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• Liverpool prepare opening offer for Paris Saint-Germain’s Bradley Barcola - The Guardian29 July 2026, 7:07 pm
  Liverpool prepare opening offer for Paris Saint-Germain’s Bradley Barcola  The GuardianLiverpool preparing opening bid for PSG's Barcola  BBCLiverpool are set to open talks with PSG over a potential deal for Bradley Barcola.  Sky SportsLiverpool set to make opening bid for PSG’s Bradley Barcola - The Athletic  The New York TimesBradley Barcola: Liverpool pushing for £100m deal for PSG winger  The Times
  
• World Cup: FIFA chief Gianni Infantino offers £30m incentive for members to back controversial private investment plans - Sky Sports29 July 2026, 7:04 pm
  World Cup: FIFA chief Gianni Infantino offers £30m incentive for members to back controversial private investment plans  Sky SportsFifa sets 19 September deadline to claim initial m as World Cup row boils over  BBCUefa calls emergency meeting as opposition to Fifa plan hardens  The GuardianGianni Infantino: Why Fifa president is pushing World Cup sell off plan  BBCFormer world football president criticises FIFA plan to sell bn stake  Sky News
  
• Saudi Arabia's dilemma as it tries to stay out of US-Iran war - BBC29 July 2026, 6:41 pm
  Saudi Arabia's dilemma as it tries to stay out of US-Iran war  BBCWhy Saudi Arabia finally joined the war  The TelegraphAnalysis: Is a return to civil war in Yemen inevitable?  Arab NewsSaudi Arabia is getting dragged into a war it has tried desperately to avoid  CNNThe Art of War, 2026 Style  Mark Urban | Substack
  
• Police to take no further action against Polanski over guillotine re-post - BBC29 July 2026, 6:20 pm
  Police to take no further action against Polanski over guillotine re-post  BBC‘Terminally online’: why frustrated Greens want Polanski to hand over his social media  The GuardianThe wheels are coming off the dim-witted authoritarian known as Zack Polanski  The TelegraphIt’s not just Zack Polanski who needs to dial down the rhetoric  The TimesZack Polanski refuses to apologise over social media image | ITV News  ITVX
  
• Armed police swarm Bolton street as three injured in dog attack - Manchester Evening News29 July 2026, 6:10 pm
  Armed police swarm Bolton street as three injured in dog attack  Manchester Evening News3 rushed to hospital after 'XL-bully dog attack' - as armed cops swoop on home  The SunRECAP as police respond to dog bite reports at Hall i' th' Wood  The Bolton NewsBREAKING: Armed police swarm street as three injured in dog attack  facebook.comArmed police swarm street after three injured in suspected 'XL-bully' rampage  The Mirror
  
• Care workers should be 'best paid' as Burnham seeks to overhaul social care | ITV News - ITVX29 July 2026, 5:53 pm
  Care workers should be 'best paid' as Burnham seeks to overhaul social care | ITV News  ITVXAndy Burnham doesn't rule out tax rises to fix social care  BBCWhat is Burnham’s policy on assisted dying in England and Wales?  channel4.comPrime Minister's speech on social care - 29 July 2026  GOV.UKAndy Burnham: ‘Difficult decisions’ needed to fix England social care  channel4.com
  
• Footage shows inside of Robert Bush's Legacy funeral home - BBC29 July 2026, 5:00 pm
  Footage shows inside of Robert Bush's Legacy funeral home  BBCGreed and incompetence likely played role in funeral director Robert Bush's crimes, defence suggests  BBCThe ‘horror scene’ uncovered by police in raid on Hull funeral home  The TelegraphFuneral director who left corpses decomposing spent £6k on Center Parcs | ITV News  ITVX'I trusted you' - mother tells funeral director who kept baby's body in paper bag  rte.ie
  
• Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up - BBC29 July 2026, 4:56 pm
  Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up  BBCSee more headlines and perspectives on Google News
  
• Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at fiery Senate hearing on Covid-19 - Financial Times29 July 2026, 4:30 pm
  Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at fiery Senate hearing on Covid-19  Financial TimesFauci refuses to answer questions about Covid origins  The TelegraphDr Anthony Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate COVID-19 hearing  Sky NewsFauci invokes Fifth Amendment in heated COVID-19 Senate hearing  Al JazeeraRepublicans want to hold Fauci in contempt for invoking the Fifth. Can they do that?  independent.co.uk
  
• France fire crews face searing heat in battle to contain flames - BBC29 July 2026, 4:27 pm
  France fire crews face searing heat in battle to contain flames  BBCWildfires near France’s Bordeaux spark fears of ‘economic apocalypse’ for wineries  independent.co.ukWhere are the wildfires in France and Spain? In maps and charts  The TelegraphAirbus Boosting Capabilities to Help Fight Fires Ravaging Europe  Bloomberg.comBordeaux wildfire battle continues amid extreme heat  Al Jazeera
  
• Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash - The Guardian29 July 2026, 4:17 pm
  Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash  The GuardianOscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash  BBCIrish president leads tributes to Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard  independent.co.ukGlen Hansard died in single-vehicle crash in Dublin shortly before 4.30am  The Irish TimesBono, Bruce Springsteen, and Cat Power Remember Glen Hansard  Pitchfork
  
• Body found in suitcase in Athens 11 days ago that of 38-year-old British woman - The Guardian29 July 2026, 4:16 pm
  Body found in suitcase in Athens 11 days ago that of 38-year-old British woman  The GuardianBody of Scottish woman found inside suitcase in Greece  BBCBody of British woman found in suitcase in Athens  The TimesFirst pictures of Scottish woman found stuffed in a suitcase in Athens  Daily RecordBody of Scottish woman 'found inside suitcase' in Greece  Sky News
  
• Jared Leto accused of criminal sexual misconduct by four women - The Times29 July 2026, 4:05 pm
  Jared Leto accused of criminal sexual misconduct by four women  The TimesFour women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers  BBCJared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret review – the tales of abuse are utterly disturbing  The GuardianJared Leto Says “I Have Never Sexually Assaulted Anyone in My Entire Life” Amid Fresh Claims in Bombshell BBC Doc  The Hollywood ReporterJared Leto accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls  The Telegraph
  
• Serial killer James Desborough gets whole life order - as police review deaths of four people he lived with - Sky News29 July 2026, 3:30 pm
  Serial killer James Desborough gets whole life order - as police review deaths of four people he lived with  Sky NewsSerial killer given whole life orders for murdering two men  BBCTriple killer who dismembered bodies of two friends given whole-life jail sentence  The GuardianFan of TV’s Dexter killed cellmate while awaiting double murder trial  The TelegraphDexter fan who dismembered men in Cornish wood will die in jail  The Times
  
• Tom Chadbon, actor familiar from scores of television series, from Doctor Who to Game of Thrones - The Telegraph29 July 2026, 3:17 pm
  Tom Chadbon, actor familiar from scores of television series, from Doctor Who to Game of Thrones  The TelegraphGame of Thrones, James Bond and Doctor Who actor Tom Chadbon dies  Sky NewsTom Chadbon death: Doctor Who and Peep Show scene-stealer dies, aged 80  independent.co.ukDoctor Who and Games Of Thrones actor Tom Chadbon dies aged 80  BBCJames Bond and Doctor Who actor Tom Chadbon dies, aged 80  Digital Spy