identity politics.”
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He said he was inspired to write the sermon, delivered in June 2019 to pupils aged between 11 and 17, after he was asked by a sixth-form pupil: “Sir, how come we are told we have to accept all this LGBT stuff in a Christian school?”
Randall included the question within the sermon, which he said concerned school leaders.
He also said, in his sermon: “You do not have to accept the ideas of LGBT activists.”
Christian Concern said Randall’s sermon reflected the Church of England’s teaching on marriage, but it triggered complaints from some pupils, parents and staff members, who said it nearly left them in tears.
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Randall was removed from his role as chaplain at the fee-paying boarding school and reported to the government counter-terrorism watchdog Prevent.
The Derby Telegraph reported, external Randall appealed against his dismissal, which was overturned, but he was given a final warning. Trent College then informed Randall it wanted to reduce the chaplaincy role to seven hours, term-time only, which he did not accept and was therefore made redundant.
Around 10% of the UK economy operates off the books. That means billions of pounds worth of cash-in-hand payments that never get taxed.
But all of that cash isn’t necessarily being handled by career criminals. Much of it is being earned by the hard work of painters and decorators, hairdressers or landscape gardeners.
Many of these workers will have started off using cash payments as a springboard – a cheap, low-risk way to test whether a business idea works before committing to the formalities (and costs) of making everything official.
But sometimes these businesses end up trapped in the “informal” or “hidden” economy – not because of personal greed or an aversion to paying tax, but because they can’t afford to lose the customers that helped them get started in the first place.
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Our research highlighted the problems workers face as they set out intending to build a fully legal and legitimate tax-paying business.
Many cash-in-hand businesses win their first customers – who may be supportive neighbours or friends – by being cheap. Working in cash, without the tax and overheads a registered business has to carry, they can undercut everyone else.
Those prices then become expected and lead to word-of-mouth recommendations. As one self-employed plasterer told us: “At the start I kept the price low just to get work, to build it up. But now people expect that [same] price.
“If I raise it, they’ll go somewhere else. It’s hard to change it once you’re known for being cheap.”
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A heating engineer commented: “Initially, I did build a good customer base, but now I know [it was] because I was so cheap. I wasn’t accounting for tax and all that.”
Trust and reputation can grow by being a familiar, reliable face in the neighbourhood. As one painter and decorator explained: “I didn’t need a website or anything. People know me around here, they knew I’d do a good job. That’s how I got work, just word of mouth. That’s all I needed.”
A cash-in-hand economy runs on trust, reputation and identity – which is precisely why lots of businesses don’t manage to leave it behind.
Becoming an “official” business can feel like breaking faith with the people who vouched for you, or like turning into a business you never set out to run. This became problematic for a lot of the businesses in our study.
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As one business owner who works in car repairs put it: “People know you because you’re one of them. Once you try and go bigger, that changes.”
Some of our interviewees saw the formal system as having been built for someone else. One told us: “I’ve seen lads go legit and get hammered by the tax man for one [accounting] mistake. I don’t trust it. I pay my dues in other ways – doing good work, looking after the lads I work with. That’s how we survive.”
Regardless of the rationale for operating in the cash-in-hand economy, staying informal was not seen as a comfortable or easy choice.
One business owner who eventually registered described life off the books as being “on edge all the time”. But for most, the pull of the community outweighed the push of the risk.
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Their legitimacy came from their neighbours, not from HMRC, and they protected the version that paid them.
Trust and identity
Government policy treats going legitimate as an administrative step, but our research suggests it is actually more of a social transition. It asks the business owner to reprice every relationship they have, and to change who they are in their community. Support schemes that ignore this will keep failing.
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If it takes a village to raise a child, something similar is true of small businesses. The first customers, the word-of-mouth referrals, the neighbour who vouches for you all help a new business get going. But the same village which has raised that business can also hold it back.
The UK government estimates the hidden economy accounts for around 6% of the country’s £59.2 billion annual tax gap.
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Our research points to two things that could make a big difference. One would be a phased route into formality, where tax and compliance obligations build up gradually, softening the income shock that all-or-nothing registration creates.
