It seems to be sacking season in the premier league, 10 days ago spurs got rid of Mauricio Pochettino and now their north london rivals arsenal have dispensed with their manager, unai emerys reign lasting 18 months. Results and performances were not at the level required. Say the club. Thursday Europa League defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt means that they havent won a match in 7 attempts, their worse run for 27 yea rs. Emery released a short statement on the arsenal website this evening thanking the fans. It has been a year and a half full of emotions, of great moments and some other more bitter ones, but not a single day has gone by without me stopping to think about how lucky i have been to work for this club with these players. They have always honoured the shirt. They deserve your support. Heres our sports correspondentjoe wilson. Maybe unai emery had in impossible job here. It wouldve been tough for anybody to follow our sin of anger. He got 22 years, and marie got 22 months. To rea
Mounting concern at the financial concern to have and have nots, the premier league awash with tv revenue, record tv deals, but the rest of the Football League having to survive on much less of an amount. Theres also concern over the way the efl scrutinises prospective owners, with the owners gambling too much and trying to reach the premier league, and also whether or not in the modern digital age, it is sustainable to have 92 professional clu bs age, it is sustainable to have 92 professional clubs throughout the country. But whatever the reasons for the predicament of these two clu bs for the predicament of these two clubs and others, there is no doubt that the sadness and dismay at the peril that these two very proud and historic clubs now face will extend well beyond these two towns in the northwest. After bury missed that deadline set by the efl, the club owner steve dale said they werent given enough time. We asked the efl to work with us. Sadly, maybe they will give us a re brie
The final countdown for ppi. The deadline is tomorrow. There are still believed to be thousands of people who havent claimed. Ill have the details. Yesterday we hit 33. 1; degrees at heathrow. And that is it for a wee while. It will be cooler, wetter and windier over the next few days. More inis windier over the next few days. More in 15 minutes. Its wednesday the 28th of august. Our top story. A woman who says she was a victim of the convicted us paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and was forced into a sexual encounter with the duke of york, has urged the prince to come clean about what he knows. Virginia Roberts Giuffre spok to reporters outsid a court in new york. It was after a hearing for alleged victims of epstein, who took his own life in prison earlier this month. Prince andrew has strenuously denied the claims made against him. Our north america correspondent Chris Buckler was in court. Jeffrey epsteins victims never had the chance to face him in court, but at a hearing in new york,
It develop in the past ten years is amazing. And hopefully i will go to represent gb in tokyo. Just explain how the year will play out for you because you want to make sure you are peaking at the right time. What are peaking at the right time. What are your events looking like to prepare you for the paralympics . Next month i go to tokyo for the test events and that will be the best preparation for me with it being my first games i do not know what to expect. So i canjust experience it and hopefully get an understanding of what it is going to be like and then in october i will compete in the european championships. Great to have another sport in the paralympics, another exciting sport. And for other sports like athletics to see a new sport like athletics to see a new sport like tae kwon do coming into the paralympic family is very important and it shows the legacy of sport and hopefully amy inspires the next generation of tae kwon do athletes to participate in the future games. Both lo
at the post office after the chairman of the organisation stood down yesterday. henry staunton left the role following the fall out from the horizon it scandal. but there s confusion over whether it was by mutual consent as reported by the government, or whether he was asked to leave, as the post office says. our political correspondent iain watson has the latest. it has been thrown out enough, that is it, i am free. it has been thrown out enough, that is it. i am free- is it, i am free. dismantled resisted is it, i am free. dismantled resisted his is it, i am free. dismantled resisted his 2006 - is it, i am free. dismantled| resisted his 2006 conviction is it, i am free. dismantled - resisted his 2006 conviction for embezzlement had been overturned, but many more former sub postmasters are waiting for their names to be cleared. the government is rushing registration through parliament to do so and now changing some of those at the top of the organisation. this weekend