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The first medals of the Games will be awarded in Cortina with the women’s and men’s Para-Alpine skiing downhill events across all three categories – visually impaired, standing and sitting – at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre.

In the men’s visually impaired competition (09:50), Neil Simpson and his brother and guide Andrew will be hoping to make a solid start to their busy programme in what is probably not their strongest event, though they have had a couple of World Cup podium finishes this season.

Fred Warburton and James Hannan go in the same event at their first Paralympics.

Warburton is a former decathlete who was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition six years ago and only made his first race start in February 2025.

The women’s visually impaired race starts the programme at 08:30. This is not Menna Fitzpatrick and guide Katie Guest’s best event, though Fitzpatrick won a world title back in 2019.

Fitzpatrick, who is Britain’s most decorated Winter Paralympian with six medals, has recovered from a broken leg and knee injury over the past 18 months to compete in Italy while Guest will be making her Games debut after missing Beijing following a positive Covid test.

Simpson, Warburton, Fitzpatrick and all of their rivals in the VI categories will make their way down the course following a guide who communicates instructions via radio.

Canada’s Mollie Jepsen will defend her women’s standing title, but it is the participation of one of her main rivals – Varvara Voronchikhina – that has led to a lot of discussion.

The 23-year-old is one of the six Russians who will compete under their nation’s flags after the International Paralympic Committee lifted its ban on athletes from the two countries competing.

The Para-snowboard programme kicks off from 10:00 with snowboard cross qualifying to decide rankings before Sunday’s head-to-head elimination rounds.

Athletes race down a specially built course with features like banks, rollers and jumps. Each athlete has two runs with the best deciding their final ranking.

Scotland’s Davy Zyw, who is thought to be the first snowsport athlete with motor neurone disease (MND) – a degenerative neurological condition – to ever compete at the Games, will compete in the men’s UL (upper limb) event from 10:21.

Also in the event is James Barnes-Miller, who is appearing at his third Games, while Ollie Hill goes in the men’s LL2 (lower limb) from 11:03.

On day one of the Para-biathlon events, Scott Meenagh goes in what is probably his strongest event – the seated sprint over 7.5km (09:35) – with high hopes of a top-five finish.

At the wheelchair curling, the mixed doubles continues with GB facing world champions Japan (13:35), and it’s also the opening day of the mixed team event.

GB’s Hugh Nibloe, Karen Aspey, Austin McKenzie, Graeme Stewart and Stewart Pimblett start against Slovakia (08:35) who just missed out on a medal at the last Worlds, before taking on the USA (17:35).

Elsewhere, the Para-ice hockey gets under way with the big two – USA and Canada – up against Italy (16:05) and Slovakia (19:35).

Two people were arrested on suspicion of murder

An inquest has opened into the death of a man who was killed at a property in Wisbech. Atis Bleive, 37, was found dead at a house on Osborne Road in Wisbech on January 18, 2026.

Police were called at around 4pm with reports that a man was unresponsive at the property. Emergency services attended but the 37-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.

The inquest into his death opened on Thursday, March 5, by Ms Elizabeth Gray at Peterborough Town Hall. A post-mortem carried out into Atis’s death showed the victim died from a stab wound to the abdomen. An inquest date is pending police investigations.

A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder on the same day that the body was discovered. He was taken into custody and held for questioning at a police station in King’s Lynn.

A 44-year-old woman from Wisbech was arrested on suspicion of murder on the morning of January 20.

The final chapter in Prime Video’s science fiction epic is now just weeks away

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Fans of Prime Video’s grisly sci-fi show The Boys have just weeks to wait until the fifth and final instalment hits screens.

A trailer released last night (March 5) offered a glimpse at the spiralling action to come after Season 4 charted supervillain Homelander’s (Antony Starr) ascent to becoming the most powerful person in the world.

Not only does he now have control of the shady superhero-spawning company Vought International, but he treats the Oval Office like it’s his own living room. The next step? Chasing immortality.

Season 5 will see him seek out the very first iteration of the mutant-forming serum Compound V, which appears to grant the user immortality and even more potent powers. In the trailer, he states: “My power is absolute. At heights no one’s even dreamed of, but I have a bigger destiny.”

However, standing in his way is vigilante group The Boys who now have Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) among their ranks. Initially appearing in spin-off series Gen V, the powerful young superhero agreed to join the resistance at the end of Season 2, setting up the events of The Boys’ fifth series.

She joins Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and his group of rebels as they attempt to eradicate superheroes with a virus developed in secret at Marie’s own university. If used, Billy would die, as would his friends Starlight (Erin Moriarty), A-Train (Jessie T Usher) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara).

