A therapeutic horse-riding program in Yuma is reopening for the new season.

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FAIRFAX, Va. — A jury on Friday acquitted a former Virginia police officer of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping center. But the jury did convict former police Sergeant Wesley Shifflett of reckless handling of a firearm in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors argued that Shifflett, then a […]

Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier caused jubilation on Friday evening when he gifted Sunderland an equalizer deep into injury time of both sides’ championship match. Daniel Farke’s team headed to the Stadium of Light hoping to top the second division, with a win potentially seeing them overtake their opponents in the standings. They certainly looked close […]

LONDON - Controversial socialite Olinda Chapel has rubbished rumours that she is now married to rapper Desmond 'Stunner' Chideme, saying that she is still legally in a union with Tytan Nkomo.

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Scientists sequence the genomes of bird flu virus found this week in two sick dairy workers.

New forms from the California Association of Realtors include a contingency allowing buyers to back out of an offer if they can't find an acceptable insurance policy.

One officer said because of the conditions the rescue was "challenging for sure" but added, "Our mission was to get him out of the water alive. Failure was not an option."

"If you really love me, you'll eat a White Castle burger," Cuban told his wife, Tiffany Stewart, before they tied the knot in 2002.

Treasure isles

SMUG ex-Tony Blair lackey Jonathan Powell, who gave away our Chagos Islands for Labour, clearly finds the anger amusing.

He says they are “tiny islands” no one goes to, and that Britain loses more land through coastal erosion.

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Labour gave away the strategically vital Chagos Islands and left taxpayers to foot the bill[/caption]

Will he still be sniggering if China DOES build a facility there to spy on the crucial US/UK Diego Garcia airbase?

We now learn that is a genuine fear in Washington, despite the Americans’ public agreement.

Why did we ignore their private warning?

Why is Powell pretending Mauritius and Beijing are not allies? They are.

How much must taxpayers give Mauritius for us to use the land we have gifted them (despite their claim’s feebleness)?

And how can Labour justify continuing to hide those sums?

Cops’ justice

TWO cops should not have been fired over the stop-and-search of black Olympians Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos.

The evidence that the officers lied about that incident was fatally flawed, as the Police Appeals Tribunal has found, overruling the original misconduct panel and reinstating them.

The Met Police Federation fears they were the victims of a “political witch- hunt” whipped up by social media.

What’s certain is there are plenty of real rogues and criminals who need rooting out of that force without ending the careers of two apparently dedicated coppers who did not deserve it.

Broken news

ONE minute the BBC apologises for letting a violently anti-Semitic Iranian regime stooge rant without challenge on Radio 4’s Today.

The next it’s breathlessly going live to Iran’s evil Ayatollah Khamenei as he declares that Hamas’s slaughter and rape of Jewish women and children last October 7 was “correct, logical and lawful”.

This terrorist filth was presented dispassionately as “breaking news”, as if it were a statement from the White House.

If Israel blows Khamenei to bits the world will rejoice . . . Iranians included.

But not Jew-hating Islamists, nor gullible liberal dimwits at the BBC.

Last orders

LABOUR may think pubs are over-reacting to the peril from its outdoor smoking ban.

They should hear the distress calls to the British Beer and Pub Association.

Soaring energy bills and rates were bad enough.

This may be the last straw.

Absurdly the Health Department still insists it needs to protect us all “from the harms of second-hand smoking”.

What drivel. No one gets cancer from second-hand smoke OUTSIDE a pub.

They must rethink — or face the wrath of every community robbed of its boozer.

AN iconic high street brand with more than 1,000 UK locations is set to shut a popular branch in a major blow to a town’s trade.

Argos will be closing its large store in Plymouth city centre this month, delivering another hit to the already struggling high street.

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Argos will be closing down its Plymouth store[/caption]

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It will be a major blow to the city’s already struggling high street[/caption]

The standalone store in the former Derrys building on Royal Parade will close on the evening of October 17.

But a new Argos “store-in-store” will open the next day inside the nearby Sainsbury’s superstore at the Armada Centre.

Sainsbury’s, which acquired Argos in a £1.4 billion deal in 2016, has not yet commented on possible job losses, but reports suggest that up to 30 staff could face redundancy as part of the closure.

This is part of a broader trend, with Sainsbury’s gradually shutting standalone Argos outlets and relocating them inside its supermarkets.

Plymouth previously saw its New George Street Argos store close in 2016, with the Marsh Mills Sainsbury’s superstore hosting a replacement outlet.

With Argos sales falling, Sainsbury’s also discontinued Argos’ iconic printed catalogue in 2020 and has committed to closing 420 standalone stores by March 2024.

Since March 2023, 72 outlets have already shut, with 213 remaining.

Despite lower consumer demand for electronics and games, Sainsbury’s continues to expand its “store-in-store” Argos model, planning to close an additional 20 standalone stores this financial year while opening around 10 new in-supermarket branches.

Plymouth will retain another Argos store at Transit Way.

Argos, founded in 1972, became a high street staple with its catalogue-based model, and today operates around 1,230 outlets across the UK, including those inside Sainsbury’s.

While sales grew 1.7% to £4.23 billion in the year to March 2024, pre-tax profits dropped 15.3% to £277 million.

Argos has closed dozens of stores over the last two years.

The high street retailer has already closed 42 UK shops, including all 34 of its branches in the Republic of Ireland last June.

In July, Sainsbury’s issued a major update on plans to close more Argos stores.