West Lothian Council’s Executive has been asked to approve a plan proposing a 30- year lease of Pumpherston Juniors’ ground at Drumshoreland Place in the village to Livingston FC.

Livingston Football Club has teamed up with one of the county’s most famous teams with plans which will create a dedicated training facility for the club, and boost facilities for one of the county’s oldest clubs.

West Lothian Council’s Executive has been asked to approve a plan proposing a 30- year lease of Pumpherston Juniors’ ground at Drumshoreland Place in the village to Livingston FC.

Currently Pumpherston Juniors Football Club (PJFC)- originally founded in 1896- lease the football ground from the council under the terms of a Community Benefit ground lease that is due to run until 31 March 2041.

The facilities at the ground include an 11-a-side grass pitch, a small sports court with a synthetic surface, changing facilities and car parking. The site is the home ground of PJFC, who currently play in the East of Scotland pyramid system.

The council has been approached jointly by PJFC and Livingston Football Club (LFC) with a proposal that would see PJFC renounce their existing Community Benefit lease and a new thirty-year commercial lease of the facilities at Drumshoreland Place granted in favour of LFC.

Under that joint proposal, LFC would undertake significant capital investment in the facilities at the football ground, replacing the existing grass pitch with a new 3G pitch, as well as installing new flood lighting and providing modern changing facilities.

The proposed works would be fully funded by LFC and would significantly improve and modernise the existing facilities at the ground.

The proposed new lease to LFC and their subsequent capital investment would mean LFC has a dedicated training facility for their first team, women’s team, reserves team, along with their nine affiliated clubs.

LFC also have a Scottish Football Association (SFA) requirement to convert the existing synthetic playing surface at the Almondvale Stadium to grass ahead of the 2027 season and the proposed new lease would ensure they continue to have access to training facilities during the new pitch installation works at Almondvale Stadium.

If LFC do not have access to alternative training facilities during the pitch installation works at Almondvale Stadium, they would be unable to install that new pitch, which is an SFA requirement should LFC secure promotion back into the Scottish Premiership.

LFC have explored the provision of training facilities in and around the footprint of Almondvale Stadium, however it has not been possible to identify a viable solution due to the physical restrictions of the property.

PJFC supports the proposal, and their own security of tenure at Drumshoreland Place would be secured by way of a legally binding sub-lease between themselves and LFC that would run concurrently with the proposed new thirty-year lease between LFC and the council.

Under the terms of that sublease, PJFC would have access to the facilities to fulfil their home fixtures and training sessions at no cost to PJFC.

The lease would generate £10,000 per annum for the council.

Council officers are recommending that it is considered to be in the council’s best interests for the existing lease to PJFC to be renounced, for a new thirty-year lease to be granted to LFC.

The council’s Executive will decide on Tuesday.

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Wyndham Clark leads the US Open by six shots heading into the final round at Shinnecock Hills

Scottie Scheffler has positioned himself for a tilt at completing the career grand slam, though he faces a formidable challenge in overcoming Wyndham Clark’s commanding six-shot advantage at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills.

The world number one, who made straight for the practice green following his round of 69 that lifted him into a share of second place, celebrates his 30th birthday on Sunday. With Father’s Day also falling on the same date, he’ll be hoping for a treble celebration.

Yet Scheffler must not only work out how to post a score low enough to apply genuine pressure on Clark – who is attempting to become the first player since Martin Kaymer in 2014 to lead a US Open from start to finish – but also rely on his fellow American’s fortune and recovery skills finally running out.

Clark demonstrated remarkable resilience, converting vital par saves from 14 feet, seven feet, six feet and three separate putts from five feet. He also delivered some spectacular shotmaking, none better than a 275-yard approach that finished inside five feet to set up the tournament’s first eagle at the par-five 16th.

That stroke extended his cushion to seven over his nearest challengers, and Clark’s good fortune persisted at the following hole where, despite finding thick rough, he received a free drop due to a television tower before being permitted to replace his ball after it rolled away twice.

Questions were also raised regarding the extent of his ‘gardening’ along his putting lines during the final holes on the Poa annua surfaces, which are notorious for becoming progressively more challenging as the day progresses. The regulations permit golfers to tap down spike marks, though Clark took a considerable amount of time perfecting his putting lines.

A missed five-foot par putt on the final hole gave hope to those trailing behind, as he completed a level-par round of 70.

Since the first Masters in 1934 there have been 13 previous instances of players holding a six-shot advantage or greater after three rounds, with Greg Norman’s 1996 collapse at Augusta being the sole exception to converting such leads into victory.

