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Hundreds of Wetherspoons are selling pints from £1.99 but you will have to be quick, as the astonishing deal lasts just 12 days as part of the real ale festival this week Pub goers are in for a treat this week as hundreds of Wetherspoons are selling pints for as little as £1.99 – but for a limited time only. Beer drinkers will be saying “cheers” at more than 820 Wetherspoon pubs across the country that are offering deals this week. Pints will be available at discounted rates as part of the 12 day real ale festival this week. Punters…

CNN  —  Gina Montalto’s parents simply clutched hands and cried as it was announced that a Florida jury recommended the Parkland school shooter should not be condemned to death. Tony Montalto, Gina’s father and president of the advocacy group Stand with Parkland, called it “yet another gut punch for so many of us who devastatingly lost our loved ones on that tragic Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.” “Seventeen beautiful lives were cut short, by murder, and the monster that killed them gets to live to see another day,” Montalto said in a statement, echoing the sentiments of…

Joe Cole believes that Arsenal’s improvements under Mikel Arteta are here to stay and declared himself “a believer”.In the last 15 years of Arsene Wenger’s tenure, plus Unai Emery’s spell and the second half of last season, Arsenal struggled to perform consistently and were often seen as brittle.Now, though, Arsenal top the Premier League and look a changed side following the summer arrival of Gabriel Jesus and others.Europa LeagueHow to watch Bodo/Glimt v Arsenal in the Europa LeagueYESTERDAY AT 11:47Former Chelsea and Liverpool winger Cole told BT Sport that he had seen enough to be convinced that there was a…

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will square off on Sunday in a matchup between two teams in very different situations. Tampa Bay will have Tom Brady, a 23-year NFL veteran, under center, while Pittsburgh will have rookie Kenny Pickett at quarterback, making just his second NFL start.  The Steelers are looking to snap a four-game losing streak, while the Bucs will attempt to improve to 4-2 on the season. COMMANDERS’ DANIEL SNYDER TOLD ASSOCIATE NFL POWER BROKERS ‘CAN’T F— WITH ME’ AMID DRAMA: REPORTThere’s also the matchup of the two coaches, as Todd Bowles and Mike Tomlin face off…

Liz Truss’s Thatcherite mantle is poised to slip again. The lady may be “for turning” on tax cuts bigger than the 45p personal rate whose abolition she has already reversed. Prices for 30-year gilts rallied and yields fell 35 basis points to 4.55 per cent on Thursday afternoon.That was reassuring to the same extent that earlier yield drops triggered by Bank of England intervention were worrying. This time, the move reflected hopes the UK economy would be better managed. Before, yields fell in response to short-term BoE mitigation of the opposite expectation.The problem is that many in the UK have…

SEOUL: Nearly a dozen North Korean fighter planes flew close to the border with the South, prompting Seoul to scramble jets in response, Yonhap reported on Friday (Oct 14). The incident took place amid rising military tensions on the peninsula over a flurry of weapons tests by Pyongyang and was the second such event involving fighter planes in a week. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, cited by Yonhap, said 10 fighters had been detected flying 25km north of the inter-Korean border between 10:30 pm Thursday and 12:20 am Friday local time, crossing a Seoul-set “reconnaissance line” that triggers an automatic…

SEOUL: North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said on Friday (Oct 14), the latest in a series of launches by the nuclear armed country. A statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) gave no further details. The latest launch was announced shortly after the military said South Korea scrambled fighter jets when a group of about 10 North Korean military aircraft flew close to the border dividing the two countries, amid heightened tensions over repeated North Korean missiles tests. A subsequent statement on North Korea’s official KCNA news…

The US Indo-Pacific Command said it was aware of the latest missile launch and had assessed that “it does not pose an immediate threat to US personnel or territory, or to our allies”. “We will continue consulting closely with our allies and partners to monitor the DPRK’s destabilising ballistic missile launches,” it said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile was launched at about 1.49am on Friday (1449 Thursday GMT) from the Sunan area near North Korea’s capital Pyongyang. It was at least the 41st ballistic missile launch by…

As interest rates rise to combat stubbornly high inflation, increasing mortgage costs are making housing in the US — as across the Atlantic in the UK — even less affordable. In America, today’s 7 per cent rate for a 30-year mortgage, coupled with a median home price of $390,000, yields a monthly mortgage repayment of $2,600; a whopping 53 per cent increase since last December, when both rates and prices were less. The affordability of housing, a function of home prices and personal incomes as well as interest rates, is becoming a political hot-button issue ahead of the midterm elections.While…

The Nova Scotia government has tabled legislation to “demand” telecommunications companies be more accountable and provide more reliable service during emergencies. Government introduced amendments to the Emergency Management Act and the Emergency 911 Act that will require companies to be prepared in advance of a storm, to take precautions to provide continued phone service during an emergency, and to give updates and transparency to customers.The penalty for not complying with the legislation or regulations could result in daily fines up to $250,000, according to a news release from the province.The move comes after Premier Tim Houston openly criticized companies for…