Secondly, support needs to reach people through channels they already trust, such as trade networks, suppliers and peers, rather than official letters from institutions they avoid.
Leaving the cash economy is much more than a change of paperwork – it is a change of identity. And that is why so few ever fully make it.
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And after another summer of impressive recruitment, Mikel Arteta’s side will expect to reach the latter stages of the competition once again this time around.
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However, two-time Champions League winner McManaman believes that defending champions PSG and Spanish giants Barcelona are both likelier winners of this season’s competition.
Speaking on TNT Sports, he said: ‘PSG are favourites of course because they’ve won it the last two years.
Martin Odegaard scored as Arsenal beat Napoli (Picture: Shutterstock)
‘I think Barcelona are very strong, they’ve been excellent in La Liga. They look as if they’re going to score every time they go forward and they’ve got six forwards at the moment, which helps them.
‘They’re up there certainly, they’ve improved from last year so they’ll be close.’
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PSG got their defence underway with a comfortable 6-1 win over Slovan Bratislava, while Barcelona looked equally impressive in their 5-1 victory over Feyenoord.
Defending champions PSG got underway with a comfortable win (Picture: EPA)
Elsewhere, Liverpool picked up their first European victory under Andoni Iraola with a 2-1 comeback victory over Atletico Madrid.
Bradley Barcola made his first start since his big-money move from PSG, but McManaman doesn’t believe the Frenchman’s arrival will automatically turn Liverpool into Champions League contenders.
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‘I think he makes them better, he’s shown what he can do in a PSG shirt and won the Champions League a couple of times, so we know he’s got experience,’ McManaman added.
‘I think he can make Liverpool’s starting XI better but whether that makes them anywhere close to favourites I would probably doubt.
‘I think it’s a transitional year for Liverpool, and I think there will be a few ups and downs a bit like last year. I hope they improve on where they finished last year, but I don’t expect them to be challenging on all fronts.
‘I would have preferred them to have added a few more bodies into this side just to bulk up the squad with a little bit more experience, so I’m off that fence of hoping they qualify for the Champions League and have a good run domestically, I’d like them to really challenge for trophies in this country.’
As the new Telegraph Fantasy Football season approaches, the fantasy football experts at Fantasy Football Hub will continue to bring you the very best in fantasy football knowledge, tips and tools to help you rise up the ranks and win your mini-leagues.
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Telegraph Fantasy Football managers need to make compromises to fit in fantasy heavyweights like Erling Haaland (£8.3m) and Bruno Fernandes (6.5m). Picking some set-and-forget budget enablers who have either high point ceiling potential or will return a steady stream of points, is key to freeing up those funds.
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Below are five players the Fantasy Football Hub experts have highlighted for consideration.
Brian Brobbey (£3.3m)
The Sunderland forward had a steady Premier League debut season, netting seven times and helping the Black Cats qualify for the Europa League. The Dutch international netted three times at the World Cup, improving his stock further, and will be looking to get off to a goal-scoring start against Ipswich and Fulham in GWs 1 and 2.
Enzo Le Fee (£3.3m)
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Depending on the formation TFF managers are using, Brobbey’s midfield teammate at the same price may be the preferred route to target those opening fixtures. The 26-year-old accrued 12 attacking returns last season, and bumped up his overall score with an impressive 93 tackles.
Harry Wilson (£3.2m)
The midfielder swapped London for Yorkshire in the summer, as he looks to expand on a whopping 17 attacking returns from last season. Feeding the rejuvenated Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£3.9m), and adding goals from midfield for Leeds will be two primary objectives for the Welsh international, who could make a mockery of his mere marginal price increase.
James Trafford (£3.0m)
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Another Leeds United summer acquisition, Daniel Farke fought off rival Premier League suitors to land the ex-Manchester City shot-stopper. Leeds United have a mixed bag in terms of opening fixture difficulty, but do have three home league games in the first five before the international break, and the new no.1 has an outside chance of getting the nod in the Carabao Cup games too, so there are points available should the Whites be able to shut out the opposition.
