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On this day in 2016, Crystal Palace put in a famous performance at Wembley stadium: a 2-1 victory over Watford in the FA Cup semi-final.

Can anyone recommend a good doctor? I have a bad case of whiplash. I’m sure I’m not alone with the endless swings between good news and bad news and the one-step-forward, two-steps-back progress on COVID-19 and the vaccine rollout. The contradictions can be found daily and particularly are noticeable on the entertainment beat. Yay! The Warren Italian-American Heritage Festival returns this year. Whack! Wings and Wheels won’t. Yay! River Rock at the Amp announces its summer lineup. Whack! ...

It isn’t risk free but the approach is potentially more profitable than signing the majority of players from elsewhere, sometimes on extravagant wages, and who often don’t deliver. A seamless system where a club’s cultural and playing philosophy is inculcated from a young age through to first team level for players and coaches offers a template for success. Some caveats are required though. It requires fan education into the realities of inconsistency for a team featuring a higher percent...

Getty Images On 30 March, 25 heads of state including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa called for the creation of an international pandemic treaty through the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen global capacity to predict and respond to pandemic threats. The call was published as a commentary in newspapers across the world. Those endorsing the commentary include leaders of both developed and developing countries – such as Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, South Afr...

CHESHIRE Police and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service are taking part in a road safety operation in a bid to educate drivers and riders and help keep people safe on the roads. The operation will take place on Wednesday, April 14, between 10.30am-3pm, on the roads in and around the Saughall area, Chester. Officers are running the operation alongside their partners, including colleagues at the fire service who will demonstrate to drivers and riders how to stay safe on the roads with close pa...

The politics and promise behind a proposed international pandemic treaty Catherine Tomlinson for Spotlight On 30 March, 25 heads of state including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa called for the creation of an international pandemic treaty through the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen global capacity to predict and respond to pandemic threats. The call was published as a commentary in newspapers across the world. Those endorsing the commentary include lead...

In an exclusive interview for the latest 'Down Memory Lane' in support of the FA's Heads Up campaign, Crystal Palace trio Nigel Martyn, John Salako and John Humphrey look back on the 1990-91 season that culminated in triumph at Wembley in the Zenith Data Systems Cup.

Richest league in the world: Premier League has seen the value of its TV rights rocket almost 4,000% since Nottingham Forest took on Liverpool in the first live game in 1992, but the party is over warn analysts, as broadcasters prepare to pay less UK TV rights for the Premier League were expected to be up for auction this month but the deal has been delayed after a wretched year due to the pandemic English top flight has seen unprecedented success selling rights since 1992 However, analysts say...

While South Africa shared its Covid-19 vaccine price publicly, the prices paid by the European Union (EU) are only publicly known due to an accidental tweet of the EU’s price list by Belgium’s Budget State Secretary, Eva De Bleeker.  Pharmaceutical companies have provided a range of justifications for charging different countries different prices for the same vaccines. These justifications include the income-level and size of procuring countries, the provision of public investment towards ...

by Steve Finan © Supplied by Canva Dundee United legend Jim McLean. Two months on from Jim McLean’s passing, Steve Finan – author of Jim McLean: Dundee United Legend – examines just what it was that set the Tannadice legend apart as a football manager. Jim McLean’s tenure at Dundee United is the archetypal example of what can be achieved when a talented manager is given free rein to impose his ideas of how football should be played. Not just played by the first team of a club, bu...