Scheffler, who will partner Clark in the final pairing, commented: “I think it’s appropriate to understand what’s at stake,” adding: “I think understanding the moment and giving it your best shot I think is all part of the process.

“I mean, I’d rather be leading but I have an opportunity to go out there and have a great round and give myself a chance to win the tournament.”

While Scheffler managed to stay competitive, Rory McIlroy’s quest for his first US Open title since making his major breakthrough in 2011 ended in disappointment. After a promising outward half of two-under 33, his challenge unravelled spectacularly.

Three consecutive birdies from the fifth brought him within four shots of Clark, who was just teeing off, but an overhit approach at the challenging 10th for the second day running sparked a collapse. Five dropped shots on the back nine resulted in a 40 and an overall 73, leaving him three over par with his hopes in tatters.

Clark remained confident about his prospects, saying: “I feel good. I have got more and more comfortable every time I have got in these positions,”.

“I’m hoping I can bring my A-game finally.”

There are only five players under par, with Sahith Theegala (70), Tom Kim (72) and Sam Stevens (72) joining Scheffler, while four sit at level par. English pair Matt Fitzpatrick, who laboured to a 74, and Tommy Fleetwood, who battled his way to a level-par 70, are one over.

Fleetwood memorably carded a final-round 63 when the US Open last visited Shinnecock, falling short by a single stroke, but given the present conditions, a similar performance appears improbable.

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Two suspects have been arrested

A man who was stabbed in Failsworth is fighting for life in hospital. Emergency services attended Hale Lane on Friday evening (June 20).

The victim was rushed to hospital with serious stab wounds. He remains in a critical condition this morning (Sunday), according to Greater Manchester Police.

Two men, aged 19 and 46, were later arrested in Moston on suspicion of grievous bodily harm. Officers were seen in attendance on Hale Lane, near the junction with Moston Lane East, on Saturday morning.

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A crime scene investigation van was also pictured on the scene as forensic officers scoured the area for evidence. A GMP spokesperson said on Saturday: “We are investigating an incident on Hale Lane, Failsworth, last night that resulted in a man needing hospital treatment for stab wounds.

“We have arrested two men, aged 46 and 19, on suspicion of grievous bodily harm. We will provide further updates when we have them.”

OBBUERGEN, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and senior Iranian officials arrived in Switzerland on Sunday to formally launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program and build out the fragile interim deal to end the war in Iran.

The framework was signed last week, and now top U.S. and Iranian negotiators are in a 60-day sprint to reach an agreement on the technical details that hold massive implications for the world economy and global security.

Yet only days after signing the agreement, it’s being stress-tested after fighting escalated in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah — and by the subsequent announcement by Iran’s military that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway that transits a fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas.

Vance had originally been slated to be on the ground at the picturesque Bürgenstock resort near Lucerne on Friday, but his departure from the United States was delayed after fighting escalated in Lebanon and Iranian officials canceled plans to attend the talks.

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Delegations from the U.S. and Iran, as well as mediators Pakistan and Qatar, arrived at the picturesque mountainside resort near Lake Lucerne on Sunday morning. Talks were expected to begin soon, according to the Swiss government.

U.S. Central Command disputed Iran’s claim that it had once again shuttered the strait and said U.S. forces continued to monitor the situation to ensure traffic continues to flow through the waterway. Vance has said that millions of barrels of oil have moved through the strait in recent days.

Vance departed the U.S. just after Iranian state TV said Iran’s negotiators had arrived in Switzerland. Tehran’s negotiators include parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, along with central bank and oil officials.

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The U.S. vice president joins special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, who have already been on the ground to begin sifting through the technical details of the nuclear talks.

The talks between the U.S. and Iran will also include Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, as well as Qatari mediators. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Sharif will also meet separately with each delegation from Iran, Switzerland and the U.S. “to reaffirm Pakistan’s enduring commitment to dialogue and durable peace in the region.”

While Vance said he planned to be in Switzerland for just “a day or two,” leaving much of the detailed negotiations to be spearheaded by Witkoff and Kushner, his role in the talks has heightened scrutiny of the vice president at a time when he’s actively considering a 2028 presidential campaign.

Trump and Vance have come under searing criticism from parts of their own party for the deal, with Republican hard-liners unfavorably likening it to a nuclear agreement signed by the Obama administration that Trump and the GOP have insisted did nothing to actually terminate Iran’s nuclear program.

