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From Man Utd to Mansfield… where it all went wrong for Luton as they’re relegated twice and end up in League One
LUTON TOWN have been relegated AGAIN just 12 months on from their Premier League survival fight. The Hatters finished just six points behind Nottingham Forest last season, with the Tricky Trees now chasing Champions League football under Nuno Espirito Santo. 7 Luton Town have been relegated to League OneCredit: Rex 7 The Hatters' relegation was confirmed last weekendCredit: Getty 7 Luton failed to...
Meet-cute at Mansfield Park: can modern covers turn young readers on to Jane Austen?
What will get young people reading classic literature? Better blurbs? Changes in the school curriculum? Flashy new biographies of dead authors? Or might it be pastel pink covers emblazoned with characters that look as if they just got back from Comic-Con? Publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) is trying its luck with the latter: its youth imprint, Puffin, has announced a series of new editions of Ja...
Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty
If journalists visit Mansfield at all these days, they come for one thing: the cliches. They want the market town where 70% backed Brexit, the “red wall” seat that booted out its Labour MP in 2017 for a private-school boy who called for the poor to be sterilised. They want colliery brass bands, Nigel Farage’s beery grin and vox pops about stopping the boats. And they’re not alone. For social scien...
The single mother’s Father’s Day club
Ke’Yonna Hall is a social worker and community organizer in Mansfield, Tex. For many single mothers, Father’s Day can be a poignant reminder that they are parenting alone. But in our home, this day takes on a different meaning: It is a chance to honor and celebrate the diverse men who step in to fill fatherly roles in my sons’ lives — the men who support, love and guide my boys. I had two sons 11...
UK PM Rishi Sunak eyes ‘second half’ of 2024 for election, as Labour’s Starmer offers voters chance to ‘turn the page’
“My working assumption is we’ll have a general election in the second half of this year,” he said on a visit to Mansfield, central England. UK’s Sunak nears first anniversary in power with little to celebrate The Tories, who have had five leaders and prime ministers in 14 years, are widely expected to lose the election, handing power to Keir Starmer’s main opposition Labour Party. Starmer said on...
UK council tenant’s death could have been due to mouldly home, doctors say
A 52-year-old council tenant in Mansfield has died of lung disease that doctors believe may have been caused by her mouldy home. Jane Bennett lived in a house provided by Mansfield district council from October 2022 until she was admitted to intensive care in May 2023 with respiratory failure. She was treated with anti-fungals and antibiotics, but died at King’s Mill hospital on 8 June this year....
Hallucinogenic drugs found in chocolate sold at market after people became unwell
Hallucinogenic drugs have been found in a "small number" of chocolate bars sold at a market stall in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Police have said. The force launched an investigation and issued a warning not to eat the chocolate, after several people reported feeling unwell. A 63-year-old woman was arrested earlier this week "on suspicion of administering a noxious substance" and is helping police...