James Hill (£2.6m)
If looking to fit in more big-hitters, a sub £3m player can be extremely useful for team balance, and the Bournemouth defender looks assured of starting having played a pivotal role in getting the Cherries into Europe this season.
Neal Flanagan, right, a research scientist at Duke University, uses a tool to take a soil sample from a peatland as Curt Richardson, an ecology professor at Duke, observes Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Belhaven, N.C. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
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NEW YORK (AP) — A major American aid group is promising to deliver more medicines in high-need areas around the world after receiving its largest ever donation.
Americares, a nonprofit that supports thousands of health centers globally, announced a $50 million gift Wednesday from an unidentified Connecticut family. The contribution represents an unusual expansion at a time when the United States’ sudden aid cuts have hamstrung programs ranging from maternal and child health to HIV treatment and prevention.
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“They definitely understood the moment and wanted to do more to respond to that,” Christine Squires, the president and CEO of Americares, said of the donor.
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Global health of all USAID’s targets has received much of the attention from big donors, according to Susan Appe, a University at Albany associate professor of public administration and policy who has researched how nonprofits deal with the changing whims of donor countries. That’s reasonable, she said, considering “lives are on the line.” Jeff Bezos’ parents, for example, committed up to $500 million last March for UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund.
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Experts agree that high-net-worth donors could never save every program lost by the billions of dollars cut from U.S. spending on global health. But there was an expectation that more philanthropists would step up to support the causes advanced by USAID.
“I think that a lot of philanthropy scholars like myself have been a bit disappointed with the lag of response,” Appe said. “It’s kind of, to some degree, business as usual.”
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Americares, which Squires said had received about 10% of its funding from the U.S. government before the aid cuts, certainly felt the impact. Among their efforts that lost support last year was a maternal care project in Tanzania. Colombian medical clinics serving Venezuelan migrants closed after private funders kept them afloat for several months. A planned five-year collaboration to build a more robust medical supply chain across Gaza had to be scrapped.
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Squires considers the group fortunate to have a robust-enough network that it now receives all of its funding from a mix of individual donors, corporations and private foundations. That’s important as the group responds to more than 20 emergencies including the Nepal floods and the Congo’s Ebola outbreak.
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In this particular case, Squires said the donor’s family has been involved with Americares for 30 years. They’re “very savvy” in their understanding of global health, she said.
Half of the new gift will power its goal to help 100 million people access quality healthcare by 2030 “in a time when that need is increasing,” according to Squires. That work involves providing additional medical supplies to their network of more than 4,000 health centers. They will focus especially on countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Latin America that lack funding and awareness. Americares also plans to increase support for U.S. health centers in states where they expect to see more residents without health insurance.
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The other half will go toward Americares’ endowment, Squires said. She hopes the news of its record donation will inspire others. Investments of that size show “there are people who trust,” she said, in both Americares and the humanitarian sector overall.
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“It’s not only up to individuals,” she said. “However, individuals who have the means, who have the passion and can invest like this, will help to bring others along. So, I’m excited and hopeful that this will spark more giving across the board.”
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The Samaritans charity, which offers support to people who are struggling, said earlier this week it wanted to let people know that suicidal thoughts “can be interrupted” by other people – and that rather than being concerned with saying “the perfect thing”, it is better just ask if someone is okay.
Arsenal are focused on achieving their season aims but have been called out for a decision made during the transfer window
Arsenal have assembled a strong squad but the effects of the summer transfer window are still being felt long after deadline day. Manager Mikel Arteta has a formidable array of players at his disposal as the club aim to retain the Premier League title and take the final leap in the Champions League.
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New signings Ezri Konsa, Bruno Guimaraes and Christos Tzolis prove that the Gunners were recruiting from a position of strength, with the trio bolstering the spine of the team. However, Arteta was also forced to make several difficult calls in the transfer market.
These decisions included selling Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Martinelli to Besiktas and Al-Hilal, respectively. In a further change to the club’s forward line, Gabriel Jesus signed for Barcelona and has since discussed the end of his time at Arsenal.
Meanwhile, top prospect Ethan Nwaneri was loaned out to Borussia Dortmund and the teenager has faced an unusual situation shortly after joining the German side. Here, Mirror Football looks at some of the biggest stories surrounding the Gunners.