The agreement signed by Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian immediately allows Tehran to sell its oil freely and paves the way for Iran to tap into billions of dollars in assets that are currently frozen. It also calls for Iran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, believed to be buried under nuclear sites that were targeted in U.S. strikes last summer.

The agreement says commercial vessels can pass through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days without a charge, but does not preclude future fees imposed by Iran. Trump made his own threat on Saturday to levy U.S. tolls on the strait if there is no deal with Iran in 60 days, insisting in a social media post that the money would be for “services rendered as the Guardian Angel to the countries of the Middle East.”

The Trump administration has been working to reassure global markets that the Iran war has been merely a blip on oil prices, as Americans have complained the conflict resulted in hiking gasoline prices ahead of peak summer travel months. After the White House announced the deal a week ago, oil futures dropped almost 8% — and markets are expected to closely track the progress of talks when they open for trading on Sunday evening.

Further complicating matters, neither Israel nor Hezbollah is a signatory to the deal between the U.S. and Iran, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep his forces in southern Lebanon until any threat to Israel is eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt its attacks unless Israel commits to withdrawing from Lebanon.

Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the initial days after the agreement between the U.S. and Iran killed 47 people in Lebanon, as well as four Israeli soldiers.

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Kim reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.

The former pumping station in Sunderland provides some of the film’s most atmospheric period backdrops, helping director Tina Gharavi turn the region into Edwardian Britain for her new adaptation of Woolf’s novel.

‘Such a gem’ – The location the director didn’t know

Gharavi has lived in the North East for almost 30 years, yet she admits she only discovered Ryhope when she began scouting for sites that could pass as early 20th‑century industrial England.

“It’s such a gem. It is absolutely unbelievably good, you know, like staggeringly good for the region,” she said.

The museum – built around magnificent Victorian and Edwardian beam engines – offered exactly the kind of authentic machinery and architecture the production needed.

Instead of building sets, Gharavi could frame her actors amid real ironwork, brick and steam‑age engineering, giving Night and Day a physical texture that’s hard to fake.

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Part of what moved Gharavi about Ryhope Engines Museum was not just the building, but the people who keep it running.

The site is maintained by volunteers, some of whom have been giving their time for decades.

“The men who work there, they’re just incredible because they’ve been doing it as volunteers, one of them for like 40 years, like this guy called Keith,” she said.

“Keith is just my hero, really… I just can’t give enough props to those men who have kept this kind of Edwardian‑Victorian factory alive forever and ever and ever and it’s just so lovingly looked after.”

The lovingly preserved engines and pipework help Night and Day feel rooted in the real industrial world that sits in the background of Woolf’s story about class, work and social change.

Director Tina Gharavi was blown away by Ryhope Engines Museum. (Image: BRIDGE & TUNNEL PRODUCTIONS)

A perfect fit for Woolf’s Edwardian world

While Night and Day follows the emotional and intellectual lives of characters like aspiring astronomer Katharine Hilbery, it is also very much a story about a country on the brink of transformation.

Suffrage protests, new technologies and shifts in work and family life all loom over the relationships at its centre.

Locations like Ryhope Engines Museum quietly underline that context.

The museum’s great engines speak to the power systems – literal and metaphorical – that kept Edwardian Britain running, while the volunteers’ dedication mirrors the film’s interest in communities and unseen labour.

By shooting in a working heritage site rather than on a backlot, Gharavi adds another layer of authenticity to Woolf’s world.

Putting Sunderland on the cinematic map

For the director, using Ryhope was also part of a bigger mission: to showcase the North East as a serious filming destination.

She has talked about the region as “spectacularly diverse”, with everything from cities and coastline to factories and forests available within a short drive.

“I didn’t know about [Ryhope Engines Museum] until I made this film and we were looking for period locations,” she admits – before adding that now, “everyone should visit it” because “it’s staggeringly good.”

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day could soon see cinema‑goers across the country follow her advice, stepping inside a place where North East engineering history and big‑screen storytelling meet.

Television star Vanessa Feltz broke her silence as she presented her programme on LBC

Vanessa Feltz has broken her silence after it was announced that her Channel 5 programme is being “rested”.

The news about her self-titled show Vanessa – which she had been presenting since March last year – came earlier this week.

The star has now addressed the decision while speaking on her LBC programme, admitting that she was “shocked” by the move.

She told her listeners: “It was a bit of a shock. It was meant to be a delightful year’s contract, the show was going really well… I was shocked to the core and very upset and I still am.”

