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Manchester City, Manchester United and the daddy long-legs. Again Scott Murray ALL-NEW DADDY LONG-LEGS RIFF 2 © Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian Bring out the cans and pyro. Your happy-clappy, hippy-dippy Fiver is a lover of all God’s living creatures, with the one exception of people, who are the worst. Imagine, then, how thrilled we were on Tuesday morning to see that the daddy long-legs, previously reported missing on manoeuvres behind Granny Fiver’s signed picture of Steve Ogrizovic, presumed dead, was back! Up he popped, repeatedly flying into a closed window, ...

Busy doing nothing: Mastering the art of masterly inactivity Jonathan Howcroft © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jason McCawley/Getty Images “Doing nothing with a deal of skill,” that is how the 18th-century poet, William Cowper, expressed the concept of masterly inactivity. It is an idea commonplace in healthcare and parenting, where outcomes can be negatively affected by unnecessary interference. But doing nothing skilfully is more challenging than it sounds, especially if your name isn’t Lionel Messi. In a recent podcast, economist Tim Harford used penalty-sav...

Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 14.04 EDT ‘WE USED TO WALK ALONG THE RIVER’ The Fiver is often accused of not taking football seriously enough. It is a charge to which we happily plead guilty at Fiver Towers. A leading reason behind the chortlesome [easy – Fiver Ed] knockabout chat that this merry Tin-swilling band of interchangeable cranks pumps out every working-day tea-time FOR FREE is that everyone else takes it all so bloody seriously. The crack of anxiety in the voice of a TV commentator as he builds up to Preston v Reading. The vigorous defences of Our League by the hushed, menac...

Victim speaks out after cop who propositioned her for sex enters plea deal Former Wrightsville Beach police officer enters Alford plea By Ann McAdams | May 6, 2021 at 4:37 PM EDT - Updated May 6 at 7:34 PM WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - It was a case that came as a shock to many across the Cape Fear region. A well-known police lieutenant and youth football coach, criminally charged following an investigation by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). The accusation: that Shaun Appler offered a woman a “free pass” to get out of trouble with Wrightsville Beach ...

(1) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'for' and 'against' a Resolution.   At the date of the AGM the issued share capital of the Company is 419,418,082 ordinary shares.  The total number of electronic poll votes received for the 2021 AGM represented approximately 79.4% (2020 - 81.3%) of the issued share capital of the Company. Resolutions 14, 15, 16 and 17 were passed as Special Resolutions, copies of these Resolutions together with the new Articles of Association will shortly ...