Prime Video’s synopsis for the upcoming season reads: “Homelander controls America through fascist terror, imprisoning dissenters in Freedom Camps. Butcher, Hughie, Annie and The Boys mount a desperate resistance against insurmountable odds to stop his tyrannical rule.”

When is The Boys Season 5 coming out?

Thankfully fans don’t have much longer to wait as the new season arrives on Prime Video on April 8. The first two episodes will be made available at once, with the rest of the episodes released weekly until the finale on May 20.

Reacting to the fresh trailer, one fan penned: “When this show is good it’s like some of the best TV out right now. The tonal whiplash is insane but I kinda love that I never know if I’m about to laugh, cry, or stare at the screen.”

A second joked: “Man it would be such a missed opportunity for them not to advertise this season as Season V.” A third remarked: “Please give Antony Starr an Emmy for his role as Homelander.”

The Boys Season 5 will be available to stream on Prime Video from April 8. For the latest showbiz, TV, movie and streaming news, go to the new **Everything Gossip** website.

Nigel Farage will meet with US president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida to deliver a stark message on the Chagos deal

Nigel Farage is heading to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to personally tell Donald Trump of his opposition to the Chagos deal, as the US president’s overt disregard for Keir Starmer puts the contentious islands agreement at serious risk.

The Reform UK leader revealed his dinner plans at Guido Fawkes’ Save Chagos Boat Party, where he projected an increasingly optimistic stance on the campaign to abolish the agreement.

“President Trump has almost understood the deal, but I will be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and we will reinforce the message,” he informed those gathered, reports the Mirror. For the biggest stories in Wales first sign up to our daily newsletter here

Farage didn’t hold back in his assessment of the Mauritius agreement, labelling it “the worst deal in history” and “an absolute betrayal”.

He urged supporters to sustain their efforts, stating: “We have got to keep fighting, we have got to keep the pressure up, we must not let our foot off this pedal, but for first time in this battle… this feels more than winnable.

“We think this is the central plan for this government’s foreign policy and we are beating them back.”

Farage’s trip to Florida arrives during a period of tension between Washington and Downing Street, with Trump openly and repeatedly ridiculing the Prime Minister over the UK’s handling of the Middle East war and the Chagos matter.

The trigger was Starmer’s original decision to block American strike operations from utilising RAF installations, including Diego Garcia.

Trump responded: “That island… It’s taken three, four days, for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours, so we are very surprised.

“This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with,” Trump added, having separately informed journalists that the Prime Minister had been “very uncooperative” and had “ruined relationships”.

His most damning assessment emerged when he allegedly branded Starmer as “a loser who has no future” – a characterisation that exceeded anything he had previously stated publicly about the Labour leader.

Discussing the Chagos agreement itself from the Oval Office, Trump observed: “I will say the UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have, that they gave away and took a 100-year lease; having to do with, perhaps, indigenous people claiming the island that never even saw the island before. What’s that all about?” He had previously mounted an initial assault on the agreement via Truth Social, where he labelled it an “act of great stupidity.”

Starmer eventually relented, allowing RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia for “limited defensive” US operations less than 48 hours after denying access. The reversal did little to calm tensions – the relationship between the two leaders, which had started on cautiously cordial terms, has now deteriorated into something considerably more hostile.

The peahen, a female peacock, was shot and killed

Police are on the hunt for three men who shot and killed a peahen with an air rifle. The incident happened at around 2.30am on March 3 on Higham Road in Gazeley, near Newmarket.

Three male suspects are reported to have entered private land, shone powerful torches into some trees, before discharging an air weapon. A peahen, a female peacock, was shot and killed as a result of the incident.

The suspects were travelling in a dark coloured car.

Suffolk Police are now urging anyone who recognises those featured on the CCTV image, or has any information on the incident, to get in contact with them quoting reference 37/12522/26.

You can contact Suffolk Police online, or by calling 101. Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

According to the Australian Government, there are currently more than 1.1 million Brits living in the country, drawn by the beautiful beaches, sunny weather, and generally higher standard of living

A British woman who has made a new life on Australia’s spectacular Gold Coast has revealed a “tricky situation” leaving her uncertain about what to do. But everyone on social media has said the same thing.

According to the Australian Government’s Department of Home Affairs, there are currently more than 1.1 million Brits living in the country, drawn by the beautiful beaches, sunny weather, and generally higher standard of living. This makes people born in the UK Australia’s largest migrant community, representing 14 per cent of foreign-born residents, and 4.3 per cent of the country’s total population.

Abs Roberts, who is living on the Gold Coast on the east of Australia, regularly posts content on TikTok, where she has more than 8,000 followers, about her life Down Under as a British ex-pat. In a recent video, she shared what she described as a “tricky situation”.