The chat show saw Vanessa in conversation with studio guests and members of the public, who called in to the show to share their stories on whatever was being discussed.

However, during its time on air the programme did receive some calls from hoaxers, some of whom posed as characters from EastEnders and recounted plotlines from the BBC soap.

Confirming that the programme was being dropped, a 5 spokesperson said: “Due to afternoon scheduling changes, Vanessa will be rested from July 17th. We thank Vanessa and her team at ITN for 18 months of warm, witty, wise and searingly honest shows.”

“Vanessa remains a valued member of the 5 family and we are discussing future projects together,” they went on.

Vanessa’s television chat show was first broadcast from 1994 to 1998 on ITV, before it was succeeded by Trisha.

She went on to several other projects, working on shows such as Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, BBC Radio 2, This Morning. Then last year she revived her chat show on Channel 5, and it has been airing for an hour on weekdays.

However, after it was rebooted the programme went through some changes – it underwent three redesigns, which affected both the studio and the branding. It was thought that this was a bid to attract more viewers.

As well as her presenting work, Vanessa is known for her appearances on reality TV programmes. She has taken part in series such as Strictly Come Dancing, Celebs Go Dating and Celebrity Big Brother.

Vanessa aired on Channel 5.

The boyfriend of a Citibank boss who was found beaten to death in her flat in London has been arrested – this is a breaking story

The boyfriend of a Citibank boss who was found beaten to death at her flat in London has been arrested.

Brian Kiprop Kipglagat was detained by immigration officers on June 10 as he attempted to travel to Tanzania.

Marianne Kilonzi, 43, who was vice president of trade and working capital sales, was found dead in her home in Woolwich, south-east London, in January 2025.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a career-defining decision: step down or fight a challenge from Labour Party rival Andy Burnham.

Starmer has publicly vowed to stay in post, but pressure is building as more and more Labour Party colleagues conclude his time is up. Expectation is growing that he will announce a timetable for his resignation as soon as Monday. That’s the day Burnham will be sworn in as a lawmaker in the House of Commons after winning a special election last week.

Starmer is spending the weekend at Chequers, the country mansion used by British prime ministers, with his family.

Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Sunday that Starmer is “making time to reflect on the political realities, challenges and opportunities that he finds himself in.”

“I know he is a prime minister who always puts his country first,” Kyle told the BBC, though he said reports that Starmer will resign are “speculation.”

Discontent with the prime minister has been building for months, with Labour lawmakers desperate to reverse the government’s decline in popularity since Starmer led the center-left party to a landslide election victory in July 2024.

He has struggled to deliver promised economic growth, repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living, and has been hamstrung by repeated missteps, including his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, a scandal-tarnished friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as the U.K. ambassador to the United States.

Labour is losing liberal voters to the growing Green Party and facing a rising Reform UK, the Nigel Farage -led anti-immigration party that consistently leads in nationwide opinion polls.

Burnham, until this week the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won the seat of Makerfield in northwestern England in a special election held Thursday. He took almost 55% of the 45,510 votes cast, over 9,000 more than the Reform UK runner-up.

Now that he is a lawmaker, he’s in a position to challenge Starmer for leadership of the Labour Party. Burnham’s acceptance speech left no doubt that he wants to lead both the party and the country.

“Everyone knows that politics isn’t working,” he said. “Everyone can feel that the country isn’t where it should be. Tonight could, just could, be the turning point.”

Starmer congratulated Burnham on Friday, but insisted he would fight any attempt to oust him.

“I will run, I will stand,” if there is a Labour leadership contest, Starmer said. “I’ve said repeatedly I’m not going to walk away from that.”

But Charlie Falconer, a senior Labour member of the House of Lords, said Saturday that Starmer has “absolutely no authority” left.

“There should be an agreed transition process in which Andy and Keir cooperate as to when the handover should take place,” he told the BBC.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired.

Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument. But after the new pool was unveiled, its blue tinge quickly became a familiar green. Workers treated it with chemicals to kill the algae, but then the painted blue lining on the bottom began to peel.

On Friday night, Trump posted about the pool.

Even if someone pulled ribbons of paint from the side of the pool, it would not explain the clouds of algae in green water and swaths of loose blue paint detached from the bottom.

Trump insisted something nefarious has been going on at the scene. “No different than the chemicals that were used on the National Mall, they used something similar in the Reflecting Pool to try to destroy and demean our beautiful work,” he posted Friday evening.

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