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Wolves’ search for a new manager may soon border on the panic-stricken after Julen Lopetegui turned them down and then a possible emotional return for Nuno Espírito Santo also fell by the wayside. Whoever succeeds Bruno Lage on a long-term basis requires quick solutions within a squad that has lost its previous defensive solidity and shipped cheap goals while scoring five all season. Crystal Palace, with Michael Olise excellent, Eberechi Eze getting their equaliser and Wilfried Zaha the winner, showed the value of speedy, inventive attackers. “With the quality we’ve got we’ll always score goals,” as Eze put it. Wolves…

London stocks were steady in early trade on Wednesday, as data showed that UK inflation hit double digits again in September. At 0830 BST, the FTSE 100 was flat at 6,938.12, while the pound was 0.5% lower versus the dollar at 1.1268 after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that higher food prices helped push up inflation to a record 10.1% last month. The consumer price index rose by 10.1% in the 12 months to September, a 40 year high, compared to August’s rate of 9.9%. The figure was largely in line with expectations. On a monthly basis,…

Higher food prices helped push up inflation to 10.1% in September, official data showed on Wednesday. According to the Office for National Statistics, the consumer price index rose by 10.1% in the 12 months to September, compared to August’s rate of 9.9%. The figure was largely in line with expectations. On a monthly basis, CPI rose by 0.5% in September, compared to 0.3% in September 2021. Including owner occupiers’ housing costs, annual CPIH rose by 8.8%, from 8.6% in August. On a monthly basis it rose 0.4%, compared to 0.3% in September 2021. The ONS said that rising food prices…

Officials in Denmark said Tuesday that “powerful explosions” caused damage to the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea. The Russian-constructed Nord Stream system had carried billions of cubic feet of natural gas from Russia to Germany before it was damaged late last month. No nation or group has claimed responsibility for the incident, and the United States has not issued a public statement on who may have been behind it. In a translated statement, the Danish Police Intelligence Services confirmed that “extensive damage” to the pipelines was caused by “powerful explosions.” However, the police agency did not assign blame for the explosions. “It is not possible…

A damning report into the deaths of newborn babies at an NHS Trust is due to be published today. The report has been chaired by Dr Bill Kirkup who also led the investigation in 2015 into deaths of mothers and babies at the Morecambe Bay NHS Trust. The investigation into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has examined more than 200 cases of poor care dating back to 2009. It is expected to find that babies died unnecessarily and the Trust failed to learn from failures in care over many years. The report was commissioned in 2020…

A section measuring at least 50 metres (164 feet) is missing from the ruptured Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, Swedish daily Expressen reported after filming what it said were the first publicly released images of the damage. Swedish police and prosecutors suspect the leaks that emerged on Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 on September 26 were caused by deliberate subsea blasts, and are investigating the case as an act of gross sabotage. Expressen’s video, captured with a small remotely operated underwater vehicle, or subsea drone, showed bent metal and a wide-open pipeline in murky…

The United States and Mexico said they will seek support from the United Nations for a security mission to restore order in Haiti amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, but did not identify who would lead the mission. Haiti is facing dire shortages of basic goods and a paralysis of economic activity due to the blockade of a fuel terminal by gangs, which has halted transport and left many without food or clean drinking water amid an outbreak of cholera. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier this month suggested sending in a “rapid-action force,” according to a letter seen by Reuters.…

Annual energy bills could reach £4,347 for an average household after the government announced the two-year price freeze will now run for just six months. New chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the universal energy price guarantee will finish next April, with a review being launched on how to then support bills after this period. The government said its changed approach after April will “cost the taxpayer significantly less than planned” and will target those most in need of support. It also confirmed that the energy bill relief scheme for businesses, which will cap corporate energy bills, is also set to end…

Real Madrid’s France forward Karim Benzema won the 2022 Ballon d’Or award for the best men’s player in the world on Monday, while Barcelona’s Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas won the women’s award for a second time. Benzema, who played a pivotal role in Real’s run to the Champions League title last season, is the first French player to win the trophy since Zinedine Zidane in 1998 and the fifth after Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini and Jean-Pierre Papin. “This prize in front of me makes me really proud. When I was small, it was a childhood dream, I never gave up……

Today we all learned a humiliating political lesson about who is really in charge of the country. At the start of the year, if you had asked anyone who was running the UK, the obvious answer would have been Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Even a couple of weeks ago, most people would have said Liz Truss. Today, it looks like the newly appointed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was in charge. Yet the true answer is none of the above. For years, millions of Euro sceptics believed the EU was effectively running UK government policy, telling us what we could and could not do in our own…