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An evening at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium billed as a fantasy football encounter between Manchester United and Wrexham was bad-tempered and aggressive, featuring a slew of yellow cards, one red, a serious injury to Paul Mullin, a half-naked pitch invader and victory for Phil Parkinson’s League Two team. When Sam Dalby steered beyond Radek Vitek in the second half to make it 3-1 to Wrexham, substitute beat substitute – each had entered following the break – and the record 34,248 crowd had witnessed a contest in which United were run ragged for swathes. The game became combative just 12 minutes in when United’s…

Dame Alison Rose, the chief executive of NatWest Group, has stood down after a row over the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account with the private bank Coutts, which NatWest owns. Rose has resigned from the banking group after Farage complained to the BBC about a report that claimed his accounts with Coutts were closed for commercial reasons. The broadcaster has since apologised and amended its story. In a statement released on Wednesday morning, the NatWest Group chairman, Sir Howard Davies, said: “The board and Alison Rose have agreed, by mutual consent, that she will step down as CEO of the NatWest Group. It…

Thousands of radiographers in England are to strike on Tuesday amid a row with the government over pay, recruitment and retention. Members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) have voted to reject the 5% pay award offered by ministers and called for talks to reopen after other public sector workers, including junior doctors, were offered more. Alarming numbers of staff are quitting the profession and not enough is being done to recruit or retain workers, the union says. The 48-hour strike will run from 8am on Tuesday and will involve 37 NHS trusts where members have a mandate to strike. These include the Royal…

The ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 was thrown into uncertainty on Monday after Rishi Sunak failed to publicly back the policy. The Prime Minister declined to explicitly say that the ban would take effect that year when asked, for the second time this month. On Monday morning, Andrew Mitchell, the foreign minister, also declined to fully commit to the 2030 ban remaining government policy in the future. Downing Street sources moved to play down suggestions that a change was imminent, saying Mr Sunak was not currently considering a change. However, senior Tories are calling for a…

Erik ten Hag has called on Manchester United to sign a striker “as soon as possible” to allow enough time to integrate a new recruit into the team, with the manager admitting the club’s failure to do so so far this summer is not ideal. Having strengthened his midfield with Mason Mount and replaced goalkeeper David de Gea with Andre Onana, Ten Hag is targeting Atlanta’s Rasmus Højlund or Eintracht Frankfurt’s Randal Kolo Muani as his new No 9. “The only thing I can say is we do everything that’s in our power to get it done,” Ten Hag said. “If it…

Apartment owners are suing the City of Los Angeles for keeping in place its emergency ban on rent increases first implemented at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a lawsuit filed July 24 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles is asking the court to put a stop to the city’s ongoing rent freeze on grounds that it violates the United States and California constitutions and deprives landlords of due process. “For more than three years, rental housing providers have been saddled with cost increases impacting virtually every line item of their profit and loss statement,”…

Residents of a Cornish harbour town have raised £1m to save their beloved community hospital three years after it was closed by the NHS, raising fears it would be turned into holiday flats. The former Edward Hain Memorial hospital in St Ives, which was founded more than a century ago by a local shipping family, is to be turned into a new hub for health and wellness. It will provide accessible – and free wherever possible – services to residents of the town and west Cornwall. Lynne Isaacs, chair of the Edward Hain Centre, said: “The loss of our hospital was devastating.…

In the City, shares in Ocado have jumped by over 11% to their highest level since January, after it reached a deal with Norwegian robotics firm AutoStore over patent litigation claims. Under the deal, announced last weekend, AutoStore will pay £200m to Ocado. They will also have “complete freedom” to access and use technology covered by each other’s pre-2020 patents, and can continue to use and market their own existing products without risk of infringing each other’s post-2020 patents. This litigation has hung over Ocado since October 2020, when Autostore filed a case arguing the UK firm had infringed six of its patents relating to…

Rishi Sunak is being urged by senior Conservatives to go for a spring election next year, with the plan said to be “gaining traction” among campaign strategists who believe it may be their best chance to stem losses. In the aftermath of Thursday’s byelections, which saw a 21-point average swing against the Tories, some party insiders suggested May 2024 could be an “economic sweet spot” – providing the best window for “damage limitation”. Sunak has come under pressure since the defeats in North Yorkshire and Somerset this week, despite the Tories pulling off a narrow win in Boris Johnson’s former seat in west London. Friday’s…

Firefighters in Greece were struggling to contain 82 wildfires burning across the country, 64 of which started on Sunday, the hottest day of the summer so far. As well as huge blazes on the island of Rhodes, which forced 19,000 to flee, wildfires also broke out on the islands of Evia and Corfu. On Evia, authorities told residents of four southern villages to evacuate to the town of Karystos, west of where the fire was advancing. Central Greece vice-governor Giorgos Kelaiditis, who was near one of the villages, told state agency ANA-MPA that the situation was difficult. “The fire may be 2km (1.2…