Gabriel Jesus punished by Mikel Arteta
Former Arsenal striker Jesus has revealed that he was made to train alone before completing his move to Barcelona. After leaving the 29-year-old out of the Community Shield last month, Arteta had insisted that Jesus was an important part of his squad. However, this stance quickly changed as the Brazilian was seemingly punished when he appeared to be moving away from the club.
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“So, the truth is, I was training, I did all the pre-season with Arsenal as normal. Obviously, I knew already that probably I would not play there or get many opportunities, but nobody told me nothing,” Jesus told SportyTV. “Well, I am a professional. Obviously, I was training with the group.
“Then, from nothing, they put me to train away from the group. Well, I was training, I was doing my maximum to be ready if I have a chance to play at a high level again. Then, obviously, in the last week, it was very quick.
“The work with Deco, the president of the club, and my agent was amazing. In one day, it was sure that I would have the opportunity to come (to Barcelona). I said yes, straight away, no matter what, and I am so happy to be here.”
Once Jesus had joined Barcelona, Arteta spoke glowingly about the striker: “Gabi’s gone to Barcelona, which I take the opportunity as well to give him a huge thank you. He was a massive contributor for us to change the dynamic and the energy in and around this club. I think when Gabi came in he brought this energy, this belief within, this aura, that’s really helped achieve what happened next.”
However, Kovac dismissed any suggestion that his potentially embarrassing call was a reflection on Nwaneri’s performance, having helped Dortmund to a 3-2 win over Villarreal on Tuesday. “He gave everything. If he had started the game, he probably would have come off around the 60th minute,” Kovac explained.
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Asked if the substitution was tied to Nwaneri’s display, the Dortmund manager added: “Quite the opposite, he was really good. It was great that he was able to have an impact on the team in such a short time.”
The Arsenal teenager played 55 minutes in total after coming on for Karetsas in the first half before being replaced by Carney Chukwuemeka with a few minutes to go. He recently registered an assist in his Bundesliga debut and will hope to continue having a positive impact during his loan spell.
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Princess Andre jokes she was ‘really living up to her name’ after stunning appearance at the NTAs as she leaves Katie Price out of latest Instagram after her mum ‘hijacked’ her big night
Princess Andre joked she was ‘really living up to her name’ as she shared an array of snaps from her stunning appearance at the National Television Awards on Tuesday.
The TV star, 19, took to Instagram to celebrate the evening as she showed off her glitzy blue ball gown and shared a snap with her brother Junior.
However Princess left Katie out of the collection of pics, after it was revealed her mum ‘hijacked’ her big red carpet moment by surprising the teenager who was ‘forced’ to pose with her mother.
Taking to her social media, Princess shared a transformation video as she went from her casual comfy clothes to the sparkly dress.
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She captioned the snap: ‘Really was living up to my name at the NTAs last night.’
Meanwhile in a post later in the day she shared a professional solo shot and one with her brother, 21, but none with Katie.
Princess Andre joked she was ‘really living up to her name’ as she shared an array of snaps from her stunning appearance at the National Television Awards on Tuesday
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However Princess left Katie out of the collection of pics, after it was revealed her mum ‘hijacked’ the moment by surprising the teenager who was ‘forced’ to pose with her mother
Meanwhile in a post later in the day she shared a professional solo shot and one with her brother, 21, but none with Katie
Elsewhere over on Katie’s Instagram she dedicated a post to her children as she shared a snap of the pair and penned: ‘NTAs with Junior & Princess.’
It comes after the Daily Mail revealed the reality star, 48, unexpectedly rocked up to the TV awards at London’s O2 Arena in what was her first public appearance since her split from Lee Andrews.
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It is understood she was a guest in the box of a tabloid newspaper rather than a television network.
Princess, who was walking the carpet with her elder brother Junior to promote the upcoming series of her hit reality show The Princess Diaries on ITVX, was not due to attend with Katie.
A source close to Princess, 19, said: ‘She and Junior had no choice. Katie walked straight on to the red carpet to stand with her and hijacked her big moment.’
