Jonathan Ditchburn

The Highland League will hopefully be back to normal in 2021-22 following the disruptions caused by Covid last year. This will be its 119th season and it is back up to 18 teams with Forres Mechanics returning and […]

From hospitality to road haulage, firms say they can’t get staff. So are employees now calling the shots?
BBC News – Business

The country’s foreign minister blames “Iranian terrorism” for an attack that left two people dead.
BBC News – Middle East

Three Cubans caught trying to cross a river into Estonia are said to have been heading for Spain.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Villages and hotels are evacuated as firefighters attempt to put out dozens of blazes.
BBC News – Europe

Great Britain’s Jessica Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee produce a superb performance to win gold in the first Olympic triathlon mixed relay.
BBC News – UK

The ruling is a big legal blow to the ex-president, who has not publicly disclosed his tax returns.
BBC News – US & Canada

Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou qualifies for the women’s 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics but Ivory Coast men’s football team are knocked out.
BBC News – Africa

Grays Athletic FC is one of the many non-league teams that call the county of Essex home, and they are one which epitomises how easy it is for a small club to both rise and fall. Founded way back in 1890 the club […]

Grays, though not often celebrated, is one of the largest towns in the Thurrock area of Essex. It was once a small port town but has grown in significance to be somewhere people are proud to come from.

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Supermarket supplier Arla Foods says a lorry driver shortage has forced it to cut deliveries by up to 25%.
BBC News – Business

It will be the first country to offer such a Covid booster amid a recent surge in infections.
BBC News – Middle East

The meteoric rise of leftist Pedro Castillo has shaken Peru’s political and business elite.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The results of an inquiry say officials could have prevented Daphne Caruana Galizia’s 2017 murder.
BBC News – Europe

Estimates suggest that hundreds of thousands of pregnant women in England have not yet had the vaccine.
BBC News – UK

The US president also announced that all federal workers must be vaccinated or subjected to testing.
BBC News – US & Canada

Ramon Abbas, known as Hushpuppi, posted photos of his lavish lifestyle to 2.5m Instagram followers.
BBC News – Africa

UK house prices still rose by 10.5% compared with a year ago, Nationwide building society says.
BBC News – Business

The country’s economic crisis has forced some families to move into refugee camps to survive.
BBC News – Middle East

Cuba’s foreign ministry has released surveillance footage of the attack at its embassy in France.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean