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Saturday 13 June 2026 8:00 am  |  Updated:  Thursday 11 June 2026 12:36 pm Adidas’s ‘Backyard Legends’ ad is a star-studded affair An unnecessarily serious review of the best ads around the 2026 World Cup, including campaigns by Adidas, Nike and Burberry, as picked by amateur footballer and professional creative Harriet Russell-Vick.Football ads in 2026 finally remembered a crucial detail: football is supposed to be fun. After years of ultra-serious slow-motion shots of rain hitting crossbars while somebody whispers about “legacy,” brands loosened up this year. There were laughs. Weird ideas. Actual joy. And, thankfully, fewer ads featuring a child staring dramatically…

Horsham District Council has warned residents and businesses about certain varieties of packaged frozen foods following advice from the Food Standards Agency. The alert covers all products produced by Inarah Frozen Foods Ltd, Four Seasons Food Group and KBH Foods, including those branded as Inarah’s Frozen Foods, Inarah’s Fine Foods, and New York Crispy. Councillor David Skipp, cabinet member for environment, recycling and waste at the district council, said: “We take matters of food safety and protecting public health as critical priorities. “As well as warning the public about not eating these products, our officers will be visiting local shops…

Molendinar Community Centre in Blackhill received the funding from Thenue Housing Association and its contractor McConnell, who each contributed £500 toward the total. Run by St Paul’s Youth Forum, the centre offers a wide range of programmes and services for children, families and other residents in the area, including yoga, football, dance, sewing and knitting classes, fitness programmes, educational courses and a community food pantry. The donation will help the centre continue running its programmes and maintaining the facility for the benefit of the Blackhill community. Debbie Martin, centre manager, said: “This is great news. “Every penny helps, and we…

It comes after nights of disorder in BelfastStock image of a Translink bus in Belfast city centre(Image: Justin Kernoghan/Belfast Live)Translink has issued an update on bus and train services after disorder in Belfast this week.On Thursday, Metro and Glider departures and Ulsterbus services operating out of Belfast stopped after 5.30pm, with the last rail services operating before 8.15pm from Grand Central Station.On Friday, a spokesperson confirmed that services are currently operating as normal.Translink had planned a number of additional services on Friday and Saturday to accommodate Belsonic music festival in South Belfast. These services are set to go ahead.A Translink…

Ecommerce businesses and online retailers selling to EU customers will be required to add a digital withdrawal function to their customer buying journeys.From 19 June 2026, online merchants – including those in the UK and other non-EU countries – must allow customers to cancel orders directly through their business website or app.But while the change may seem relatively simple, retailers will need to ensure their systems, processes, and teams are prepared to handle cancellation requests efficiently and in line with the new rules. What is the EU’s mandatory withdrawal button?The EU’s mandatory withdrawal button is a new consumer protection requirement,…

A team of researchers from the CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences has developed a new type of highly precise filtration membrane. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describes a technology that could help industries cut energy use and dramatically increase water reuse. Many industrial activities depend on separating different substances from one another. These separation processes are essential for tasks such as drug purification, textile dye treatment, and food production.…

Key takeaways:While bearish ETH futures trends and spot ETF outflows signal weak institutional appetite, staking demand prevents further decline.Falling exchange deposits and accumulation by BitMine indicate holder confidence in ETH’s long-term value.Ether (ETH) price failed to reclaim the $1,700 level over the past week, tracking a broader weakness across cryptocurrency markets. This correction contrasts sharply with the bullish momentum seen in the US stock market. Traders worry that Ether’s appeal has faded due to sluggish on-chain activity and a distinct lack of demand for bullish leveraged positions.ETH futures annualized funding rate. Source: LaevitasThe ETH perpetual futures annualized funding rate flipped…

Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and it starts with a question most founders aren’t asking: what if the business model was giving money back instead of extracting it? Yang was inspired by Mark Cuban. Not by his wealth, or his celebrity, but by Cost Plus Drugs — Cuban’s startup that sells pharmaceuticals at cost. Yang made a list. “Housing, education, food, fuel, transportation, media, and wireless,” Yang told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “The things we all spend money on.” He picked wireless and…

The former children’s laureate from Sussex, who has written more than 200 books including The Snail And The Whale, Room On The Broom, Zog, Stick Man, Tiddler, The Scarecrows’ Wedding and The Highway Rat, is made a dame in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to literature. Dame Julia, 77, has sold more than 50 million books worldwide and last year supplanted Harry Potter writer JK Rowling as the UK’s all-time top author in terms of units sold. She said she owes much of her success to her childhood library and the librarian who fostered her love of reading. “Receiving…

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