Princess, who wore a light-blue ballgown, was ‘forced’ to pose next to her mother who sported a white shirt, a pair of lace mini shorts and tights.
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One onlooker told the Daily Mail: ‘Katie turned up well after the kids to the O2 by herself. Princess and Junior had an escort up the carpet, it had all been organised, and they spent ages speaking to the Press individually.
‘It took them so long that they hadn’t made it far down the carpet when Katie pulled up wearing heavy make-up.
‘She skipped out all the Press and strode straight over to them and grabbed them for a picture.’
Junior and Princess, aged 21 and 19, are Katie’s children from her marriage to singer turned reality star Peter Andre. They are said to have struggled at times with their mother’s erratic behaviour.
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A source close to Princess, 19, said: ‘She and Junior had no choice. Katie walked straight on to the red carpet to stand with her and hijacked her big moment’
They were understood to have been deeply worried about her relationship with conman Andrews, whom she claimed to have married in January but appears to now be a sham.
Katie shocked fans with a scary heavy makeup look as she turned heads at the event – after revealing earlier in the day that she had been left with a black eye after getting face filler and new breast implants just hours before.
Despite her latest cosmetic procedures, Katie was determined to still attend the glamorous awards show in her first public appearance since she reportedly dumped husband Lee over text.
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Katie made sure to make an impact as she transformed her face with bold black eyeliner and highlight, before heavily lining her lips with brown gloss.
Covering up her new breast implants, she paired a long-sleeved white shirt with a very racy pair of nude and black lace shorts which she paired with black tights.
Completing the look with black heels, Katie gelled her hair back in a wet look and accessorised with large diamond Valentino earrings.
Katie didn’t appear in the first series of Princess’s ITV2 show, The Princess Diaries – her role was a mere WhatsApp voice note but she did join her daughter in her latest season of the programme.
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However, Peter’s wife Emily was present in the episodes.
A source close to the siblings recently told the Daily Mail: ‘Junior and Princess love their mum, they always will, but they find the whole circus of her life hard sometimes.’
Plans to give mayors in England the power to introduce a levy on tourists are expected to be outlined on Thursday.
Under the proposals, a fee would be charged to people staying overnight and local leaders would decide how the revenue raised should be reinvested.
The idea – dubbed the tourist tax – was first raised by Sir Keir Starmer’s government in November and is similar to a scheme running in Scotland.
The levy will be charged as a percentage of the cost of accommodation, rather than as a flat fee – a move the government argues will protect budget holidays.
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In theory, there will be no upper limit – though ministers are said to believe mayors are unlikely to make it too expensive.
The government will announce more details after the Housing Secretary Angela Rayner meets mayors on Thursday.
A government source said “it will be up to local leaders and local voters” in England “to decide what is right for their area”.
The Overnight Visitor Levy, which was outlined in the King’s Speech in May, means a holiday in England could become more expensive if local leaders decide to implement the tax.
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Sir Keir had planned to bring forward legislation to introduce the levy before he was replaced as prime minister by Andy Burnham but the bill has not been brought forward yet.
The prime minister has framed the policy as part of his wider devolution agenda, and No 10 previously said local leaders would be “able to set out plans for how revenues will be invested by March 2028”.
Burnham was mayor of Manchester when the city introduced the City Visitor Charge in April 2023 – a £1 per room, per night fee – to pay for measures aimed at attracting more visitors.
Regional mayors say the levy is needed to raise more income to invest in local priorities and support economic growth.
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These taxes are common in Europe and the rest of the world, with New York, Amsterdam and Rome applying overnight charges to accommodation stays to fund local services.
In Scotland local authorities can introduce a visitor levy on overnight accommodation set as a percentage rate.
Edinburgh became the first city there to introduce the tax in July, with those staying overnight in hotels, bed and breakfasts and self-catering accommodation charged an additional 5% on top of their original booking cost. However, the charge is capped at five nights.
Elsewhere in Scotland, a 5% levy in Glasgow is due to come into force from January 2027.
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In Wales, a capped levy of £1.30 per person per night is set to be introduced in April next year.
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