“Honestly, living my best life out here,” she said. “I absolutely love the lifestyle, I can never, ever see myself living back in my hometown, ever.

“The only thing that’s holding me back is family and friends. But I’m just in two minds. I’m like, I want to be here forever, I know that for a fact.”

Continuing, she said she misses her family and friends back home, but flights to any destination from Australia are “so expensive. “It’s just so far,” she said. “It’s really not that easy just to jump on a flight home and go home. Like, I just cant fork out type of money.

“I haven’t seen anyone in over a year now, no one from my hometown is here or visited or seen me, and I’m just in two minds. Do I stay somewhere forever where I genuinely am so, so happy and the best version of myself, or go back home?”

Abs added she doesn’t think she’d be “miserable” in the UK, but can’t deny she is “so happy” in her new home. “The only thing pulling me back is family,” she said.

“Do I go back to my hometown and be by everyone who I grew up with and surround myself by people who genuinely love me, or live my best life here? Obviously I’ve made some amazing friends here, of course, I genuinely love them to pieces too, but I’m just stuck in two minds because it’s very tough.

“Australia is so far and I’m in two minds what to do because I really, really, really miss my family and friends so much, and I just really don’t know what to do.”

People in the comments were unanimous in what she should do. One said: “STAY THERE TRUST ME!!!!!! You come home you won’t go back!!” They added: “Gen don’t come back, you get roped into stuff and before you know it you’re back a year and plans are in place, you got your s*** sorted there LOCK IT IN.”

Replying, Abs said: “That is what I’m thinking, I don’t want to get stuck in and never come back… Built a whole new life, wasn’t easy but it was something they grew me as a person x.”

Another, who said they were from London originally, and had lived on the Gold Coast for the past 16 years, said: “I miss all my friends and family but the lifestyle here is so much better. I went home in October and nothing really changes. Stay here I think as your life will be so much better.”

And someone else wrote: “If you go back to the UK you’ll have an amazing time seeing everyone but it probably wont be long until you just want to be back in Aus again! You’re glowing.”

Wolves boss Rob Edwards might have been thinking his bottom-of-the-table Premier League side have a chance of ‘the great escape’ after they beat Liverpool on Tuesday.

So, seeing two of the three teams immediately above them, West Ham and Nottingham Forest, pick up points on Wednesday was a shame for Wolves, just when they had given themselves that little bit of hope.

Still, their recent results and performances have been much improved. Edwards has given Wolves fans something to smile about, and he will want to maintain that positivity here.

This is a big game for Liverpool boss Arne Slot, too.

The FA Cup could be important for him this season, so he cannot just focus on Tuesday’s last-16 trip to Galatasaray in the Champions League.

After three successive Premier League wins, Tuesday’s loss was another stumble for Slot’s side in the race for the top four.

They were fortunate Manchester United and Aston Villa lost as well, but Chelsea’s win at Villa meant the Reds are outside the top five now too.

With the heat that is around him, I don’t think Slot is in a position where he can afford to play a weakened side here – he has to go strong to try to avoid another shock result.

I still think we will see another surprise, though.

Wolves are going to throw everything at Liverpool. They are still going down, but can they make it to Wembley too?

Sutton’s prediction: 2-1

Steven’s prediction: A couple of weeks ago, I would have said it is obvious what is going to happen here. Now, it isn’t. 2-2 after extra time, Liverpool win on penalties

AI’s prediction: 1-3

For the first time in almost 200 years, giant tortoises are roaming the Galapagos island of Floreana again, thanks to one of the most ambitious ecosystem recovery initiatives undertaken on the archipelago.   

Intensive exploitation by whalers and other seafarers, as well as the introduction of invasive species, wiped out the Floreana giant tortoise in the mid-1800s. For more than a century, the lineage was presumed lost forever.

That was until 2000, when ecologists identified a hybrid tortoise with Floreana ancestry on neighbouring Isabela island. The discovery prompted a long-term selective breeding programme to maximise Floreana ancestry in the offspring. 

This week, that programme reached a milestone as 158 giant tortoises were reintroduced to Floreana, which has been cleared of invasive goats and rats. The tortoise’s reintroduction will be mutually beneficial for the species and the island. 

“Giant tortoises are a critical part of this [ecosystem],” said Rakan Zahawi, executive director of the Charles Darwin Foundation, which supported the release. “By dispersing seeds, shaping vegetation, creating microhabitats … and influencing how landscapes regenerate, they help rebuild ecological processes that many other species depend on.” 

Image: Galapagos Conservancy