Sunderland interested in Honduran prospect
Sunderland have been linked with a move for a rising star of Honduran football, Iverson Sacaza, according to reports in his home country.
Diez say that the 17-year-old, who is currently on the books of the Getafe City Soccer School – a partner of Real Madrid – has been scouted by both Sunderland and Anderlecht and has trained with Valencia.
During his time training with Valencia earlier in the year, the Spanish club’s Head Coach at their International Development Academy referred to Sacaza as ‘the new Lukaku’, according to El Heraldo.
Sacaza is able to sign a professional contract in June but his agent Juan Pablo told Diez that he is not in a hurry to decide his future and he believes his future remains in Europe:
Paul O Grady as Lily Savage (Getty)
Paul O’Grady has recalled the era-defining moment police in rubber gloves stormed the legendary Royal Vauxhall Tavern, arresting him along with ten others.
O’Grady had an eight-year residency at the famous gay club as the inimitable Lily Savage, his catty drag persona with sky-high boots and towering blonde hair.
He was on stage in full drag the evening of 24 January, 1987, when a troop of 35 policemen raided the venue and carted customers into waiting vans outside. It being the height of the AIDS crisis, they made sure to don rubber gloves to ensure they didn’t touch those they arrested.
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Thomas Hughes, who lived in Haywards Heath and was part of the Muster Green Remembrance Service every year, died on November 8, and a funeral was held for him on November 26.
His daughter, Jane Hughes, said he was a member of the local British Legion and a guard of honour was held for him at the Church of the Presentation.
Tom saw action with the 9th Parachute Battalion in the Battle of the Bulge and the forced crossing of the Rhine.
Haywards Heath war veteran Tom Hughes has died aged 96. Picture contributed
He was born at Ebbw Vale, South Wales, on May 24, 1924.
One hundred years since a hellish vision of technology spawned that fateful word: robot
The Irish National Youth Theatre production of RUR in 2017. Photograph: Fiona Morgan Photography for National Youth Theatre, Ireland 2017
The Irish National Youth Theatre production of RUR in 2017. Photograph: Fiona Morgan Photography for National Youth Theatre, Ireland 2017
The Czech playwright Karel Čapek coined the expression for artificial men in 1921. Now they are far more than science fiction
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“Listen Josef,” said the Czech playwright Karel Čapek to his brother. “I have an idea for a play.”
Josef, an artist of some renown, was painting furiously and unimpressed by his brother’s intrusion. “What kind of play?” he asked, sharply. Karel set out the plot. In the future, humans have created synthetic, humanoid creatures to increase productivity in the factories and fight wars on the battlefield. Built as slave workers, they will eventually rise up an
Tom Hughes, paratrooper who served at the Battle of the Bulge – obituary
He helped Belgian villagers to recover the bodies of young men shot in reprisal by the SS and later worked for The Daily Telegraph
Tom Hughes
Tom Hughes, who has died aged 96, saw action with the 9th Parachute Battalion (9 Para) in the Battle of the Bulge and the forced crossing of the Rhine.
On Christmas Eve 1944 Hughes and his comrades in 9 Para were looking forward to their Christmas dinner the following day. Instead, he found himself sleeping on the deck of an old Isle of Man ferry bound for Calais and then travelling by lorry to Belgium.